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Bush 40%
Kerry 48%
Neither 12%
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When Bush spat on the CIA report, I knew then where things really are.
Roger Theriault
Kerry is the only one of the two qualified to comment on battlefield conditions having been the only one to have SEEN battle. Bush is living in a dreamworld spun by the neocons, massaged by his campaign team, filtered by his PR firm and glossed and embossed by his own personal TV network (FOX). Meanwhile, dozens of American men and women and hundreds of innocent Iraqi children, women, old men and starving, unemployed young men are being killed and maimed every month while Bush claims that progress is being made. About the only progress that's being made is toward the casket makers' sales quotas and Halliburton's Wall Street outlook.
Will Gordon
San Francisco
AREN'T WE SETTING THE BAR A LITTLE TOO HIGH FOR PRES BUSH?
It's not appropriate to expect Bush to accurately depict the present conditions in Iraq since he was incapable of accurately depicting the conditions in Iraq before we destroyed the country. I think he's 'staying the course' on this one.
Lou Belle
NYC
Bush hasn't ever leveled with all of the constituents of this country.
It has become evident that even during the 2000 campaign when he said he was not a nation builder and lambasted Gore,that he would spend all of our money on misguided causes. We are now facing the worst the deficits that our Nation has ever seen in its history.
The only way deficits,like the size that we are looking at now,are paid for (and they must be paid for like any other debt) is with tax money. You either cut spending or raise taxes. In the last four years he has displayed no interest in cutting spending unless it affects our Armed Forces.
Bush also proclaimed during his 2000 campaign that he was a uniter and not a divider. Today we are more divided in this Nation than I can remember. He also not only polarized his constituents,worse than they were,but has also polarized the rest of the PLANET against us.
There is only one answer to this question.
Bush is a pathological liar and his words should be taken with smallest grain of salt.
Tom Michalik
Bush disagrees with the National Intelligence Estimate, not to mention just about every observer not a part of his administration (and many observers within the administration). He's playing to a domestic audience, without regard for facts.
Richard David
Certainly not Bush. I am not sure where he gets his information but it is heavily filtered or he thinks that we are all stupid and ignorant. The US is encountering the same problems as the British when they occupied Iraq. The British failed just as the US is failing now.
Paul Taube
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