Jophiel wrote:
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Bush using 9/11 footage in election campaign = tacky
Kerry using 9/11 footage in election campaign = tacky
Rush using 9/11 to discredit Kerry = Fine
Moore using 9/11 to discredit Bush = Fine
Agreed. To those who haven't read or seen Michael Moore's stuff, don't bother to comment. As far as our President is concerned, he is by far the worst and most dangerous president we have ever had in office. He might as well be wearing a swastika on his chest. His narrow-minded, one track way of attaining something (with or without the U.N. originally - funny how all of a sudden he is clamoring for their collaboration in the election year), is not only endangering our lives, but destroying the International reputation past U.S. presidents have worked so hard to achieve. Through his self-proclaimed war on terror, which he intentionally justified by false claims - not only that Iraq had WMDs (false), but also that Iraq and Al Qaeda were working together (false) - as you can see in the news they are fiercely trying to spin the NON-PARTISAN commission's findings now...backpeddling and saying there were loose connections now that the truth is out. How convenient for them that people forget over time. Funny how they released a statement several months ago stating that terror rates had dropped by a significant amount in 2003 "to the lowest level in over 30 years" only to concede recently that the statistics only included part of 2003, and in actuality the rates of terrorism increased drastically in 2003, to the highest level in 20 years.
15 of the 19 suspected highjackers involved in 9-11 (again, nothing to do with Iraq), were from Saudi Arabia. Anyone remember reading in the news that Saudi Arabia attacked the United States? Had 15 of the 19 highjackers been North Korean would we have heard "North Korea attacks the USA?" You bet. Why didn't we hear it? President Bush's family has close ties to Saudi Arabia's royal family, our country's largest oil supplier. Members of this royal family have been quoted as saying that they consider President H.W. Bush and his wife (and now W. Bush) to be like their own parents, and they feel they can ask them for help with just about anything. Hmmm. Funny how the president authorized (amidst the flight lockdown in the days post 9-11), jets to fly around the country to pick up members of the Saudi Royal family AND OSAMA BIN LADENS FAMILY and fly them out of the country without anything more than a passport check, "for their own safety". President Bush knows that pissing off the royal family would seriously endanger our economy, regardless of their involvement in 9-11.
This in addition to how he lied to our senate about how much the medicare bill would cost - originally stating a price of 400 billion, which narrowly passed the bill, only to come out a month later and say "Our estimates put the cost of the bill around 530 billion," fueling a great deal of anger from our representatives.
Many believe that George W. Bush wouldn't have even "won" the 2000 election had Texas not sent a list of names of people SIMILAR to names of ex-cons, a large portion of which, big surprise, were latinos who would have voted for Gore. Reason? These people could possibly be ex-cons. These people were shocked to find that on election day they couldn't vote in the most important and close-call Florida counties, just because they had a certain name. Texas was the only state do this.
George W. Bush's arrogance endangers the world right now. A quote in Time magazine recently said something similar to "The problem with George Bush is that he can't tell the difference between reality, and his reality" As one who should be a leader and example to the world, he is very embarrassing to me. On the night he was elected in 2000, I told a friend of mine that now he is in office, we will be going to war. I didn't know with whom, I didn't know why, but I knew we were going to war. Why? Because of his character, attitude, and personality. A self-proclaimed freedom fighter, who has now "liberated" Iraq, and in its place left a destroyed infrastructure, uncountable amounts of depleted uranium which has given cancer to thousands of children, and a country in the midst of a civil war. With the pressure mounting to draw out of the country (as the public is now largely against the war), we will be out by the election - leaving behind some troops to maintain a shadow of order -...just in time to re-elect him and move on to the next war (probably Iran or North Korea). Liberals, and Michael Moore are not unpatriotic (although that is how the right loves to spin it) - they are the very patriotic, fostering justified skepticism of a dangerous regime. I hope for the best, but fear the worst.