Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (454373)	9/7/2003 11:48:21 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 769670

Bush is busy squandering the wealth of the USA on neocon fantasies and Halliburton wet dreams. I blame Cheney most of all. He's the main force behind all these deceit.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (454373)	9/7/2003 11:49:41 PM
From: Wayners	Respond to of 769670

There is plenty you can do. Write your Congressman and Senators. They control the pursestrings not Bush. Bush is only ASKING for the money from Congress. Bush can't appropriate anything. Pulling out of Iraq sends a dangerous message just like our role in Somalia and pulling out there. Al Quaid got the message loud and clear, you can attack the Americans and as soon as they take 20 to 100 casualites they run away. That just emboldens the enemy to try just about anything, any plot with eyes on mass casualties.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (454373)	9/8/2003 12:29:55 AM
From: phyxter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

We are stuck in Iraq. Iraq is different from Somalia, Haiti, Somalia, or even the Balkans. In those places one could make the case that our involvement was charitable, an attempt to clean up messes that were not immediately of our making, and that we had no obligation to stay if we deemed the cost too high. Bush, in our name, launched this war and created this mess in Iraq. Without forfeiting whatever claim to the moral high ground our country has left, we cannot leave Iraq and its people in its current condition. Besides, abandoning Iraq now would create a new haven and breeding ground for terrorists. Although the case for invading Iraq as a means to advance the war on terrorism was a fraud, the threat that terrorism could blossom in the chaos that now exist there is very real. One can hope that the UN will jump in and help to share some of the cost (and some of the flack), but I do not see Bush-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz "bring it on" crowd with the kind of courage to do what it would take to bring in the UN. It will take eating some crow on their part, and they are much too prideful. I am not happy about my money getting sucked into this rat hole, either. However, now it's too late. We made this mess, it is our responsibility to fix it. p.