Thread: Terrorism Poll
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Old 06-13-2004, 07:15 PM
JimSmith JimSmith is offline
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Without a crystal ball as good as Botnst's, I would be hard pressed to understand how repeating the Iraq folly periodically, and repeatedly solidifying the rest of the world's suspicions and fears about the United States so they hate us even more, is going to eventually calm everyone down and rid the world of terrorists. Unless the plan, of course, is to kill everyone but Americans and the people in the countries we control directly.

Fighting terror around the world is a very necessary mission for our survival. Carrying out that fight by LYING about WMD to the rest of the world to get them on your side, then trying to bully them into siding with you, then failing that, flipping the bird to the rest of the world and going it alone, is probably not the wisest pattern to repeat. Given George W. Bush's propensity for believing his own BS and never admitting he personally has made an error means, according to what I see in my smaller, less capable, shorter-term, crystal ball, we are likely to do it over and over. Meaning we will continue to make things worse.

The idea that the reason people object to Mr. Bush's policies is because they hate him sounds like something Mr. Bush might be thinking. It gets the idea of the policies being at fault off the table without addressing the issue of the thought behind the policies, ever. I have said quite often, I would probably like sitting down and shooting the ***** with him over a beer. I think he is probably like many of my buddies that I will drink with - none of them are qualified to be the President either. I don't hate him as a person, I just resent what he has done to America by electing to impose poorly prepared plans and policies, rather than lead us somewhere better than we were.

Jim
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