It is interesting to see a craftsman at work as they make a difficult task
look so easy.
That is what George W has done.
He took a declining economy and propped it up while dealing with the most vicious terrorist attack this county has ever seen.
But now it looks so easy, a Quaker, a Pacifist, a Democrat, a Libertarian-- ANYONE could have done it.
Jax

My, how times change. If George W. had been President during the Cuban Missile Crisis, would he be the hero that JFK is made out to be? Dubya would not have done anything differently then, yet JFK would have gone to war in Iraq, because it is what the American people wanted at the time. All you Monday morning quarterbacks, second guessing a man who had to make some very tough decisions, when your toughest decision is what to eat for breakfast. You all sound like those people who say, "The police could have shot the gun out of his hand, they didn't have to kill him".

Unless you've been there, you don't know how hard the decisions are.

It's easy to say, "they dragged us into their war", and "Israel-Palestine is the reason there's so much trouble in the Middle East". History tells us that Iraq has never had self determination, and neither have most middle eastern countries. The empires, (Ottoman, British, American) have been interfering for so long, there's no such thing as a national identity in any of those places.

There's more to political alliances than deciding whether or not to go along with what the US says. Most Americans felt betrayed by France, because they think they're still owed from WWII, and rightly so, but that's the decision that was made by the government of the day, and they have to respect their constituents. It doesn't matter what some citizen of the UK or Germany or Canada thinks of US policy, because they don't have a vote. If Goober from Kentucky says "Go to war" he carries alot more weight, just as if Jean from Paris says "Non". You best course of action would be to try to sway their opinion, like the makers of Farenheit 9-11 are trying to do.

Personally, I don't really care who wins the election, because life will go on for me. I'm lucky enough to live where I do. Yes, it breaks my heart to see people suffer because of war, but war happens. What is shameful is that the UN doesn't interfere where it should, (Rwanda).