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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 (80101)	11/3/2006 1:00:21 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Bush Admin posts nuke bomb building guide on internet. nytimes.com. Just incredible, like they want terrorists to hit us with a dirty bomb. Was this their invitation?

To: Dan B. who wrote (80101)	11/3/2006 9:45:00 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Back on track. Let us not concentrate on worthless stuff and display mediocrity of thought. Forget Kerry, the joke is keeping Rumsfeld November 3, 2006 Maybe I'm just politically dumb. But I just don't get it. How can anyone compare Sen. John Kerry's botched joke the other day with the astounding statement from President George W. Bush Wednesday that he was going to keep Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in office until the end of his term? To me that should be a lot more politically damaging than anything Kerry could have possibly said. By deliberately and premeditatively not preparing for the postwar period in Iraq despite repeated warnings from some on his staff and a slew of experts in other parts of the government, Rumsfeld set the stage for what might turn out to be the worst foreign policy disaster in the nation's history. It's outrageously irresponsible for Bush to defend his Defense secretary like this, let alone insist he will keep him in that key position. Rumsfeld should have been fired at least two years ago, when it became clear how badly he had miscalculated this war. The president is playing politics. Karl Rove, his political guru, is telling him he must shore up his base by supporting Rumsfeld and bashing Kerry. But with more than 100 U.S. service people killed in Iraq just in October, this is no time for politics. It's unconscionable. Yes, Kerry is a political klutz. He has a terminal case of foot-in-mouth disease. But he's not the one responsible for getting the United States into this mess. Bush, Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney are. In fact, I bet that when historians look back on what went wrong, it's Cheney who's going to get the lion's share of the blame. Even more than Rumsfeld. But we're stuck with him and Bush for another two years (808 days to be exact, but who's counting?). Bush's campaign appearances this week are even worse than his bashing of Kerry and defense of Rumsfeld. He's going around the nation - at least in those races where Republicans haven't told him to stay away - and telling voters they shouldn't vote for the Democrats because they don't have a plan to win in Iraq. Hello? Does anybody believe Bush has a plan to win in Iraq? He and the Republicans are sinking in the polls because the American people have lost confidence in his judgment about Iraq. Unless there is a dramatic change, Tuesday is going to be comeback day for the Democrats even though the economy is puttering along nicely - usually the most important factor in an election. In poll after poll, voters are saying they are discouraged about Iraq, and it's the most important issue the country is facing. I've never questioned the motives or the patriotism of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld for going into Iraq, as some of my Democratic friends do. I believe they sincerely thought it was the best course for the United States after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. And they believed that Saddam Hussein did have weapons of mass destruction and the determination to build a nuclear arsenal. But even by 2004, it was clear their gamble had failed. Still, somehow, the American people gave the Bush team the benefit of the doubt - by the slightest of margins. Some of that had to do with klutzy Kerry. Bush chose to take the 2004 squeaker as a mandate. He didn't change course in Iraq. He didn't change the team, except to get rid of Secretary of State Colin Powell, the one top official who had real doubts about staying the course. But the situation in Iraq continues to deteriorate. That nation is in chaos. The Iraqi prime minister is now telling U.S. soldiers what they can and can't do. And what does Bush do? He refuses to bring in a new team and bashes Kerry for a lamely told joke. Will this actually play with the electorate? God, I hope not. newsday.com