fadedsteve wrote:
Have you done yourself a favor yet. . . . and scratched off your Kerry/Edwards sticker off your car?? cause if you havent, now would be a good time!!!
1) Given Bush's track record, I hardly think that declaring someone a former Kerry supporter is necessarily a great strike against them.
2) You can't pidgeonhole me there either. Kerry was not as worthless as Bush, but he was crap too.
3) Judging from your statement, you seem to be the kind of person who likes to believe in a black and white world. Which I guess is something you share in common with the current administration. The reality is that people don't really work that way. Just because I think Bush is a moron doesn't mean I'm a liberal. IN fact a lot of REAL American Republicans who understand conservative thought and policy think Bush and his sycophants are an embarrassment. For example if you call yourself a conservative, and you actually mean it (ie you don't just go with whatever the current Republican candidates are for or against) you will admit that when it came to domestic fiscal policy and limiting the size of government - two FUNDAMENTAL aspects of conservatism - that Clinton was more of a conservative than Bush.
I don't give a shit about parties. If they're good they're good and if they're crap they're crap.
fadedsteve wrote:
No president except for FDR has had to put up with more shit than Bush has had to deal with! Has everything gone smooth, of course not, but thats life!!
Sorry bro, plenty of presidents have had to deal with more shit than President Chene... sorry "Bush". For starters, try checking out what was happening during Lincoln's election and presidency.
fadedsteve wrote:
Its easy to monday morning quarterback, but I leave that to the anchors on ESPN to do that!!!!
Now there's a clever little analogy! Wow.
Unfortunately, it just doesn't apply. Iraq is happening RIGHT NOW. It was a misguided action, the administration misled the American public on our reasons for getting into it. Calling the administration on its bullshit is not Monday Morning Quarterback, my friend. Sorry but it's not "they should have passed instead of ran it".
And by "Monday morning quarterback" you seem to imply that the bad decisions are all in the past, and we're all just bitching about something that's all finished up. Last I checked, American soldiers are getting killed daily for a war that we will not and cannot win. More Iraqis are dying monthly than when Saddam was in charge. This is not Monday morning bro. In terms of Iraq, it's not even the end of the first quarter. And please don't tell me that these things take time. Iraq is not going to be led to democracy at gunpoint. For reference, see Afghanistan. See also Vietnam. See also the American revoltion. All cases where one side won battles and lost the war. The current thing in Iraq is no different - in fact it's WORSE because there are thousand-year-old local rivalries, based on religion, to complicate things.
So if you actually believe in WMD and Santa Claus and all that stuff, great, but wake up and smell the American lives that are being lost daily in Iraq. Wake up and smell the tens of thousands who have lost their arms and legs over there. Personally I think the administration pulled a bait and switch that we fell for thanks to our own lust for 9/11 revenge. But every day our troops and our National Guard volunteers die for - supposedly - democracy in Iraq, the administration is making a conscious decision not to bring them home. A decision that the majority of Americans think is the wrong decision.
Oh right... that would be Cutting And Running. My bad.
fadedsteve wrote:
Polls. . . Polls. . . Who gives a shit. . . the American public is fickle with their polls, you watch Bush will get bin ladin and he'll have 80% approval!! Then all you cheesedick liberals will be shutting your mouths!!!
Right. I'll expect the result will be similar
to what happened after we caught Saddam - irrational exhuberance followed by the onset of reality. It'll rise a bit, then continue to tumble. Why? Because most Americans arent' stupid. They know that capturing one guy isn't going to Win The War On Terror. They know that Bin Laden is not the Final Boss in Super Mario Brothers.