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To: Road Walker who wrote (200632)	9/7/2004 11:32:32 AM
From: Alighieri	Respond to of 1574744

Yet the Bush administration, like the Argentine junta, derived enormous political benefit from the impulse of a nation at war to rally around its leader. Until the Brits kicked their butts...if this insurgency continues to grow, the US can't win...history has shown us repeatedly that a "hundred of thousands of soldiers can't control millions when the millions are unwilling to cooperate". Ghandi told the Viceroy of India that "eventually the British would have to leave". Iraq, in particular, is a slow-motion disaster brought on by wishful thinking, cronyism and epic incompetence. As many predicted it would be, including Republican conservatives. Al

To: Road Walker who wrote (200632)	9/7/2004 2:27:57 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574744

<font color=brown>LOL. I can't wait for the debates. I wish it was Edwards debating Bush.......that would be hilarious!<font color=black> **************************************************** Bush: OB-GYNs Kept from 'Practicing Their Love' Mon Sep 6, 2004 11:44 PM ET POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. (Reuters) - President Bush offered an unexpected reason on Monday for cracking down on frivolous medical lawsuits: "Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." The Republican president, long known for verbal and grammatical lapses, included the anecdote about obstetrician gynecologists in his stump speech attacking Democratic presidential rival Sen. John Kerry and his running mate, Sen. John Edwards, a former trial lawyer. At a rally of cheering supporters in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, Bush made his usual pitch for limiting "frivolous lawsuits" that he said drive up the cost of health care and run doctors out of business. But then he added, "We've got an issue in America. Too many good docs are getting out of business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country."** Unfazed, Bush went on to deride his rivals as "pro-trial lawyer," and concluded, "I think you've got to make a choice. My opponent made his choice, and he put him on the ticket. I made my choice. I'm for medical liability reform now reuters.com

To: Road Walker who wrote (200632)	9/7/2004 2:34:31 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574744

<font color=brown> Kerry's getting it! He's calling jr.........well the idiot prince.........and I'm loving it. If Bush shows his shrek face here in WA state, I plan to counter demonstrate!<font color=black> ***************************************************** Kerry: Bush 'Chose' Iraq War, Americans Pay Bill** Tue Sep 7, 2004 02:07 PM ET (Page 1 of 2) By Patricia Wilson GREENSBORO, N.C. (Reuters) - Democratic White House challenger John Kerry sharply rebuked President Bush on Tuesday for choosing to go to war in Iraq and sticking Americans with the $200 billion bill. With a tighter stump speech and a sharper message built around a riff on Bush's middle initial, Kerry declared: "W stands for wrong -- wrong direction, wrong choices -- and it's time to put it right." He said he would start to do that by internationalizing the security and reconstruction effort in Iraq and showing "the kind of statesmanship and leadership that builds a true coalition to share the costs and share the burden." The Massachusetts senator has publicly struggled to explain his vote for the congressional resolution authorizing the use of force in Iraq and his subsequent vote against $87 billion to fund operations there and in Afghanistan. Bush has branded him a flip-flopper. Since Kerry said last month that he would have voted for the resolution even if he had known that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, Bush has tried to convince voters that they both agreed on the need to get rid of the Iraqi leader. But Kerry scornfully took Bush to task on the issue, telling a town hall meeting in Greensboro: "He says that he's confused about the differences in our positions on Iraq and he even tried to claim that we had the same positions. "Let me explain to him in a few simple words -- it's not that I would have done just one thing differently in Iraq, I would have done everything differently in Iraq." Kerry, who campaigned in Republican-leaning North Carolina, the home state of running mate Sen. John Edwards, called the "mess" that Bush had made in Iraq the president's "most catastrophic" wrong choice. 'WRONG CHOICE' "It was wrong for America to choose," Kerry said. "This was his choice. He chose the date of the start of this war. He chose the moment and he chose for America to go-it-alone and today all of America is paying the price." As the number of deaths among U.S. troops neared 1,000, Kerry pointed out that almost all the coalition casualties in Iraq were Americans and then opened a new line of attack by addressing the economic cost of the war and laying out how the money could have been better spent. Continued ... reuters.com