Why I won't vote for Bush this year....

1. He wants to be dictator:

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it." President George W. Bush, July 26, 2001.

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." President-elect George W. Bush, December 18, 2000.

Yep, he said this stuff. I thought he only said it once, but he's said it several times in the past.

2. We went to battle in Iraq because there were ties to Bin Laden and Hussein, and to find weapons. It's clear now neither is true.

I knew this even before we went there. The build-up for all that started during my last two years in the Marine Corps. The Marines I worked with got sick of hearing me. To me it was just sickening. While the threat of going into Iraq hung in the air, everyone was fired up. They didn't care one way or the other what the reason was, they just wanted to go. The air crew, all they talked about was flying over Iraq, all they cared about was the supposed glory that would come with being in the airspace while people on the ground were killing each other. The enlisted, it's hard to understand what they were fired up about, because all they were going to do was fix airplanes just as they do wherever they are. Anyway, I could go on and on about all that...

3. John Kerry had the balls to criticize something he was a part of.

John Kerry was in the military during the Viet Nam shit. He saw the real story and came home opposed to it. To me, that is what this country is all about, being able to see something you think is morally wrong and say something about it. I think it is cowardly not to. If a person can criticize something he believes is wrong, while others around him are berating him because of it, that's what it means to have fortitude, to have moral courage. These people in the military that look forward to combat for the sake of combat are, in my opinion, idiots. Most people of the opinion that we should be in Iraq now don't care about the reason. They don't care there were no ties between Al Qaida and Hussein. They don't care there were NO weapons at all, let alone those of the mass destruction persuasion. They think we should be in Iraq because we can be. The believe that we should be pushing some other country around because our military is mightier. They believe we should be taking over the regime there, because in their minds, we should have done it 10 years ago. Last time we bombed Iraq it was to get them out of that itty bitty country next to them, because that itty bitty country couldn't defend itself and someone needed to defend them and what Hussein did was unprovoked and, therefore, uncalled for. They believe we should have used that as an excuse to take over then, because big bad-ass countries like ours should be kicking ass and taking names.

I had a longer list, but I've forgotten everything else. Suffice it to say that's enough. It's enough to piss me off, all the shit that's been happening with the whole fucking mess. A fourth reason would be that the ongoing campaign in Iraq, and the 'War on Terror' is one and the same. That is what the administration has put all their effort into, fusing the two ideas in the minds of the common man.