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Originally Posted by mary
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I just went and glazed over his web site and read the highlites of his views on the issues listed.
For several points I agree with his view.
The keys that I differ are on the War in Iraq and our troops and bases that are in other countries. First on the War, I believe that there is a plan for our troops to come home from Iraq, however the plan, as it should, is not mandated by time, but rather by milestones.
When the job is complete and Iraq can stand on its own, as it is doing in Faluja (SP?) then we will see the troops come home.
Now in regards to our bases and troops in other parts of the world. Having American soldiers in other parts of the world serves two purposes. One, in the event of military action, we are better prepared to take action if we are already in a strategic location.
Second, it provides some good "PR" in the communities of where we are located. We have great Americans on the ground living in the communities and developing relationships with people on the ground. This helps to balance some of the negative propoganda that goes on around the world.
When people only see what is being told to them, they have noway of balancing that short of visiting America...with Americans in their community they get to know Americans and they get to see how Americans are. You might say that our troops based on other countries are somewhat Ambassadors/Missionaries for America.
There is another item that I believe Bob Barr is twisting...this topic of civil liberties. Saddly our enemies (Terrorists) have used this to attack America. Technology has moved extremely fast and I have no problem with our government having access to electronic communications and other surveilance techniques. I believe we have a clear understanding of what a terrorist is and we are able to discern when an individual or a cell is communicating about terrorist activities. Why would we NOT want our National Defense to have access to this information?
That is unless, some Americans have something to hide?
Other issues are important...but without the greatest National Defense then we risk not having a country at all.
As for the question at hand...I don't believe he will have a major impact. Not like Perot did in that he basically gave the election to Clinton and we saw how that negatively affected America. Because of that, no matter how middle of the road a Republican candidate is, we will not see as many people waste a vote thus allowing the worst of all candidate evils to be elected again.
A vote for Bob is a vote for Obama...thus you will see Bob voters reluctantly voting for McCain in hopes of keeping Obama's liberal ways out of office.