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To: American Spirit who wrote (57040)	2/1/2006 3:35:09 PM
From: Crimson Ghost	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 361511

The Clintons are vile in every sense. They typify all that is wrong with the Democratic party. They are truly "Bush lite" and not very lite at that. Bush being even more vile does not make the Clintons any better in my eyes.

To: American Spirit who wrote (57040)	2/1/2006 7:59:11 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 361511

The main problem the Bush administration has, and has had since day one, has been that they are focused like a lazer beam on channeling as much public money as they possibly can to their friends and contributers. Everything else is secondary. Everything. Look at Iraq. Everything that involves making money like oil, military equipment that must be replaced, rebuilding contracts and replacements/spare parts contracts gets tended to immediately; The Oil Ministry gets protected while every other ministry gets demolished. Meanwhile, soldiers don't get enough armor and are forced to drink filthy water. They make considerably less than the contractors they are forced to protect. These people are the US military and the administration treats them like some private security service for its millionaire friends. We have no clear policy in Iraq. In fact, we never had a clearly stated purpose in invading Iraq in the first place. The reasons kept changing. We have no exit strategy and we cannot win because it didn't occur to the administration that it might not go well. The administration didn't pay much attention to the technical stuff or the possibility that things might go wrong, because that simply is not where their mind was at. They worked their asses off to sell Saddam Hussein as the greatest threat to America since Hitler, even though there was no actual threat. What there was was a whole lot of money to be made and once the tanks started rolling, everything they did and said was geared towards making money from the Iraq occupation and nevermind the cost in lives.