I stopped reading after you wrote "should just keep my mouth shut". I found something we could agree on and decided that was a good start.

>I should just keep my mouth shut when I can use common sense to what's going on. No thanks. I don't tell you what to do, don't tell me what to do. Please take your "I've been in the military, I'm above you" attitude and please shove it.
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>I can surmise from the pattern laid out by many who've been privy to white house coversations. The pattern of refusing to listen to differing opinions. The pattern of ignoring 100's of years of history in a region. The pattern of ignoring catastrophic events for days, such as Katrina, Rice not going to the middle east for how long after Israel, Lebanon started?
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>As Jon Stewart said to John McCain "I don't know how much safer the world can become under Bush's leadership".