So, Bush won. Now, we are faced with a major crisis, which I will spell out in clear and direct words - because there is no room for vagueness. I'm no politician. Bush and his office have major flaws that threaten both National and Wordly security. I will point these out: 1) Foreign Policy: Aggressive, aggressive, aggressive. Need I say more? Yes. The US's attitude in the past century had been, for the most part: Don't mess with us, we do as we choose in the name of Democracy, liberty and freedom. Have we forgotten: Aggressiveness breeds aggressiveness, hatred breeds hatred. We have only made more enemies than we already had prior to Crusade against terrorism. Our attitude is too forceful. -We did that when we forced Japan, China, and other nations to do what we wanted them to do, with an entire fleet of battleships behind us. No war, true, but I can't see anyone saying there was no intimidation. "Speak softly, carry a big stick." We continue such a policy today... This time, we used the stick - because someone hit us first. Foreign policy is just as much an importance as homeland security. You cannot jump into a crisis area, where nations hate each other to the point of suicide bombings and nuclear weapons construction, expect to slam out a dictator of a third world nation, slam in a democracy, and leave. First of, the purpose of invading Iraq is -very- arguable. -Iraq has plenty of oil. Plenty. Why not invade N. Korea? They definitely have weapons of mass destruction - they even showed us they were re-instating their nuclear weapons program, and threatened the U.S. But.... Korea isn't sitting on oil. Iraq is a great place - keep a foothold of stability in the middle-east, while digging up a plentiful reserve of oil to further secure financial stability. What a better plan? All in the name of terrorism. I will tell you, as a fact: There are plenty of dictators, and plenty of weapons of mass destruction out there - but you will not hear of it unless you research. Go see for yourself. There is one problem, though: Invading Iraq has only opened its borders to seep in more terrorists and fighters against the west. Saddam was against Al-Quaida, they never liked each other! Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction. My friends, our soldiers stand at attention, barrels loaded to burst and ready to kill, boots planted in a land where no expectations were met. 2) Economy: It's a fact. More Americans have lost jobs under Bush's presidential office - it's a fact, our national deficit has increased. As compared to the previous Presidency, Bush's is far worse. Don't blame it on 9-11. The economy still continued. 3) Homeland Security and Constitutional Preservation: Hmm. Toughie, but it goes hand in hand with our national rights. Homeland Security - The Patriot Act. Research this for yourself, but I will give a brief outline: -Takes away personal privacy. Period. The government now has the right to listen to anything you have to say about anything. Be it on the phone, computer, anything. They also have the right to go into your home when you're not there and investigate. This can all happen if they consider you a threat. Well, at least, that's the way it starts - but once the hand of the governor is around the neck of the governed, it's hard to let go, and even harder not to squeeze. Now that Bush is in office again, he is going to renew the Patriot acts with additions - Yes that's an official statement. You can go to his website and even see the commercial add stating it. Go ahead. What do the additions include? Well, if passed, it will give the government the right to arrest you without trial, without say, and without notification of you or anyone. You'll simply disappear. Sounds a little familiar, doesn't it? 4) So concludes the points of threat from the Bush administration. You have been warned. The President and his office threaten safe foreign policy, continue to allow a poor economy, and slowly fade the Constitution's civil liberties into a guideline, rather than a fact and a reality, unchanging and forever standing - as it was meant to be. Your rights are being taken away. It's naive to trust an office that is shaky in every major action it has taken for the nation. The scariest part of it is, half the nation is for Bush. They support the cause. They listen to the media and believe the news completely. News can be biased, the government can be biased, the government can be and is corrupt. This is not the first time, no. We do not self-educate ourselves. We rely on the TV. What we need is action, intelligence, education. We need to take living in a Democracy seriously, and take a step over blind patriotism. Anyone who throws their minds away to follow whatever their leader says is throwing their freedom and liberties out the window. Sheep, guided by the wolf - up the mountain and over the cliff.
