Throughout Consevative vs. Liberals and Other Truths, Average American defends Bush's actions and lies then labels the defense "Conservative". Sure looks like June's right, this is no political philosophy, Average, it's the ravings of a Bush supporter.

Here's my response to Average American.

RE: Point 1. President Bush is your only reference here and you say you're not a disciple who blindly follows? What about the CIA Gulag? What about the inhumane interrogation techniques at Gitmo? What about the qualifier that Bush placed beside his signature on McCain's Anti-KoolAidInsulatesTorture legislation? What about Gonzales' definition of acceptable interrogation techniques? On that one, do you support the troops by advocating that our enemies should be enabled to employ interrogation techniques that stop just short of organ failure?

RE: 1A. Once again you dogmatically adhere to the Bush talking points. Do both of you expect the public to believe the military is so undisciplined that superior officers don't know what their subordinates are doing when they're on duty? It's expected that you and Bush, not having served, would have only an abstract understanding of what goes on in the military - well, plus ideas you've picked up from watching Hogan's Heroes reruns.

The events at Abu Ghraib could not have escaped the eye of multiple Watch Officers, the O-I-C of the prison or her superiors. That there is no documentation of the abuses shows a conscious CYA up the chain of command and no one can tell how high it went. Are you aware that CIA interrogators were running the show at all the prisons in Iraq. Jeez, man!

RE 2. UN inspectors on the ground in the weeks and days before the invasion could find NO WMDs. Our troops found no WMDs after the invasion. First, Bush blamed Chalabi, then Joe Wilson and his wife, then faulty intelligence but he retracted those 16 little words in his 2002 State of the Union Speech, didn't he? And he's never addressed the Downing Street Memos, has he? Have you?  Why hasn't Bush publicly refuted the DSM or permitted a Congress hearing if there's nothing to hide?  Is that called "Conservative Accountability"?  I think not, it gives Conservatives a bad rap.  It's "Bush Accountability", for sure.  See, there's the difference in Conservative and Pro-Bush, no?   

Are you telling me the President is only human and makes mistakes like we mere mortals who rely on him for our security? Some one needs to tell this purportedly "reformed" drunk that he's not only responsible for our security but he's responsible for the quality of the intelligence produced by the greatest intelligence-gathering apparatus the world has ever known and, in fact, he's responsible for the apparatus, too! Where I come from, the buck ends at Bush's desk!

Bush's mistakes have cost lives. You've said Cindy Sheehan's grief doesn't mean a thing to you. Bush ignores her grief, too. May the President's mistakes never touch your family.
I, for one, want that incompetent, heartless dude out of the White House and held accountable!

Point 3. The provisions of the FISA do not permit any of the actions you describe. Either you're stupid or you haven't read it despite your claim. The law is absolutely clear - wiretapping, "ease dropping" [sic], listening in on, private, domestic conservations of U.S. citizens is illegal unless a warrant is obtained from the FISA Court.

Point 4. FEMA was criminally negligent in not assisting in the evacuation of those in the path of Hurricane Katrina. When the breaching of the levees started, repeated phone calls from FEMA personnel at the scene to FEMA headquarters, to Homeland Security in Washington and subsequently to the White House did little more than leave a paper trail which refutes Bush's comment that he'd only heard "that New Orleans had dodged the bullet". Label that documentation as "smoking gun" evidence of negligence and incompetence.

After examining the paper trail, Rep. Henry Waxman complained: "The incompetence is mind boggling and their refusal to accept responsibility for it is shameful. It's inexcusable that Bush, Cheney, Card and Townsend would not interrupt their vacations to prepare for the hurricane and that the lieutenant the left in charge, Ken Rapuano, would leave his post at 10 p.m. the day Katrina struck."

The White House called Waxman's remarks "a Democratic finger-pointing Blame Game".

When a Senate inquiry was launched, seeking an explanation of the documentation and justification for the Administration's inaction, Bush instructed all White House staff to refuse to appear and in no way cooperate with the inquiry. Somewhere, you've argued that such cooperation would jeopardize classified information. Bull-puckey, Average American!  It's called a cover-up by most newspaper readers.

In the balance of this article, you merely term as "Conservative" those ideas you support and those you don't support are branded "Liberal". That validates June's point and I'll underscore Jeano's remark - QED!

And TRUTH? I doubt that you'd recognize truth if it had antlers and froze in your headlights. You've certainly run it down in your article, Average American. Maybe that's why you drive an SUV, eh?