As a Permanent Resident of 13 years, I could not have felt any prouder of my choice to live and love this nation. Yesterday, I COULD NOT vote and it did dampen my spirits a little but I also understood why its important to participate as a citizen. This may be the only nation that does not have rebels running the streets in open warfare after such a close election. Regardless of what side we are on, all of you citizens (especially those that voted) have made me proud and I say THANK YOU (Yes even you, GOPer )

Its no secret I supported Kerry for Prez; not because I think Jr is an "evil man and I Hate him" (that really bothered me from some on the left) but because I think Jr is being coerced by a group of advisors that frankly are IMCOMPETENT and IDEALOGICAL to the extreme. I believe President Bush is a good decent man, who loves this country as much as the next person, who made mistakes early in life but certainly acknowledged them and changed.

But I do not think he is a competent leader because he does NOT lead but rather allows himself to be LED (My humble opinion) and my vote (IF I COULD CAST ONE)would be based solely on the mismanagement of Iraq and the reluctance to go back to the drawing board, concede the mistakes and change course. Who knows? He very well may do that now but it depends on who will be in his new cabinet.

I am not saying JFK has all the answers; he doesn't!! In fact the only difference in his plan for Iraq is that he "HOPES" to get more allies on board. That is it!! And maybe a new face may just convince the likes of France, Germany and Russia that this fight against TERRORISM is not an American fight but a Global fight (I hope they join us now, in spite of the "insults" from this admin coz we are all in this together) Change is good sometimes, and in my opinion this would have been a good time to do it. But it seems like most Americans would rather have JR finish this and the WILL OF THE PEOPLE IS THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE and we must all now come together and see this through.

For all my fellow Kerry supporters, lets not despair. And one thing I hoe we do NOT do, is wish IRAQ takes a turn for the worse. You know what that means? It means more of our soldiers will die, Iraq becomes more unstable and OBL's crew will be more emboldened, threating all of us. To wish failure on this adminstration now means to wish our troops harm and to me, that is UN-AMERICAN. I know we are all smarting from the pain and anguish (Sinanju..wipe the smirk from your face....and be gentle but now is the time to pray and hope Jr does right by everyone.

By 2006, I will be a citizen and I will be able to vote in the Mid-term elections. It will be my proudest moment (second only to when I am sworn in as a citizen) and I am looking forward, earnestly to it.

As for this forum, I hope we can all continue to banter back and forth coz I have encountered some of the most intelligent and savvy people here and to think all of you are "perfect" strangers makes it even more sweet.

JP5, CATZ, REBELLION,SIN, SENAX, HANS and co...please..please try not to gloat too much and rub our noses in it!! (It kinda hurts)