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

To: lorne who wrote (28790)	6/5/2004 6:22:09 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 81568

OK, I understand. But Kerry's war record is a great one. Give the guy credit for that.

To: lorne who wrote (28790)	6/5/2004 9:46:04 PM
From: zonkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

<It's easy for people like us to sit back and criticize what a President is doing wrong and only time and hindsight will tell us how correct we were> You're right lorne, we won't know about some of the things junior has done until it is too late to save the lives of the people who die by his actions. I'm not just talking about his insistence we go into Iraq instead of putting all of our effort into chasing terrorists. I am talking about such things as his making sure we have more arsenic to drink than we would have if he had done nothing. Mercury levels in drinking will be higher thanks to junior also. He stopped legislation that would have made air conditioners much more efficient by 2006 thereby making us use much more energy and be more dependent on foreign oil. These are just a few of the many things he has done which we won't know the real results of for a long time if ever. What we do know is that know is that many (if not most) of the actions he has taken since being appointed president have been aimed to make the rich richer and pay back people who have donated money to put him in power. There are also many things which he hasn't done since being in office which will have detrimental effects on the general population like not mandating that the vehicles which we use are as efficient as possible. His tax cuts for the rich were a joke and his misleading interpretation of the benefits to the middle class on down was a disgrace. I won't mention his blackened skies polices or his clear cut proposals for our forests. His "hide the protesters area" program which he refers to as freedom zones does help hide what the average people think of him and his actions though. Then there is the most grave threat of all which is global warming but according to the neocons it is only in the minds of radical liberals so the policy is to deny there is even such a thing as global warming at all.

To: lorne who wrote (28790)	6/5/2004 9:57:19 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Bush was AWOL on terror pre 9-11 despite being warned on 8-6 while Kerry warned both presdients that defending against such homeland attacks shoudl be our #1 security priority. While the WTC was being attacked GWe just sat there for a long time reading to kids without any urgency. After the second tower was hit, he got up calmly and walked off. Before he addressed the nation after the three attacks he was joking around with his people. He only put on a grave face when the cameras rolled. Bottomline, he should have been getting jet fighters scrambled after the first attack. Why did he just sit there doing nothing for all that time while people were dying and more attacks were coming? Why did he let OBL get away at Tora Bora with that crazy cease fire? Why did he just give up to the Baatthists and El Sadr? Why does he have such close relationships with the Saudis and refrain from every criticizing them? Why did he let all the Saudis and Bin Laudens out of the country after 9-11 without interrogation? Why did he not finish Afghanistan but start another war in Iraq deplating most of our resources there? Bush may not be deliberately trying to blow the war on terror, but he sure makes some whopping errrors. It really makes one wonder if he's all there. And so many conflicts of interest with all his Big Oil connections.