The saddest part about Bush's actions in invading Iraq is how it has so divided the world.
We, like thousands of others all over the net, fight and argue bitterly about what's right and what's wrong, whether or not Iraq was a threat, or not, insulting and belittling each other in the process, and so on......I am really tired of it all.
I don't have the energy to argue with people who think Iraq was some kind of threat, or people that think Bush is somehow now defending your country by bombing other countries, even though despite ample warning and intelligence reports of men learning to fly jets but not learning how to take off and land, he couldn't stop 2 airliners from flying into the WTC - one of them even flew right over an air force base!!
You have a record deficit (I NEVER actually said there wasn't a deficit under Clinton) record unemployment, a military that is stretched to the limit, with once staunchly patriotic military familes forming lobby groups like 'Bring themHome' in Bush's heartland......you have a guerilla war that will likely escalate, resulting in more body bags for US servicemen, and you have a President who, after labelling the UN 'irrelevant' and 'ineffectual' is now asking that same organisation for help to clean up the mess he has made.
Many people, like myself, for example, who had enormous sympathy for the US after 9/11, now have none at all, and thanks to Bush's recklessness and worrying behaviour, see America as an international pariah.
We have even seen the unprecedented vision of troops in Iraq on one of your major networks openly criticising the Commander in chief and his 'Defence' secretary Rumsfeld in anger and frustration.
And still no WMD's, the Original pretext for war, have been found, with the Iraqi Survey Group now postponing it's report perhaps indefinitely.
The Taliban are beginning to regroup in Afghanistan, and have recaptured some small villages, and reportedly are holding four, possibly more US soldiers prisoner - meanwhile, heroin production in the country is back on track.........if after all this anyone still believes that Bush and his neo-cons are somehow, someway, doing a good job, and are right in any way, then I suggest you need more help than anyone can offer on a music bulletin board.
I wish you well. I hope and pray you think carefully about your vote next year.
I'm done with this thread.