Elections

I'll have more to say when these elections are over. It's cliche, but all the spin has made me dizzy. Everyone has their opinions and each opinion, though valid is researched to different depths.

My only wish is that people perform their civic duty and then pray that whoever wins is the right person for the job, especially if the dirt hits the fan.

I've always felt that Clinton was perfect for his era, Reagan for his, and Bush 43 in this era. One talent the Republicans haven't mastered is public relations. Democrats have, and it shows. It *seems* like a junta, just the way it *seems* that there is some illegality between Cheney and Halliburton. I defer to the Annenberg website factcheck.org which is an independent entity weeding out the truth from fiction. No small task, but this site does a great job. They indicate that Cheney has done no legal wrongdoing. As for the rest of "making his buddies rich" well, that could be a different story.

Anyway, I know that my idea to pray for the BEST President is open to ridicule, but I think prayer works and this country needs a lot of it.

The U.N. and Iraq

Everyone around the world pontificated so loudly about the virtues of further sanctions using the UN.

The UN voted on 14 different resolutions relating to the 1991 Gulf War. No Change. It even voted that grave action would be allowed should Iraq not comply.

The UN and the world have stood still when Iraq needed her most over the last 6 months at least. A punishment to the US and UK for their invasion. Yet now who suffers? The Iraqi people suffer.

Is it moral for the world to stand by and watch innocent people blow up in terror acts?

Did you feel that justice was served when WHOMEVER flew jets into the World Trade Center buldings?

Are you aware that if it weren't for American ingueniuity on 9-11-01 that further attacks (and innocent American death) would have taken place?

The fact is that the UN felt more comfortable entering a pre-existing war in Bosnia than it does in Iraq. Why is that?

General Clark almost precipitated WWIII in an attempt to take over the Russian held airport - thanks to our British neighbors for stopping the man.

If the UN HELPED Iraq at this point and the US decided to take FIRMER military action, life for the innocent Iraqis would be different.

There is no moral vacuum, but there is a lack of global leadership.

Self interest is served first in a gravy of innocent blood.

A Better, Smarter War

In detail, can someone explain this to me?

First of a Few Thoughts on the Elections

There is no question that this country is in a complete mess. Domestically, economic factors push jobs over our borders. Internationally, we are managing a war where the enemy is not clearly defined, is already within our borders, and doesn't wear uniforms.

The decision to fight the enemy on foreign soil was a sound one. Better there than within the US borders.

There is more reason to question the decision to remove Saddam:
1) was it payback for the assasination attempt on President Bush 41?
2) was it an attempt to stabilize an unstable region?
3) was it to insure a continued flow of oil? (a national security concern).
4) was it an attempt to economically injure the French, Germans, Chinese, and Russians?
5) was it an attempt to put money into the pockets of cheney's friends at Haliburton?
6) was it an attempt to expose the United Nations and its corrupt Oil for Food Program? (which the French and German Governments sustained for their national gains).

Personally, I think of all of those I presented (and i'm open to more) the number 5 is the most ludicrous.

Is it better to deal with a crazed dictator or try to forceably remove them?

I'm not taking sides yet, just presenting the questions to clarify the situation....

The United States is presently conducting more than one war. The other wars are also not of its choosing. The US is doing its best to export what it knows best, which is its capitalist system. Hence outsourcing.

Most countries in Europe that have lived through far more centuries than the US are tired of the capitalist ways of life. Never in history has technology moved so quickly. These Western European countries don't like Ted Turner, Mickey Mouse, Friends, American Football and a whole host of other "Americanisms". They don't like the the rude US tourists, the europeans think we are uneducated.

These European countries who have aging castles, Lords with meaningless titles, Kings who have no power, would like to see US successes of the last two centuries halted in their tracks. They do not like the concepts of an "equal man". Nowhere in Euro-history do we see the free voting process. Until Capitalism, no equality for women.

Iraq is about economics. It's a fight for the future. Iraq is about dealing or removing, oil or hydrogen, Freedom or rule by "authority".

I don't know anyone, including the President, who likes where we are right now in relation to this "War on Terror".

The upcoming election is only important because oil, and damage to the western capitalist system, as symbolized by the USA, are in question.

I'm of the opinion neither of the present candidates are capable of making the correct decisions over the next four years.

What we've discovered with President Bush is that the Office of the President, more than ever, is a figurehead. The support structure is what we're voting on. The present structure has failed. The Pentagon told the President that we were ready for war in 2002, we weren't. The Intelligence Structure, led by the NSA and CIA said that Saddam had WMDs - he didn't.

My problem is that were we to replace the present structure with KerryVision - who would we get? Most likely, eager participants from the leftover Clinton Administration.

The Clinton Administration is what got America into this situation to begin with. Many would argue with me over this observation, and I will address why this is so in a future posting.

In the end, keeping within the two party format (a format I take umbrage with) America will probably choose the known evil over the lesser known.

And so it goes.