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

To: steve harris who wrote (712840)	11/13/2005 4:41:10 PM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 769667

Sludge like him shouldn't be posting on this thread.

To: steve harris who wrote (712840)	11/13/2005 4:42:42 PM
From: CalculatedRisk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Try reading the piece. Its about Mr. Farell's journey to understanding the Iraq war is "crazy" ... Excerpt: Farell told me his daughter and the rest of the family were doing as well as could be expected, and then he said something that stopped me in my tracks. He made a comment about this crazy war and about all the angry letters he'd written to politicians and publications, trying to make his feelings known. Hadn't he been a supporter of the war, I asked. "That's right," he said, smiling over the irony of his turnaround. He was still a conservative — "don't get me wrong" — and still a law-and-order cop who will never get over "those longhairs" who spat on returning Vietnam vets. He still supports the troops in Iraq, but he's done a 180 on the American leaders who called them to war, including President Bush, who on Friday lashed out at critics. Lt. Farell, who works in the Rampart Division, explained why over a long cup of coffee, and he began by recalling the day he got that knock at his door in Castaic ...