On Dec 10, 2004, at 5:35 AM, John D. Giorgis wrote:
At 09:20 PM 12/9/2004 -0800 Doug Pensinger wrote:Dan wrote:
Indeed, he appears to be the inverse of his father...all "the vision thing" and virtually no practical implementation.
'cept I wouldn't give him much credit for vision either.
Well, you probably wouldn't give him much credit for anything.
I don't know what you call a plan for a democratic Iraq, but in my book that is "vision."
Plans to provide Americans with health care are also "vision". Same for plans to "spread Democracy" to other parts of the world (have you ever paused to consider how invidious that phrase might sound to other people living in other nations?). Many presidents over the years have had visionary ideas. Most have not, however, managed to unilaterally and almost utterly destroy American alliances worldwide, and have managed overall to *improve* American respectability in the eyes of other nations.
Whether you like it or not, we are living on a sphere. That means we can't get away from the neighbors. While the US has a right to defend itself, it does not -- and never did -- have the right to prosecute an unjust and unnecessary war against a nation that DID IT NO OBSERVABLE HARM WHATSOEVER.
Please bear in mind that on December 7, 1941, the Japanese nation staged a preemptive strike against the US. Nobody alive at the time liked it very much. Do you seriously think we've made friends in Iraq with our own ill-thought-out preemptive moves?
Duh-bya has squandered all the camaraderie the US picked up after 2001. We are not "safer" today than we were in 2000 from terrorists. Our own US armed forces are virtually begging for better equipment and being stonewalled by the very man who SHOULD BE a conduit to anything they need. Thousands of American lives have been sacrificed on the altar of George's "vision".
No rational human being can possibly be sanguine about ANY of this. We do not need vision. We do not need men who believe that their imaginary friends want them to be president. We need men who are willing to be connected to the reality in which we all live, and who will not squander billions of dollars and thousands of lives nor put the entire nation into harm's way by following some jackassed "vision" that is both unnecessary and unwise.
"We have one country, one Constitution, and one future that binds us."
-George W. Bush, 11/3/2004
Hey, you want to quote a drunk, go ahead and quote a drunk. I'll merely point out that there are many voices in this "one" country, and not all of us want to be bound by George's "vision" for the future.
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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