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

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (756164)	12/14/2006 7:37:41 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

As I've obviously pointed out before --- when a criticism was consistently made YEARS previous (for example: about the perception of 'inadequate' force levels for an occupation of a nation of some 30 million, observation made prior to the actual invasion and well in advance of any occupation... or even about the stupidity of allowing Taliban & Pak leadership to escape in the 'Airlift of Evil' from Afghanistan... or about the poor political choice of placing 'Social Security reform' ahead of Tax Reform in the early days of the second term, as a matter of domestic policy), then I don't believe it qualifies for the moniker of 'Monday Morning Quarterback'. Believe that term only applies for criticism NOT MADE IN ADVANCE of an action. :-)

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (756164)	12/14/2006 8:00:41 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Under your theory, GZ, nobody would ever be accountable for anything, because whatever choices leaders made would be excusable in hindsight.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (756164)	12/14/2006 8:59:47 PM
From: Stan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

A bit OT: The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary: (Snopes-verified True.) Herewith at this happy time of year, a few confessions from my beating heart: I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessica are. I see them on the cover of People and Us constantly when I am buying my dog biscuits and kitty litter. I often ask the checkers at the grocery stores. They never know who Nick and Jessica are either. Who are they? Will it change my life if I know who they are and why they have broken up? Why are they so important? I don't know who Lindsay Lohan is either, and I do not care at all about Tom Cruise's wife. Am I going to be called before a Senate committee and asked if I am a subversive? Maybe, but I just have no clue who Nick and Jessica are. If this is what it means to be no longer young. It's not so bad. Next confession: I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don' t feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees. It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, "Merry Christmas" to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away. I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution, and I don't like it being shoved down my throat. Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to.