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Posted By: Cat

Barry/Leon:

You both wrote something to the effect "at least listen and be tolerant of other's opinions." I couldn't agree more. The only thing I really know is that "I don't know." My only other post on this topic, at least my only other serious post, stated. "there are no crystal balls with these issues." Many of our Congressmen (all three of my congress"men" are females oddly enough) have positions based on ability to get elected/reelected and that's not trustworthy to me. Many Republicans ran from Bush like maniacs during election time, I believe, because Bush was getting hammered in the polls. We let polls frame our political landscape in this country (both parties). We let the uninformed determine policy to a large extent.

Bush and his cabinet have made mistakes... a lot of mistakes. Most of the mistakes, I believe, have been how they have handled this situation publicly. Attempting to get some stability in the Middle East is the right move for our safety. I don't think doing nothing is an option any longer. I don't think that our intelligence was bad in regards to Iraq. Like someone else said perhaps we didn't find the warheads that we thought we would, but Iraq was the correct starting point for change...maybe we won't get there.

I learned at a young age that if you passively let somone take your lunch money every morning on the way to school the only predictable event is that you will have you lunch money stolen each morning. On the other hand if you fight back, you change the outcome. You don't always have to win the fight, you just have to bloody a few noses. Similarly, if we do nothing on a worldwide basis, expect to have our freedom and safety (and lives) slowly taken from us. Based on what happened to Hussein, how do you think other lunatic leaders will act in the future? Do you think our administration has altered future actions by some of these maniacs? Hell Yeah!!! We have cut down our war of terrorism exponentially. Now, to a significant extent, we "just" have to worry about the less organized (and less funded) Bin Laden type of terrorist. That's a big "just" unfortunately. I believe our actions in Iraq have shown the rest of the world that we will not stand passively. This will, I believe, have a very limiting effect for funding of terror warfare against the US. No world leader wants to end up like Hussein.


My last post on this thread. I REALLY am on this board to have fun.