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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dan B. who wrote (67286)	9/21/2005 6:23:35 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

SCARBOROUGH: You know, Bill, I respect you for a couple of reasons. One of the reasons is because, when I have been on your show before, and I was pounced upon by a pack of wild dogs, you always save me. You are always very fair. The other reason I respect you is, I have been following you throughout the Iraq war, since we invaded in March of 2003. And like most Americans, your view on this war has gone back and forth. You actually haven‘t been ideological about it. You haven't chosen sides. When the elections went well, you were like, you know what? This may not be a bad idea. Where are you now, in this new season? MAHER: Well... SCARBOROUGH: Are you having serious second thoughts? Do you think it's time to bring the troops home? MAHER: I think it is. You know, there's a certain point where, in every young man's life, you have to say to yourself, you know what? I am never going to play Major League Baseball. And I think there‘s a certain point in every president‘s life when you say, my plan to transform the Middle East, it's just not going to happen. Maybe it will happen some other time. Sometimes, things take more than one try. I had to quit smoking about eight times before it worked. I think maybe someday, we will be able to bring democracy to the Middle East, but not on this try. It just doesn‘t—when you read the stories in the newspaper on like page 10, you know, the ones that are kind of buried, the ones from reporters who are in a certain city, like Basra or Mosul, and they talk about what‘s going on, you see that it‘s all tribal factions and it‘s all about corruption. It‘s all about people taking over on the local level who we didn‘t intend to take over. It just doesn‘t seem like, at this point, because we did it so badly — maybe if we had done everything right, and we certainly didn't do anything right —it could have worked. But the way it is now, I just don't think on this try it's going to work. I know leaving is going to create a horrible situation, but that is what you bought when you bought George Bush. The best thing I could say about him is that I do admire the intent to solve this problem of Muslim extremism with a long-range approach. That's usually what politicians don't do. They take the short-range approach. George Bush said, no, let's do this long-range, as well. I don‘t think he did the short-range very well at all. But he said, let's take a long-range approach to solving this problem. I admire that. It just was done so badly and without thinking enough about it. The whole story on Maher's opinion. Without your editorializing. Orca

To: Dan B. who wrote (67286)	9/21/2005 6:28:14 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Maher's been critical of Bush's BS since day one and knows damn well the war was waged on false pretenses. The fact that we're there now is a big complication, but like Vietnam, the sooner we get out the better. We are not doing ourselves one iota of good over there, just weakening our ability to defend ourselves. We need to draw down at least a third of the troops this year and bring them home. Then another third next year. The more and more. What is Bush doing sending more troops to Iraq from Texas during a huge hurricane disaster? He is out of touch with reality. Frankly, I think he and Cheney are insane.