[GCFL-discuss] Blood and Gore

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No he isn't trying to do damage to this country but he is doing a right good
job of it

Dave
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Subject: Re: [GCFL-discuss] Blood and Gore


> Oh, this is getting fun, I see Jeff had his own reply to Dave.
>
> There is no point to weighing the merits of Gore, who has declined to run
> again, or Clinton, who has served two terms and is barred by the XXII
> Amendment from ever serving as president again. Bush, however, has been a
> disaster, and needs to be replaced if we have any respect for our nation.
>
> I do think Jeff's scenario about Gore turning the nation over to bin
> Laden is highly unlikely. First, bin Laden doesn't really WANT to run our
> country, he just wants to take some medium large deadly pot-shots at us.
> I know, 3000 dead is not a pot-shot, except by comparison to the size and
> population of our country, and what it would take to actually invade or
> conquer us. Conquerors don't need to become terrorists, they march in an
> army and take it all. Bin Laden just thinks he can hurt us enough that we
> will leave what is important to him alone, or at least he can feel good
> about making us feel his pain. (The rulers of Japan had a similar thought
> in 1941 -- but they did have an army bent on conquest, at least of the
> Pacific and Asia).
>
> Any president would have done roughly what Bush did in Afghanistan. It
> was an obvious thing to do, public opinion demanded something along that
> line, and it was such a fortunate point of weakness for al Qaeda that we
> had eager allies available to do most of the fighting on the ground, as
> long as they got some tactical air support and supplies of ammunition.
> Most potential presidents would not have gotten us into Iraq, including
> Gore, Bradley, and McCain.
>
> I have little respect for Gore, less for Clinton, and almost none for
> Bush. Except I think on some level Bush is sincere; terribly wrong,
> clumsy, misguided, deluded, but sincere. He is not trying to damage this
> nation or inflict evil on the world.
>
> Siarlys
>
>
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