Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (70320)	1/1/2005 8:43:43 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

You are incorrect.....as usual. Rather clearly let his own personal animus violate the ethics of his profession......he should have been fired.....

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (70320)	1/2/2005 4:09:56 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

<<...Before addressing his countrymen, the president needs to ask and answer for himself some hard questions. Who told him this would be a "cakewalk"? Who misled him to believe we would be welcomed as liberators with bouquets of flowers? Who led him into a situation where his choice appears to be between a seemingly endless guerrilla war that could destroy his presidency, and walking away from Iraq and watching it collapse in mayhem and massacre of those who cast their lot with us? Why have these fools not been fired, like the CIA geniuses who sold JFK on the Bay of Pigs? It is not just President Bush who is in this hellish mess. We're all in it together. But the president needs to know that if he intends to use U.S. military power to democratize the Middle East, Americans 56 percent of whom now believe Iraq was a mistake will not follow him. Finally, the president must answer in his heart this question: Exactly how much more blood and money is he willing to plunge into a war for democracy in Iraq, and at what point must he decide - as LBJ and Nixon did in Vietnam - that the cost to America is so great that we must get out and risk the awful consequences of a mistaken war that we should never have launched...>> truthout.org