I 'D LIKE TO HEAR THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUR HONEST FEELINGS HOW YOU THINK G.W.BUSH HAS TAKEN CARE OF YOUR COUNTRY? WHY IS HE TAKEN A WAR INTO HISTORY AND WHAT IS HE DOING RIGHT AND WRONG TO DAMAGE USA??? GIVE ME SOME GOOD HONEST FEED BACK AND I WILL BE GLAD TO VOTE YOU FOR BEST ANSWER. REMEMBER YOUR RIGHT  FREEDOM OF SPEECH.. THANK YOU MS.RACHEL NOT TO MANY WISE CRACKS JUST DOWN TO EARTH SIMPLE ANSWERS WILL DO ..
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NO!  He has lied too many & too much to the American people.  He has no Idea how the rest of us live because he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.  He has tried to push his religious beliefs off on us, he stole the election in Fla. so he abuses power.  And as far as the was in Iraq, he even fixed that to suit his own purposes.  There were no wmds, no terrorists except Suddam.  And now we are stuck in a quagmire where our brothers, fathers, boyfriends, uncles & other love ones are dying every day.
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Bush was elected because we have a corrupt goverment and also because his brother is the gov. of Flordia (the state where all the confusion took place and thus turned the tide in his direction)  Yes, I think in his spare time he wears a TARD helmet and drools.  He probably rides a short bus to his functions and frequently wets himself.  Pray this next 2 years go fast.  Also, next time remember to vote Democratic.  What is the current # of soldjers that have been killed????? I think it is over 3,000 lives ended now.  And not 1 WMD found.  What a RETARD!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You know, so many people criticize Bush because the war in Iraq hasn't been as successful as he thought. You have to remember, he DID NOT act alone!. His entire cabinet agreed that this move would deter terrorism. I mean, they did just crash jet planes into the Pentagon and The World Trade Towers! What if it was you in the position to make an immediate decision? People are so critical because they've had years to think about alternatives. He didn't. He had to make an immediate impact. Also, America is pissed off because so many soldiers have lost they're lives.....THEY'RE IN THE F*CK#NG MILITARY! When they inlist, they are agreeing to fight for our country in a situation just..like..this! If you don't want to go to war, don't go into the military! If you're the parent of a soldier, just suck it up and realize that your child might just die defending this country. I'm sick to death with the criticism of G.W.B. Let's see you do better!
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wait a minute.  who are these "Libs so gung ho for War?"  i'm certainly no liberal, but i know, and tolerate, somewhat, a number of self-proclaimed liberals.  by the same token, i know and tolerate, somewhat, a number of conservatives (who are mostly embarrassed these days).  all these folks, which i regard as friends and associates have one thing in common.  they are against the war.  they mostly feel they've been lied to by a government they want so much to support.  now personally i knew bush was lieing when i saw his lips moving.  now of course i've been prooven correct.  that doesn't make me feel any better.  this war is a tragedy.  \n\nas for your commentary on main stream media, you describe it as "their MSM media."  i take it you see the media as liberal?  where have you been?  main stream media is anything but liberal. when was it?  sure there have been a few liberal types who had columns, perhaps a few television talking heads, but media is big business, and in so many cases is unabashed state propaganda.  you should thank your god that there are liberals in the media.
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I feel that Bush is doing a fine job. Lets see any of you have to make the kind of hard decisions he has had to. And a war for nothing?! Please, do you think that we should allow people to come onto our soil, kill our citizens and get away with it?! You people are despicable! If you don't like the war then go over to a third world country for a few months and then come back. You will be happy to live here. Go to a country that isn't free and then come home and see if you aren't blessed to live here. Freedom IS NOT FREE!! It has cost many men and women's blood to pay for your freedom. Yes, we are still fighting when the leaders are imprisoned but they still have supporters out there. If our government and military does not stay over there and help them to become a self sufficient country then 9/11 will happen all over again. And as far as the pres keeping things from us, sometimes it is better that way. Sometimes you don't need to know things. It is just like being a parent. You don't tell your children of all the horrible things out there in the world bc you don't want to frighten them, you want them to venture out and make a wonderful life for themselves. That is what ALL presidents have done for us. Give him a break and stop complaining about Bush. If you don't love America then revoke your citizenship and move somewhere else!
