I can only speak for myself when I say I don't hate Bush - i don't actually hate anyone...well maybe the ex wife a little but if you ever met her you'd understand.
I certainly don't hate America, I consume products, do business with, have friends there, visit every now and then - not the act of someone who hates the place.
I do think Bush is an idiot - hell half of the Americans who voted thought so too and voted for the other guy last time around so I consider myself to be in good company.
I don't even think Bush and the neo-cons form the basis of the mainstream Republican party - 9/11 allowed an extreme group of the party to hijack America and head down a road that is a complete fiasco.
How anyone who reads the news - from Drudge to CNN and everything in between can actually think it's all going to turn out well is beyond me.
If America stays in Iraq and frankly by now there's no choice but to stay I think that in the next 12 months another 600 to a 1000 troops will be killed - plse of course 10 times that number of Iraqi's - combatants and civilians.
I don't think it will do ANYTHING to stop terrorist attacks on the West - if anything it will cause more.
Bush I think has a good chance of losing the next election - he's outspending Kerry 7-1 and he's STILL down in the polls - who would have thought that a year ago?
Rumsfeldt thought he could get away with 30,000 troops in Iraq - after the local pops had stopped throwing flowers and being grateful - stupid moron should have learnt by now when a 5 star General who has so many medals he walks lop sided gives you advice and says "We need 300,000 men to do this thing" you should listen.
Stupid waste of money of people's lives and of good men doing their duty - hell even if you don't want Kerry or a Democrat running things get someone like McCain or Powell but Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeldt are absolutely hopeless.
