[xzins]

I was amazed that the president proposed his health care tax increase last night.

And these border agents in jail is a travesty.

And his unwillingness to defend his administration's position in Iraq except on an occasional basis.

There was plenty of ammo to defend WMDs, terrorist within Iraq, Iranian attacks on the US, Good News from our Troops, etc., etc.,

But, not once did any of that get put out in the public domain and vigorously defended.

Did he just give up???

[P-Marlowe]

I don't get it. The first four years Bush was a leader. The last two years he has shown no leadership qualities. He should be engaging the people of the United States in this war and giving weekly broadcasts and appearing on TV and buying ads on the media to get the people of the nation involved in the War on Terror and supporting our actions in Iraq. Instead he is proposing silly health care initiatives and prosecuting border agents, and allowing the Scooter Libby travesty to continue. In addition he is letting our troops down by keeping strict rules of engagement in place in the face of what has now turned into an all out Civil uprising in Iraq and then prosecuting our soldiers when they violate those insane rules of engagement.

If we had conducted WWI and WWII in the same manner that we are conducting this war we would all be speaking German or Japanese.

Bush has been walking around with a deer in the headlights look for the last two years, and when you have a deer in the headlights look, that means that someone is about to run you over.

At this point I do not have confidence that he will do what it takes to win this war or to prosecute the war on terrorism or to stop the invasion of illegal immigrants who are destined to change America into a Latin American banana republic.

I do take comfort in the knowledge that whatever Bush does is essentially part of God's overall plan. I do fear, however, that what is happening now is the dawn of judgment rather than the dawn of mercy.

We live in interesting times.