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Let me see if I have this straight...Clinton would have attempted the same thing, but because Bush is trying it, he's doing "more to take apart our country" than TWENTY YEARS of Clinton, because more dissent against Clinton would have kept the nation from being "taken apart"?

Dear Mr. Smithee,

W is turning our country into the Evil Empire du jour, if you pardon my French. This continues the trend on which Clinton embarked while he was the prez but he is advancing a lot faster than Clinton. As you may remember, there was at least 'some' opposition to Clinton's military escapades in Haiti, Bosnia, Serbia and other minuscule and nearly-defenseless territories even though, in the end, he did receive broad support and approval of his sending flying, remotely-controlled, explosive charges into civilian 'targets' such as TV stations or a foreign leader's private residence. This was not viewed as state terrorism at the time. Subsequently, it came as a great surprise that other terrorists employed nearly-similar methods to terrorize us. Like I said, it was not easy for Clinton to advance on the path toward the Evil Empire status but he did advance. It is a lot easier for W to do so.

It was even more difficult for Clinton and his accomplices to make a mockery of our internal freedoms. While he managed to successfully shoot, gas and burn a large number of Americans early into his presidency, the Congress only reluctantly supported him on that path which forced him to select more discrete methods of controlling the citizenry.

W, on the other hand, has no problems whatsoever to re-define or criminalize any civil right or liberty for as long as the Demos agree that such rights or liberties were no longer needed or were criminal in the first place. He is happily growing our national debt and allowing our trade deficit to grow beyond what Clinton could have dreamed while in office. His spending on items that the Feds have no business spending, such as Education - therefore ensuring that the State can indoctrinate more of our children - could not have been achieved by Clinton or any Democrat. W's about to begin war on Iraq makes no sense whatsoever unless one cares more about Israel's security than one does about the U.S.A.'s - if he had the U.S. as priority #1 then he would have addressed China and North Korea which are real and growing threats, not Iraq. And W would have disarmed Pakistan and India, the 2 newest nuclear powers, while it is still easy to disarm them - note that it is very likely that Pakistan will turn into an enemy of ours at some time in the future and, while we do not know what Iraq has in its arsenal, we know for a fact that Pakistan has nukes which COULD be stolen by or given to terrorists before we could do anything to prevent it.

And, yes, W can do and is doing everything Clinton didn't dare dream because he will be giving the automatic support of his coward Republican politicians base and the enthusiastic support of his loyal Democrats. Of course, he could not do anything the Democrats dislike. Unlike the Republicans, the Democrats may be hysterical bitches but they don't seem to be political cowards.

Examples: Clinton couldn't get the authority to place the destruction of our economy on the fast track while W obtained that quite easily. While there were limits in Clinton's ability to ignore our Constitutional rights, W faced practically no resistance for as long as he didn't touch abortion or anything related to homosexuality. Of course, the rights of 'other species' remain sacrosanct on W's watch. Clinton had to go through all kinds of maneuvers to bring more foreigners into the country while W is just about to make the admissions of illegal aliens our official policy - remember: making a mockery of our laws is just another way in which Mexicans coming in this country illegally are expressing their 'family values'. We could continue on this path for a long time. While W publicly challenges the U.N. to act or lose its credibility he is also re-joining the UNESCO, on corrupt organization that Reagan got us out of - atta boy W!!!

Now, perhaps someone could tell me which 'conservative' items did W implement so far. Other than a minuscule tax cut set to expire shortly after it takes effect. I mean, it's true, he didn't have sex with interns in WH and this IS conservative. Is there any other W accomplishment worth noting lately? And, please, don't make bombing Afghanistan a 'conservative' achievement. It has nothing to do with conservatism or liberalism - it's a natural reaction.