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Politics : President Barack Obama

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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (142382)3/9/2014 2:25:39 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (3) of 149317
 
>> Fuck Bush's Freedom Agenda. I'm a JQA guy.

The Freedom Agenda was based on the fact that freedom in these nations is essential to securing our country from future attacks. That is why Iraq, which had no material role in 9/11, was part of the solution. GWB believed, correctly, that people who are bound in poverty and dictatorship are going to lash out at those who are free.

I have no problem with [either] Adams; however, The Times They Are A Changin' and they have been for a couple centuries. We didn't go abroad in search of monsters; we were attacked. It was totally appropriate for our government to consider whatever action it felt was necessary to prevent such attacks in the future.

Whether or not you agree with it or whether or not it worked, the Freedom Agenda was a reasonable response to 9/11. That the president who followed Bush was not up to capturing its essence is on Obama and those who elected him, not on Bush.
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