[Peach]

I don't for a minute believe that President Bush makes decisions based on religion, not decisions like national security, anyway. Perhaps on partial birth abortion and stem cell replacement therapy.

And your statement that President Bush does not question his policies because he considers them in concert with his faith is rather ridiculous in my view. We have seen dozens of articles written about adminsitration officials who have been quoted as saying that the president LIKES to have different opinions presented to him and he studies all sides of the issue and makes a decision.

And where have you seen evidence of this:

"The depth of Bush's faith makes him so imperturbable that it's unlikely he will ever change course because he never admits to making a mistake."

Many freepers would disagree with that statement entirely. He has changed course on some things so often that negative freepers have called him a flip flopper ala Kerry. Cases in point: didn't want a 9/11 Commission, was going to only give them on hour, wasn't going to let Condi testify, the list is a fairly long one, in fact. I don't consider them flip flops but the considered judgement of a man who changes his mind when either politics or the course of events intervenes.

For that matter - Bush ran as an isolationist. 9/11 intervened and the doctrine changed to one of pre-emption.

Your arguments are don't hold water for me.

[Perlstein]

To Peach, who says, "I don't or a minute believe that President Bush makes decisions based on religion, not decisions like national security, anyway," are you not familiar with Bush quote, spoken at Aqaba to the Palestinian leadership: "God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did."

Rick Perlstein