This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment MessageComments below, Bottom line for me: We dare not turn this country over to anyone who = would yank the troups, decimate morale in the armed forces, signal to = the world that we are fair game to all terrorists, throw the Iraqis to = the wolves, seriously empower Iran, Libya, Syria, etc., put the = Israelies (our ONLY steadfast allies over there) in mortal danger, = dismantle our intelligence services, and drastically hamper the economic = recovery (or kill it) by raising taxes. I have my troubles with George, = too. But he has my vote over any of the Democrats. You know, they guys = who saw the same intelligence info from both Clinton and Bush, voted FOR = the war, and now claim otherwise. They frankly and literally scare me. Alan R. Barnard Salem, MO=20 PS "Dear Jesus, I didn't mean it. Just illustrating a point!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- -anyone who would yank the troops: =20 None of the mainstream (not Kucinich) democratic nominees are proposing = this. -Iraqis to the wolves: Ditto above -decimate morale in the armed forces:=20 Bush sent the armed forces into a war on false pretenses. He had been = looking for a rationalization to start this war since he took office, = and used the trust people put in him after the terrorist attacks to bait = and switch. This can't be seen as moralizing to the troops. Then to = thank them for their good service he proposed cuts to military housing = schools, child care centers, and veterans' medical care. Bush has made = a great habit of using the troops for photo ops, but I don't see how = he's been good for them. -You know, they guys who saw the same intelligence info from both = Clinton and Bush, voted FOR the war, and now claim otherwise: The resolution they voted for wasn't a resolution to go to war. It was = a resolution to give the president authority so that he could increase = pressure on Iraq, which was working. He failed to let diplomacy do its = job and broke their trust too. - put the Israelis (our ONLY steadfast allies over there) in mortal = danger: It's obvious at this point that Bush's approach to Israel has caused = them far more harm than the approach that the Clinton Whitehouse = applied. -seriously empower Iran, Libya, Syria, etc: I don't know where you came up with this assertion, but you'd have to = provide some reasoning for me to even come up with a reply. -dismantle our intelligence services: It was George H. W. Bush (Daddy) that drastically cut back the CIA after = the cold war ended. =20 -signal to the world that we are fair game to all terrorists: Clinton's nation security adviser, Berger, gave this advise to Bush's = NSA, Rice, "spend more time on terrorism generally, and on al Queda = specifically, than any other subject," when the administrations changed. = By most accounts the Bush Nation Security Counsel, did and said little = about al Queda before 9/11. They were already focused on Iraq. To say = that Bush in all his "Cowboyness" is tougher on terrorism than a generic = Dem candidate is pure fluff. -drastically hamper the economic recovery (or kill it) by raising taxes: If you want to see the "recovery" go down the tubes, keep the tax cuts. = As the debt goes up so do interest rates and that is definitely bad for = investment and growth. If you want to give tax cuts that increase = consumer spending you don't give them to the millionaires, you give them = to the working people. They're the ones who spend the largest = percentage of what they receive in a timely fashion. Bush has seen the = greatest lose of jobs per year of any president since Herbert Hoover. = And if you think that's a coincidence line up each president since the = beginning of the great depression according to the average job lose or = gain per year while they were in office. That's fourteen presidents, 8 = republicans and six democrats. The top six are the democrats the bottom = eight are the republicans. The random odds of this are about 3 in = 10,000. So please don't tell me about how electing a democrat is going = to hamper the "recovery". Colin Kenny =20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/5a/b3/63/da/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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