Isn't this election a refferendum on Bush and Bush's war ?
817189
You're damn skippy this is a referendum on his war.
624106
With Bush in office...probably. He seems to use any excuse to go to war with anyone.
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I wholeheartedly agree with your skepticism.  There is no purpose to the war that we are fighting.  It is a quagmire, and the one who got us there in the first place is too proud to admit that.  \n\nSadly, in George Bush Sr's Memiors, he specificially said that it was a bad idea to invade Iraq because something like this would happen.
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Here's what bothers me most:  Democrats and Republicans voted for this war .  We were tired of Saddam making a mockery out of the UN, its resolutions and inspections.  There were countries in the UN that were undermining the entire effort and making billions while Saddam was in power.\nWE wanted war to remove a serious threat.  But now that we've experienced it,  these same politicians act as if they knew better from the beginning.   The president and legislature acted out the will of the American people.  Bush shouldn't be blamed.
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Still comparing things that are irrelevant to each other?\n\nBy the way, when did we take Iraq?  Seems to me the fighting is still going, despite "Mission Accomplished."
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No far from it....the fact that we are at war shows our involvement in world issues,as well as our own....The next Presidential election will reveal poll & Government involvement among the population of voters,& I believe it will bring those out to vote that maybe wouldnt otherwise..Some are saying the current situations are discouraging & influencing their desire to vote,little do they realize that this is the time to be heard & make a difference by doing so..\nSo many are quick to criticise men & women in office,yet they didn't even cast a vote,that is just wrong...Yep,I see us involved from here on out..USA rocks!
70021
No.  Bush is inarticulate and out of touch.  The last one was about Social Security reform, and look how well that did.
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You said we don't have to agree, right?  Well, we seem to agree that Bush is deceitful and foolish, and this is something I have believed since a long time ago.  But I do no longer feel quite as threatened by Bush's tenure as I used to feel.  His first four years in office were atrocious, and it is only now that people are realizing it.  On the other hand, his second administration--save for the tragedy of the Alito nomination to the Supreme Court--has been and is likely to continue to be substantially better (not to say it will be good, ever!).   This second Bush administration is learning to navigate the difficult waters of international diplomacy, and since it is less powerful, it can do less harm.  So I'm not concerned with Bush.  I'm far more concerned with the Republican party, which is--in my humble opinion--orders of magnitude worse than Bush.
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Heck no! The only thing the war is strengthening is The Evil Party's pockets! As for weakening.............I don't like Bush very much AT ALL!!!! so I won't say what I WANT TO!
812766
I must have missed the war vote on my ballot. People voted for change because they were not very happy with Mr. Bush's and his congress's policies. The war was the main policy people were voting against, there were many others. His spending for one. Corruption was another, four republican congressmen resigned in less than a year. The shadow of Jack Abramoff was everywhere. Gasoline hitting three bucks. Illegal immigration into our country. His dismissal of the constitution. Torture, and on and on. There were many reasons, the war was the big one.
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Yes, we can elect a new President while at war and have done so several times. In the 1960s, Americans were so fed up with our wartime leadership that Johnson dropped out of the race because he knew he could not win re-election, and Nixon was voted in. And if the War on Terror continues, we will be electing a new President in November 2008.\n\nEDIT: dhc_hiker,\n\nPlease get your liberal spewing straight.\n\n1) You asked who we are at war with.\n2) Just because the PRESIDENT says we are at war doesn't make it so.\n3) Then you say we need a country to go to war with OR THIS WAR WILL NEVER END.\n\nFirst you say there is no war but end up saying the war will never end. You can't have your cake and eat it, too. Grow some independent thought and take a stand one way or the other.\n\nGet it straight, Jocko.
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No, but I got a call like that during the presidential election asking me to vote for Bush (too late, I'd already voted and it wasn't for him).  I think it's a tacky way to campaign.
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Kerry Has certainly made his mistakes. But Bush and Cheney are in way over their heads. They blundered into Iraq not because of terrorism but because of Hussein. (They had to cover up for bin laden some how.) The military is not prepared to fight guerrillas. We have the most powerful military in the world, but as it was proved in Vietnam, if we're not fighting another army, we cannot win. We didn't have the organization to take Iraq when we started, and now we don't have the will. The Bush administration is trying desperately to cover up for what will be 8 bungled years. They achieved nothing except to destroy the United State's reputation in the eyes of the world.
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Bush did not run in this Election. It was not a Presidential election.  He cannot run in the next Presidential, because he is limited to 2 terms in office, and he is in his 2nd term now.
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the "war on terror" is not a real war.\nit is like the "war on crime" you CAN'T BEAT THEM!\n\nas for bush, he should have been impeached after his first day in office. Al Gore won the 200 presidential election.\n\nBush is a war criminal. \n\nhis administration has openly totured people without giving them a fair trial, or even lawers. \n\nhe lead a pre-emptive war on false information, which he KNEW was flase before he made the announcement.\n\nhe has repeatively stepped over his heighth of power, over ruling other branches of the government.\n\nhe profits of the racist, bullsh*t war both politically and finacialy.
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No, war is part of human nature. War by rock, by blade, by spear, by bullet, by bombs. The end will come at the end of the world.\n\nAnd Bush is a big part of the problem. Lies about iraq having connections to alquaida, lies about Weapons of mass destruction. Plus 9/11 happened while Bush was in office being incompetent as usual. Watch what the Republicans and Abramoff have been up to. And watch how theylie and blame things on others.
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Oh yeah, Bush was humiliated. Him and his Republican buddies were defeated bigtime when the Democrats won most of the elections. The issue that really affected this race was the War In Iraq. If Bush hadn't entered that war, then the race would have had a differen t outcome. There are no other issues that come to my mind that affected the race besides the war.