:: Running from the Thought Police ::
Reality-Based Thoughts, Ruminations, and Unsolicited Opinions of a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
:: Friday, September 17, 2004 ::
Reasons Not To Vote For Bush
Resurrecting the old Anybody But Bush meme from the primaries, many bloggers have been giving their reasons why they (and every other sane American) won't be voting for Dubya come November 2nd. My current favorite is Hesiod's.
Military strategy 101 says you plan for the worst and hope for the best. But that would have required Bush doing the following fundamental things:
*levelling with the American people about the substantial risks involved in post-Saddam Iraq.
* Realistically assessing the probability that a democracy might not flourish in Iraq.
* Probably raising taxes to pay for the occupation.
* Maybe instituting a draft, or drastically re-ording our world-wide armed forces deployment.
* Possibly losing the 2002 mid-term elections.
A REAL leader would have done all of those things if he felt the war was absolutely necessary, as Bush continuously (and dishonestly) claims.
He didn't. Which means he put politics ahead of sound military, diplomatic, and national security interests.
A man like that has no business being President.
:: The Squire 3:26 PM :: email this post:: ::
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