When did this become a discussion about the election system?

I've said before I think the electoral college is bullshit. The fact is, in the last election, the only two people who had a chance of winning were Bush and Kerry, whether I like that or not, one of those two was going to be the winner. Is that my fault?

If one of two people is going to win, why vote for a 3rd who has no chance? You'd be better off not voting at all.

As for this "fiasco" not occuring if Bush were never president, what do you think Kerry would have done differently? He's said on two different occasions that he'd both support sending more troops and that he was against the war or some bullshit. Kerry has probably never said what he actually feels, he says what he thinks people want him to say. That doesn't mean he would act in that way.

In the beginning, Bush made the right choice. He couldn't sit idly by while our country was being threatened by terrorism. Anyone would have had a hard time dealing with that right after being elected president. The problem is how he has dealt with things since. The war on terrorism has gone on far too long, too many lives have been lost.

Tell me Grav, if there is no war, why do we lose soldiers every day? Why does the death toll keep rising? There is a war.

We're not just occupying Iraq just to say "haha you losers we own you." We couldn't just go in and destroy their government and then leave them hanging. If we had left right away, things would have gone back just how they were.