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Has nothing to do with the mision. Has to do witht he educational status of the members of the military - essentially calling them dumb because they don't have college degrees. In his appology he stated
You can put any words into someone's mouth you choose. That doesn't make it true.
This is funny because people on these forums are always doing this to Bush, Kerry, etc. It seems everyone knows exactly what these candidates mean the instant they say something and it doesn't matter that anything they say could be taken multiple ways.
From what I've seen, no matter what a politician says, the zealots from the opposing party are going to think they meant the worst.
Since we all say stupid things or we all say things that we meant one way, but other people took to mean a different way; isn't it possible that the politician you hate from the other party could have said something that you took to mean the opposite of what they meant?
For all the talk of tolerance in politics, or from politicians, or from their base voters ... these same people have no tolerance for the positions of the other side.
I too am intolerant - of both political parties (it just simplifies things)
Not all liberals are bad, not all conservatives are bad, not everything Bush has done is bad, not everything that Kerry has done is bad, not everything the Democrats have done is bad, not everything the Republicans have done is bad. Only extreme zealots (from either side) think differently and to have one side without the other would cut out important thoughts and discussion points.
Bipartisanship is the best policy ... how can we get our businesses to make lots of money while making sure the environment is kept clean? how can we get affordable healthcare for everyone without bankrupting the country? how can we keep our country safe without removing everything fundamental we believe in?
There has to be compromise on both sides, you can't have everything your way, the hawks and the doves have to work together.
As long as people in this country are so tied to "their party" and not to their country; then things will never get better.
There are people that want this country to fail because it will make Bush look bad - why? Why would they want their own country to fail to make one person look bad? We've cut and run in the past (e.g. Vietnam, Somalia, Beirut, etc.) and each time it emboldens the people that hate us (the non-Americans) to attack us.
Personally, I'd like to pull our troops from just about every country we have them in now, and stop giving money to every country (including the U.N.) just so they'll like us (even though they won't) and spend that money here. If some country attacks us or our interests, we bomb the hell out of their military and infrastructure so they can't do it anymore and make it expensive for them. If a terrorist group attacks us, then we attack the country they were based out of (like Afganistan) in the same manner.
Not send in troops; just ruin their country, and not just a factory or two. After a while, only the nuttyiest of the nuts will continue to attack us (or let terrorists operate out of their country) and the nuttyiest of the nuts are so wacked out that no deterrent would work anyway.
I don't think anyone would dislike us any worse than they do now, but they'd be less likely to piss us off.
At some point when other countries notice we aren't going to meddle (or fix their damn problems for them), then they'll be more likely to take on some of the world's problems themselves.
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