You’re an independent? You claim to be a "Johnny Reb" which would indicate being from the south and supportive of the confederacy in the War Between the States? Yet here you are defending a president and a political policy that is so much like the policies that affected that conflict.

You really need to study history. The history of this country and the history of your beloved George Bush.

Let's start with your comments such as the one about Clinton not going after bin Laden because the Republican Congress would not allow it.
Or the one about how Bush had a briefing memo regarding the bin Laden threat against this country sitting on his desk when he chose to saunter off to Crawford for a month vacation after only 6 months in office.
How about the fact that Dumbass took an oath when he became president (both inaugurations) to uphold the Constitution and then turns around and states in a recorded meeting that the Constitution is "just a damn piece of paper."
And what about your precious war on terrorism. Bush swore to hunt down bin Laden and al Qaeda and bring them in "dead or alive" but instead he attacked Iraq even though there were no ties between them and bin Laden. They even originally called it Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL, hint, hint) and now we have 2232 admitted dead American soldiers from the war for OIL (they don't count the wounded that die after leaving Iraqi soil) which is only 517 short of the number believed to have died at the World Trade Center bombing.
Now I could keep this up for a long time and keep listing all the bull shit you seem to see as Bush positives but I don't have the time nor the energy so let me just leave you with one last fact:
The primary reason fir the Civil War in this country was the perception that the Government was trying to take away the rights of the people and the states. Gee, does spying on American Citizens without following the law, or lying to Congress and the American people about ties between Hussein and bin Laden or giving major no bid contracts to your buddies for emergency services costing the taxpayers BILLIONS of Dollars sound like the kind of acts YOUR forefathers would have put up with?
You are no Johnny Reb, you are just a frightened little man looking for anyone to protect your cowardly ass against a few Islamic extremist.
Personally I am far more afraid of Bush than bin Laden.

He who is willing to give up freedom for safety deserves neither!

Hi John,

Our anger stems from Republican INACTION against terrorism not simply the ineptness they bring to any job.

Jim

P.S.

-The arguments made by Republicans have all proven false: Mission Accomplished, Americans would not have to pay for the War, We would be greeted as liberators, etc. (Intellectuals throughout the USA tried to warn fellow Americans before the invasion.)

-The counter argument was and still is: “Yeah but ya have to do something and its better to be safe than sorrow”. This is where you should focus your arguments with me. Many of us knew before hand that the slight gains from invading Iraq would be massively offset by loses.

It remains true that if we throw enough bodies and money at Iraq over the decades to come, then we can, via the adoption of this 51st State, have a chance of making it a better place. I do not believe however that this will ensure that 19 men with box cutters and a plan, will not decide to attack us again.

If Republicans wish to come clean and note that we will have to give up our children and our standard of living for decades on end in order to establish one new democracy in the hopes that fewer people on the planet will get razor blades and attack us, then my anger would ebb a bit but not my objection to the absurdity of the proposition.

If you track my posts you will see that I had hoped for a far more massive invasion of Afghanistan and an immediate return to Economic Power. Instead we are dead in the water in more ways than one. I have no desire to fight you because I see Republicans leading us all into a fox hole together. They are dragging this Nation down to military and economic defeat.

(To check yourself for bias try this: Ask yourself how you would feel if Republicans invaded ______? Now fill in the blank with a Nation you would never dream we should invade. The reason we all got into the “better safe than sorrow” arguments was simply because Republicans starting talking up Iraq. One can get 1/3 rd of the Nation ready to do battle with ANY Nation on the Planet by simply talking about them.)

Hey, Johnny needs some Rehab, Republicans wouldn't let Clinton go after Osama. Since you say Clinton didn't hunt down Osama in the middle of his administration, what the hell is Bush's excuse? He has been in office over 5 years and he ain't found Osama - hell, Bush ain't even looking for him. Bush got all distracted by Saddam. The President needs to be impeached because he has FAILED in every move he has made. He received a PDB saying Osama was going to strike in New York and Washington - why does Bush say we were caught off guard? Obviously the government knew something but you want to give Bush the benefit of a doubt. That is why Bush needs to be thrown out of the White House - we deserve better. We don't need to "give him a break" because we were attacked on his watch because that gives him no incentive to make better decisions.

"They want the federal government controlling Social Security

- George W. Bush in a debate in St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000

falling hook, line and sinker for this War against Terror bullshit. If he is SO CONCERNED, he should go to Iraq and fight themthar terrorists himself.

We have nothing to fear except the fear mongers themselves.

OOOHHHH! Rove brought out the Boogie Man. I'm so scared. I'm a pussy named Johnny Reb. Little diaper baby.

Saving the world from stupidity
One Republican at a time
Since November, 2004

Stick-poking trolls sounds like a fun new game. Maybe we could sell the idea to Hadley Bros...;-)