Rick, I never felt the need to edit myself when voicing anti-administation opinions when Slick Willie was in office! For all his shortcomings, I feel better about working for Bush, because he's not demanding the resiginations of senior military members for "fraternizing" with subordinates while experimenting with flavored cigars in his office! I've seen Bush board Marine 1 and then get out because he forgot to salute the Marine guarding it (which he was not even required to do!) I can respect a man who respects me. Might I get sent to a combat zone, maybe. Might my ship be bombed, and I be killed? Maybe. That goes with the job. A cop could get shot by a crackhead, a burning building may collapse on a firefighter, that's not the fault of the mayor or the chief of police. Why did Bush decide to go into Iraq? Well, just maybe, the man sitting in the Oval Office for eight years before him knew it needed to be done, SAID it needed to be done, and NEVER did it! On the side of the island of the USS Nassau LHA-4, there's a big sign painted...
WHY ARE WE HERE?
(I don't remember all the exact names and figures but you'll get the idea)
1983 Marine Barracks-Beirut- 284
1988 PanAm Flight 103(?) Lockerbie Scotland 187
1999 US Embassies in Kenya and ???? 237
2001 World Trade Center,Pentagon, United Airlines flight 93 3000+
there's several others, but they omitted Khobar towers, the USS Samuel B. Roberts, the USS Cole, and the FIRST WTC bombing!
If you beleive that there was no connection between Saddam and Al Queda, I have a box of Lusitania Cigars that are plainly marked Cuba, and Havana on them I'll sell you at a REAL reasonable price! (they're even pretty good! Made by Perdomo) I think we were more than justified in going into Iraq, I think it's been proven that those members of the international community who derided us for "acting so precipitously" were illegally trading with Iraq under the table in direct violation of UN sanctions, which were a joke because of how corrupt it turns out the "Food for Oil" program was! And THESE are the people who Kerry wants to get approval from before he acts to defend our country! He want to regain THEIR respect!?!?!?
Rick, have you seen your doctor lately?