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Politics : Discuss the candidates honestly. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Carragher who wrote (4223)	8/31/2004 9:55:25 AM
From: mph	Respond to of 4965

Today's theme over there is that of course Kerry will win the war on terror. This from people who are already nervous and jerky about completing the mission in Iraq. I'm also mightily amused by the Kerry flip flops on troop reductions and re-deployments abroad. He's criticized Bush both for not moving the troops and for announcing the re-deployments (the planning for the latter having been on-going for 3 years) We've been in Korea and Germany, e.g., for 50+ years. I think there are around 70K troops in Germany. Germany! When you hear that, the 160K in Iraq doesn't sound so high. McCain gave an interview after his speech last night where he was asked how long we'd be in Iraq. He said 10 to 20 years, pointing out our presence in Germany, Korea and elsewhere as illustrations. Too bad Bush gaffed when asked if the war on terror was winnable....but it is funny that the Dems immediately jumped on it to proclaim that it was. Despite the fact that, as a group, they're unwilling to do what it takes and have a candidate whose history shows a propensity to run rather than take casualties. Nothing worth fighting for is without pain.