[ChrisCantSkate]

well, im a registered rebublican, but do not like bush's ideas/views/way of handling things. i agree it is not the governments responsability to fund social actvities, but the thing with bush's administration is its turning exactly how pre ww1 was going. everything was great, economy was on the up, etc. bush then goes before the UN and the whole world saying how grave of a danger iraq's WMD are and how we must act with military force(you know where im going with this wont draw it out) and basically when nothing was found, he expects everyone to shrug it off.

we invaded a country. not only did we invade, but we managed to take out more civilian lives than the total 9/11 disaster took out of our own people. im sorry, but the death of an iraqi civilian shouldnt be looked upon as less of a death than of anyone else. we FREAKED.. let me emphisize FREAKED out over 9/11. our country was in complete panic, and we trusted our president to gather the information needed to make those responsable pay. now we have a dictator with no WMD, we have a 3rd world country that is going to jsut have another government put in place until they get pissed at us in 10-15 years and actually do in some way threaten the contitental US. meanwhile, we wont hear of osama till im guessing mid-summer when political campains are going on and bush needs support.

on to domestic problems. the republican party put this little balance budjet amendment in the constitution i believe and well... bush's HUGE spending is bringing our economic stability waaay down, not to mention the worlds if this continues. durring "war times" we need to raise taxes to pay for a war. not cut even more to make our rich business owners richer.

as far as gay/same sex marragies... hoestly we have bigger problems. let it be a state thing, since its the state who gives you a marrage licence. get the government out of it.

as far as your hitler statement.... i really hate comparing the 2, since you instantly get the "no way, bush isnt some guy committing genocide" well, if you look how hitler achieved political power, and how he was able to persuade the people into a complete "us vs. them" mentality, then look at things such as the patriot act, and how fvcking narrow minded people are now when it comes to minorities, expecially from india and the mid east. everyone of them is now a 2nd class citizen. its sad but true. no one gives these sometimes born americans the time of day because of bush's "well one terrorist leader attacked us so i'll take another one out and gain public support" idea.

the anti-french people really piss me off. i know this is a little off topic, but im thinking about it and your gonna read it. im part french and proud of it. in ww1 when america "saved" europe from germany, all we did was come in at the end of a war with germany giving their last breath effort to cut off allied supplies but it failed and america was there to help english and french soliders who have been in fox holes for YEARS. not months, YEARS. they were severly starved, not clean at all, and actually war fatigued. americans showed up, marched in paris(which btw we didnt let a single black troop march in our army on the streets while every other country let their minorities march), then stayed around long enough to more or less write the genoiva treaty(spelling is way off).

interesting little fact about ww1, french toast usta be german toast, Dachshunds were called freedom dogs, sounds a bit familiar...

everyone who has taken american history knows the french won our independence from england with their HUGE blockadge of the chesapeake bay and most of the east coast from all incoming englsih ships. which was part of a treaty we later screwed the french on when england attacked them.

ok enough of a rant for my first post...