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

To: lorne who wrote (75210)	4/7/2006 11:26:35 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Bush-Cheney have helped radical Islam grow more powerful. Who are you fooling? Forget Bush's rhetoric and look at the results. Iraq is now on the verge of falling into the hands of El Sadr, a radical mullah. Iran is in extremists hands. Palestine is legally controlled by Hamas now. Pakistan secretly supports the resurging Taliban. Osama is alive and well and no longer vilified in many parts of the world. All the goodwill we had after 9-11 has been blown. And to top it off, Bush wants to hand our ports over to the Arabs. What's there to like in that scenario? Also, Bush was warned about 9-11 on 8-6 and did nothing. Why should he get any credit as a terrorism fighter? We are talking about a guy whose family has been in business with the Bin Laudens for decades. Kerry would have been far more effective. Even CLinton was.

To: lorne who wrote (75210)	4/8/2006 4:22:43 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

>>Well for one thing their actions have brought to the forefront the threat of RADICAL ISLAM which has been ignored or sometimes just outright appeased in the hope they would leave us in the free world alone... big mistake.<< Lorne - Actually, I'd say it was 9/11 that brought the threat of radical islam to the forefront, and I am not one of those who believes that the Bush administration was responsible for that. Also, after the Cole bombing, the Clinton administration developed a comprehensive plan for dealing with radical islam, Al Qaeda, and terrorism in general and handed it to the incoming Bush administration, which did nothing about it until after 9/11. I would agree that the Bush failure to even address radical islam and terrorism (not even one meeting on the subject pre 9/11) was a big mistake. But this still leaves us with the question of what Bush has done that was actually good. - Allen PS: Yes, the economy is OK, but this is not necessarily due to anything the Bushies have done. Presidents actually have very little power to affect the overall economy. Meanwhile the national debt has increased to record levels. Dangerous levels, considering who owns most of that debt.