>why are you speechless?
ok, maybe i'm not speechless. I just couldn't understand how you could
possibly defend that statement.
the policies of the last 50+ years have given rise to a whole generation of
muslims in the region who not only hate us, but want to see us dead.
sounds like a progressive peace process to me.
>do you feel that a 1000+ years of hostility can be
>overcome with a few commands from a president of the USA?
no
>Do you think the
>whole mideast situation could have been solved years ago by someone
kicking
>them in the azz?
I think that anyone who has vowed to kill me and my children or die trying
needs his ass kicked. No amount of liberal "understanding of his plight"
will assuage him.
>Or is your preferred solution to bomb them all into
>oblivion?
no
>Do you really feel the situation in the mid-east has improved
>during the last 3 years?
no, not yet. but the signs are there.
>Do you think Iraq is a better place today than 5 years ago?
without a doubt - the seeds are planted.
>The hardheaded, beligerant, arrogant attitude of the Bush administration
has
>made us no friends anywhere and has estranged us everywhere. Even Tony
>Blair is being hard pressed to stay on our side
Yet Blair is standing by his principles. good on him.
>. The few allies we have are
>caving in to the hostage taking, and before long we will be standing
nearly
>alone. Have you noticed that even the contractors and private companies
are
>bailing out too?
Yes, that's unfortunate.
>Thank God Help is on the way!
How so? What I get from Kerry is 'more of the same, only better'. His
speech last night was long on criticism of current policies, and extremely
short on solutions.
What exactly do you like about his stated policy towards Iraq? Tell me
what exactly you think he will do differently than we're doing now?
>From what I've heard him say, he's committed to seeing the iraqi excursion
through until there is stability and democracy. Do you really think if
he's elected that France and Germany and others who opposed the war will
suddenly change policy, send troops to help, simply because Kerry is a
'kinder, gentler american president' with the same basic policys of gwb?
get a grip. The only thing that will get them into the game would be to
re-instate the oil production contracts and agreements they had with
saddam. I don't believe that will happen, even if Kerry is elected. The
Iraqis wouldn't stand for it.
Kerry's solution to terrorism was to immediately rubberstamp ALL proposals
in the 9/11 report, and extend it's duties another 18 months, so he won't
have to make the tough decisions. Is that leadership? Leadership by
commission? David Ignatius of the Wash Post had a good line in todays
paper: "There's a 3-alarm blaze outside, and he's telling us he supports
the fire department."
>Did anyone hear Kerry's speech last night? He quoted A Lincoln: "I
humbly
>pray not that God is on our side but hat we are on God's side." The first
>Republican president would be shocked to hear the present US President's
>arrogance and hubris that "God speaks through me."
since you've put quotes around that, I assume you're attributing it to gwb.
I'd like to see you find that quote for me. unless you made it up.
You know, it's amazing to me that one of the most liberal senators from our
most liberal state can get away with delivering an acceptance speech that
sounds like it could have been written by Karl Rove, and his liberal base
gives him a pass and cheers madly about every erstwhile soundbyte invoking
his strong military leadership and his willingness to kick ass if needed.
It must mean they know he's only saying it to get elected.
George Will also had a nice piece this morning:
"Kerry's platform is a 37-page flinch. It turns a perpetual chimera
"energy independance" into a promise, but flinches from suggesting a tax on
gasoline consumption or drilling anywhere that might annoy Democrats, which
means... anywhere. His platform advocates "rigorous new incentives and
tests for new teachers" Notice: only new teachers. Of today's teacher
certification tests, The Wall Street Journal reports that "someone with
about a 10th-grade education could pass them." President Bush's scarlet
sin against the environment supposedly was his turn away from the Kyoto
agreement on global warming, by which the world agreed that Americans
should pay most of the costs. But the two paragraphs that Kerry's platform
devotes to "international leadership to protect the global environment"
mentions neither global warming nor Kyoto. That is how a Massachusetts
Democrat runs for president when he knows that four of the last five
Democrats elected president were from Southern or Border states."
he says nice things, but he knows better than to get into specifics,
because americans won't stand for it.
and I noticed in another email that you said: "Just as an aside, how many
lies does the Bush Whitehouse and the Bush Campaign have to tell you before
it becomes apparent to you that these people will say anything to keep
their jobs?"
I'll ask the question again: what exactly do you like about Kerry's stated
policy on Iraq?
so much for being speechless, eh?
Rick
