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

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (603054)	8/12/2004 3:26:23 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

MR. KERRY:" Well, I have often talked about this subject. I personally didn't see personal atrocities in the sense that I saw somebody cut a head off or something like that. <font color=red>However, I did take part in free fire zones and I did take part in harassment interdiction fire. I did take part in search-and-destroy missions in which the houses of noncombatants were burned to the ground.</font> And all of these, I find out later on, these acts are contrary to the Hague and Geneva Conventions and to the laws of warfare. So in that sense, anybody who took part in those, if you carry out the applications of the Nuremberg principles, is in fact guilty..." and then the bum goes on to say he was IGNORANT.....but in truth all officers were trained in the laws of the Geneva convention and rules of warfare...to say he was not is another lie.

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (603054)	8/12/2004 3:43:29 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I think that is a reasonable point, if I agreed that he did not have leadership qualities. For example, one of the points I gleaned four years ago reading about his time as governor is that the office of governor is weak in Texas, yet, with a Democratic legislature, he had a lot of influence over what happened in Austin. Similarly, he has shown that he can lead the country in numerous ways since becoming president. The very fact that we are in Iraq is testimony to his leadership, even if you don't agree with the policy. Very few presidents could have gotten such bipartisan support in the face of a controversy with some of our major allies. So we view his character fundamentally differently.