Pheonix Starflare -> RE: Kerry FTW (10/30/2004 8:15:03 AM)
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It seems we have struck a nerve. Basically what he said. Kerry. To sum up my position, I feel like I can't trust Bush anymore. The 'intelligence' that indicated that Saddam had/was working on WMD likely was determined to be 'solid' because thats what the administration wanted. From the moment congress gave bush the authorization to use military force, I knew it would happen. No question. To me it seems like Dubya is just trying to finish what his dad just couldn't quite do back in 1991. Now, right wing 'ultra-patriots' would likely refer to me as unpatriotic, but I feel like we really need to do things alongside the rest of the world. It's not like we can just give much of europe (no, I'm not forgetting Poland) the silent treatment for the next hundred years. We all have to live and work together and I think we need to be on good terms with the rest of the world. Now, I'm not saying we should base our foreign policy on what other countries want us to do, but we should try harder to get them involved at one point or another. We should've worked harder on calling the UN out on the fact that Saddam was essentially spitting in the face of their various resolutions. Certainly we should have offered the 'contract' we gave Halliburton to European firms and actually got a bid from them and saved ourselves some money. There are millions (billions?) that Halliburton just doesn't know where it went. That could have gone towards up-armored Hum-vees and body armor (BTW, since Bush had the oppotunity to chose when to invade Iraq, couldn't he have waited a month or two to get body armor for our troops?) (Oh, and another thing, why must our troops make do with heavy-duty SUV's? Cant we have some upgraded M113's or something so that they can drive around in (relative) safety? And please, dont get me started on the Stryker). Right....so....thank you for reading my mini-rant. I've lost my train of throught and I'm too tired to re-read what I've just written. Vote Kerry! (That is, of course, if you're an American citizen who'll be 18 by the election)
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