Gorbachev: Iraq

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Originally Posted by pgardn

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And how does one determine if they are doing a bad job?

That is the beauty of the constitution. That each person gets to choose their own parameters for the role of a politician.

I'm not for censorship and I understand full well the importance of the press, but I get tired of hearing of the 'experts' opinions on things of which they just have cursory information.

If you and I watch a basketball game and have a disagreement about some segment of the game, I can respect your view even if I dont agree because we saw the same thing though perhaps in a different light. If you and I dont see the game then we probably aren't qualified to make decisions about the game being as we have only media reports to judge our opinions on. So any opinions that you have on the game I take with a grain of salt because I know that you are strictly basing your arguements on previous (old) information and the media's interperation. I have a hard time agreeing or disagreeing because I have no first hand info and I know you dont either, and because the media person reporting about the game may be a blithering idiot, I dont want to take too strong of a stance. That is pretty much how I feel about the war in Iraq. Downthestretch may not like it but unless he is CIA and has some kind of secret info that we dont know about, he knows as little about what is going on over there and the reasons behind it as the rest of us.