Bush Versus Kerry: The 2004 Presidential Election
Perspectives on terrorism will determine our next presidential election. As the November 2nd presidential election draws near the American public has been bombarded with speeches filled with accounts of terrorism domestic and foreign made by President Bush and Presidential hopeful John Kerry. The American people want a president who will end the war with Iraq. America does not want a president who will put us deeper into war by causing more problems with other countries. There was another candidate running for office, but no one really speaks out about Ralph Nadar. He supposedly backed down from the election and took his name off the ballot, he himself did want war so he was no better than Bush, in terms of terrorism.
The September 11th attacks made a huge impact on America and how the people view the upcoming elections. Bush has been said to have had previous knowledge of the attacks before they occurred but no one seems to be sure. America would be a much better country if Bush never went into office. George Bush seems to want to take the same steps his dad George Bush Senior did, and start a war. War is unnecessary, in this day and age. The amount of kids that are fighting for our country and dying for what they believe is ridiculous. Bush did state that "justice will be done" in his speech right after the attacks. His views of the war are to just stay in war until we win. John Kerry does not seem to have a solid view point on the attacks he likes to contradict himself by changing his mind. In one speech Kerry is all for war and in the next speech he wants to end the war.
Recently in a press conference John Kerry stated that "I believe that we deserve a president who isn't going to gild the truth or gild our national security with politics, who is not going to ignore his own intelligence, who isn't going to live in a different world of spin, who will give the American people the truth, not a fantasy world of spin, but a world where we...
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