President Bush, for all of his other faults, had the guts to take the battle to the enemy
Except he picked the wrong enemy! Nary an Iraqi in those airplanes on 9/11. Bush indeed started the mess in Iraq. All illegally, by the way, if you think the Constitution matters.
I had to laugh when you said Bush had guts. It doesn't take any guts to send
other people to die for their country. Or for big oil, as the case may be. All it takes is a big fat head, an inflated ego.
All this "War on Terrorism" is just the latest bogeyman to get people behind the President. Islamic terror doesn't amount to a hill of beans, compared to the Cold War. We are doing exactly the wrong thing over there even if it was an actual threat; Al Qaeda has gone from zero in Iraq to a strong presence, all because of Bush.
The result? We have not had a strike against our homeland for seven years (no one would have predicted that 09/12/01)
Probably the same result, had we not attacked Iraq. Iraq was not the problem; Al Qaeda was (with the Taliban in a supporting role). Or stepping back a bit, our own foreign policy was the problem. "Blowback", remember?
50 million people have been freed from brutal regimes.
Yeah, they are so thankful that even our own creature, Maliki, wants us out of Iraq as soon as possible.
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Anyway it will last about 5 minutes after we leave; then it will be back to business as usual, with a strongman on top. Of course we have our own brutal regime to worry about, one that has embraced torture. America has more people in jail per capita than any other in the world.
I can't understand this thirsting for war against Iran. Do we really want the whole region in turmoil? Do we really want our economy crippled with wars we can't afford? Do we really want $8/gallon gas? Leave Iran alone, let the IEAE do its job, stop trying to bully everyone. No one looks up to us any more; they used to, back in the days when we weren't sticking our nose in everyone's business. Face it, we have a rotten, lawless government. Try not to identify with it too much. It ain't America, it's just a bunch of lowlifes.