Originally posted by Liberator
small-minded, hateful bastards
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OH! I get it now! We're hateful because we think the President is a putz, yes, that makes perfect sense! Veritable KKK members, that's us! We also eat babies!
what kind of situation you'd be in if Bill and his pet witch had been in charge or, God above help us, Al "I am tree" Gore.
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Well, for starters, we wouldn't be paying for a deadwood "Homeland Security" department that can't stop people from bringing guns onto airplane or unlicensed hazardous biologicals into the country even when the people doing it aren't actively covering their tracks, never mind whenever an actual
terrorist might decide to do it,
in addition to a joke of an Army that can barely hold onto a Third World nation armed with a couple dozen grenades and as many as forty bricks never mind a genuine threat. We probably wouldn't have the world polarized against us to the point where if there
was a genuine war it's likely be everybody against us, the threat of terrorism from overseas would not have increased substantially since 9-11, and we wouldn't have a theocrat trying to dictate orders as absolute tyrant to the country. Oh, and I forget, we would've largely recovered from this ****ed-up depression by now, instead of it getting worse and worse.
Bush is far from perfect, but he is the best President we've had since Ronald Reagan.
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If incompetence, cynical attempts to manipulate the people, and strong neofascist tendencies are marks of quality, Bush is years ahead of Reagan. Reagan was just bumbling old man who funded terrorists and robbed the poor to feed the rich, not particularly fantastic or awful, I don't really see what the big deal about him is. In fact, I don't think anybody does, except the guys who froth a lot about how he's Jesus incarnate and never explain exactly why. Care to? Explain, that is, not froth, we've had plenty of that.
For the record, Clinton was more interested in getting his socks blown, and then lying about it while his witch, Hillary, was communicating with former first ladies ghosts. It is Clinton policies that led to 9/11 by weakening the CIA and leading OBL to think he could strike against the Free World and not reap the whirlwind
What
is it with this loathing of Hillary you lot seem to have. Really, I've seen nothing she particularly deserves it for, aside from being a woman in politics. It's never been explained at all, either, aside from further ranting insults, so I'm inclined to believe that the women in politics bit is precisely it. And, y'know,
technically al Qaeda's been around and running against the US way before Clinton was around... though not before much of the Bush cabinet. Who funded him, and Saddam, in fact. Funny how that works. I'd tack on that so far bin Laden has
not "reaped the whirlwind" (cute), unless the aforementioned spurious charge against Bush is in fact true, and al Qaeda is by all accounts about as strong as ever, albeit minus some money.
Hotsnoj: Just... don't talk. Please. Just... no. Your posts are the death of reason, in the traditional sense of not the thing Kazan appeals to when he doesn't feel like explaining what he's on about. Never mind language- words
mean something, you know, and the meaning doesn't change just to suit you, despite Bush's (or, for that matter, Clinton's) best efforts to that effect. We could be here all day explaining what makes moral absolutism "different", and in the end I can guarantee you wouldn't get it. Look it up for yourself if you really want to know, there's volumes of information on it, but like I said I think it's out of your depth.
Bob: Yeah, there was a pharmaceutical factory got cruise-missiled under Clinton, it was part of the main campaign against terrorism in his administration and they thought it was a bioweapons plant or training center or something, forget what. Anyway, it's rather odd that they'd cite that, as it's an example of antiterrorist activist policy under Clinton, and so far Bush has inflicted several hundred thousand times more "collateral damage". Much of it with similar "smart" missiles, no less.
