Posted on 09/26/2001 2:02:39 PM PDT by Heisenburger
Dear Mr. President:
I want to tell you that you have lost my vote in the 2004 election. Though I voted for you in 2000, though I donated to your Victory 2000 campaign, and though I wore your pins and t-shirts, I cannot support you again.
Your diplomatic team, by trying to build a world coalition, has allowed Middle-Eastern and Arab dictatorships to dictate what we can and cannot do to respond to the attacks that took place on September 11. Instead of following the example of Ronald Reagan and basing foreign policy only on what is in the best interests of the United States, you have made concessions to Pakistan and Middle-Eastern countries that will threaten our security for years to come. The coalition has indeed determined the mission, not the other way around.
Specifically, your administration's statement that you will not overthrow the Taliban is unthinkably misguided. To not overthrow the Taliban is to give a feeling of security and power to other states that sponsor terrorism. Not only that, but it makes your statement last Thursday that the Taliban would share in the fate of terrorists an outright lie. One of the reasons I supported you in the 2000 election was that I was sick of being lied to by the Clinton administration. Now I see that you and your team are no different.
Furthermore, the fact that your administration, in an attempt to keep from offending Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, is not concentrating on Iraq as an important link to the Septemeber 11 attacks shows that you are not truly concerned with protecting Americans and ending terrorism. As Colin Powell said, Hussein is indeed the greatest terrorist in the world today. That he had a hand in the attacks on the 11th is not only highly probable, but also fairly obvious. The world can never be safe as long as Saddam Hussein is still in power.
In closing, I would remind you that you have a chance to win back my vote by changing your policy towards terror states and terrorists themselves. Perhaps your team should realize that "it is easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission."
Sincerely,
Brent Skilton
And we DID secure the permission of many countries during WW2. We don't hear about all the alliance forging that went on during WW2 in school so we assume it was different then. Well, it wasn't. We negotiated with many nations for their permission to do many different things.
When all is said an done on this useless vanity, the bottom line will be that 99.99999% of FReepers, including me and you, don't have the slightest clue what's going to happen. The only Freepers that know whats going to happen are lurkers who are actually in the Administration or military.
you are FOR 'nation building';
If, by nation building, you mean what we did in Japan, Germany, and South Korea (the exact thing the White House has said they won't do here), then yes.
you are FOR long term deployments to rebuild Afghanistan;
If it means setting up a puppet government that will never again be hostile to our lives or interests, as we did in Japan, Germany, and South Korea, then yes.
and that you are AGAINST:
asking for the cooperation of the citizens within Afghanistan who don't want the Taliban.
Obviously you didn't read the entire article, or you would have seen that I am for overthrowing the Taliban. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Anyone who wants to help us kill all the members of the Taliban regime is invited to join in the fun.
See if you can follow me here: often times by notifying the press and the public...the bad guys find out too. And that's a bad thing.
While I'm sure the president is devastated that you will be abandoning him in 2004, he'll probably stay the course, seeing how he knows more than you could ever learn in 12 lifetimes.
But, thanks for sharing.
Because during the election he wasn't coming out and saying one thing one day, and then letting us down by saying the opposite the next week.
The man was a four star general. Fought in Vietnam and successfully carried out the Gulf War. Remember, it's called the Department of Defense and not the Department of War.
That's what the British and the Soviets tried to do. They lost badly.
I am very pleased to see that we have a leader who is determined NOT to repeat the mistakes of the past.
Furthermore, this approach would CERTAINLY invite more terror attacks on us unendingly. You have not thought this through. You have not done your homework. You ARE determined to see us repeat the mistakes of the past.
And when Bush succeeds because unlike you, he doesn't go flying off half-cocked, can we expect to see another letter from you to him, posted here?
Perhaps you know of a better person? Maybe Al Gore? Who do you suggest?
Where have we done that? In his address to the joint session of Congress, President Bush gave the Taliman 5 ultamatums, none of which involved them resigning or being replaced.
Colin Powell reaffirmed those positions when he said that if they handed over Ladin they might not be replaced.
Please show me where President Bush has changed his position.
Don't you know, Heisenburger wants John McCain to be POTUS.
Yea right!
McCain would have started WWIII by now.
Can you post the contradictory statements by both men? I think you are reading to much between the lines.
I'll make my judgment based on what actually happens thank you very much.
See-Ya
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