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I have been reading your questions on ask the planet as they come along during the day. You are really passionate about these issuse. I saw the report and I must say I see your point. Its like that movie, Vendetta with natalie portman. Did you watch it. Its very similar to what is happening right now. One person's terrorists is another person's hero. Im never quick to believe everything that is broadcasted from the American media. They are more about propoganda than truth. What can we do. American said they prefer Bush by voting him back in power. And he has successfully managed to manipulate you through the media. What the rest of the world is still asking... Where are the weapons of mass destruction?
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to RLP and Mini me...Iraq didn't come over here and blow us up (nor will they ever)....As far as the question...I fail to have a glimmer of an idea as to why re pub's hold on to their blind faith in george bush (lower case letter's emphasized). he is a mad man and his staff are either smart crooks or inept peter principle recipients
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wow these answers are nausiating...\n\nregardless of your take on this war. If the military editorials are second guessing the president... their commander and chief... don't you think they might know something... \n\nWhat is with this blind patriotism? When did we become so concerned with "spreading our democracy" on other countries that we stopped practicing it here? Questioning your leadership, reminding them that WE HIRE THEM to make decisions in OUR best interest is a f'nig patriotic as it gets... \n\nMy personal best interest is keeping my brother alive.. one of bush's meat soldiers he sent over there to stave of the illegitimate terrorist-wolves he's sired.... and reducing the world's hatred for our country... as opposed to adding to it...\n\nSo... if Rumsfeld were in ANY other career... he'd have been fired a long time ago... unless of course he was giving... uh ... "favors" to the boss... or unless of course he and his good ol' boys WERE the bosses of the GOP for the last 20-odd years...\n\n-send republicans to war.
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What has he done in all reality to protect Americans .We began many years back to tighten up security at our Embassy's and those efforts have paid off .We also have become more alert to boats that approach our Naval Ships and have established a 24 hour watch and a 100 yard kill zone . We also have increased security at our air ports which we would of done after 9-11 regardless of who was president . We have taken a closer look at securing possible targets for terrorists which we would have done regardless of who was in the White house .\nSo I must ask what has Bush Done .\nFinding Bin laden would be nice if he is still alive but really the terrorists react to our policy not our military .\nWe could have 10 million troops in Iraq and nothing would change  whats going on .\nUnless we handcuff each Iraqi to one of our soldiers nothing will change for the better for 50 years there .\nThese people do not change a religion overnight or in ten years it will take several generations to change how these people look at the world and what they believe God wants them to do .\nIt was not long ago we had witch trials and in the 50's we had a communist hunt that ruined hundreds of lives for no reason at all .\nIraq and terrorists are more of a threat now then the day before 9-11 .\nThey now know that 9-11 did nothing to prevent us from destroying what was a religion and way of life for millions of people .\nWe are forcing these people to let their women educate themselves, work in the community ,and earn money . Choose what kind of life they want .\nThis goes against everything these people have been taught .It is part of the teaching they follow out of the religious book they have .\nIt requires women to be the subjects of the husbands and to do as they are told without question .\nYou can not change this way of thinking in 10 years .\nIt is going to take a long time .\nHad Bush understood these people and not the Americanized version ,he would of known better then to invade Iraq and try to attempt the impossible .\nI wish it had worked out the way Bush had it planned in his head .1) we move in and secure the area \n2) we remove Saddam and the evil people running Iraq .\n3) We install a new government that is open to change and democracy for all .Restoring women's rights and peoples freedom to live free and not under a dictator who has killed tens of thousands of his own people .\nI do not deny that Saddam is or was a BAD leader .It is just not up to America to fix the worlds problems .\nWe need to have the commitment of every major nation on earth to achieve a change such as this .\nWe do not have it .\nagain I say what has Bush Accomplished .\nHe has eroded our civil rights and what we thought was freedom from intrusion into our personal lives is now common.\nTapping phones is not going to end .The genie is out of the bottle .\nPeople who are charged with crimes now will soon face torture because we let that out of the bottle also .\nOur bank accounts are no longer as private as we would like .\nI am concerned that writing a check to habbebes' dry cleaning will get the once over .\nWe have under Bush had the Supreme Court rule Against his plans and actions on numerous occasions .\nBush As far as I am concerned has done little to protect us from terrorists and opened the door to increase the surveillance of people and soon we will be like England and a guy will announce over a loud speaker to walk that bike across the street or pick up that Taco bell rapper you dropped .\nDo we want big brother looking at us all the time .\nThey read our post here all the time , Screen the mail and open suspicious  packages ,and have created a society that turns people into the government for a cookie .\nAs far as i am concerned Bush In his Attempt to protect America has overlooked the inherent problems that we will have as a result  of his Presidency and the regulations and laws he has requested to be in-acted for our good .\nThey are goin
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Who said I hate me--I mean, Presdient Bush.  He's a FINE presdient--witty, smart, brave--and damn handsome!  Yeah, damn liberal media.  I'm going to have a nice little talk with them GE folks and ask them why there all crankin out the hate against me.  No more war contracts fer them!!!!\n\nP.S.  That looks like a 'gina up there--heheh!
