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

To: JakeStraw who wrote (480044)	10/22/2003 4:27:55 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Yes, Kerry's dug himself into a hole and should stop digging. I don't know who advised his positions, but they're obviously too flaky for a commander-in-chief. His close advisors are blowing too much smoke about his military days, and cobbling together positions that fall apart when analyzed. It doesn't look at all like these were his actual thoughts when authorizing war. They couldn't be. How can you vote the President ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY to go to war, in exchange for some unpublished or verbal promise he won't unless you later think he should? As a former military officer, he knows this is ridiculous. I don't know who he thinks he's fooling, but its fewer and fewer. He should get off the dime and discuss reality -- they f*'d up, they were lied to, they trusted the neocons and the president, and can no longer trust them. Americans would excuse that. But what won't be excused is trying to weasel out of those hard facts. If he would do like Kennedy, take a principled stand and call the president a liar and the war a FRAUD, he would get the brass ring. He's too timid. Life is too good, he's wealthy, nearing retirement, recovering from cancer, but mostly, too tied to the powers that be. We need dramatic overhaul to kick the weasels out, not a gentlemanly court of St. James.

To: JakeStraw who wrote (480044)	10/22/2003 5:01:46 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769667

Jake, that is an very good post. I have no reason to doubt you wrote it. But if it's an article it's not good form to not include the link. If my suggestion is in error then I am sorry.

To: JakeStraw who wrote (480044)	10/22/2003 5:19:38 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Respond to of 769667

Kerry's postion - We needlessly rushed into war without UN approval. There was no need to rush. Iraq was contained. There was no immenent threat so what was the hurry? The hurry was that Bush wanted to get it over before the 2004 election.