We Need a Wartime President

no more WAR,that's what America needs, and she def. does not need a president that uses everything icludeing war to further their political party,i wouldnt be surprised to learn that Bush has been trying to invade Iran just so he could either run a third term or make it seem, SEEM, like mcaine is needed more becuz of war, all Bull#*%! of course........

We should go after Iran and anyone else that wishes to do us harm you people of the u.s. that think for one second that Iran wants to be friends or allies are sadly mistaken. Let me clear one thing up the people of Iran really don???t care about the u.s. other than trading they like the western apparel blue jeans etc. but the leaders of iran well that???s a different story they dispise us. They would rather see us dead than anything else! If the president of Iran had his way he would give all the countries fortunes to eliminate the United States and Israel! They believe that we are infidels and should be killed in accordance with Islamic law! You can say what you want about bush hell I have problems with some of his misgivings but two wrongs don???t make it right your very own barrack Hussein obama said that if needed we would go into Pakistan or Iran if he felt that they would harbor bin laden now bush well he has done some things that have left a bad taste in the peoples mouths and I don???t like it either but its all done now no turning back we can???t back down now nit would only lead to more attacks on our soil! So the real question is do we need a wartime president ? Well that is easy enough answered! Yes of course we do??? we need a president that will go to war anytime our country is threatened you can say what you want about Israel but they don???t take bombings or terrorist lightly they act and it has kept them from being destroyed this long with a little help from the u.s. just yesterday a terrorist got into a front end loader and drove through the streets killing people babies and all well the people of israel did what every american would do and that is stop him at all costs thay shot him dead right there and in my opinion he deserved it !! now some of you would have him pulled out and brought to trial and put him in prison well that to me is bull *** he did it they saw him doing it and thats that !

............................................Wartime President....B.S....This is a term that attempts to glorify war. What we have is an Interventionist, Imperialist Country that attempts to bully and control the world. Why can the United States be like Canada and many other Countries in the world that lifes at peace and the leadership takes care of improving the lives of its people?????

I actually intended the 'gun' to represent his facilities and the 'ammo' to be the WMD.....makes sense that way......

Anyway, it's almsot midnight where I am, so I'm off. Good chatting with all of ya, have a good night!

Oh no ! Bush gave up golfing ? Poor poor man, I can only feel his pain. Meanwhile, "Bob Smith" in Iraq has lost his vision,arms,legs and dignity. But Im sure Bob feels sorry for Bush.

The war was a waste of American lives and time and we don't need a wartime president, we need a president that can affectivly and safly get us out of the war befroe more lives are lost!!!

What we need are Bush voters to serve in Iraq. They voted for a war president. It's time for them to NOT emulate the draft dodging Governor Bush and pony up some arms, legs, eyes, and lives.

Did you know McCain has had 4 different campaign managers? McCain just can't get it right. He keeps changing managers, as if it is their fault that he can not succeed. Fact is, McCain is NOT a good candidate.

After his first run at the Presidency when he got swift boated by Bush, his manager John Weaver got McCain to play "Maverick" and cross party lines to become a NeoLiberal. McCain almost changed parties and became a Democrat and Kerry's running mate, but at the 11th hour he switched horses again and hired Terry Nelson to manage him. Nelson is a strong GOP establishmentarianist, and got McCain to throw himself behind Bush, with promises of the GOP giving him the 2008 nomination. But Nelson didn't last, because the strategy failed. The right wing was suspicious of McCain because McCain voted against abortion, for gay rights and for gun control during his "maverick" phase. They didn't know if they could trust him. Also, Nelson spent money hand over fist, nearly bankrupting McCain's campaign. So he replaced him with Rick Davis, who was at the helm for the past year. Davis is a fiscal conservative, made McCain sell that expensive big bus, and made McCain mind his manners and act polite in public. But now, Davis has been fired too. Why? Because McCain is getting desperate, and the gloves are coming off. His new manager is Steve Schmidt, a Rove disciple and former Rove employee. McCain has also hired Nicole Wallace and Greg Jenkins to head his "Communications Team." Nic and Greg are also former Rove employees, masters of the art of swift boat smear campaigns. McCain going to let the Rove bulldogs off the leash. Look out, America, this is going to get ugly.

My prediction: the 20% of America that is made up of ignorant jingoists will be cheering to see Rove's bloody tactics. But you know what? They were all going to vote for McCain anyway. The rest of America will be so disgusted by the hatchet work of the NeoCons that they will vote AGAINST McCain.

The "last resort" tactic of the GOP to win this election will be to bomb Iran, starting another war. Mark my words, if McCain is not doing well in September, Bush will bomb Iran. He is already setting the stage for this, by saying that Iran has nuclear weapons, even thought inspections by the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency have both found NO EVIDENCE of nuclear weapons. REMIND YOU OF ANYTHING? It's the fake "weapons of mass destruction" all over again. And did you know that on June 26, Bush, very quietly, declared a state of National Emergency? During a National Emergency the President can DECLARE WAR without waiting for the approval of Congress.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/06/20080626-4.html

It is going to be a very bumpy ride, America, so hold on, and DON'T LET BUSH AND ROVE STEAL ANOTHER ELECTION. I wouldn't mind so much if they were good for the economy, but let's face it, they destroying America. I

Dear Fareed:

Another bogus white washing of the national security threats America faces to create a phony premise that justifies electing a completely incompetent novice like your guy Obama who could not be less qualified to be commander in chief. As a result of America's relentless pursuit of Al Qaeda and their cohorts since 9/11, they are on the run. Al Qaeda's one solace is enjoying the self-destructive spectacle of of the rise of fools like you and Obama who want to drag the USA back to the pre 9/11 legalistic mentality where Al Qaeda flourished virtually unopposed until after they committed a heinous attack.

