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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: stockman_scott who wrote (443109)	8/14/2003 7:00:50 PM
From: Rob S.	Read Replies (1) of 769667

There are several major problems with Bush's Iraq, Afghan, and all parts beyond so called war on terrorism. 1) It doesn't target the terrorists and creates a climate of resentment for the U.S. that breeds a future generation of terrorists. 2) It is very costly and has little economic pay back. Bush's statements prior to the war led citizens to believe that Iraq would quickly become independent - that oil revenues would pay for rebuilding of the mess. Iraq is costing the U.S. $4 billion per month and growing. They need about $30 billion investment in infrastructure just to get the power system and oil infrastructure reliably operating. 3) Winning the war for the U.S. has to result in a stable economic and political system for Iraq. Winning for the Bathists, other followers of Saddam's regime, Islamic fundamentalists, terrorists and anyone else in the region opposed to America only has to be keeping the country in the current state of turmoil. If the mighty U.S. can be shown to be incapable of proving peace and prosperity for Iraq it will be viewed as a sign of weakness and failure by much of the world. Attention deficit citizens of the U.S. may soon wish to pull out of or ignore Iraq and keep the status quo but that would be a major defeat of the World's largest debtor nation. 4) The U.S. policy in Afghanistan is also in trouble: the government has been unable to spread it's power beyond the confines of Kabul. Heroin poppy production has exploded. under the Taleban poppy production was ruthlessly suppressed. With a relatively weak government in place, the country side is once again in the control of the war lords who benefit from the Afghan's number one cash crop and international export. The freeing of Afghanistan got rid of a terrorist training ground but unleashed a flood of heroin upon the world: Bush's form of capitalism at work. 5) The Bush administration is fond of looking back at the Reagan administration as their model: a build up of military power that helped push back the iron curtain and open up world-wide markets under Reagan has no such prospects for deficit paying benefits under the current set of circumstances. There are no huge markets that will open up as a result of the huge war and tax reduction deficits similar to what occurred with the break up of the Soviet Union and opening up of markets in China and free trade elsewhere. Many called Reagan's military spending and tax reductions "Voodoo economics" at the time but at least there was some expectation that opening up huge populations to the free enterprise system would result in a major domestic benefit. There is no similar benefit to be derived from the headlong buildup in the war machine under Bush. "Build it and they will come" has been replaced with "Blow it up and they will rot". 6) Bush lied to the public. Either he thought his plan for war in Iraq was too righteous to be dismissed by the truth or he was too stupid to know better. Anyone with access to the facts should have seen the outcome we are now facing. The path to war and national downfall is being paved with the honorable intentions of religious zealots.

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