“Who said anything about hating anybody? Oh yeah, YOU did!!”
Most of your OT political posts are based on hate and negativity. You claim to despise Bush and Kerry equally, yet you mention you have “done a lot more volunteer work than John Kerry”. Does that mean you did more volunteer work than Bush too?
“The difference between me and John Kerry or Ted Kennedy or Hillarity Clinton is that I help people with my money.”
Again no mention of Bush or ANY OTHER Republican that you claim are just as bad as the Democrats.
Let me add a couple of quotes from the speech that you referred to to begin this thread:
“Let there be no doubt or confusion about where we stand on this. I will support a multilateral effort to disarm him by force, if we ever exhaust those other options, as the President has promised, but I will not support a unilateral U.S. war against Iraq unless that threat is imminent and the multilateral effort has not proven possible under any circumstances.”
“In voting to grant the President the authority, I am not giving him carte blanche to run roughshod over every country that poses or may pose some kind of potential threat to the United States. Every nation has the right to act preemptively, if it faces an imminent and grave threat, for its self-defense under the standards of law. The threat we face today with Iraq does not meet that test yet. I emphasize “yet.” Yes, it is grave because of the deadliness of Saddam Hussein’s arsenal and the very high probability that he might use these weapons one day if not disarmed. But it is not imminent, and no one in the CIA, no intelligence briefing we have had suggests it is imminent. None of our intelligence reports suggest that he is about to launch an attack.”
“Congressional action on this resolution is not the end of our national debate on how best to disarm Iraq. Nor does it mean we have exhausted all of our peaceful options to achieve this goal. There is much more to be done. The administration must continue its efforts to build support at the United Nations for a new, unfettered, unconditional weapons inspection regime. If we can eliminate the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction through inspections, whenever, wherever, and however we want them, including in palaces–and I am highly skeptical, given the full record, given their past practices, that we can necessarily achieve that–then we have an obligation to try that as the first course of action before we expend American lives in any further effort.”
“If we go it alone without reason, we risk inflaming an entire region, breeding a new generation of terrorists, a new cadre of anti-American zealots, and we will be less secure, not more secure, at the end of the day, even with Saddam Hussein disarmed.”
I particularly like that last quote as that seems to be a pretty accurate description of the current situation.
michael