[Mishmash] Obama? Oh, Please!

[Fred Atkinson]

> At 04:18 PM 1/24/09, you wrote:
>
> >    The problem is, many have abandoned their vigilance.  That's why we
get
> >some of the political winners that we do.
>
> Yes, Fred - Canada's in the same boat.  I don't understand 90% of the
people around me - I feel like we're living on different planets - what
color is the sky in your world sort of thing.

    I can't argue with that.

> And Mr. Lincoln couldn't have envisioned the world we live in today.

    Not a chance unless he's lived all this time.

> I am a great admirer of Bush - he stood up for what he believed in and
what he felt was in the best interests of his country (and by association,
for Canada as well).  No one doesn't make mistakes but he took his on the
chin and left office with good grace - I believe we are safer today because
of his actions in office and I thank him for that.

    No argument there.

> As for Iraq - that was a no win for him no matter what he did - he'd have
been as vilified for not going in had "weapons of mass destruction" been
used later by Iraq as he was for sending troops in and finding nothing.

    I'm still not convinced that the information they had about weapons of
mass destruction was wrong.  We wasted so much time at the U.N. before going
in that they had plenty of time to load them on trucks and transport them to
some remote part of Iraq or into Syria.

    And why should we have problems with stopping someone who was putting
hoards of people into mass graves simply because of their ethnicity?  Isn't
that why everyone was so jubilant about taking out Hitler during World War
II?

> Susan



                                                                Fred