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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (66190)	7/23/2006 7:28:23 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 93284

I have always opposed the way Bush went into Iraq. The mistake you are making is seeing all people who are not leftwing anti-war as "supporting Bush". Indeed, I hear some leftwing activists saying that the Democratic party HAS to move to the left. That is simply wrong. Unless you want to stay in the minority, let Bushies claim the middle and keep Bushies in power. Most people in this country agree that while the US has to be tough on terrorism, and that Saddam was a menace, that Bush and his people have lied, blundered, covered-up and misled us in Iraq and in many other ways as well. People now also recognize that the real domino effect is a negative one that Bush-Cheney put into motion, making Iran and other countries more paranoid, dangerous and anti-American. Disarming Saddam or even regime change is not the real problem. The real problem is that we have an incompetent and corrupt president, whether he be right, left or center. That is what people most object to and that is what we must remind voters of for the next two elections in order to get rid of these corrupt rightwing ideologues. Also remember, if Bush had been smarter, more diplomatic and less corrupt, he might have pulled Iraq off. And if he had the war would have been worthwhile. Indeed someone like John Kerry might have pulled that off correctlyu, if Saddam had given him true reason to pull the trigger. Again, it was the way Bush did it that was so wrong. And yes that did cost a lot of unnecessary casualties. He made crucial mistakes to get us mired in an unwinnable situation, while forgetting about Osama Bin Laden the real culprits of 9-11. That is the only thing that is truly inexcuseable. US voters care a lot more about the 20,000+ US casualties than they do the countless Iraqi victims. Also remember, most of the Iraqi casualties have been killed by other Iraqis. That is because this is a civil war now, not a case of US aggression. The US troops are trying to be the police, not the aggressors. But Bush put them in a real Fort Apache situation. That's what is truly wrong.