Replies

I had thought for some time as you do, Quilla.

I've since changed my mind. The fact that Saddam had such links with AQ is irrefutable and goes back over a decade. Such facts are easily provable.

If President Bush is waiting, he's waited too long (imo). He has lost a lot of support for the war and people are just turned off by it now. He's let the Democrats have the talking points for too long.

If he'd been talking about Saddam's links with OBL right along, Americans would have been cheering every bit of good news for 2 years, instead of ingesting all the bad news from the media and grousing about the war. That kind of optimistic view from Americans would be helping our soldiers and discouraging our enemies.

I'm so discouraged about this because I feel the only way for the president to turn around support for the war in Iraq is to bolster support for it. The only way to bolster support at this point is to find WMD - and I don't think we will as they are elsewhere, Syria for example. So the only other way to bolster support, and it's a truthful way to go about it, is to make Americans understand how Saddam supported terrorism in general and AQ specifically.

If President Bush is waiting, he's waited too long (imo). He has lost a lot of support for the war and people are just turned off by it now. He's let the Democrats have the talking points for too long.

The Bush Admin has always seemd too slow to react to situations. It allows the Dems to gain political points.

Clinton had his people on-air and in front of cameras even before the bad news hit the wires. Thus, he managed to spin it before it could become an issue [in most cases].

The Prison photos scandal could have been quelled on day 1, if GWB/Rumsfeld had issued a statement that investigations started in January, only a 1/2 dozen are involved, arrest have been made, etc. But the Admin's PR team have allowed this molehill to fester for 2 weeks now and become an infected puss blister. Democrats refer to it as their 'silver bullet.'

The same is true with the Iraq War. GWB is now losing it on the PR front. Kennedy and Co are making it another VietNam. Where are the GWB people out EVERY DAY telling the good that is being done?

If GWB can't get out in front of these kinds of 'problems,' [and you can bet the Dems have more 'situations' lined up to hit the Admin with in the coming weeks], we could very possibly see a President Kerry-Annan in January.

I realize that continued American support for the war in Iraq is important. Keeping my support is a moot point as my friends, my family, and I support our military's fight wholeheartedly. Consider how the American public is inundated with propaganda from the pointedly leftist media - hit with a 24/7 barrage of anti-war comments and commentary - it is amazing that support is as high as it is. On rare occasions, the President will succumb to some of these attacks, issue an apology or explanation, and still the barrage continues from the left, and the right attacks him for even addressing the issue in the first place.

President Bush, as you know, does not dictate policy as a result of polling data. We are fighting a war on two fronts (with a military greatly diminished by Clinton/Gore), hunting the murderers of 3000 Americans, maintaining relationships with our allies, learning just who are not our allies, dealing with an ineffective and corrupt UN, protecting our homeland (and thwarting unknown numbers of terrorist attacks), searching for weapons of mass destruction, dealing with domestic issues (education, abortion, gay marriage, etc.), and campaigning for re-election. IMHO, this administration has a incredibly full plate and is operating admirably. I can only hope and pray that a majority of Americans realize this in November.