George W. Bush is a great President

Hello Cristy, Technically Scooter Libby was commuted, not pardoned by President Bush. Although in my opinion he should have been defended and pardoned long before he was commuted. Scooter Libby was subjected to a witch hunt, one that was an absolute injustice, and an abuse of power by the federal prosecutor. The prosecutor knew that Scooter Libby had nothing to do with Plame, and instead got a weak indictment after a few insignificant statements contradicted each other after hundreds upon hundreds of hours of testimony and depositions. Back to the point however, this debate is about whether or not George W. Bush is a great president. You keep bringing up this underlying premise that President Bush took us to war in order to take away our freedoms. You have to walk me through this because it makes no sense whatsoever. Which freedoms have we lost? None! Is Bush out of office in less than 2-years? Yes! Your theory here doesn't hold any water. There is no reason to take freedom away from the people, unless it was his intention to stay in office…which we all know will not happen. You obviously didn't read my earlier statement regarding the reading of our mail. The government IS NOT reading your mail, unless you are a "suspected terrorist" in which case, I want my government to read your mail and listen to your phone calls. Let me make something very clear about Iraq; I don't care if they ever form a solid government or not. What I care about are my fellow Americans. And as long as there are terrorists in Iraq, Afghanistan, and anywhere else in the world, I want our Special Forces, and brute military force to be over there killing them, until every last one is dead. These terrorists murder innocent men, women, and children just because they don't subscribe to their twisted muslim beliefs. You need to wake and understand that if we were to pack up and leave the middle east, these murders would first grow in number, and second, they would attack us, our allies, and assets. The fact that you take them at their word is incomprehensible. They are liars and murderers. Their words and promises mean nothing. It's clear to me that we're not in Iraq for land expansion as you claim in your previous arguments. We are there to kill the bad guys. It's as simple as that. Regarding the line-item veto, I'm in favor of it as a means to get rid of the pork. It's a constitutional privilege, one that was put in place by constitutional means (the Congress). What amazes me is how you claim to be a constitutionalist, but only for the constitutional provisions you like. According to your rationale, we should never have taken on Hitler either. We should have just allowed Europe to be annihilated along with the Jews. Christians are for peace. There is however a misconception in the world that peace is only obtainable by not firing any bullets. Let me correct this fallacy…peace is ONLY obtainable and sustainable when one side has victory. I would prefer that winning side to be America. Your suggestion that we just be nice to everyone like in the Clinton years is absurd, and you're ignoring the hard learned lessons of history. To our enemies kindness is directly translated as weakness, and that is why we suffered so many terrorist attacks up until 911. I'm sorry you don't like war, I don't know of anyone that does like it. Just because you want to ignore that facts and create your own, doesn't mean we're all going to subscribe to your way of thinking. Just because the 90% liberal press beats their anti-Bush drums, doesn't mean I'm going to ignore history and the facts. You shouldn't ignore them either.