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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: geode00 who wrote (9610)	3/22/2004 4:36:54 PM
From: Chas.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

you have it exactly right, the world and everyone in it is our concern and our interest and we need to intervene any time we so deem it necessary...thats not the problem that is the fix.... PNAC, NeoCons, present administration, the Military.....to do our bidding..... right on Bro.....I love it and see 4 more years on top..... it is refreshing to know that at least 1 lefty, liberal dolt on this forum understands the way it really is... regards from Chuck

To: geode00 who wrote (9610)	3/22/2004 5:31:04 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

<<...On the most critical issue confronting the United States, the rise of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism, Powell helped Bush implement a course of action conceived by the neocons. What he didn't do -- because he couldn't -- was propose a different course of action that might have led to the same goal of political reform in the Arab world but that wouldn't have involved waging an unpopular war on a trumped-up pretext, a war that has extracted an enormous cost in American lives and American prestige. Bush, by most accounts, is an impressionable sort -- "malleable," as one Bush family friend uncharitably puts it -- but selling him on an alternative vision would have required actually having one, which Powell plainly did not. That alternative vision -- hardheaded about the dangers facing the U.S. but aware that the war on terrorism can't be won without international cooperation -- will have to wait for a Kerry administration...>> prospect.org