On Aug 10, 2004, at 3:47 PM, JDG wrote:
At 10:55 AM 8/9/2004 -0700 Dave Land wrote:On Aug 8, 2004, at 11:45 AM, JDG wrote:
From an Economist/YouGov poll:
Only 36% of Democrats agree that life is better now for Iraqis than under Saddam Hussein.
51% of Democrats believe that US forces should be withdrawn from Iraq "within the next few months."
This last result makes me very nervous as to what pressure John Kerry,
if
elected, will be under from within his own part to surrender to the
terrorists.
And so you gain some inkling of how it has been for the rest of us for the past four years of Shrub and his no-bid contracts to destroy and "rebuild" Iraq.
Come again?
You state that you are "very nervous as to what pressure JK will be under
from within his own party..." The rest of us (that is, people who continue
to /think/ about issues, rather than accept whatever BushCo tells us is
good for us and for the rest of the world) have been exceedingly nervous
as we actually *watch* a sitting president cater to every whim of his
paymasters.
It seems to me that this poll indicates that 36% of Democrats are seriously
detached from reality, and that a majority of Democrats favor surrendering
to the terrorists.
I am not entirely certain that bringing home soldiers who signed up to defend America (and not Iraq) equals "surrendering to the terrorists." I think a much better case can be made that allowing the terrorists to dictate how we board aircraft, how we conduct our political conventions and so forth is much more like "surrendering to the terrorists."
That is a serious problem, a serious issue for the upcoming election, and
if you want to call it "questioning patriotism" - then so be it, because it
concerns me even more in this election than the abortion issue.
Did I call it that? Hmmm. I don't see it in my message. Perhaps you have different kinds of rods or cones in your eyes, so you can see things in my message that I didn't put there. Are you a bird, perhaps? A Horse? The rearward portion of a Horse's anatomy?
Dave
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