Breaking News--Fewer than half

[Josephine96]

I am actually for Kerry by the way. But this is my point..

In my opinion.. Kerry wants to keep the US safe but he also wants most of our troops home.. {forgive me if I'm mistaken}..

So if he wins.. {new attack or not..} I believe he would bring a lot of our troops home. Thus letting a lot of Osama's people roam free..

If I'm still not making sense.. then I surrender lol

[CaluWxBill]

Sorry, why the heck didn't Biden run. I am regretting that. I am sort of in denial that Kerry is our nominee. I definitely would vote for him over Bush, but he isn't the best nominee. Time to change the whole primary system, I am sick of voting in May, 3 months after the race is decided.

[BEER980]

Josephine96 you are on the right track. The terrorists do want Kerry in control because of his foreign policy that he mentioned months ago. He pretty much said we need to cut and run world wide if I remember right. AQ has to walk a thin line with the next attack here. If it is a small one then it will backfire and push Bush's numbers up. They will need something big and perhaps many locations spread out over time. They will need to make DHS look stupid by providing the media with warnings and following through. They will most likely strike about late summer or early October. They might try something at the Olympics but I doubt it will be effective.

[Guest]

I did not find your statement harsh CaluWxBill just strange considering my statement. So it is your view that if we are attacked the Presidents ratings will definitely go down. For some reason I remember Bush having the highest approval rating just after the 9/11 attack. I would not correlate an attack to poor defense. We have to be 100% correct in our intel and thwarting of attacks. How long can we run at 100%? The terrorists only have to be lucky once. They are patient. Our borders are wide open. The ports are far from secure. I don't plan on voting Dem or Rep this November but I will not blame Bush when the next attack comes. There is so much going on behind the scenes that at least an attempt will be made to attack us between now and this fall. It's hard to tell whats going on right now but the Mossad seem to be up to something here in CONUS.

I could be possibly wrong, but reading this thread I would understand that current war in Iraq is quite useless, in terms of war on terror.

[j]

That's thing $100,000 question for me - how do we KNOW that a Democrat will not handle this as well? How do we know that they wouldn't have handled 9/11 as well?

Obviously we can't be sure, but we can look at history, and the posistions that Democrats "generally" take when it comes to issues such as funding our military, backing aggressive policies toward our enemies, swift and appropriate response as the situation requires. Look no further than the voting record of one John Kerry and tell me you think this Liberal is the man you want commanding our troops?

Democrats historically want to take their time....give peace a chance..pass the pipe around. If you look at our past, I think it is a fair statement to say that we have generally been most vulnerable to agression, when we had Democratic leadership.

Now don't pull the whole, "Well Bush was in office when 911 happened". To think that 911 wasn't in the works during the entire wishy washy Clinton years is naive.

[azskyman]

I'd suggest that the approval rating of a President in May in this rapidly changing world of ours is not a serious indicator of the Presidential election....even if the election were to be held this week.

The approval rating is a litmus test of the public's frustration, anger, and pain over the events of this day, this time, and the world at the moment.

To the extent that lowering numbers can serve as a motivation for taking a different direction...a more proactive one, I suspect President Bush will continue to address things more vocally and proactively in the weeks and months ahead.

I too would not say Kerry would not necessarily be an easier target for terror...but the Democrats as a while have traditionally held national defense in less regard in their attempt to balance it with all the social ills at home.

[Stephanie]

I realize that j - but no matter who was in office during that period of time when Al Qaeda was planning this, I truly believe that 9/11 would've still happened.

[Guest]

I realize that j - but no matter who was in office during that period of time when Al Qaeda was planning this, I truly believe that 9/11 would've still happened.

9/11 was born well before 2001, during 80's in my opinion.