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

To: jlallen who wrote (460498)	9/17/2003 1:40:47 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

That's not leadership.

To: jlallen who wrote (460498)	9/17/2003 1:49:49 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

No I mean having the resolve to continue on the right course, the stunning victories in Afghanistan and Iraq, Just because the GWB lands on a carrier off San Diego in a borrowed flight suit and states the war is over doesn't make it so. More men have died in Iraq after the announcement, then before it. The reality being that we have entered a quagmire in Iraq. A guerilla war that may take decades. This while calling Afghanistan a victory ring hollow in the face of the facts. bin Laden is still at Large, the Taliban are reconstituting, freedom has not been gained there, not by a long shot. and attention has now been shifted to another front...Iraq, where there were no Al Qaeda terrorists. Bush is not a leader. He's a misleader. Constant lies half truths about his administration's policy. And worse yet is his silence and secrecy. Less than 10 press conferences. 28 pages of the 9-11 report blanked out on Saudi Arabian relations. This is not leadership. Orca

To: jlallen who wrote (460498)	9/17/2003 2:00:22 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769667

Well... when we reach the finish line, check back with me. PS - I agree with you about some of our 'previous administrations'. When Bush the First left Saddam in power and called on the Kurds and Shia to rise up in rebellion, then stood by and did nothing while they were slaughtered, it was a DARK DAY for the Presidency. When he left the Saddam problem festering, it was a major mistake. By the way, when the Reagan/Bush administration approved the export of all those 'dual use' materials to Saddam, when the President over-rode our export controls by administrative fiat... exporting materials to build nuclear reactors and the chemical precursors Saddam used to make the poison gas he used on the Kurds (this, AFTER Saddam had already come to the attention of the World community by using poison gas in the War with Iran)... it was a DARK DAY. Come to think of it... Reagan's intervention in, and then retreat from, Beruit was hardly awe-inspiring policy either.