OT, a little something for you liberals Options

[Howard]

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak my mind. I lost my job this past year. When Clinton was president I was secure and prosperous, but in the last year, we had to close our operations. We simply could not compete with foreign labor. This foreign labor worked for low pay under very bad conditions.

They worked very long shifts, and many even died on the job.

This competition could hardly be called "fair." I was forced out of the place where I had worked for 34 years.

Not a single government program was there to help me.

How can Bush call himself "compassionate?" Far worse, I lost two of my sons in Bush's evil war in Iraq. They gave their lives for their country, and for what? So that Bush's oil buddies can get rich. My pain of losing my sons is indescribable.

While it is trivial next to the loss of my sons, I regret to say that I also lost my home. I simply have nothing left. How can Bush call himself a Christian when he neglects people like me? I am a senior citizen with various medical problems. I'm not in a position where I can begin a new career. I was reduced to the point where I had to live in a hole in a ground, all because of President Bush.

And when the authorities found me there, did they have any compassion for my misfortune and ailments? No, I was arrested. Mr. Bush, I dare you to look me in the face and tell me you are a compassionate man! I dare you to look me in the face and tell me you are a Christian. If I had any money left, I would donate it to the Democrat Party.

If Al Gore had been elected in 2000 I would still have a job, a home, and most importantly, my dear sons!

Regards,

Saddam Hussein

[fiid]

As to why Bush did a poor job?

I am on the fence about Afganistan - the Taliban was a terrible regime, and it seems reasonably certain that it is supporting terrorism; also the war there was very well executed - apart from not capturing the primary target.

As for Iraq, there is no even vague proof that there was any support for terrorist against the US originating from there. At the same time we do have a deranged crazy threat from North Korea, which we refused to have a dialog with. So I think that was misplaced.

Saddam IS a bad guy, and I am glad he has been taken care of, but it should have been carried out with UN backing. We have basically crippled the international order by not respecting the UN.

The war in Iraq was very well executed and we did have very little loss of life considering what was achieved. Having said that - they were not exactly an organized force, and they did not have very good tactical or strategic command. None of the serious strategies that we thought they were going to employ were actually used; there are no weapons of mass destruction.

I have a lot of respect for our troops. They don't have a choice about what battles they have to fight, and I don't believe what they did was easy (especially since they were an undersized force to begin with, for the Iraq operation - which became quite clear quite early on).

The question is - Why Iraq? I believe the answer is (in the words of my friend) - because "he messed with my daddy." That is no justification for a unilateral war. The war on terrorism seems to be just an excuse for this one. And you have to ask these questions because the justification from the Administration for this war has changed every couple to 3 weeks, constantly being reworded and tweaked to that weeks CNN report. The American people are being played as fools. And now, to boot, we have enormous deficits to show for it.

Whatever you believe, make sure you ask the questions, and make sure you get out and vote.