unfortunately war is an evolving animal, and it is closely tied with technology. as much as everyone wants, you can never go back to the 'good old days' like WWII with no media. It will only continue to saturate even more aspects of every engagement from today on out. If the camera sees it, then politics will follow. that is inevitable and unavoidable.
i am unafilliated and will vote on what i see is right, not based upon a single party and the mindset and stigma that goes with it, and will not tolerate being ignorantly lumped into a category. If i don't like a president and his actions, it has nothing to do with my views on abortion, homosexual marriage, or what have you, i just think the guy is schmuck. I fully agree with a war against terror, but this is something quite different than what is and was happening in Iraq. The bridge was built on lies, and passed so quickly that there wasnt even time to think about it. not so much as a shred of solid evidence, just an ample opportunity to finish what daddy started years ago and go down in the history books as a hero. backfire. When has there ever been an entire mobilized army based on a 'hunch'? never before. convenient
Everything he has touched has become a disaster and he goes crawling back to daddy and clinton, a few real presidents, for guidance. When is the last time so many intelligent, high ranking officials have stepped down and washed their hands of the mess before it happened? These are people in the know. I promise the know alot more about the situation than you and I, and what they know is enough that they dont want to be a part of it. Some people say the love the fact that he is 'dilligent' and doesnt back down with all of the bad press. There is a fine line between dillegence and stubborness, and when you can look 300 million people in the face and lie over and over again, and not once admit that any of the countless bad calls , was in fact, a bad call, and that he is going to further dig the hole just to prove a point, that is so far over the pigheaded line it is not even an argument. it is all a disgraceful slap in the face.
you can't commend the man for going after terrorists (where they dont live), because that is what anybody would have done at that point.
you can't commend the man for bringing the economy back up to par, because it was his (unwarranted) war that stimulated it. it's a historical fact that war stimulates economies, so it's really no surprise that it's strong now, is it?
He has cut funding and reversed ecological sanctions, setting back conservation strategies decades of progress. their is a whole other thread on climate change that we could get into here, but to me, it's just another reason why he should have been impeached years ago.
there have been a million arguments on here that i could touch on all of them but i dont remember them all and i have spent enough of the work day on here so thats all for now, i do want to reiterate what some people have said tho, that i appreciate everything that the servicemen and women have sacrificed for this country, and in debating the merrits of a president, it in no way should be taken as a disrespect of these fine soldiers, as you can support troops without supporting the war.
