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Right you are, scoop.
In all respects. We are no safer today. Despite government rhetoric, al-Qaeda is alive and well and growing. Our infrastructure is totally vulnerable, made even more so by our extensive porous borders. The Homeland Security Department is underfunded and ill-prepared for, well, just about anything. Iraq and Afghanistan are obvious puppet states. Despite embracing democracy, which might actually work, they are democracies born of occupation, therefore subject to failure and usurpation by whichever movement is the most organized or violent or both.
And why should Bush care? He's a lame duck trying to make himself look a little better in the eyes of history. And failing miserably, domesticly and internationally. Still, holding the office of the presidency should make him care -- about what happens while he's president and what happens afterward as a result of his presidency.
posted by
saul_relative
on April 8, 2005 at 5:33 PM
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I have written so much on Iraq but now it is a thing of the past to many
two years have gone by, over 1,500 dead, they had their vote and now it is like this, OK, now what? How do we get out? Bush has 3 1/2 years to go, not being funny but how much does he care? The republicans are already looking ahead to 2008, they want to handle any damage control with with Iraq, Terri Schiavo, and the rest of the mess we are in. And I am serious, we have taken some steps towards combating terrorism but we have a long way to go and I don't actually feel any safer in day to day life. Maybe airlines are safer but not subways, trains, bridges, our borders etc. And where is Osama bin forgotten?
posted by
scoop
on April 8, 2005 at 5:14 PM
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