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Originally posted by foolio
Look - I hope more than anything Bush gets the boot, he is a all-around BAD president. His actions with this 'war' prove that.
But really, people will still hate the USA despite WHO is in office, the only thing that will change is the name on their banners. They do not like Bush because he returned the punch... And if Kerry does get in office he basically has 2 options - keep on the path Bush is on or turn his back and walk away from the 'war'. If he walks away all these stupid terrorists will think they can own the USA and step up the attacks because they know we will not do anything. OR Kerry can keep on with the path Bush has started to go down.. if he does this nothing will change, we will still lose our sons for oil, thee USA will still be hated in many parts of the workd making it unsafe for any American to travel to any country outside of our ever-shrinking circle of friends.
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I agree in part, but the thing that you are not acknowledging is that 90% of our allies are whole-heartedly in support of the 'war on terror', but they want to see it done on an International level. Our decision to go into Iraq (basically) unilaterally was the real problem. If we had a president that was more active in working with other countries to fight terrorism (and actually listened to what they had to say) don't you think that the focus would be taken off of the US?
Also, I feel that the simple act of re-electing Bush will say to the world "The PEOPLE of the US agree with what Bush has done". Not a huge thing, but the opposite is also true. If we elect someone else, we will be saying "We don't agree with the way things have been done. We want to do it better."
IMO.
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