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Kuntrious Kokious Maximus
I'll support our president's decisions if I believe them to be made for the good and security of the people, and to protect the constitution. Sadly, the war in Iraq does not qualify for any of these.
Not supporting your leader in everything he does is as American as apple pie. I don't suppose we'd be here if our forefathers just followed their leader in jolly olde England in everything he commanded. But since you brought up the subject of Bush and his administration...
I'll tell you why I don't subscribe to the war in Iraq, and don't support our president in what he is doing.
1. First of all, we have a dumb president. The man can't speak proper English. He speaks a very lazy southern-style of English. Not only that, he doesn't know how to use proper grammer. A few quality Bushisms:
"Rick Sanchez has done a fabulous job. He's been there for a -- a long time. His service has been exemplorary."link
" Soldiers from the 2nd Light Calvary Regiment are conducting reconnaissance to learn the precise strength and location of enemy forces."link
"I wanna remind you all that I -- in, in order -- what -- in order to fight and win the war it requires a expenditure of money -- uhh, uhh -- that is commiserate with keeping a promise to our troops to make sure that they're well paid, well trained, well equipped." (should be commensurate)link
" We're, uhh, conscience of, uhh, of uhh, folks flying -- and getting lists of people flying into our country and matching them now with a much improved database. "link
"It's in the interest of -- uhh -- uhh, long-term peace in the world that we -- uhh -- work for a free and secure and peaceful Iraq. A peeance, freeance secure Iraq in the midst of the Middle East will have enormous historical impact." (whatever that means)link
"This is a -- a regional issue. I say a regional issue because -- there's a lot of countries that have got a direct stake into whether or not North Korea has nukyular weapons. We've got a stake as to whether North Korea has a nukyular weapon. China clearly has a stake as to whether or not North Korea has a nukyular weapon. South Korea, of course, has a stake. Japan has got a significant stake as to whether or not North Korea has a nukyular weapon.link
"You're working hard to put food on your family. "link
2. Why, on the morning of the attacks of 9/11, would our president and our secretary of defense put themselves in positions where they were inaccessible? President Bush sat in a classroom of schoolchildren all that morning, reading children's books with them while thousands died in New York. He sat there for at least 5 minutes, maybe longer, after being told by Andrew Card that the second plane had hit! See here for the video and vidcaps. Donald Rumsfeld, in our greatest moment of need for leadership that morning, disappeared for at least 30 minutes. Read about that here.
3. According to an AP article from April 6, 2004, Bush stated "Let me just be very clear about this," he said. "Had we had the information that was necessary to stop an attack, I’d have stopped the attack. … If we’d have known that the enemy was going to fly airplanes into our buildings, we would have done everything in our power to stop it." Well, here is the biggest lie of them all. He DID know, and so did everyone else. See this link to read the Phoenix Memo, and memo that was, until recently, classified. Dated July 10, 2001, it states that, without question, Usama Bin Laden has sent members of Al Quaeda to America to train at flight schools in an effort to learn to fly in order to use plains to hit American targets. Could it have been any more plain than this???
I could go on, but you get my point, I'm sure. As far as the war in Iraq, there's only one reason for it, and that's oil. If it wasn't, I don't believe Halliburton would have gotten the very first no-bid contract to help "clean things up" over there. Let's not forget that VP Cheney was CEO of Halliburton until 2000. And he still gets an annual check from them. How convenient.
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