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   From: wkmahler@mahlers.com   
      
   bruce if you're readin this..   
      
   bush didn't leave us misinformed, in fact he left us with much to ponder and   
   that to me means, the obvious is quite obvious.  all along bush has been   
   saying and cheney quite simply put into easy to understand words the other   
   night.  the usa suffered the worst attack on civilians since pearl harbor.   
   how can you bruce or anyone else for that matter come out and say, "ah we're   
   headed in the wrong direction with all our troops over there in iraq, not   
   afghanistan" let alone say blindness is where he's lead us.  we were   
   blindsided with somewhat advanced warning yet unintelligible.  to even state   
   with total belief and conviction even with a 9/11 report on wmd in iraq that   
   saddam didn't know of, had any is absolute border madness and blindness   
   itself simply cause as horrible as he is as we americans see it, he loved   
   his lands and with a ferocity that is on par with ours, will not go down   
   even in capture telling anyone anytime soon what he really knew. i'd lie   
   like a sob myself, woudn't you?  after ww1, this country went into a   
   terrible depression.  after gulf war 1, this country but by the grace of god   
   had not suffered as terribly like after ww1 because of the advent of the   
   computer age and some seriously good planting by carter and reagan.  when   
   clinton was in office as pres, well just look at what became of arkansas.   
   led by a republican governor (not knockin him) it was led into a proverbial   
   deep muddy economically.  from what i understand, bush had texas as the 3rd   
   best overall economy in the world, partly his doing with what had been   
   handed to him.  again, we got blindsided 9/11.   
      
      
    to take out saddam  regardless of wmd or not was the right thing to do and   
   why?  cause despite   
   all the daily news of another of our soldiers being killed, another squad of   
   iraqi police being waylaid, there are 5 million with power and water for the   
   1st time.  with all the bad news that comes out of there, due to our beloved   
   free press, with all the slammin the pres and vp takes, i think if i were in   
   their shoes, i'd be saying "look on the bright side" too, wouldn't you? if   
   you want to sit there as leader of the e st. band and your family and your   
   business and talk about how gloomy things look for you  professionaly and   
   personally ever day and night, go for it.  at least our president is sitting   
   there, in the know trying to put back some sense of heads up without fear in   
   this country, a sense of accomplishment and indeed does rely on the press,   
   me you and everyone else to be informed about the doom and gloom.  had 9/11   
   not happened, no doubt the usa would be a tight ship economically and we   
   wouldn't be leaking like a siff due to the most atrocious act against our   
   country.  regarding those terrorists (shoot the bstards i say) but it seems   
   to me common sense that for all the craziness, coldness they come up with,   
   all we have to do is look in our own backyard.  racism runs amock in this   
   country, a negro was dragged by the neck to his death a couple of years ago.   
   kids still go out there and obtain crack as easy as getting candy, women are   
   forced to choose between abortion at the last moment to save their lives or   
   face total scrutiny from all sides, the press has forgotten all about how   
   the drug manufacturers literally give their drugs away free just by the   
   patient asking and i mean almost all drugs, medicaid only charges a few   
   dollars yet all i read in the press, hear from kerry is how high premiums of   
   private insurance costs.  bush isn't blindsiding and we are all not that   
   ignorant, its just that the obvious is way overlooked.  in so, so many ways,   
   some of us are just as bad as terrorists who don't think nothing of slowly   
   slicing a mans head off.   
      
      
   nobody ever said going into and out of iraq is   
   going to be easy, nobody can ever argue a worst case scenario like the   
   proverbial desertnam wasn't going to happen, do you really think after 9/11   
   the pres who totally lost emotional control at ground zero had to go before   
   congress to ask "gee i need your permission to go to war"?  as far as cheney   
   and haliburton goes, that is his people in their doing one hell of a dirty   
   job, they are on the front lines, not you, not me, them.  it's their job   
   just like a soldier who risks his/her life, they want to do their job.   
   personally and professionally i don't know about bush outright insulting a   
   citizen of this usa but i sure as all heck know kerry does and he did to me,   
   to my face, up front and personal too.   
      
      
   a korean war veterans memorial dedication was going on on the hyannis town   
   green here in my hometown (was at the time) and kerry, after his speech,   
   well i stood there at ease/attention face to face to him, not 6 feet away   
   with no one, not a soul close to me anywhere. as i stood there wearing my   
   non-lethal weapons, weapons of mass protection sweatshirt, he looked me   
   right in the eye and said "you, we know what to do with punks like you".  i   
   was maybe 32 at the time.  that sweatshirt represents my families self built   
   from the ground up private business. from a volunteer like me to deep into   
   the pentagon that stuff goes.  just like you and your band, you know the   
   blood sweat and tears of the business and i'm telling you here and now   
   bruce, nobody has ever come close to embarrasing me like he did, nobody.  oh   
   i brushed it off then and there but what the...why be an arse like that john   
   kerry?  kerry was all for his - our military, spoke out against nam and my   
   inlaw comes up with one hell of an alternative to shoot to kill. started   
   with their white paper pushed into the pentagon as 60 minutes reported, and   
   that launced a 35 million dollar pentagon sponsored budget.  now heading   
   over to iraq sometime soon is a 51 million dollar tool that will quite   
   literally stop anyone without harmful lasting results.  the sherrif as its   
   called is a wave that emits a heat like fingers left to long on a hot   
   lightbulb. an alternative, not to mention http://www.m2tech.us my inlaws   
   business has attracted in droves thousands of people all in the name of a   
   peaceful resolution to a deadly bullet to the head.  again, kerry justs   
   calls me a punk.  ya, here is a punk for ya kerry, a vote for bush or at   
   least myself. blinded by the light indeed.  investment of the 18th century   
   was the acquisiiton of texas, the 21st century, the house cleaning of the   
      
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