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

To: Tech Master who wrote (497916)	11/24/2003 5:03:14 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The terrorists have made it clear. It does not matter if we are in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Disneyland. We will always be attacked and anyone having close ties to the USA will be attacked also. that is why France is no ally now, imo. With a 20% Muslim population, they have their butts hanging out.

To: Tech Master who wrote (497916)	11/24/2003 5:14:11 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Yes, not much is being done to secure our plants, planes and installations here. We could do that for a fraction of the 165B that we have poured into Iraq...

To: Tech Master who wrote (497916)	11/24/2003 5:14:19 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

That's actually TWO LIES rolled into ONE there, TechiePooh. "Buddy McWeed thinks that we should fight the war on a budget so we can spend more on entitlement programs..... " >>> 1) I supported the war (based on the available evidence at the time), although I considered it a close call because of the massive expense to the American taxpayer... and I expected it to be a 'long hard slog' after the inevitable initial success. (Gee, where have we heard THAT phrase before?) >>> I also believed that Bush I made a stupendous strategic mistake in Desert Storm, when the halted the advance ONE DAY short of the capital... and his calling for the Kurds and Shias to rise up in rebellion against Saddam later, and promising American support --- then sitting on his hands while they were slaughtered by Saddam was one of the most infamous actions ever taken by ANY American President. >>> Wounding a bear, then leaving him alive in the woods was a HUGE strategic mistake... and lies at the root of our difficulties now. It's always more difficult the second time around. >>> Re: "spend more on entitlement programs" --- that's DOUBLE BS. >>> I'm a Libertarian, and I support smaller government, lower taxes, fairer taxes, balanced budgets, Democracy and human rights, Capitalism and free markets (not Crony Capitalism, Protectionism, and slushfund subsidies and pork). I DO NOT SUPPORT enlarging entitlement programs --- nor can you find any post I've made here where I have. >>> You are setting-up straw men in your head to knock down... but that's just it: it's ALL IN YOUR HEAD TECHIE! >>> "unfrickingbelievable" is right --- apparently you wouldn't know a true Fiscal Conservative if one fell on you. >>> Your brain must have been warped by living under this deficit-creating, big daddy government expanding, higher spending, liberty-reducing Authoritarian President of ours....