... I would not have them with my ZOT.
Posted on 07/22/2004 11:24:50 AM PDT by TheSmiler
I'm really having a hard time deciding who to vote for this time around. Immediately after 9/11 I strongly supported the President because I truly believed that we would be tireless in his efforts to protect this country.
However, since then I have begun to lose trust in President Bush for a number of reasons. I know this may be an unpopular topic of discussion here, but I wonder if some of you can tell me where I'm wrong.
I strongly supported the war in Afghanistan, as did most Americans, but with the invasion of Iraq I think the President overplayed his hand. I have a very hard time with what seems like a long list of exaggerations from the White House to justify the war. If we had found the massive stockpiles of WMDs that Donald Rumsfeld insisted were there, then I would have no problem whatsoever. But it's beginning to appear to me that the war had nothing to do with WMDs at all.
This is difficult for me to say, because as a lifelong Republican I have always had an unshakeable faith in the military and a belief that our soldiers would never be sent into harm's way unless it was absolutely necessary. The war in Iraq is beginning to look to me like a ruse that was perpetrated on the American people still grieving after 9/11. I believed before the war that President Bush would never squander the trust given to him by the American people to keep them safe, but it looks to me like he did exactly that, and that bothers me immensely.
Bush was elected on a platform of inclusiveness, and he promised to unite this country rather than divide it. However, any sane conservative must admit that he has done the exact opposite, and divided this country to such an extreme that I have never seen before. If I thought A truly United States of America is crucial for victory in the war on terror, and I don't believe that Bush is the man to unite us. I'm not saying John Kerry is, either, but that's the root of the quandary I find myself in.
I truly don't know who to vote for this time around. I can't bring myself to vote for a Democrat just yet, but I need to be convinced that Bush deserves another term.
I think some of you are too zot-trigger happy.
Hey Foxy! Congratulations! I heard how you're walking upright now.
Can you say "seminar" ... I knew you could ....
Few folks buy that schtick on C-SPAN ... and none buy it here.
Actually, I have the opposite reaction to Bush's war on Iraq.
At first I didn't go along with it at all. Now after seeing what a total and utter cluster*&#k our CIA has become, I simply cannot fault Bush for acting on bad info. I agree I now have a somewhat simplistic view on the war. I just think we should kill as many of those Islamo-fascists as we can. Better to kill them over there. I think we should turn up the heat. I think we should take every oppurtunity to humiliate them. I think we should use every and all means necessary to bring these scumbuckets out into the open (over there of course) and grease the tracks of our M1's and Bradley's with their blood. I say lets infuriate them and turn this into a full blown religious war. That's how they see it now....as a religious war, so let's add fuel to the fire. We're not doing nearly enough to waste the hundreds of thousands (maybe millions) of morons over there who hate us.
We should be stacking their bodies up like cord wood.....instead of fighting a "politically correct" war. Think of how easy it would be to leave the borders of Iraq open and pummel them into tiny bits with A-10's and other nasty stuff. Better over there than here, I think. Let's piss these morons off for the next hundred years. It would do our defense industries good, to ramp up production of military hardware. Let's bring back all those small mom and pop machine shops that used to dot the northeast US.
Two things I fault GWB for ......open borders....this is a serious security risk and makes his Homeland Security Department a complete farce. There's no way to argue against that point. It's pure, simple unadulterated logic at it's best. Homeland Security is a complete sham on the American taxpayer as long as we have unsecure borders.
Number two is his budget......he needs to get a freakin' grip....
.....he, he, he.....funniest post I've seen all week!
Thanks.
I noticed that, too! Lefties all sound alike.
Now I hope there are some good ZOT pictures on here, to pay me back for time wasted skimming through that drivel.
I think that you should vote for Al-Q'aeda.
No, just experienced. And we've been getting alot of it lately. I've had to keep my battle helmet on all day.
lifelong RepublicanCommunist
long list of exaggerations, divided this country to such an extreme, but I need to be convinced that Bush deserves another term
I just came up with a new name for the "I'm a republican but" types!
I Hereby Dub Thee
(duh da duuuuh)
"ReButlican"!
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