Bush is a weakling failure on national security

The repubs are morons if they are going to play up the "Commander in Chief" "popular wartime president" "terrarist slayer" angle, and ignore all the other issues (except for gay marriage and space travel, apparently).

Bush invaded a middle eastern country with porous borders surrounded by terrorist supporting countries which want to see us fail, justified it with lies and misinformation, alienated our allies in the process, didn't let the inspectors finish their job because they weren't finding a damn thing, and are now dicking around in the country after the overthrow of Saddam, while our soldiers are being killed off slowly in a guerrilla war which will probably never end, with no competent or well-thought out plan to stabilize Iraq or gain much needed international support, all while ignoring the advice of people on his own staff who knew what they were talking about in favor of the genius minds of Cheney, Perle, and Wolfowitz (for example), who promised us flowers and dancing in the streets and an easy rebuilding period.

This is the dumbest squandering of America's military might in my lifetime.

Their shockingly incompetent approach has led to a waste of lives, money, resources, time, and international support needed to track down the REAL threats from terrorists all over the globe.

So when people say we need a guy like John Kerry to go up against Bush, because Bush is so strong on defense, I have to laugh.

Bush is not strong on anything except bankrupting our country. The candidate who can competently point that out will win the election.

The worst attack in the History of the United States happened on WHO'S watch?

It could also be argued that alienating the entire world can be considered a National Security issue.

He is a failure on almost every issue.
Please, the environment,most social issues, foreign policy (this administraion wouldn't even know how to spell diplomacy), the economy...complete failure.
Why people would vote for him is a mystery.

That reminds me of that great article.It was published here,I found it so brilliant, I even saved it should it ever disappear from the net:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/01/31_czar.html


"And, perhaps most incredible of all, 60 percent say they think George W. Bush understands the problems of average Americans. This may, in fact, be true, since Bush clearly understands what it's like to be an idiot. But I doubt that's what respondents had in mind. A few possibilities that may explain the numbers... "

" Most Americans really like recession and depression. They like the gritty uncertainty of living in refrigerator boxes, never knowing where your next meal is coming from, and traveling by boxcar. And thanks to the GOP's two-pronged efforts to tank the economy and obliterate the social safety net, they've played into the hands of rugged individualists everywhere who are just spoiling for a set-to with the railroad bulls. "

That is one of the best attack lines we can possibly open against Bush. It takes away his only message and really strikes at the heart of Bush's pseudo masculine self-image. I have always thought the way to finally get Bush to blow his stack publicly is not to attack his credibility but to attack his manliness.

I really hope that the Dems run with those images and these words, from Clark I think

"Prancing around all dressed up"

They've got to do to Bush what Bush I did to Dukakis: Ridicule.

And this topic of foreign policy and security is absolutely the place to do it. Bush and his crew are CLUELESS!!!

(by clueless I do not say they don't know what they are doing; they know exactly. They are clueless on making this country and the world safer, but only because they don't really care about those things)