<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <img alt="" src="cid:part1.01040201.09030801@garage-doors.co.nz" height="349" width="514"> He is plainly the better choice. In doing its calculations, the C. Since it is official policy not to deport terrorism suspects, it is unclear what legitimate anti-terror purpose these secret hearings serve. About others there are legitimate concerns. intervention in Iraq was hampered early on by a lack of adequate forces and efforts to contain looting after the ouster of Saddam Hussein. American military deaths have mounted to more than a thousand, a number that underplays the real level of suffering: among the eight thousand wounded are many who have been left seriously maimed. The failed armed intervention in Somalia and the successful ones in the Balkans are other examples. Both were terrorist attacks and the perpetrators of both terrorist attacks should be brought to justice. The United States has become mired in a low-intensity guerrilla war that has taken more lives since the mission was declared to be accomplished than before. However, nobody in Washington expects them to go away on schedule; they were designated as temporary only to make their ultimate results look less scary. Both were terrorist attacks and the perpetrators of both terrorist attacks should be brought to justice. His record since then has been dictated, sometimes literally, by the industries affected. Bush has said more than once that Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas are his favorite justices. There is surely idealistic purpose in envisioning a Middle East finally relieved of its autocracies and dictatorships. Again, he brushed the opportunity aside, choosing to use the political capital handed to him by Osama bin Laden to push through more elements of his unmandated domestic program. Opium production has increased fortyfold. Is it any wonder that the anger felt by many Democrats is even greater than can be explained by the profound differences in outlook between the two candidates and their parties? His leadership, with John McCain, of the bipartisan effort to put to rest the toxic debate over Vietnam-era P. Bush of mismanaging the war in Iraq after a former top aide said the U. The Senate has confirmed two hundred and one of his judicial nominees, more than the per-term averages for Presidents Clinton, Reagan, and Bush senior. His leadership, with John McCain, of the bipartisan effort to put to rest the toxic debate over Vietnam-era P. The toll of Iraqi dead and wounded is of an order of magnitude greater than the American. In a time of primitive partisanship, he has exhibited a fundamentally undogmatic temperament. Because of the way the votes were distributed, however, the outcome in the electoral college turned on the outcome in Florida. Again, he brushed the opportunity aside, choosing to use the political capital handed to him by Osama bin Laden to push through more elements of his unmandated domestic program. The failed armed intervention in Somalia and the successful ones in the Balkans are other examples. But this election is anything but ordinary. </body> </html>