Posted on 09/13/2001 11:54:38 PM PDT by kristinn
He won't have to because everybody sane will have already left. I'm getting more than a little tired of being called a traitor myself by people so bleeping stupid they want to nuke half the planet.
Plain talk is American, war or no.
Your freeping of the White House has been admirable, but that does not give you a pass to be unfair, and this tasteless.
Agree completely..........wrong time; wrong place; unfair and tasteless.
Here is a newsflash.... IT IS NOT ABOUT YOU.
Bush has a lot of cleaning up to do. But with a failing economy and a weakened military, he's had a lot more to think about than airport security.
As much as you may be upset with Bush right now, aren't you glad that he's president rather Algore or Bubba? Though I wouldn't mind the firm hand of Pat Buchanan or Alan Keyes at this time.
I don't doubt your patriotism. And I agree that, even "our" President is not above criticism.
I may, however, question the timing. And I've questioned the timing of remarks by Larry Klayman and Rob Moody on another thread - probably others as well.
It goes without saying that our emotions are registering off the scale. And, I'm sure that's a lot of what you've seen here this week. We've been attacked. We've been wounded. We're hurting and we're angry.
What do I feel? If I went by feelings alone, I'd be advocating a large crater in the center of Kabul that gets increasingly larger until all Bin Laden and his associates are all turned over to us.
That's my emotional response. That's not my practical response.
So, when I respond to attacks on our President I do it from a sense that we are at war. A precious few Freepers (I am not among them) remember World War II - Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait being different animals - and what it's like to be attacked. It comes from a desire for the world to see us united. We have our partisan squabbling, but there is a time to set that aside.
Speculation on the whys, the whos and everything else will come at a later date.
For now, IMHO, the world must see America standing strong, united and with a single purpose to tell the terrorist community, "You will pay for what you have done and you will never do this to us again."
For that reason, I believe it is simply time to stand with our President and to let him lead. I have no doubt that he and his advisors have a much clearer grasp on what happened and what went wrong than we know, than in fact we may ever know.
Because I am a lady, I will not say what I am really thinking about the crowd on here that thinks they have all the answers and it is all about them, their agenda, and what they think. I certainly don't have all the answer and I am not afraid to disagree with policies of this Administration, but I will dare anyone to say that this President doesn't speak from his heart and truly has the best interest of ALL Americans in mind when he makes a decision.
The hate and rhetoric that has been aimed at not only the President but people like me that support him during the past few weeks is despicable and beneath the dignity of this site! We are conservatives but have been called immoral, dumb, evil, socialists, etc. in the last few weeks because we dared disagreed with manner that certain people like Keyes and Klayman have attacked our President. They didn't come across with helpful constructive critism -- they attacked a man and his heart! I found that beneath contempt!
When I posted my thread last night I said I would know who my friends are! This attack against President Bush at this point in time just goes to show the agenda of some people on here.
A lot of people in WWII lost their freedoms, but they didn't complain, they rolled up their sleeves and got to work. They couldn't even buy sugar without a ration book.
My daughter is in the United States Navy and I have a lot of friends that are in the Air Force, and frankly I consider an attack on their Commander-in-Chief at this time, an attack on them. Unlike some people on here, they totally respect their Commander-in-Chief and as my daughter put it, she is proud to serve under such an honorable and caring man.
Either people are going to stand with President Bush and his Administration or not. If they choose to continue to trash him, then that is their right but they have lost all respect I ever had for them which probably doesn't matter!
I take this thread personally and I sincerely hope that the people cheering this post never have a child in harm's way and have to put up with the trashing of my President and her Commander-in-Chief. As Secretary of State Colin Powell said we will know who is either with or against us. Well I now feel the same way on FR!
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