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[dave_valler]

I just feel like America as a government, had the chance after it was attacked in 2001 to show some real leadership and live up to the title of being a world leader. But possibly understandably, like many countries would have done, it showed a negelct for rassionality and responsibilty, having bombing campaigns with codenames like 'shock and awe' and President Bush labeling whole nations as 'evil' in public speeches.

I think it's just a shame that someone like George Bush was leading a country, that has potential to do real good, when all this terrorism and violence really kicked off. He wasn't and isn't ready to deal with all the foreign issues and it's a shmae for all of us that he was there.

There's a song with some video clips to that effect and it's up on YouTube if anyone wants to view it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFmhOUJJgkc

I hope over the next few years we can learn from our recent mistakes.

[agentkgb]

The US government was put in a situation after 9/11 when most of the population was willing to do whatever the government said to. I would certainly agree that George Bush abused that situation, given the laws he passed and military actions he conducted.