BUSH SHOULD PUT UP OR SHUTUP ON IRAQ!

[BJR]

This Bush supporter is about to turn. For months we have heard all the valid reasons for ridding thEE world of Sadam Hussein, over and over and over again. Tonight, the word is that Bush will answer press questions on Iraq and, yet again, assure us all that no decision on war has been made. Great! The markets can continue to collapse, anti-war demonstrations go on, Bush's re-elect poll numbers plummet and Wart Hog Helen gets to ridicule Bush some more.

Well I've had it with Bush. The guy really isn't very smart afterall. And that guy Powell of his has actually done the impossible by making Madeleine Albright look competent in comparison. Bush discarded good advice from experts and get's snookered by Powell into going thru the UN, then watches as the French snooker Powell. And the US now has the humiliating task of begging the likes of Angola and Cameroon for approval to defend the country from horrendous attacks. In the meantime, Powell says we can't talk to North Korea as if just talking was synonymous with re-negotiating an agreement. As a result, Korea may start a war and the US foreign policy is the laughing stock of the world.

Enough is enough! Bush should fire Colin Powell, shutup and stay holed up in the white house until he is actually ready to act as tough as he talks. Come out only to announce the invasion of Iraq or its successful disarming by the UN, whichever comes first.

[Howlin]

He deserves the poll numbers he has.

You have a problem with 62 percent? I sure don't.

[San Jacinto]

You need to take reading lessons LOL!

No, you are what I call an "Accidental Democrat." It would be funny except your kind will bring the b*tch from hell to the oval office one of these days.

[BJR]

I think you give Powell way too much credit. He has been great the last few weeks (after getting sandbagged at the UN), but before that he was always subtly undercutting Bush's position on the political talk shows. He is a diplomat, pure and simple, and to Bush's discredit, was the architect of the "go thru the UN plan." That has severely backfired on Bush and day by day it takes its toll on the level of support for the war.

On Korea, I will only say that every time I hear Powell's explanation on the situation it makes me cringe knowing how the liberals are having a field day with it.

Please excuse my rather late response.

[1rudeboy]

Too many of them, though, just sit around lobbing insults all day at anyone criticizing Bush for any reason.

It's all your fault.

[right way right]

I see several positive benefits that have occured because of the patience Bush has shown in this conflict.

We have proven the U.N. to be a farce, We now have a major can of woop ass in place around Iraq that is about to set one major example of why you don't mess with the U.S.A.

Nations that are not with us have been exposed for who they are.

What happens in Iraq will be on every nations mind especially those who have not been with us.

There will be peace but it is the example we are about to set that is going to go the farthest in achieving a more permanent peace.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Now, care to discuss this reasonably or does your initial 'shut the hell up' still make your whole case?

Sure, as soon as you point out where I said "Shut the hell up".

[MEG33]

Thanks for the great ..picture!

[BlackVeil]

I understand the point you are trying to make. It is that this rhetoric is counterproductive. There may be reasons for it, but we don't know what they are. I wonder if the command was waiting for some signal within Iraq - a coup or assassination - late last year. To my reading, there were some signs that they were expecting something.

But the talk goes on. It is funny that so many posters are telling you "patience". Wasn't it Bush himself who announced, at the start of the year, that his patience had run out? (An unfortunate statement because it recalled Hitler's famous comment "my patience is exhausted" before he launched WW2.)

There may be tactical advantages in waiting, esp. as the disarmament process goes on, weakening Iraqi defenses. Set against this, the heat is building up in the Middle East. I am of the faction who think that even with all our technology, the weather is still a factor. Next month, the dust storms start in properly. That helicopter crash in Kuwait, last week, that was caused by dust storms.

[Capt. Tom]

Shakespeare on the leadup to the war

"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

[Southack]

Bump for #37, as it seems even more relevant with all of the media machinations that are going on today...