I don't think that it was Rumsfeld or Bush or anyone in the Republican Party that caused the Failed Election for the Republicans on the last Election!! It was bound to happen since the Press has been reporting nothing but negative about anything that they do, anything that The Bush Administration has tried to accomplish that was a good thing was presented in the press and on many of the News Magazine shows as a Negative Scary thing that was about to happen to the American Public. When the talks were turned to the subject of the Border and Mexico, Then the President feels Honestly, I believe that he wants to do the Amnesty issue!! However once he mentioned that he was going to do it or run a bill through for Amnesty there was an surge of Illegal Immigrants scattering across the border, and they don't even care about the Border Patrol, because they know that even though they have guns they are not really allowed to use them, and will not use them right away, there for the Border Patrol is shot at many times and the Government, OUR GOVERNMENT Hides this fact that this happens for fear that this could be miss understood as a call to arms or war in some way with the Mexican Government, when it is really Drug Running or the passage of Bodies or Mules that are passing the people across the boarder and into the US with no way to defend themselves other then a rock that might be laying on the ground. The whole situation is out of hand!!
President's don't have all the answers and I hate it when they stand there and state that they do!! The only one that really made me feel confident that there was going to be sunshine the next day was none other then President Reagen. Most Democrats believe that it was Clinton that gave that to them, but today it is the Republican Party that just lost their power, not because of this war, but because they have fallen away from their own principals. they don't want to lower taxes anymore. they don't want to stop that spending. man threat spending is way way out of hand.
I hope that they get a hand on the purse strings and hold them tight, because we are going bankrupt, with the spending that we have promised this next budget year.
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And Rumsfeld is paying for that same defeat with his job. Which is fitting and appropriate.
The midterm elections made it clear that Americans want accountability in government. Bush seems to have finally heard that message. Rather than continuing to "stay the course," he has removed the architect of America's failed Iraq strategy, and signaled that a new plan is needed.
This is good news. Rumsfeld, despite his impressive resume and remarkable steadfastness, has stumbled too many times to continue on in his position.
He misread how Iraqis would respond to the invasion. He underestimated the number of troops needed to stabilize Iraq and Afghanistan, and failed to provide them with adequate armor. He didn't anticipate the looting that followed liberation. And the prisoner abuses took place under his watch.
No one expects clairvoyance of political or military leaders, and no war has been
without mistakes. But the number and magnitude of mistakes in Iraq cry out for a change. Our troops deserve to know that, if nothing else, we learn from our setbacks and modify our approach accordingly.They also deserve leaders who set politics aside and work together. Bush must stop trying to deflect criticism, and Democrats can no longer merely carp from the sidelines.
Rumsfeld's resignation and Bush's stated intent to find common ground with congressional Democrats are positive signs that a new era of cooperation may be at hand. Just maybe our politicians are at last more interested in winning the war than in defeating one another.
One of democracy's greatest virtues is that it's self-correcting. We can only hope that a much-needed correction in Iraq has begun.
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