Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Hmm, goes to show you that Bush is more flexible than you thought.> Ahhhh. So, if President Bush changes his mind, he's opening his thought processes and considering all options. If John Kerry or Howard Dean change their mind, they're flip-flopping. Got it.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper "I actually voted for it...before I voted against it..." is a flip-flop. Changing your view of our place in the World because 3500 of your citizens were killed in a terrorist attack is considering all the options. Bush flip-flops. Heck, I haven't met a politician that doesn't flip-flop. I just don't think this is a good example of a Bush flip-flop. "I support the FEMA Director." That turned into an honest Bush flip-flop.
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh I don't believe that the President "flip-flopped" on nation building. I see nation building as having our troops stand between two warring factions and hope that they'll stop fighting and get along. I don't think what we did in Afghanistan or Iraq to be nation building.
Originally Posted By woody >>If John Kerry or Howard Dean change their mind, they're flip-flopping.<< They are still flip-flopping. Gee, Bush only changed his mind once!!!
Originally Posted By Eric Paddon It isn't "overplaying" the Saddam card to note that John Kerry, just like he stabbed the people of South Vietnam in the back in the early 1970s who were trying to preserve their freedom, is all in favor of stabbing the people of Iraq in the back again today. John Kerry believes the people of Iraq should still be ruled by Saddam when he decides to pander to the same kind of extremists he was willingly part of in the early 1970s. Our actions in Iraq have left Al Qaeda a far less formidable force than it was in 2001. The notion that we are "losing" in Iraq is an insult to all of the troops who have done their part to create an Iraq that is far better off than it was before, as well as an America that is far more safer than it was on 9/11.
