Tell ya what, Mertin, my friend: Given the complete clusterf**k that Bush has created in not only Iraq but the entire MiddleEast, I'd rather have the old puppet still in control than the new one who without a perminent US military presence can't prevent an all out civil war in Iraq.

Yeah, Saddam mighta been a bad man but he was our bad man until the US demoted him from puppet/friend to puppet/bad man. All he ever wanted from the US was an occasional visit from a cabinet member and a pat on the back. Any US president since Gulf I could have picked up the phone and had Saddam in his back pocket but that wouldn't have played well to the neocons who would have turned on that president.

Now we have a new puppet and an occupation which is looking more and more like Vietnam every day.

As fir folks not hearing about the negatives of John Kerry? Give me a break. The Repub media and the Repubs themselves pound on Kerry on a dily basis. What I find funny is they start out sayin' that Kerry is the most consistent liberal in the Senate and then call him a flip-flopper??? Go figure??? Don't take the Wes Ginny Slide Rule to see that these two positions are opposite so one of them must be a lie. Hmmmmm?

Bobert