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Amnesy International is a less biased source than President Bush, that is for certian. It is amazing that our control of this country has resulted in the deaths of thousands of civilians and we have a hard time understanding why people are so upset. We did finance Saddam, as we have done other dictators. It doesn't make it our fault that he did this to his people. I think it is just really interesting that our stated reason for going over there is that he attacked us. When that wasn't true we changed it to weapons of mass destruction. Well... that wasn't true either. Now it is presented as spreading democrarcy... hmmm... if our goal was to protect people from corrupt governments and spread democracy we would be in a lot of other countries...and we would be assisting countries that are starving. Kind of blows that out of the water doesn't it. I respect our troops deeply, that they would put their lives and destiny's on the line for us and I feel sad and distressed that we are not even being honest about why we are ending their lives as well as thousands of civilian lives that we don't talk about in the so called "liberal" media.
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I disagree with knowsigns... that was one mistake clinton made, but what about the mistakes Buh has made? I'm a New Yorker and was deeply affected by the 9/11 tragedy. What did Bush do about that tragedy? Invade the privacy of millions of Americans  right? What should he have done? If you read Time magazine you would've read a punchline about how some director is making a movie about the search for osama bin laden, it's 300 hours long with no ending. That is precisely the kind of search President Bush led. I am oly 12 and you cannot guess how strong the deep contempt for the failed capture of Osama Bin Laden is. During that search he went off into Iraq, called it operation Iraqi Liberation, or: O.I.L. What did he want? the destroyer of America in jail, or oil? He didn't even need oil then. I know what people will say that he didn't do it for oil, but how sure can you be? My theory about why he changed Operation Iraqi Liberation's name was because OPEC told him you can't have our oil. He didn't want to look stupid that's why he changed the name! In my point of view Bush is the worst president we possibly could have at times like this when theres a war being waged in Iraq!! I'm only 12 years old and i feel this way, call me an anger bomb just waiting to explode, but i would say some very "colorful" things about our dear president if i didn't have faith in the Americans that trusted him.
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Actually we hold job as president too important in my opinion. The president works for us, not the other way around. Bush has been telling the American people what to do and how to think about certain situations and i find this to be completly wrong. Like I mentioned above, the President works for us and he should do what we want. My loyalties belong to this country, not its president.
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Boy, you people are something.  I agree that there are people out there that just hate the military.  I have run into a few, they call me a murderer, mercenary, and all sorts of things.  But for a veteran to say he thinks that the war is a bunch of lies, that just tells me that you must have forgotten a few things since getting out.  The President will see more information than the public will ever see, and with this war the majority of the decisions he can choose to make are between two really bad choices.  It really bothers me that people think the President is doing such a horrible job, when they themselves couldn't do any better.  If you were President what would you do pull the troops out?  OK, what would you do when the fight follows them back here?  How would you react when we lose our Allies by pulling out?  How would you expect to recover the American way of life after you screw everything else up?  Before you criticize the President why don't you think about the desicions he has to make knowing that every move he makes is under the microscope.  Most of our troops know more about the war than civilians will ever know, and most of our troops support it and volunteer to go back.  When we declared war on terrorism Iraq was put in the crosshairs because it was supporting terrorism.  We did not declare war on just those involved on 9/11 we declared war on terrorism and any supporters of terrorism.  \n\nSince opinions are like ***holes, I know everyone is going to say something about me.  Frankly, I have probably heard worse than what you people could say about me, so if you really want to try and make me feel bad, embarass me, or anything like that you are just wasting your time.\n\nBTW, all you people that say vote Democrat, keep in mind that throughout history Democrats have gotten us into more wars than Republicans.  Even this war is a result of the inactions taken by a Democrat (Clinton).  So don't blame this entirely on Bush.
