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Originally Posted by Splum
I completely agree with almost everything you said up there, keep in mind Bush IS a politician and well politicians in general do disingenuous things. I always think in terms of lesser of evils, sure could there be a much better President in office yes, could there be a worse one, yes it could be Jimmy Carter who would have ran in fear from Al Qaeda. As far as Bush eroding freedoms that is an issue I am not so convinced of, I have yet to see one freedom he has eroded of mine personally. Much of it is anti-Bush propaganda, we are a nation of laws, new laws are enacted by each congress and president. Hell Clinton took the freedom of soldiers to come out of the closet. Shrug, I want to come down to the basics...
1. We cant withdraw from Iraq until it is somewhat stabilized.
2. Bush only has a couple years left and we need to start healing the culture gap in our country so we need some people in Congress to step to the plate and start the healing process or this bitter divide in America will just get stronger and stronger each Presidency.
3. American policy has always been pre-emptive it just hasnt been so blatant as the Bush administration has made it. We need to do more actions covertly.
4. The United Nations is useless it should be disbanded and another organization formed from the ground up.
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I agree strongly that the number one thing this country needs right now is to heal the culture gap in this country. It kind of started with Clinton. A lot of people on the right dispised him and they did everything they could to get the white house back after he left office. I think much of the country still has a bitter taste in its mouth over the 2000 election and even to a smaller extent the 2004 election. There are few more polorizing figures in politics than Bush and I think he needs to try to help bring people back together after a long, crazy 6 years. Although I don't think he can do it. We are stuck in Iraq with no end in site and his current policiy seems to be to pass it on to the next president. The democrats who were elected on a campaign the included a heavy dose of "unity for the country" seem only interested in going after the republicans. I have a feeling that unless someone moderate wins the whitehouse in 2008 the gap will only widen.
We trully are a country made up of red and blue states now. It's going to take a hell of an effort to bring them back together.