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To: Mike4Freedom
I am a registered Republican and I voted for Bush and will most likely do so again despite the almost certain fact that his administration lied us into war. It has been a real lesson these last fews months on FR. Seeing Freepers use the same dishonest debating techniques that Clinton defenders used to defend what are obvious lies: "Oh- the use of the faked Niger info was an honest Snafu!" Yeah- right- how many times did we hear that one from Clinton and crowd? Then we have Freepers who have no use for the UN quoting it (often falsely). Now they are using Clinton himself as a source to defend Bush! Then we have the after the fact justifications like the "mass graves." If this war had been waged by a President Gore it would be quite a different atmosphere around here.

I especially love the technique of the "info dump"- when a freeper posts a thousand links about WMDs and Al Queda connections to "proove" that he had them and was tied to OBL. The obvious response to that technique is to tell the poster to pass it along to Bush and co. since they don't seem aware of this "proof."

Having said all that I will vote for Bush almost certainly despite the fact that he lied us into a war and I hate being treated like I am an idiot. Once the Democratic candidates start opening their mouths and start talking about what statist nightmares they intend for the country even those conservatives who never wanted this war will have no real choice but to vote for Dubya. Sorry- can't vote Libertarian- just not realistic.

133 posted on 07/07/2003 10:42:47 AM PDT by Burkeman1 (w)
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To: Burkeman1
Sorry- can't vote Libertarian- just not realistic

Then you will get just what you have now. A big government (liberal? fascist?) Republican who will lead us into more dangerous wars in his second term. How is that different than a big government (liberal? socialist?)Democrat? Both are totally unacceptable. The number of people who realize that will increase as we get closer to November 2004 and, this time, the Libertarian really has a chance-so long as you vote for your long term best interests and forget the "lesser of two evil" dead end policy.

135 posted on 07/07/2003 4:12:19 PM PDT by Mike4Freedom (Freedom is the one thing that you cannot have unless you grant it to everyone else.)
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