Re: GW's Acceptance Speech
Once bitten twice shy.<br /><br />Unlike past Presidents I don't doubt GW's sincerity, honesty or convictions. I think he'd even be a great guy to pal around with.<br /><br />My strongest belief in him was when he was talking tough. Words like "your either with us or against us", "we will leave no stone unturned in bringing the terrorists to justice", etc., etc.. I believe in the Bush Doctrine and I believe in the concept of our involvement in Iraq.<br /><br />The problem I have with him is his competence.<br />Here is where our actions fall way short of our tough talk.<br />We gallantly land in Afghanistan and immediately start throwing money at local thugs and war lords to do our fighting for us. Very possibly, this policy allowed Bin Laden to remain free today.<br />We admirably landed in Iraq with flawed intelligence. We proceeded in a brilliant invasion. However, almost concurrently with GW's landing on the carrier, several miscalculations, both militarily and politically unfolded.<br />We stood down into a defensive posture. Allowed borders to be penetrated and allowed the masses to remain armed.<br />Obviously conducting a "politically correct" war. This stall and deviation of goals and objectives clearly opened the door for domestic dissention. It also caused the months long and yet to be resolved problem with Alsadr and others like him.<br />And another valid point relative to these mistakes. I honestly believe that there were and still is WMD's. But the sobering fact is we HAVE NOT secured them. <br /><br />Sobering still is all the tough talk that is again being challenged. Tough talk that was directed at known terrorist states. Tough talk that is once again recognized by our enemies as being words from a paper dragon. The tough talk from GW while being slapped in the face by Iran, sickens me. All the sincerity, good intentions and tough talk are worthless, if as the commander in chief, through your incompetence has allowed this country to loose it's will to fight a war and win it.<br /><br />Iran and N.Korea can build WMD's, flaunt it and shake it in our face. Saddam's WMD's can stay buried in the sands of Syria until they can be used in a terrorist attack.<br />All the while half of this country cries about war actually causing death and the other half relying on tough talk and half action.<br /><br />Still I'll prove I'm not close minded or bitter. I can recognize the distinction between the really horrible and the merely incompetent. The difference between a total idiot (Kerry)and a person (Bush) who maybe is on a learning curve.<br /><br />Hopefully, miraculously, Bush can pull us out by learning from his past mistakes. I'll vote for him only on faith. But until he starts walking his talk we will continue to lose this war.
<br /><br />Seriously, all in all it was a very good speech. A lot of it was repetitive but I hope that a lot of people who haven't paid much attention, like some of us do, were watching. It would have made a very good impression. Above all, it showed that GW is not a 'fantastic plastic banana'!
