Bush didn't fail miserably, but when I heard clips on the radio and there was a clear difference in the perception of each candidate's confidence, Bush still failed.
Seven times Bush said, "It's hard work!"
It still can't be denied that we haven't completed what we said we'd do before we went. We should not be in Iraq as we are now. We should have found Bin Laden by now; someone should have cut off his money supply at least. Christ, where the hell is Osama? Doesn't he have a wireless phone company we can split up?
Anyway, Beth counted the filled pauses. Kerry was in the twenties while Bush went into the eighties for the number of times he said "uh..."
I don't agree with Bush on the war. He didn't do what he said the country would do, and we ended up destroying a country for different reasons than the president gave for going. True, the world is better off without Saddam Hussein, but that doesn't justify the president's lies, misleading information, and bad grammar. And with the current information, it certainly wasn't worth 1,052 lives of soldiers (so far) and the many other lives of civilians and reporters, and those poor bastards who blow themselves up because we're there.
So the president kept repeating that "it's hard work" being president (or something), and sending his military to war and putting sons, daughters, mothers, and fathers in harm's way was the hardest decision he has ever had to make. I call bullshit! I say we're lucky if he ties his shoes in the morning. It was harder for him to be patient about the inspections in Iraq than it was to invade the country. That's why we're screwed now with no post-war plan for Iraq. That's why we're still there.
But that's only my opinion. I am only an uneducated engineer.
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I agree with your points and they seem well thought out. Noone can deny that Iraq is better off without Sadaam and that the world is better off with one less madman. The problem is, how many more of these madmen have we created by not only invading, but also not getting the people we know want to attack us. How are we safer knowing that Sadaam wasn't an imminent threat, but 2 other hostile regimes either have or will potentially have nuclear weapons.
What is hard work for the President is being honest and open with us. Of the 100,000 Iraqi personnel he said we had trained, only about 10% have completed the training with the bulk of them having just 3 weeks. After my 3 weeks of basic, I wasn't ready to win at paintball, much less in a real conflict. He said the spending has gone up 35% to prevent nuclear proliferation, but it has actually decreased 13% on his watch. Those are not bad statements like Kerry saying, I voted for it before I voted against it," those are lies.
This president succeeds because the American public is lazy and easy to manipulate. Success and leadership are not created by smoke and mirrors, I only hope the public catches on in the next 33 days.
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