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davidklechaPretty incredible stuff.
US Troops Capture Saddam
As a guy who has been pretty frustrated over media coverage of the occupation, and the general nay-saying to be found in some quarters, I'm pretty curious to see how this will be received. Personally, I'm expecting a lot of "yeah, but"'s. We'll see.
US Troops Capture Saddam
As a guy who has been pretty frustrated over media coverage of the occupation, and the general nay-saying to be found in some quarters, I'm pretty curious to see how this will be received. Personally, I'm expecting a lot of "yeah, but"'s. We'll see.
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Date: 2003-12-15 02:54 am (UTC)I've been against the war from the beginning(I'm a Quaker; I'm not sure what it would take for me to be *for* a war.), but I'm glad Sadaam is out of power and has been captured all the same; I'm just not pleased by the method by which that was achieved.
I'm also not pleased that this will end up reflecting well on Bush, as I don't think the capture has anything in particular to do with whether he's doing a good job as president(just as I don't think that any economic recovery we might be experiencing has anything to do with the job he's doing, but I'm not trying to draw parallels, just show what sort of standards I'm using to judge things). I still want a different President next time around, though, as he hasn't done anything to give me a better opinion of him than I had in 2000; in fact, if anything, if I'd known some of the things he's managed to put through, I would've worked harder to keep him out of office in the first place.
Huh. That turned into a bit of a rant. Sorry 'bout that.
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Date: 2003-12-15 01:36 pm (UTC)No, the improving economy probably isn't his doing--but by the same token, neither was the recession we faced through the first couple years of his term. As I've said, at a certain point, things just get political and, for some reason or another, GWB has managed to garner a lot of animosity from the Left. (Personally I find it a bit puzzling--and, at the same time, not puzzling at all.) My complaint is that a number of people try to ignore or downplay events like these because they are contrary to their political agenda, even when, as in this instance, one of their criticisms of the administration had been their inability to locate Hussein.