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Originally Posted by Flyguy
Bush spending 200+ billion on a bogus war (that has been proven more than once, by the CIA, Rumsfield, and others under Bush's wing) is inaccurate?
Seeing that the only words coming out of Bush's mouth are terrorism, 9/11 and the Patriot Act, and all of us pretty much knowing that this is the ONLY thing he has to run on and that he has to depend on the gullibility of the right who need everything spoon fed to them because apparently they can't think for themselves, I'm seeing from my end that Bush is the one who will say anything to get elected.
I want someone who will tell me how he wants to make the county better. Not try and scare me to death and say "vote for me or die by a terrorist’s hand."
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The war against Iraq (and the cost of it, which isn't 200 billion yet) can only be criticised with the benefit of hindsight, and Kerry admitted as much in one of his several positions taken on that issue. The simple fact is that in a post 9-11 environment, ANY sitting president could not ignore the intelligence that Saddam had WMD's, or run the risk that the intelligence was innacurate. I think I stand with most of the electorate in holding the opinion that the war of terror is better fought offensively elsewhere rather than defended here. You can justify a failure to have a plan to "win the peace", but any plan would have been problematic, since it could not have effectively been carried out quickly enough for us to be seen as liberators instead of occupiers.
As for the campaign of fear, I'm still trying to shake off Kerry's statement that our soldiers are being killed with the 380 tons of missing munitions...a frightening mantra we'll no doubt here ad nauseum until election day...when the fact of the matter, as discussed at length in another thread, is that the munitions likely went missing before our G.I.'s first arrived at the storage facility, any responsibility for this is with the commander of the ground forces, and no amount of troups or strategy could ever have eliminated the threat of diverted munitions in the first place.