Here are all the things that Bush has done to impress the hell out of me:

# He hasn't started World War III yet.
# He manages to mutilate the English language only every other speech.
# He cut taxes on dividends, because I'll be damned if those weren't putting me in the poor house.
# He made our civil liberties less cumbersome by taking away all that long-winded drivel about having the right to report on immigration hearings conducted by the Justice Department, the right to protection against unreasonable search and seizure with McCarthy's, er, Ashcroft's PATRIOT act, and the right to due process for US citizens suspected of being terrorists.
# He withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty. Good I say, global stability was getting to be a pain in the ass.

I don't care how much you campaign, ulic. George Bush is a raving, homophobic, violent, close minded idiot. I don't know Kerry enough to bitch at him yet. Democrat or republican doesn't matter. It's just two ends of the same stick they use to beat the sh!t out of you.

So, yeah. And advice, next time try to come to the argument with something scholarly. I allow opinions, so long as they are educated, which means backing them up with something other than what you heard on the radio and third-hand.

I'll just tell you all to read it yourselves. Then we can talk.

I would not be surprised (and I have heard some illusions to) if the US has found something believed to be WMD, but will not risk calling it WMD themselves. An international organization such as the IAEA would be fit for that. But we'll wait for them.

I'll answer briefly (because I have other work to do).

There was not one good reason to invade Iraq. Not one.

Biological Weapon Agent Production Amounts

BW AGENT (ORGANISM)...................Anthrax (Bascillus anthracis)
DECLARED CONCENTRATED AMOUNT.......8500 liters
DECLARED TOTAL AMOUNT..............85,000 liters
COMMENTS:
UNSCOM estimated production amounts were actually three to four times more than the declared amounts but is unable to confirm.
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BW AGENT (ORGANISM)................Botulinum Toxin (Clostridium botulinum)
DECLARED CONCENTRATED AMOUNT.......19,400 liters (10x and 20x concentrated)
DECLARED TOTAL AMOUNT..............380,000 liters
COMMENTS:
UNSCOM estimated production amounts were actually three to four times more than the declared amounts but is unable to confirm.
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BW-FILLED AND DEPLOYED DELIVERY SYSTEMS
DELIVERY SYSTEM....................Missile warheads-Al Hussein
Anthrax: 5
Botulinum Toxin: 16
Aflatoxin:4

COMMENTS:
UNSCOM could not confirm the unilateral destruction of these 25 warheads because of conflicting accounts provided by Iraq.
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CHEMICAL WEAPON AGENT STOCKPILES
CHEMICAL AGENT.....................VX
Declared by Iraq: 100-150 metric tons
Potential based on unaccounted precursors: 200 metric tons

COMMENTS:
Iraq denied producing VX until Hussein Kamil's defection in 1995.

Al Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center
Tammuz I (Osiraq), Tammuz II (Isis), and IRT-5000 research reactors (Osiraq destroyed by Israel in 1981); subject to IAEA inspection prior to Gulf War.
Site of R&D programs in uranium enrichment, including gas centrifuges, electromagnetic isotope separation, chemical separation, and gaseous diffusion, activities found by IAEA to be in violation of Iraq's safeguard agreement with the IAEA.
Location of "hot cells" used for separation of grams of plutonium, activities found by IAEA to be in violation of Iraq's safeguard agreement with the IAEA. Experimental program for the production of lithium-6, which, if irradiated in a reactor, yields tritium for the use in advanced nuclear weapons. Weapons-related R&D activities in nuclear physics, uranium metallurgy, and triggering system capacitors, activities found to be in violation of Iraq's obligations under Article II of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) prohibiting the "manufacture" of nuclear weapons.
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Al Atheer
Prime development and testing site for nuclear weaponization program, including facilities and equipment for large-scale uranium metallurgy and production of weapons components; computer simulations of nuclear weapons detonations; and experiments for the development of an implosion-type explosive structure in nearby "bunker" at Al-Hateen. Possible testing of explosive structures at Al Hadre. All these activites found to be in violation of Iraq's obligations under Article II of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) prohibiting the "manufacture" of nuclear weapons.
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Rashdiya
Central site of Iraq's centrifuge research and development efforts.

That's just off the cuff as to what Bush has done.

70% of Americans feel that America is more secure…. Additionally, measures taken by the Patriot Act, under the Bush administration, would help to cut back on terrorist attacks.

Here's an instance of how the Patriot Act would have prevented the 201 lives lost in Madrid:

Quote:

So, the Patriot Act (since it was not in effect in August 2001) would have implicated this man in specific crimes, possibly unraveling or even preventing the attacks in Madrid.

So what has Bush done here? He's working to make things more secure, and working to reduce terrorism to negligible means (there is no way to eliminate terrorism, but we are a long way from having "chance" attacks.)

Additionally, as noted earlier (and I may repost it), Kerry's campaign is being lauded in North Korea, and can seemingly have support of Kim Jong Il. Why?

Because Bush is being too hard on them with their nuclear weapons program. Bush has initiated 6-party talks with North Korea, in an effort to dismantle the program. However, North Korea now wants Kerry to win, so that they can keep their nukes.

Kerry, in his dove politics, would not apply the needed pressure, and would end up being manipulated by North Korea into "cutting a deal" with the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Bush has shown resolve in the face of resistance, by showing dictators such as Saddam and a watching world that we mean what we say.

And look at the results: Libya had programs that it abandoned after Bush's display of resolve. Iran is also falling in line. And North Korea was in six-party talks.

So here's my question: What will Kerry do to deserve the position, and how will he do it better than our current President? Will he (gasp) keep us out of any other wars? How will North Korea and their nuclear program react to a guy that won't take the US to war against them? Answer that.

Pakistan posesses the components and materials to assemble a small amount of nuclear weapons in a matter of hours or days and has produced enought weopons-grade plutonium to produce between 30 and 50 nuclear weapons (Albright, 2001. Available: www.isis-online.org)

In all, Pakistan is thought to have produced between 585 and 800 kilograms of highly enriched uranium and may posess enough weapons-grade plutonium for the production of three to five weapons.

Pakistan has nuclear-capable missiles with ranges from 280 kilometers to 2000 kilometers. Pakistan has acquired the bulk of its missile capabilities from China and North Korea.

(My note: It is interesting to point out that the assistance from China undercut the Clinton administration's efforts to restore a measure of non-proliferation influence in its relations with Pakistan. I wonder if Kerry will prove as effective as Clinton was, but that's just me. After all, North Korea is cheerin' for him.)

North Korea's missile arsenal includes the Chinese-built and supplied M-11, the liquid-fuel Hatf short-range series, the Ghauri medium-range missiles, and the solid-fuel Shaheen series. Pakistan reportedly posesses about 30 muclear-capable M-11 surface-to-surface missiles with a range of 280-300 km.

Other missiles have seen testing and some production, including:
Ghauri I---1300 km range, 700 kg warhead
Ghauri II--2000 km range, 850 kg warhead
Shaheen II-2000 km range

Also, they have 4 nuclear weapons reactors and devlopment complexes (Khan Research Labratories, Kahuta [note the name Khan, after the black market nuke guy] ; Ras Koh; Kharan Desert; and Pakistan Ordinance Factory, Wah)