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American government: The erosion of checks and balances during the Bush era

any presidential candidates that can strongly and thoroughly clean up the mess that George Bush and cronies have created especially among Democratic ranks and some Republicans like Ron Paul. We got lame brained Democratic and Republican candidates that have no foreign policy knowledge or solutions to solve this problem. While maybe one in John McCain but he is terrible and is horrible in domestic issues and Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee have shown their true ignorance in foreign policy.

The boneheaded idea of warring against Saddam Hussein and Iraq before our mission in Afghanistan and Bin Laden's Al_Qaida was completed has left an open wound/void that could be irreversible to mend. Pervez Musharraf is living and leading his country on borrowed time. It's all up to his army whether they still want him to lead in the near future.

According to CNN's "Terror Central" documentary, it's no secret that the lower echelon of Musharraf's army is infiltrated and infested by Al-Qaida sympathizers and operatives. Some are even as high ranked as Majors of the army.

Also according to most recent "Terror Central" CNN news documentary most of the Pakistani people and citizens are sympathetic towards Bin Laden and his Al-Qaida and that is why no one has ever put forth the effort to turn in Osama Bin Laden for the 25 Million dollar prize.
One thing for sure that President George Bush has shown America for the past seven years is that the presidency, the executive branch of our government is just too powerful for one lame bird brained man to have such power. After George Bush experience in rebuffing bills passed by congress and laws appropriated by congress, failure to enforce our laws among others congress and the supreme court need to revisit this branch of government and balance the power even more.

Terror 'destroying' Afghanistan, Pakistan: Musharraf
By Marc Carnegie Wed Dec 26, 12:28 PM ET

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and Afghan leader Hamid Karzai on Wednesday pledged better cooperation in fighting terrorism, which Musharraf said was "destroying both our countries."

In a brief news conference after their first meeting in four months, they said their talks had been helpful in finding ways to rein in the Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants who have flourished along their mutual border.

Both men have accused each other in the past of not doing enough to stop Islamic militants, particularly in the rugged tribal border region that has been in the international spotlight since the


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