Yes, because I'm new to the forum, I can't criticize people who are responding irrationally to the subject of immigration.
When people on this forum are crying out that Bush has betrayed this country, I'm reminded of Al Gore's moment in front of a MoveOn crowd. When people on this forum pin the blame for Congressional inaction on the President, I'm reminded of how the DUmmies blame America for 9/11. When people on this forum want to treat the illegal immigrants like enemy combatants, instead of trespassers, I'm reminded of DUmmy entreaties to prevent conservatives from voting.
There are two issues in securing the border. The first, which the President has the most discretion over, is securing it against foreign enemies. The second requires the cooperation of Congress and that is securing the border against illegal immigration. The two are completely different, and the President has done a decent job of ensuring our borders are safe from enemy incursions. If that weren't true, we'd probably have been attacked by now by terrorists who made it into our country illegally. As it is, Muslims or Arabs who have tried to cross the border illegally have been apprehended, and those are just the attempts that we know about. The number of incursions that have been stopped are unknown because to reveal them would be to compromise the intelligence sources used to find and stop them. We don't know everything that is being done to secure us from terrorist attacks, and we can't know everything or else risk invalidating those methods.
So, I'll hold my tongue if the DU-style irrationality stops. Since I'm not going to hold my breath and risk suffocation for such craziness to stop, I'm going to toss in my opinions, just as everybody else is feeling free to do. Or are the opinions of "anti-Bushies" more valid than mine? And if so, you should read my comments on Bush being as far Left as one can go and still be a conservative. We all knew what he was, and we also know that he is what it takes to get a Republican elected in this country. Anything less conservative or more conservative would have been unable to win in 2000 or 2004. And we'd either be living in a Gore hell hole, or a Kerry hell hole right now, and the anti-Bushies primary complaint will be that they should've voted for Bush.
Which only begs the question... Why should I hold my tongue when nobody else seems to be doing so?