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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Garlic Breath who wrote (27603)	10/6/2004 11:33:09 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 173976

Thank you. Sometimes I am abrupt, and I apologize for being so. Cheney asserted that 40% of the casualties had been Iraqi. Coalition casualties stand at about 1202 right now. (http://icasualties.org/oif/) 40% would imply about 480 Iraqi casualties in their conflict against terrorists. Cheney may have been counting police and military. We don’t know if it included the people lined up to get into one of those services. Bush has shown a great moral clarity. In Washington, all desired outcome is tempered with the limits of what is possible. Would anyone have blindly supported Bush if he bombed Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, etc.? No-one I know would have. Maybe Thomas Watson, but who else? Have you ever done what you believed was right? Have you ever persisted against people telling you it was either not possible or that it was wrong? If the answer is no, then there is no point in reading further. Sometime we all have to do what we know in our sole is right. It is my belief that George W. Bush is doing what he believes is right. This I do know, Bush has said that every sole yearns to be free. I agree with that statement! Do you agree with that statement? The French, Germans, Russians and UN were the coerced and the bribed. The Cold War engendered enmity too. History judges things very differently than self interested people living the times. Reagan was demagogued for his Star Wars Initiative. It has been judged to have ended the Soviet empire for a time. I think that a future in which Iraq and Afghanistan are free democracies will change the world for the better. Do you think that this is a bad goal? You are a far better judge of foreign opinion than I am. Your judgment on this is acceptable to me. Still, popularity is a beauty contest. Winning a beauty contest is not a significant action. Look at Phyllis George, the contest only gave her a chance to achieve much more. Many other names are merely mentioned on a list. You are a reasonable person. Some others on this board are not worth my time.