WANTED ....DEAD OR ALIVE !!! or something like that..

Alright by now you folks reading this little bit of fluff know that I am what you would call a Democrat. BOO HISS GRRRRR!!! HA ..... It is the party of the people. Long held traditions of working with the common man (sorry Ken Lay), raising taxes to pay for things like running the federal government. Jefferson, FDR, Kennedy. You get the point ...well anyway if it seems at times like I am bashing President Bush ...well I am sure that I am. I did not vote for him. Would not vote for him.

I am not saying I am a very smart guy Lord knows I am not, so I wont be running for the presidency anytime soon. That job needs a man who can inspire the people. A man who appears to at least be smart on some level. A friend of mine told me last weekend that he kinda likes the fact that Bush comes off a little dumb....it keeps people guessing???? WHAT ?? I would rather him not be able to get dressed in the morning BUT at least maybe appear smart. Say what you want to about Bill Clinton, he was a very smart man. Most people today dont realize it but FDR was not the smartest man to ever hold the office BUT he surrounded himself the best and brightest. Reagan was the same way he packed the West Wing with smart folks. The Bush White House is a comedy of errors!
Last week Bush said in a joint news conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair that some things he said in the past were a little "much". President Bush is not known to be introspective about things but he said he regretted his cowboy talk after 9/11. His wanted "dead or alive" descrition of Osama and his "bring' em on" challenge to the Iraqi insurgents. He went on to say that in many parts of the world his words were " misinterpreted"

First of all, how do you get "wanted dead or alive " wrong ??? I mean you are either dead or alive . RIGHT ? Most gradeschoolers know that you dont taunt. It makes things worse. And last time I checked Iraq was not some playground at recess. These people are radical extremists with tons of money from other countrys that hate us and they also got friends like Iran and they dig enriching uranium to make BIG HUGE BOMBS. If any yall believe that they are gonna be powering houses with their new stuff ......I got some used Edsels you might be interested in buying. (Bravo if you know what an Edsel is ) These people dont give a second thought to killing innocent men, women and children on a daily basis.

Folks say that Bush took the war to them. Got it off our soil and on theirs...perhaps but is an american life any better than an Iraqi life? or a Brits? Would we be here today if say 9/11/01 had happened in Paris,France.
So much has been lost in this war. The loss of human lives is a terrible price to pay and those men and women who have died in this war..may God bless their souls. They gave the most. I respect and admire the men and women of our military more than anyone will ever know. We have also lost so much more, a general respect for our leaders (anyone remember a little country in southeat asia ...Vietnam?) our freedoms have slowly eroded. In a telegram dated Nov 21, 1943 Winston Churchill said the following " The power of the executives to cast a man into a prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him any judgement of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or otherwise" We Make mistakes. But our system of democracy with its checks and balances makes the system so great. Habeas Corpus, the balance between congress and the courts and our right of free speach. It is what makes us different from the Taliban and the bombers and from the Nazis of old. We cannot disregard our liberties in wartime. We are tying to bring a nation to democray while detaining people for years with out ever letting them see the inside off a courtroom. Is this right ? As the old saying goes " Do as I say not as I do" Thanks for reading ....and GOD BLESS AMERICA !!!