Hopefully a new election will bring in a new President. And hopefully this new president will not be stupid enough to continue the course Bush plotted out. Anything else is conjecture. Can Kerry be this president? He'd better be.
The Oil argument: This is only heresay, and as I no longer have steady internet access, I don't really have time to check, but I've heard that the world's projected oil reserves are expected to be depleted by 2040. I don't know what that might all effect, but if it's anywhere close to the cutoff date (even a few decades early) it's still heinous for our energy use in the future. Besides, there's a possibility that removing all the oil from the land could seriously disrupt the planetary ecosystem. I feel that's unlikely, but possible.
As far as I can tell, all the negative assessments of the US's past military history are accurate. There are two things that bother me, though. 1: would Israel really attack the US. I mean, it's pretty much an illegal country WE created because we felt that jewish people deserved some compensation. Obviously, they don't want to side with the bad guys (US) but could they truly attack one of their few staunch defenders? I'm not well versed in that political arena, so I don't have any more to offer on it.
2: PA, what can you possibly mean by optimistic? You're hoping for there to be WMD. Is this so Bush can be right? Would finding them somehow justify the unprovoked assault on Iraq and the murdering of its' citizens? The only effect it would have at this point is the Bush administration gaining enough political power to actually start the war they're so intent on.
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