Because the administration started a war with no justification



This statement is absurd. The entire UN voted unanimously to take serious actions (resolution 1441) if Iraq didn't comply with 1441. They didn't, and the UN decided to do nothing. 48 countries currently are in a coalition to enforce that resolution. l really don't see how "no justification" is accurate. And that isn't even mentioning the peace treaty violations, the many other UN resolution violations, shooting at our planes on a daily basis in violation of the peace treaty, multiple US presidental assasination attempts, etc. If all these actions aren't justification, then what possibly could be?



What you state as fact, clearly isn't. While you may not think that all these things are justification, that is your opinion, and not a very good opinion, ----in my opinion.



The difference is, I can recognize it as opinion, and you don't seem to be able to.



because of all the poor thinking, the poor planning and the poor execution of this war



Again, same argument. Opinion and not fact. It could be easily argued that the opposite it true, if you compare this war, to any war in history, it was an amazing success. Extremely fast, very low military casualties, the lowest civilian casualty rate, etc.





Bush has made the biggest blunder in modern times - turning our global allies against us while whipping a manageable situation into a global conflagration





Again, this is opinion and not fact. I believe that the terrorist threat was increasing continually, and technology continued to make it more dangerous. Better to confront it now than try to confront it later, when it would be more dangerous.

As for turning our allies against us, I don't see that either. They all voted for 1441, why didn't they enforce it? How is their turning their backs on a decision they made, blamed on Bush enforcing this decision? If they can't even follow through with their decision, it is their fault, not Bush's.



He has driven our country into unimaginable debt and turned us into a nation divided



Again, more opinion. While the debt is large, it surely isn't unimaginable. In fact, when put into perspective with the country's wealth and GNP, it has been considerably larger than it is now. And a large part of that problem is attributable to 9/11. Even if Bush didn't decided to enforce 1441, the economic damage from 9/11 would still be there. As for the nation divided, I wouldn't blame that on Bush either. The country elected him roughly 50/50 and today the support for him and this war is roughly 50/50. So how does 50/50 to 50/50 show a change?



On top of it all he has probably done more damage to our environment than any man in history



What has he done to damage the environment? I know of one huge improvement he has made, the healthy forest initiative (trough it hasn't really had time to make the improvement yet, since it will take many, many years to thin our forests, from at least a decade of neglect, and get them back to a healthy state so forest fires don't devistate them.







And just curious, who will you vote for? Nader? Surely not Kerry since he also supports this war and wants to send more troops to Iraq.



Rodney

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