I don't tink Ron liks me any mor. Im so sorry Ron.
Let me c if i can cover sum of the isues u hav brot up.

Second: You seem to be fighting Barry Finn's battles. Who put the bee in YER bonnet?.

The issue with Mr. Finn was his MISCHARACTERIZATION and incorrect quotations of statements I made. Pretty much what you are doing in your above post. It's easy to win arguments when you substitute your own words for those of your opponent and then proceed to refute them. At that point, the lack of grammar, et cetera, does begin to move to the foreground. Maybe we should have our little debates scored by a highschool English teacher. Then we would know who really won. Oops, sentence fragment.

You know, some sites even have "Spell Check"!

I'm certainly glad I got that second "s" out of "desert" (De-bakkle of...).

Your misuse of the parenthetical after, "You don't read very carefully, do you? (among your other sterling qualities). " obviously negates any point you were trying to make.

"Bushites don't read very carefully." A nice assertion Ron, yet you offer no proof. YOU wouldn't be biased, now would you? If you are going to criticize someone (or paint an entire group with a single stroke), don't do the same thing you are criticizing. Bad form.

In regards to Bush's intelleigence agencies, they were pretty much on the same page as the majority of other intelligence gathering agencies around the world concerning WMDs. Saddam's actions certainly did nothing to allay the perception that he had them. In fact there is evidence that his multiple WMD programs were on-going as late as the beginning of the war. And yes, it's debatable, but that means there is credible evidence on either side of the question.

re: "Re: Russia---how about Bush's statement's on looking into Putin's soul?" I never responded to that statement one way or another! Who are you debating here? Strawmen abound! And for the record, that was probably one of the dumber things Bush has said. It's just about on par with Carter's revelation of the duplicity of the Kremlin.

Recheck you facts on Carter's fiscal policies. OPEC's manipulations were only one factor in the American economy and it wasn't even on par with the phoney "Oil Shortage" of the early 70's. Historically Carter is seen to have been very weak in the economic arena.

With regards to Carter's inaction and failure to confront the Embassy situation, this did nothing but embolden the Anti-American sentiment in this part of the world and it has led (Pb) directly to the tensions we face there today. I won't harp on this one though, because it can only be rank speculation as to what would have or could have happened if other courses of action had been pursued. What is, is (depending on how you define the word "is", that is).

You need to calm down a bit there, Ron. All I'm saying is that I was not very favorably impressed with Mr. Ford's Presidency. Sorry! He was selected for what he would do for Nixon and that subverted justice, to my way of thinking. So he swept a little dirt under the rug. Well, if you get enough dirt under there it starts stinking. Nixon would have been a good place to have begun some seriously needed house cleaning. Ahh, what's the use. You Nixonites are all the same.