This first part of my post has nothing to do with the subject title.

I have been too horrified and saddened by the brutal murder Mr. Berg to post anything for the last couple of days. I didn’t watch the uncensored video, but I saw and heard enough to sicken me. I felt the same emotions I felt when I saw the people falling out of the WTC on 9/11.

These terrorists we are at war with do not care about human life. They hate Americans and want to kill us all.

Here is my hope about Iraq and the terrorists- the terrorists are being drawn there from all over the Middle East. Not only is this keeping them out of America and Europe, it is placing them in firing range of the US military. This may prove to be their undoing.

And I hope that, down the road (Whoever is President), Iraq becomes a stable democracy.

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Here is an interesting article

The Article;

The Progressive vs. the Conservative

Policy fatigue may hit the Bush administration soon. The Abu Ghraib prison scandal — as well as the gruesome murder of American civilian Nick Berg is yet more bad news from Iraq. As Shakespeare says, woes come not as single spies but in battalions.

Come November, the American people may catch policy fatigue — feeling they need a respite from all the churning out of Washington. Naturally, Sen. John Kerry would benefit from that.

After all, he’s the real conservative nowadays. President George W. Bush is the real progressive. Not, of course, in terms of ideology. Here, Bush is true blue conservative, and Kerry is a real progressive.

It’s in a leadership sense that Kerry is conservative, with a stand-pat foreign policy, whereas Bush is progressive — even radical — in his global approach.
Soon after taking office, Bush showed he was a real progressive by freeing America from the straightjacket of outdated, or just bad, treaties. Take, for instance, the ABM Treaty. For 20 years, Presidents Reagan, Bush the First and Clinton danced around this real barrier to protecting America. Then along comes Bush, the progressive, who kicks this barrier aside, and thus opens up possibilities of innovative technology to safeguard our homeland.

Likewise with the Kyoto Treaty which languished in the Senate for years. President Clinton never pushed for its ratification, since 95 senators voted that it had fundamental flaws. Bush courageously stopped this shenanigan, and frankly told everyone that the Kyoto Treaty was passé.

The second big indication of Bush’s progressivism was the pre-emption doctrine. Adopting it broke with past U.S. strategic doctrines of containment and deterrence, recognizing that Al Qaeda fanatics can neither be contained, nor deterred.

An offshoot of pre-emption gave the grounds for liberating Iraq. Granted, it’s been a big surprise that weapons of mass destruction haven’t been found there. But Saddam sure wanted them, and, had he stayed in office, sure would have developed them again. President Bush’s actions pre-empted that nightmare.

The third, and most radical of Bush’s progressive approaches, is his advocating democracy across the Arab world. No president — not Nixon nor Ford, Carter nor Clinton, and especially not Bush the elder — would have ever dared anything this jolting to the status quo. They were all conservative, feeling that Arab countries can pretty much stay as they are domestically, but should accept Israel internationally.

It’s precisely President Bush’s progressive actions which drive his critics up the wall, and which threaten policy fatigue. Should that ensure this fall, John Kerry will be a big beneficiary.