I stick to my principles!
If we follow this to its conclusion, we would still be bleeding patients to get rid of evil spirits (diseases). Bush thinks a president should NEVER change his mind. What kind of blockheaded position is this?? At one time. the information received may be incomplete or even erroneous. No competant military commander, scientist, medical doctor, or business man would hold such a rediculous philosophy. Over and over, Bush pounds the same old broken drum, that Kerry "flip-flops" or "waffles" on issues. It would be much better to change positions on an issue as new facts come in and as new evidence demonstrates that previous desisions were made in error.
"I think what is misleading is to say you can lead and succeed in
Iraq if you keep changing your positions on this war. And he (Kerry) has.
As the politics change, his positions change. And that‘s not how a commander
in chief acts.The only consistent about my opponent‘s position is that
he‘s been inconsistent. He changes positions. And you cannot
change positions in this war on terror if you expect to win."
- George W. Bush, Presidential debate 2004
That is absurd! How can any military commander fight a war and win if he sticks to one idea and one idea only?? Look at the millions of men who lost their lives in World War 1, while commanders of both sides faught a war in an industrial age using the "glorious" tactics of ancient times. Wave after wave of brave soldiers advanced blindly into machine gun fire and died...and for what? It was for the generals who stuck to their principles! It reminds one of the battle of Gallipoli.
| "They generals thought they could do the job
in three days. Land on the Gallipoli peninsula, clear it of Turks and
disable the seaward defenses. With a bit of luck it could all be accomplished
in 72 hours. They failed too, and at a much greater cost in lives than
the naval assault. For 259 days, from April 1915 to January 1916, the
allied forces hung on to their toeholds on Gallipoli. A total of about
500,000 men were landed there over the course of the campaign and almost
300,000 of them became casualties. For the Turks it was a great victory
and marked the time they successfully stood against the greatest empire
the world had ever seen. For the Australians it would provide the sacrifice
that tempered their newly-forged nation in blood. For the British it was
just another fiasco in a war full of them.
Most officers and not a few of the men had been classically educated and a desire to emulate the heroes of old may have fired them as they boarded the transports. The pathos of the situation they found themselves in a few short weeks later must have been sharpened by their musings on the Homeric deeds of previous battles. How long would it have taken a machine-gun to hit even an Achilles in the heel? Where was their Ulysses with the clever stratagem needed to turn stalemate into victory? The beautiful battalions of April 25th are wasted skeletons. Disease was rife, the soldiers filthy, rotting corpses lay everywhere and day after day the attacks and counter-attacks continued in a horrific parody of the trench warfare going on in France. The peninsula never came anywhere near being cleared of Turks. The British managed to gain the whole tip of the peninsula but they never pushed more than five miles inland." Anzac Memories, Gallipoli, 1915. |
The above memoirs are similar to the policies of George Bush...who "sticks to his principles."
We need to truly support our troops!! Only a vote for
Senator John Kerry will do that.
