I was not going to chime in on this, but:

Further, Bush's leadership in the war has been disastrously ineffective.

Lets see how ineffective:
Sadaam is in jail and awaiting trial,
his country now has the right to protest, with out fear of being executed, they
have electricity, running water, hospitals with enough supplies to operate,
schools. There are some fighting still, but read about what happened in Germany
after WWII, there were still some hold outs fights for another 3 yrs AFTER the
war ended.

Bin Ladin used to run a country, now he is on the run and living in a cave,
We have not been attacked since 9/11, as we are hitting them where they live.

at least Bush has used the military for it's intended mission, and not as a
"meal on wheels" as the last one.

Art,
I used to read what you had to say bout your service in WWII and respect what
you did, however, your attacks on Bush, have gone too far. He served, he flew,
The F-102 was not a easy plane to fly. unlike kerry, who admitted he committed
war crimes, aided the enemy, and claimed he was injured in combat, but never
missed a day due to those so called wounds that were treated with band-aids (
reminds me of Frank Burns of M*A*S*H, who applied for a Purple Heart after
getting hit with shell fragments, except it was he forgot to say on the report
it was egg shell fragments) .

Bush acted after the attacks on 9/11, kerry wanted to wait and get the UN
involved. kerry voted against every weapons system that the military needed and
has been using in Iraq. if he was so proud of his service, why did he try and
keep our troops from having the best equipment ? You would think, that anyone
that had been in combat, would know what it is like and want our troops to have
what is needed.


Matt Gunsch,
A&P,IA,Private Pilot
Riding member of the
2003 world champion drill team
Arizona Precision Motorcycle Drill Team
GWRRA,NRA,GOA