I got to thinking about the election last night. On one side we have the environment, women's choices / rights, people in general, the economy, the Iraqi's, and having to send young people to fight the war. These issues are associated with Kerry. On the other side we have the terrorist problem which is primarily associated with Bush. I'm a poor student of WW11. The British (Chamberlain), Czechs, French, etc. tried appeasement, averting their eyes (Austria). Finally Germany invaded Czechoslovakia and due to alliances between the nations plus being generally fed up all hell broke loose. It then became a down and dirty war with each side being equally rude to each other. We were isolationists until the Japanese invaded Pearl Harbor and then all hell broke loose. It turned out to be a down and dirty war for us too. It took the British 12 years to get rid of the insurgents in Malaysia so we're in for a long haul. I just think that the terrorists take precedence over everything else as they are quite capable of giving us a second whack. They also don’t appear to have any intention of giving in and their spirit isn’t flagging . Like it or not, I think that we have to go with Bush if you think that the terrorists take precedence over everything else. If times were normal without the terrorists I'd vote for Kerry. Bush is a known quantity and Kerry is an unknown quantity. Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet!!
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now that we've happened to get all political (something I tried to avoid at all cost) let's think about where our economy will go in the next four years if Bush is still elected.... thinking thinking... god not very pretty and i would like to travel the world sometime soon in my young life... Of course terrorists are an immediate threat and they will always be, 9/11 could've been stopped and if it couldn't have it could've happened under any president, i think (selfishly) that we should focus on our country instead of bullying others, but now we have this mess and not enough soldiers,and i'm going to stop.... good luck, i beg you to not vote for bush (though that won't help) at least then vote for Barbra Boxer or soemthing, she is an incredible woman.
also- when has the last terrorist threat been- I know that we're always going to have terrorist threats and scares but we don't have to set ourselves up for them!!!
(11/3)
we'll have to see....
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