Kerry has conceded

[Maverick]

wow, i swore off this thread, but its like coffee, cant have just one cup...the 'problems have been debated and beat to death, that horse is nothing but bone fragments now....but im a solution oriented dude...and i simply dont see any coming with the current administration..
already Bush has ousted any voice of dissent in administration.. Colins' gone,replaced by a "yes" woman.. Rumsfield on his way out, not to mention a host of others..from my point of view, basically everyone who has challenged Bushs reasoning is being replaced. yet another example of his "im right, period!" policy making... Ofcourse, thats his perogotive, and it wasnt unexpected..
Already hes pushing to open up the Alaskan wilderness for drilling and mining, im not convinced that can be done with out severe environmental consequences, and its pretty scarry...
Already weve seen the largest battle since the war "ended" in Iraq, conducted by better than a 75% majority of US troops..what happened to those 140,000 Iraqi troops he was telling us about? why couldnt we support them and let them take the high casualty rates? And how the heck did we let 'the rebels" concentrate to that strength in one place to begin with??
Already, were seeing the far right wing religious factions making threats if their agenda isnt brought fourth as they were promised...
oh , and if the lame duck governemt session doesnt increase the spending cap this week, further increasing the deficit (or have they already, im not sure), our government will cease to be able to function because were broke...

and i almost forgot, the Brits now have a better than 70% dispproval rate oftheir troops being over there..i dont know how tony is going to be able to continue to help us at this rate, and if they pull out..man..thatll be bad , not just for troop strength, but itll be seen as a victory by the "bad guys" and motivate them..and well be further short handed and have to face an enemy increasing in strength..not good...

i really wish i could see a solution forming , but apparently nothing is broken if you listen to the rhetoric.. ive been carefully scanning the morning paper on a daily basis looking for at least some signs that things will improve now that the election mess is over, but all i see is more problems being added, or current problems deepening..and instead of the country coming together, all i see is the rifts getting wider instead of smaller...i really want to stand behind our president , despite the fact i dont like him, fergadsake, this is America, thats what we do, we come together in a crisis..dont we?? somebody show me something encouraging....