TM7;
Contrary to what you think, I am not a huge supporter of Pres Bush ! There were other candidates I would rather have seen in the office.
However, when it came to either Bush or the Democrat's alternatives..aka Gore and Kerry...then I am a bush supporter !
I do give Pres Bush credit for striking back at an enemy that had been continually striking at us and giggling over it ! His predecessor, the original Pres Clinton seemed to feel it was proper that we sit here shouting " hit me with your best shot " and just play "rope-a-dope" with a fanatical enemy..no need reiterating the number of time we were hit and never responded in kind.
Perhaps a timely, heavy response would have prevented the act of war that occurred on 9/11..
While I don't think Pres Bush is the "end all, be all", I do give him credit for responding to a very real threat, attempting to preserve Christian values, respecting the second amendment, treating our military as the heroes they are and keeping the carpet in the oval office relatively clean.
And 19 "agents" that volunteered to go to their own deaths for a "neocon" cause ? In my experience, any double agent that is ready to murder his own fellow citizens is so selfish, greedy and egotistical...he certainly would not die for any cause !
Yes, Bush has made mistakes; just as any president we have ever had, has done..just as any military leader we have ever had, has done..anyone with a small modicum of historical perspective knows the we have never had an absolutely perfect nationally elected leader.
....Nor has any other nation..!
I recall as a kid ( long before PC )that we had an Airedale that was just about the toughest dog around....
One day ..after a doggy "go around" where he sent a couple canine oponents fleeing for home,..a neighbor lad remarked, " your Airedale isn't so tough !"..
My brother said.." Do you have a dog that can beat him ?"..the lad said, " I don't even have a dog !"
My brother said.."Well, put up or shut up !"...
It is very easy to take pot-shots at those in the spotlight, and I am well assured that if you have someone in mind to fill the office as leader of this nation, he/she would have fully as many vulnerabilities .
If you have someone in mind to fill those top jobs...how about naming them, so the rest of us can dice and slice that candidate, just as you try to do with the current prez...
On the other hand, if you have no person in mind..why bother criticizing the one we have until you can offer someone as a better alternative ( a better dog for the fight) ?
Just seems to be a logical "gentleman's challenge"..as with the neighborhood dogs...LOL