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i enjoy thinking for myself, unlike a bush supporter, i enjoy my freedom, unlike a bush supporter. gay marriage does not threaten me, stem cell research must be explored, i believe in evolution, bush won’t let his supporters.

as a bush lacky, people like yourself are to be pitied, not scorned.

Only somebody who is extremely ignorant makes stupid generalized statements like that.
Do us all a favor and crawl back to your playpen…Thanks.

*******Dear Pete, Does it just come naturally that you throw out clever sounding quips that reinforce my opinion of your stupidity or do you work very hard to bolster my supposition?? I know you’re trying to be cute, but give up – it ain’t working….Your cute remark offends the sensibilities of EVERY jihadist’ terror attack since 1972….

These last six years of criminal near psychopatic rule by the GOP began when the khaki button-downed Republi-Youth marched on the Floridians daring to perform a legally mandated recount. The slide to demeaning the constitution, habeas corpus and the Geneva Accords began that day.

If somebody can script that thuggish march into a Dem/Lamont ad in time to be useful I’ll toss in a C-note.

Thugs in suits,
wearing crosses,
speaking Jesus,
doing trash.

Blood of Inquisitors,
long cold,
warms

Thugs in suits,
wearing crosses,
speaking Jesus,
doing trash.

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Rumors about Crist being gay have swirled around the campaign for months, but he has constantly denied them.

Outside the Mi Viejo San Juan restaurant, a mob of TV reporters cornered Bush and Crist, peppering them with questions about a gay rights group’s call earlier in the day for Crist to come out of the closet.

Crist brushed it all aside.

“Silly season junk. Next question,” said Crist, currently Florida’s attorney general.

But Bush became peeved when a reporter persisted and cut off an Hispanic journalist trying to pose a question in Spanish.

“Put a smile on your face and don’t be such a horse’s ass,” Bush snapped.

President Bush wants to make the election about the War or Terror. But what is the President’s record in fighting against real card carrying terrorists? The Bush administration has had three major opportunities to demonstrate their competence against dangerous terrorists and has failed each time.

The first failure happened at Tora Bora. The battle of Tora Bora may well prove to be one of the most costly “victories” in US military history.

Despite having thousands of US Marines relatively close at hand, the Bush administration chose to use a handful of special forces and Afghan militias to attack the terrorist stronghold. Incredibly, the leadership in the Pentagon failed to realize that the Afghan militias would conduct their part of the battle in their traditional manner which is based on the ancient teachings of the Chinese military strategist, Sun Tsu. One of Sun Tsu’s most basic principles is to “win the battle without fighting,” that is, to maneuver the enemy out of your territory with few if any losses. This was important because in ancient China, just as in present day Afghanistan, every tribe and province is surrounded by deadly enemies. Winning a costly victory over your enemy today means defeat at the hands of another enemy tomorrow.

In each stage of the war, our Afghan militia allies were content to merely maneuver the Taliban and foreign fighters out of their respective tribal territories. The same scenario played out at the battle of Tora Bora. Osama and the majority of his fighters were not confronted but allowed to slip into Pakistan. Al Qaida was inconvenienced and disrupted but was not destroyed. The enemy merely traded one rocky mountainside in Afghanistan for another rocky mountainside in Pakistan less than one hundred miles away.

The civilian leadership in the Pentagon violated one of the most basic principles of war in Afghanistan. The politicians in the Pentagon were obsessed with capturing territory, i.e., the capital of Kabul, the fortress of Tora Bora, rather than the critically important goal of concentrating our forces to kill or capture the enemy.

The United States had a golden opportunity to destroy al Qaida in one stroke, but failed due to ignorance, incompetence, and neglect.

