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

To: American Spirit who wrote (686752)	6/23/2005 9:52:15 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Release the TRUTH about Kerry's ill-gotten war medals and re-written citations. Kerry's pseudo-"heroism" is a greater insult than Durban's hillbilly treason...

To: American Spirit who wrote (686752)	6/23/2005 11:09:37 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

loser - golddigger - liar: kerryboy -- political career is now burried in deep SH...hole

To: American Spirit who wrote (686752)	6/23/2005 11:16:52 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

* An unsuccessful, French-looking American candidate for president. "Two days after announcing his intention to seek the presidency, Democratic Sen. Joe Biden on Tuesday accused President Bush of 'misleading statements and premature declarations of victory' in Iraq and called on him to change course," reports the Associated Press: "The disconnect between the administration's rhetoric and the reality on the ground has opened not just a credibility gap, but a credibility chasm. Standing right in the middle of that chasm are 139,000 American troops--some in their third rotations," the Delaware senator said in a speech at a Washington think tank. He said Bush should level with voters about the stakes and risks in Iraq and push to get allies more involved in security and reconstruction efforts. While the address broke little new ground, it was arguably the first campaign speech of the 2008 race. When Biden ran for president in 1988, he was forced from the race when it was revealed that he had borrowed lines from Neil Kinnock, an unsuccessful British candidate for prime minister. Now he seems to be cribbing from John Kerry. It seems utterly bizarre that Biden is now betting on failure in Iraq three years from now. Karl Zinsmeister, editor of The American Enterprise, offers a far more sanguine view of Iraq: Your editor returned to Iraq in April and May of 2005 for another embedded period of reporting. I could immediately see improvements compared to my earlier extended tours during 2003 and 2004. The Iraqi security forces, for example, are vastly more competent, and in some cases quite inspiring. Baghdad is now choked with traffic. Cell phones have spread like wildfire. And satellite TV dishes sprout from even the most humble mud hovels in the countryside. Many of the soldiers I spent time with during this spring had also been deployed during the initial invasion back in 2003. Almost universally they talked to me about how much change they could see in the country. They noted progress in the attitudes of the people, in the condition of important infrastructure, in security. . . . Contrary to the impression given by most newspaper headlines, the United States has won the day in Iraq. . . . It will take some time, but Iraq has begun the process of becoming a normal country. Time may prove Biden right and Zinsmeister wrong, but Biden is now in a position of staking his political future on the hope of failure in Iraq. We argued throughout the 2004 campaign that this was a morally and politically hazardous approach for the Democrats to take, and the voters proved us right, at least on the political hazards. We guess Joe Biden is just a slow learner. An unsuccessful, French-looking American candidate for president.