STING2 said:
Cut military spending? Precisely what do you want our military personal not to have? Military spending is vital to national security and is the most important item in the budget. Without national security, other priorties would be impossible to fund.
The United States went to war against Saddam with the approval of the United Nations from not just one resolution but 3! United Nations resolutions 678, 687, and 1441 all authorized the use of military force against Saddam if he failed to Verifiably Disarm of all WMD as well as meeting other obligations from a total 17 UN resolutions Saddam was in violation of!
Bush has strengthend the military and enforced the United Nations mos serious resolutions. One of the worse Dictators in history has been removed as well as the threat to most of the planets energy supply. 50 million people have been freed from brutal dictatorship in Iraq and Afghanistan which are now transitioning to democracy.
Bush has done more to fight terrorism than any other president in history. Thousands of members of Al Quada have been captured and killed.
Kerry's record has shown that he is unsupportive of the military, unwilling to respond to aggression that threatens vital US interest the example being his opposition to removing Saddam's military from Kuwait in 1991, and does not have a clear idea about where he stands on other foreign policy issues and international trade.
Bush is easily the better candidate and should be re-elected.
Convenient how you ignore all the other points I made. You said nothing about aid to third world countries or full funding for stem cell research or national healthcare reform or anything else I said. You took one item and wrote five paragraphs about it. Could that possibly be because you know you can't say anything positive about Bush in those other areas?
The military is already getting more money than it needs to adequetly protect us. There is excess money being spent on it that could better be used on other things. The 'Star Wars' thing, that needs to be cut. Military spending just needs to be cut, the Bush administration is putting far too much importance on the military, so much so that it makes it clear to anyone with a two-digit IQ that Bush either doesn't like or isn't good at diplomacy, and either way, that doesn't sit well with me.
And your comment about Bush doing more to fight terrorism than any other president in history is blatantly ignorant. Would you consider the Nazis to be terrorists? I certainly do. They tried to kill an entire race off for no good reason other than that they were brainwashed by a dictator who was probably worse than Saddam ever was. As tragic as the 3000 death toll from 9/11 and the 1000 death toll from the war are, they pale in comparison to the amount of Jews that were killed during the Holocast. Now, who was the president at the time? FDR. And he had a significant part in the events that led to Hitler's death and the collapse of Nazi Germany. And that's just one easy arguement against yours that Bush has done the more than any other president against terrorism.
As for the current election, polls show that the majority of other countries would like to see Kerry elected. Do you understand the implication of that? It means that outside of America, most developed countries feel like Kerry would be better for the entire WORLD than Bush would be. I for one agree. Look what's happened in Bush's term:
The biggest surplus in history was transformed into the biggest deficit in history.
Healthcare rates skyrocketed to the point where our healthcare premiums are by far the highest in the world, and to the point where literally tens of thousands of people travel to other countries, especially Canada, on a regular basis to get their healthcare drugs.
$300 Billion and 1000+ young lives were wasted on an immoral, baseless, pointless, unwinnable war that was presented to the American public under false pretenses, which is just a generous way of saying Bush lied his ass off to the entire country, and as a result the world is now a more dangerous place.
The commander-in-chief actually wanted to amend the constitution to outlaw gay marriage.
The commander-in-chief absolutely murdered, destroyed, decimated, the English language on a near daily basis, and proved that he is one of the worst, dare I say possibly the worst, public speaker in the history of politics.
The commander-in-chief has proven himself to be of less than the average intelligence usually desired in a president.
Unprecedent world support for America on 9/11 has disappeared, thanks to GWB, and we are now damn-near hated in the international community, and if that doesn't bother you, you're a fool.
The wealthiest of the wealthy were given the biggest tax cuts.
I could go on and on.
And please, please, stop complaining about Kerry being a flip-flopper. They're all guilty of it, even your guy Bush. When running in 2000, Bush said he'd renew the Assault Weapon Ban. Well, it's expiring, and though it hasn't reached his desk yet, it's a fact that if it did, he'd let it expire, just for the sake of getting the NRA's endorsement and more votes. You don't have a leg to stand on to be talking about Kerry's flip-flopping.
I believe that Bush is a danger to the world and to this country. I don't think Kerry will be great but I do think he'll be 1000 times better than Bush could ever hope to be.
If Giuliani runs in 2008, he'll be a tough candidate to beat. The one thing I'm thinking of: what if McCain runs against him in the primaries? He might have something to say about wanting the nomination himself; I'm not sure he's completely given up his presidential ambitions.