Unlike you and Obama, Osama and his brethren recognize America's deep dependence on foreign oil and the devastating economic effects of high oil prices on the U.S. economy. Osama completely understands that high oil prices are the key to hurting all American's financially and toppling the USA economy. By contrast, you and Obama live in a fantasy world of your own invention where America's economy is not deeply dependent on Middle East oil, and Iraq can be abandoned to Al Qaeda and Iranian domination without a massive further spike in oil prices that would have devastating consequences to the USA economy.

Contrary to the phony premise of your article. America always needs a war time President as a deterrent to our adversaries. Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton are perfect examples of what happens when America's adversaries see a weak President. Iranian revolutionaries overthrew the Shah and embarked on a climb to becoming the biggest geostrategic threat to the USA as a direct result of Jimmy Carter's weakness. It is no accident that the U.S hostage were released the day Reagan took office.

Al Qeada grew into a major terrorist threat under Clinton's administration and carried out a multitude of bombings including the Cole, Khobar towers and the Kenyan/Tanzania bombings without any serious response from Clinton. Al Qaeda erroneously assumed that GWB would respond like Clinton and have paid a heavy price since 9/11. However, Al Qaeda understands that Iraq is the central front in their war with the USA because high oil prices are the one path they have to their ultimate goals. Therefore, they are eagerly awaiting an Obama administration that would underestimate them once again. Iran is also anxiously awaiting Obama as President so they can expand their domain over Iraq and ideally position themselves on the Saudi border where they could intimidate and dominate the weak Saudi/Kuwaiti regimes.

Of course, geopolitical and economic reality are not serious considerations in Obama's blind ambition to become President and that is exactly the reason he must be defeated.

most people like peace! stop war!

We need a peacetime president, but thanks to King George we'll be bogged down in Iraq, Iran and God know where before this iget leaves office. No single leader in the history of the world has so plundered a nation. We're now the largest debtor nation in the history of the known universe, how could a civilized society let that happen, Did we not learn from Hitler where following a madman would lead us?

This is another straw-man argument, created by left leaning Newsweek to try to remove the focus from the fact that Obama has NO experience in much of anything!

What a biased and naive article. Your conclusion that we don't need a war-time president based on the fact that Al-Qaeda has been weakened is precariously dim-witted and naive at best. However, it's much more likely that it is dangerously arrogant. Underestimating the Al-Qaeda threat is what Bill Clinton did best and it is exactly the reason why we are having to deal with them so forcefully now. How easily we forget the lessons of history!

This article just sounds like it was written by the Obama campain. Oh, well. It's not like it's any different from the rest of the trash the media is force-feeding America right now.

Vigil, I see what you're trying to do, but you're analogy fails. A gun in someone's house doesn't pose much of a threat, but WMD in the hands of a brutal dictator does.

Try this analogy: Someone points a gun at a hostage, hours/days of trying to talk this guy out of it seems not to be working and you're confident he's going to kill the hostage, so you shoot the agressor. Later, you find the gun wasn't loaded"

^Now there's a thought experiment (sort of) for you!

"It is by now overwhelmingly clear that Al Qaeda and its philosophy are not the worldwide leviathan that they were once portrayed to be. Both have been losing support over the last seven years."

I wonder why? The war CAN'T have anything to do with it. Liberals are so dense. Al Qaeda recruitment is diminishing in Islamic countries in large part because the potential recruits are beginning to realize that if they choose to fight the US it's equivalent to a death sentence... 72 virgins notwithstanding.

Radical Islamists declared war on the US in 1979. Through the Iranian hostage crisis to the US embassy bombings, the USS Cole, the first Trade Center bombing and finally the WTC collapse we've been willfully blind to the fact that we were at war. Bush is the first president to actually fight back. I think that might qualify him as a "war president."

OK first of All the terrorists launched an attack on American soil that killed over 2000 civilians that is a real war not a minding of interests. Second The terrorists have failed to strike on US soil for a second time so not only is Bush a War time president but he is a war time president with an exceptional track record of preventing a second attack on American soil.

You can debate the merits of Iraq all day long but when enemies kill americans I expect my president to act in exactly the way George Bush acted. On 911 the average americans reaction was its time to blow some %%%% up! Bush may have overstepped his bounds but it was an error made with the intention of protecting American lives so in that I support him one hundred percent.

FOr those apologists who say it is clear Al Qaeda isnt the big bad wolf we thought as evidenced by their lack of a second assualt I say look at the facts.

They attacked our ships
they attacked our barracks
they attacked our embassies
they attacked our center of commerce Wtc

Then America woke up and we attacked their government
the we attacked thier huts
then we attacked their caves
then we attacked their suppliers
we cut off every angle we could find and they have been nearly neutrlaized

dont go calling us a bully when they attacked us numerous times and don't go thinking they would of just gone away if George Bush had given a great speech.