According to Bob Woodward’s book, Point of Attack, after 9/11 Donald Rumsfeld was “driven to the brink” by the delay in getting boots on the ground in Afghanistan. But by insisting on a rapid response, President Bush and Rumsfeld sowed the seeds for eventual failure. Then, while the officers at General Tommy Franks Central Command were still busy directing the Afghan war, Donald Rumsfeld ordered them to begin planning for the invasion of Iraq. Both President Bush and Rumsfeld were obsessed with Iraq, and this obsession diverted resources and attention away from the battle in Afghanistan before the war was won. Consequently, the war in Afghanistan is still not won, and may well never be won.

While the war in Iraq is now the main front in the War on Terror according to President Bush, before the war, Iraq was not a safe haven for terrorists with one exception, Sargat.

President Bush’s second major failure in the War on Terror was at the Iraqi village of Sargat which is located close to the Iranian border. Sargat was occupied by Ansar al-Islam, a mostly Kurdish terrorist group led by a Jordanian with ties to al-Qaida. The Bush administration rarely mentioned Sargat when discussing the War on Terror because Ansar al-Islam existed for all practical purposes under U.S. protection. Sargat was located north of the northern Green Line, which Saddam was prohibited to cross, and thus Ansar al-Islam was safe from attack by Saddam’s army. But while the U.S. had plenty of bombs to drop on Saddam in the years between Gulf War 1 and the Iraq War, seemingly there were no bombs available to drop on the base of a known terror group who had killed Kurdish secularists and which was allegedly running poison laboratories.

The Bush administration finally did decide to deal with Sargat as part of the invasion of Iraq. But, while there were plenty of U.S. troops available to protect the Iraqi Oil Ministry, no regular US troops were available to attack Sargat. According to Point of Attack, a handful of Special Forces in the Kurdish region who had been running the “Rockstars” spy network were assigned the job. Tragically, the mistakes made at Tora Bora were repeated at Sargat. The boots on the ground were provided by the local Kurdish militias, and as could have been predicted, they repeated the performance of their cousins in Afghanistan. The Kurds were content to maneuver the terrorists out of their territory and across the border into Iran. As the last of the terrorists were loading their SUVs to leave, the American Special Forces called for an airstrike, but sadly, no planes were available to attack these deadly terrorists. The vast majority of the terrorists lived to fight another day.

The commander of Ansar al-Islam was named Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and he would soon return to Iraq and kill hundreds of Americans and thousands of Iraqis.

The third major failure of the Bush administration in the War on Terror is on-going and unfolding before our eyes. While President Bush claims to be the tough guy against the terrorists, according to CNN correspondent Michael Ware, “al-Qaida at its very heart has been found, identified, yet is not being struck…”

According to a report released by Ware on September 12, 2006, Al-Qaida uses the town of Ramadi in Al Anbar province as its headquarters. “This is were the leaders hide, move plan.” Also, “Al Qaida (in Iraq) is almost untouched in its area of operations, and in the city of Ramadi itself, al Qaida fighters are constantly attacking U.S. troops.”

Ware also says, “So, here’s the heart of al-Qaida in Iraq, and there’s simply not enough troops and no strategy to combat it.”

Also, according to Ware, “there’s an area north of the Euphrates River that is used by al Qaida’s top leadership that Osama bin Laden himself points to. It’s the size of New Hampshire. You have only a few hundred troops there. They can do nothing to hamper al Qaida’s leadership in that area.”

Ware also says, “…Ramadi, it’s actually the al Qaida front line,” and “this is where American Marines and soldiers go face to face every day with the very organization that attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and yet it seems that they’re being forced to do so under-resourced and with one arm tied behind their back.”

Ware concludes that, “In Ramadi, in western al Anbar province, we see what can only be described as a black hole in President Bush’s global war on Terror.”

The Bush administration failed to confront and defeat the terrorists at Tora Bora and Sargat, at the subsequent cost of thousands of lives. Now President Bush is making speeches claiming that only he and his administration can lead the War on Terror.

But the Bush administration is not even fighting the al Qaida terrorists in Iraq effectively, his own chosen battlefield. The Bush administration has a proven record of failure. For the sake of the American people, the United States desperately needs new, effective leadership in the War on Terror.

Jim McMeans
Jmcmeans@negia.net

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