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To: Keith Feral who wrote (168850)	8/12/2005 4:39:30 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

How are the Iraqis supposed to control the violence in their country when some of them are trying to split up the country into three parts: oil - oil - sand. The Kurds, all by themselves, can veto the Constitution. It's not as if there's a single government entity that's fighting a small group of well-defined rebels. Some of those insurgents are in the government. The mayor of Baghdad was just ousted, at gunpoint, by militia. The US of A, with all of our military might, cannot even protect the 7 miles of road to the Baghdad airport. If we cannot protect even a handful of diplomats and other government officials, how can the divisive Iraqis accomplish that? You have your images backwards. Sheehan is a single individual asking the head of the greatest superpower the world has ever seen to answer her questions. She's the bully? Republicans were trying to get her arrested. The SS drives by all the time. She's the bully? The rightwing corporate media machine is trashing her all day, every day and she's the bully? Your definition of a bully is a single grieving mother with a t-shirt and sunscreen sitting in a ditch in Texas? Gee. If Bush is so mentally fragile that he cannot take the signs, he doesn't deserve to be dog catcher much less President. On that note, I do think that Bush is that mentally fragile. He's the most protected, most handled President since Reagan started really losing his mind to Alzheimer's.

To: Keith Feral who wrote (168850)	8/12/2005 4:56:54 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The dialogue between Bush and Sheehan is irrelevant...it is how it looks to the great middle out there in the heartland. I'm not naive enough to think either of the two speakers will change one iota, but there are hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of Americans who did support Bush earlier on who are now watching and deliberating anew. The polls indicate that some of those folks have started to drift from his camp to undecided or toward an unfavorable stance on the war. If GWB wants to appear aloof and insensitive he can keep doing what he is doing and people (like my sister-in-law, who supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and now is angry about his long vacation and seeming insensitivity to this mom right outside his door) will continue to drift away. I think to say those that supported him before will continue to do so and vice versa is failing to see the all important group....the ten percent stuck right in the middle.

To: Keith Feral who wrote (168850)	8/12/2005 7:42:38 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"She is like a bully invite someone to an after school fight." ..and Bush is the pussy who doesn't show up! I've been to high school. So have ALL the people who voted for this sorry chimp! Whether they got beyond that is in question. But they'll understand the following: If you showed up, even if you got your ass kicked, at LEAST you weren't a pussy and a coward. If you didn't show up, the other guy beat you with no effort whatsoever, forever, or, at least until you could run away from THAT high school.