What Bush Got Right

Booner, if you would be so shallow as to cancel your subscription to a magazine because they ran an article you disagreed with, then you may as well forget reading any magazine or newspaper, because they all will, at some point, do an article that you will be opposed to; its called freedom of the press. My daily newspaper, often, prints things that I disagree with, but it, also, prints things that I do agree with and enjoy, so, I would not dis-continue my subscription based on some of the articles that are contrary to my beliefs. Do you only watch news channels that you know will agree with everything you believe? If you are that afraid of being exposed to anything different from your views, then that tells me you must not be as sure of your point of view as you want to think you are. If you feel secure and certain of you values, then reading or hearing another person's ideas on the subject will not effect or alter what you believe, unless, as I said, you are not as sure and fear you may just learn something you don't want to accept.

Booner, Please, tell us what you want? An apology, death at the steak, impeachment? It's not going to happen. Bush broke no laws.

How about you keep your subscription... (nw really is a good magazine) and understand that most media, even liberal publications like NW and Time, are going to make a stab at being balanced once in a while. If you move to Time, I promise you someone out there is going to write something you don't like and you'll be right back here.

Booner, you don't place a price on truth; this article was written from the heart, not from the wallet. Because you do not agree with something does not make it invalid. And as for losing a family member--been there, done that, and the circumstances of a loss does not make your grief less. Do you not think that most of us, regardless of which political party we belong to, do not feel regret concerning the loss of lives? Innocent lives on both sides are being lost, and when we look into the beautiful faces of the children and people of Iraq, that is difficult to realize that same face may not be around tomorrow, and when we see our military men & women on the networks, fighting for our freedom, as well as their own, that makes us feel many emotions---pride, loneliness that they are not with us, and don't know when they will be, fear for their safety, and sadness when we hear that one or more will not be returning to us alive. War has never been fair, pretty or desireable, but we have come to accept that it is a fact we can not, always, avoid. There are conflicting emotions on both sides of our political parties, and each of us feels strongly that our particular feelings are the correct ones, but we need to allow each other the space to be and to feel what America is all about--freedom to believe and feel whatever our personal attitudes are, regardless of wheather we agree or not, unless those attitudes constitude a direct threat to our country. Booner, if you are so insecure about your personal beliefs, that it leaves no room for anyone else to have a belief of their own, without it being a threat to you, then as much as I am sure Newsweek will regret loosing you as a customer, perhaps its for the best, but I can assure you that, eventually, you will find an article in Time Magazine that you will be offended by, also. Do what you feel comfortable with, and good luck.

Wagon, you had better think of a better reason than that if you are entertaining the hope of convincing us to suddenly switch parties, like, maybe he was involved with Jack the Ripper, or it was discovered he was the Zodiac killer back in the 70s. Give us something we can relate to, man! (Just yanking you around, Wagon; know you mean well, but it just ain't gonna happen---we are voting McCain.) (A late response, because I just got around to reading your post). Thanks for the info, useless as it was.

DTopper, President Bush does not need propering up. Each of us (those of us who are humans, anyway) can only make decisions based on where we are at that particular time in the history of our lives, and based on the information we have at that time; we can not make a decision based on what we may find out at some later point in time, or what may or may not happen in the vague future. We only have the here and now to make decisions, based on info we have in the present, and that is why there are so many people who wistfully say to themselves "If only I had known then---". However, having said this, I realize the people who are in charge of making decisions which will affect the whole nation, & perhaps the world, has the responsibility to make the very best decision for all concerned that they can, based on what the know, and have been advised, and I believe that is what they did after 9/11. It is not just the president who is involved in decision making, he is our president--not our king. We do not put President Bush on a pedestal, as you claim, but we do respect him and we do believe he did what he felt he needed to do at that point in time, and still needs to do.

What you want, what you would like, is for the Oval Office to repeatedly announce "Americans SUCK because (blah blah). " Then, "Americans SUCK because (yak yak)"... as this is what Liberals need to hear from governmentarians to feel like everythings' fine. Somebody in government cares about them!That the people in Office are acting responsibly.
When that messaging stops as it did when Clinton left the Oval Office, liberals got fearfull! The Americans-- Suck because messages stopped coming from the Oval office! OHH NO! Now it's a CRISIS!
Americans--Suck--First is the Liberals Pacifier! As long as Liberals are hearing this message strong, loud, clear and often governmentarians can screw up and screw off all they want and Liberals DON"T CARE!
Ask Bill Clinton,or Hillary!
How are you going to get by another 4 , 8 or even 12 years of NOT hearing this Liberal Pacifier from the Oval Office?
You might prepare for that! Maybe if you understood Americans are great people and America and AWESOME country it would be a start!

Worse, if Saddam didn't want his country involved in a war with us, then why didn't he keep as low a profile as possible, instead of bragging about all the WMDs he had and was prepared to use? Why has that not been addressed? If he did not have WMDs, then he should not have insinuated he did. He must have known there would be a response to that, but he couldn't resist trying to twist the needle into our, already injured heart, so he got what he asked for, plus more. A lesson in staying out of the way when the eagle's feathers are ruffeled.

You are laughable! And there you were moments ago slamming someone for not answering your question! Did you support Bush on 9/11 or not? If you did, then he isn't completely rotten, now is he?

BTW, you must be inferring to Bin Laden about the resource thing... He's ineffective, in case you haven't noticed. He's cowering under a hijab somewhere in Pakistan. Relax pal, we'll get him one day. You really have been safe since 9/11, even though we haven't actually caught the coward, now haven't you?

And the crime's only in your mind... get over it.