[Professor S]

Neo, I think if you tried a little harder you could come up with even more simplistic arguments against Bush. Better luck next time.

Originally Posted by Dylflon

I like Kerry. Pretty much every non American in the entire world wants to see Kerry in the White House. That says something.

We love to generalize, don't we?

The rest of the world sees Bush differently than Americans. The reason we view him differently is because he actually scares us. He makes us nervous. As Americans are afraid of terror attacks, everyone else is nervous that he'll invade places or lead us into a world war. It isn't likely that he would but it's not impossible.

That I can see and its a valid point, even if a little paranoid.

Things he's done to scare me:

1) Backed out of the ballistic missile treaty.

I don't know the details of this, I'll look it up though.

2) Flipped off the U.N.

And rightfully so. The UN is still under investigation for abuse of the Iraqi oil for food program and IMO is basically an organization of former world powers that has abused its position over the last 15 years to keep influence (and profits) and has used America as its 800 pound gorilla for too long.

3) Endorsed shoddy information as good work and then fed it to the public.

Hindsight is 20/20. See my arguments in my first post.

4) He has strong ties with the Saudi Royal family.

Which has had absolutely no proven affect on his administration beyond the misleading ramblings of Michael Moore. He went against the Saudi's in going into Iraq and the whole "flights out of the country" thing has already been debunked by every major news source in the world.

5) Declared a war on terror giving him the grounds to attack any country that has terrorists and possibly even some that don't. He could easily make up terror threats.

This is true, but yet again very far fetched. I do not agree with Bush's seeming abuse of the terror alert system to take attention away from democratic poltical news, but I don't see any evidence of Bush going into any country he sees fit without reason, and yes there was plenty of reason to go into Iraq and Afghanistan.

6) Once accused Canada of housing terrorists.

I doubt he accused the Canadian government of openly harboring terrorists. Having terrorists living on your soil and having a government supporting them are two different things. If you believe Bush openly accused the government of Canada of housing terrorists, please provide a link.

7) Tried to ban Michael Moore's book "Stupid White Men". You can't ban literature. That screams Nazi book burning to me.

I am the last one to agree with Bush's policies regarding the first amedment, but I have heard nothing of this, please provide a link.

8) Completely stomped on the first amendment.

I agree completely and thats enough grounds not to vote for him.

9) Endorsed the Patriot Act which could potentially eliminate privacy, bringing America much closer to a world not unlike the one in the book "1984".

I find the left's attack of the Patriot Act to be very humorous. It does not give the government to right to just violate peoples rights and search whatever they like. They still need just cause and/or and warrant, just like before the Patriot Act.

10) The fact that he's barely literate and runs the country with the biggest military in the entire world.

Ha ha ha... That argument has no validity and gets less funny the 10,000th time I've heard it. Find a new joke that doesn't take credibility away from your argument by dipping into sophmoric humor.