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The 2008 Nader: Unsafe at any election
George W. Bush didn't cause 4,000 American troops to die, Ralph Nader did
How his ego caused the worse foreign adventure in U.S. history
By Walter Brooks
If Ralph Nader had not decided his ego was more important than America's safety, Al Gore would have been elected President in 2000 and George W. Bush and his neo-con maniacs could not have invaded the Middle East and turned half the world against our country and put our nation in jeopardy for decades to come.
And the bastard wants to do it again.
John McCain at his most militant would never have invaded Iraq. He has said so many times.
Hillary Clinton could not have abetted Bush & his fanatics if Al Gore was President instead.
Barack Obama voted against the illegal war at every chance he had, even when the war was "popular" and he was alone against the mob.
So the next time you hear someone blame Bush for our current national shame, correct them.
Ralph Nader is America's Public Enemy #1, again.
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How you can say it was Nader's fault George Bush invaded Iraq is beyond me.
And for that matter, Al Gore DID win the election! And it wasn't Nader who took it away, it was Katherine Harris, Jeb Bush and the Florida Supreme Court.
Nader is right...this country needs more than two choices to vote for.You got big business one and big business two.
Democrat/Republican...can't we have more choices that that?
Didn't Al Qaeda plan the 9/11 attack well before Bush was President? Around the time perhaps that Bill Clinton was President? So I guess our nation was "under attack" well before Bush. And since the Congress "authorized" war, we haven't had a single domestic terrorist attack in over six years.
If only Gore won his home state, all of that unpleasantness could have been avoided.
As for all the rest of it...if McCain would have attacked anyone he would have attacked Afghanistan where the Taliban and Bin Laden himself were actually massed and based. U.S. failures vis-a-vis the Axis of Evil are nearly institutionalized in our government and blame covers everyone from Bush senior through W. Clinton was no bargain: more troops died under his presidency than under W's. We still don't have enough intelligence types who so much as speak the languages of folks on whom we are trying to spy.
Against all this, what is Nader thinking?
As my mother said of the election debacle in her district in Florida, "Those people wouldn't tolerate this crap if it happened at a BINGO game."
And, let's not forget the Clinton/Gore efforts to disallow every absentee ballot executed by more than 50,000 American service men and women stationed oversees.
As I said....CRIMINAL CONSPIRACIES.
And I agree with Walter -- if he gets his 3% and this election results in a squeaker McCain victory (a big IF), he will have achieved what? The opposite of his objective?
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