Bush makes World a Safer Place for Decent Folks

[BarkleUSA]

World is a safer place despite people's fears (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/19/wsafe19.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/10/19/ixportal.html)

By Francis Harris in Washington
(Filed: 19/10/2005)

Widespread fears about a world in a perpetual state of war are unfounded, a study says today. It emphasises that the number of conflicts between nations, civil wars, battle deaths, coups and genocides has been falling steeply for more than a decade.

hmm… so why would there be widespread fears? Hint: MSM

The authors say there are 40 per cent fewer armed conflicts than in the early 1990s. Between 1991 and last year 28 wars for self-determination began but 43 were ended or contained.
In 1992, when the Yugoslav wars of secession began, there were 51 state-based conflicts around the world. The figure dropped to 32 in 2002 and 29 in 2003. The arms trade declined by a third from 1990 to 2003 and the number of refugees fell by 45 per cent between 1992 and 2003.
In 1950 each conflict killed 38,000 people on average. By 2002 that had dropped to 600.

This is great news for the world (and bad news for the Democrats)

[Melz]

The widespread fears do seem to be voiced, although I don't believe they are fears of every day people. Those unlike us here and unlike liberals on the DUh are not even listening to most of it. That may be a good thing or a bad thing. It is a good thing because the liberals are only scaring the bejesus out of themselves, but the bad thing is that so many Americans pay little attention to what is happening around them that they only form opinions right before elections.

I don't know anyone so far who has been swayed from one side to the other since the 2004 election (before that I knew many who voted for Bush who were otherwise liberal, but of course, I knew of this happening only in voting year, not the years preceeding).

It seems that everyone who has formed an opinion about the Iraq presence and of the President and his administration is not changing opinion based on what the MSM says. They may be outraged for a day, to have something to gossip about and such.

Most of us seemed to have formed our opinion. And as much as the MSM is filled with corrupt liars and sadistic story-mongers, I seriously think they are not having an impact in the political party facet, not as much as they should with how hard they are trying anyway.