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Ashamed - no.\nHorribly disappointed - yes.\n\nThere are policies this president has supported that I don't understand and really worry about.\n\nYes there is the war in Iraq and there are terrorist threats that I don't feel are being dealt with.  \n\nHowever, I'm honestly very concerned about some of the stuff going on a little closer to home.  \n\nWhy is the president spending so much time and money trying to define what a marriage is?  (Please don't give me the God said it's bad for a man and a man to hook up and it's bad for a woman and a woman to hook up, I'm looking at it as a tax payer, and I'm sick of the government spending money telling me that I can only marry a man legally.)\n\nWhy did the federal government screw up so badly in response to Katrina?  (We had to know that a hurricane was coming and we didn't prepare for it or what?)\n\nWhy does our president think that a teacher in this country is leaving any child behind?  (No child left behind is a great idea, but it's completely useless.  It is a completely under funded idea that the government decided would be a nice catch phrase to get voters to agree with, but if you actually know how it works, you would cry for the teachers and students.)\n\nWhy are we spending around 520 billion on the department of defense versus spending about 60 billion on the department of education?  (I'm not arguing that I want to feel safe in the country that I was born in, but why are we spending almost 9 times the amount of money on education on defense.  Maybe it's just me but I think the kids in our schools across the country deserve more than what they are getting.)\n\nYou may disagree with what I have to say, and that's fine with me.  I support what our country stands for, but I have some serious concerns about how our fearless leader is currently directing our country.\n\nHave a great day from the Land Of Lincoln.  :)
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I'm torn between believing that he himself is doing a bad job or his administration as a whole is doing a bad job.\n\nHe has faced hard times, but so did Abraham Lincoln. I don't know how Bush would handle a civil war, but that is besides the point because no one in the US would actually take to arms against their government, most people just want to live their lives without having to worry about the rest of world. Like before WWII.\n\nIn order to be in power these days you have to cater to a lot of different people, also known as special insterest groups. You have to cater to them because you need the money to put yourself in power. It'd be hard for a person who was down to earth with middle america to put themselves in power because they probably would have enough money to pay for the ads, or anything else to campaign for that matter. So we are left with the rich and the rich people's buddies to rule over our country. And since the rich only want to get richer, they take care of their own. They call oil black gold for a reason. I'm tempted to think that Bush might have wrapped himself up too tightly in special interest security blankets.\n\nBut that is besides the point. I don't believe that Bush himself is responsible for the bad things that go on in this country, I think his underlings had a lot to do with it as well, because they ALL have some sort of special interest group to support, whether it be energy companies or defense contractors. \n\nAlso, we basically have one political party in charge right now, so they can pretty much put what ever law they want through with out much of a fight. And if their is a fight all they have to do is attach a rider to the bill that sounds good and cry that the other side isn't supporting this oh-so-important issue that is actually just a rider on a worse bill, or the other way around.\n\nOverall the government hasn't been looking out for our best interests until lately with the gas prices because now it is a good political tool to use with the voters. So it isbelieved that who ever can champion the oil issue can win the hearts of the american people. Then, once they are in charge they get to cater to their special interests, not the people's. \n\nSpell check doesn't work in IE7 so I apologize for any typographical errors.
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Sorry I dont support Bush one bit, I dont think he has done anything for this country but put us deeper and deeper in debt, Spied on american citezens, completely screwed with medicare, and went to war in the wrong country becuase he didnt want to hurt his family friends, \nI can not support a president who HAS NEVER FAUGHT IN A WAR, BUT CAN RAGE ONE... how could he do that? \nHe ran with his tail between his legs and hid, while a REAL AMERICAN WILLING TO FIGHT FOR US, went to war and got put down for what he did, All he did was fallow the orders he was given. like any soldier. \nThe medicare thing saddens me to when old people have to depend on samples to make it by Because they cannot afford thier scripts, becuase medicare covers jack, (even the new plans arent fesiable for people with low incomes, or fixed incomes who can't afford to get it are now stuck paying full price yet.) \nas for our unemployment rate, going up... where can i ask has that happend, surely not where i live, \nAnd i agree with its nice to have friends in the white house, becuase good ole bush has friends who count ballots to... doesnt that make you wonder...\nI dont feel america is safer either, not with bush in office atleast