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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (376644)	3/22/2003 10:55:58 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

OK, American, let's please use common sense. Bush is not attacking Iraq, because he wants military power and control of their oil. That's ridiculous rubbish. Now I'm not naive enough to think that we aren't going to take some advantage of the situation once we're in control over there, but the reality is that the French, Russians, and China have the most investment in Iraq of any country in the world. So these holier-than-thou countries are really the pot calling the kettle black. You want the real reason why Bush is attacking Iraq and why 76% of Americans support it? It's fear. Americans aren't used to being afraid. We just don't know how to deal with it in a constructive manner. We've had peace in our homeland and prosperity for so long, that we started to believe it would last forever. Then when 9/11 shattered that, and we all started to look at any Middle-Easterner askance, we started to learn what fear was like. And we don't like it. So we're doing what we do best. We're meeting the source of our fears head on. Bush said it best: "We didn't ask for this war. They attacked us. But now we're going to bring the war to them." So let's get that straight. This is an American reaction to fear. Our homeland was violated and a whole bunch of Middle-Easterners are going to pay the price. Right or wrong, that's how Americans deal with fear. This isn't about oil. It's about restoring our sense of equilibrium. It's really quite a lesson for the Islamic extremists. They think they have a corner on brutality. But there is no country more war-like and vicious when the chips are down than the U.S. I think they are finding that out now and they may be coming to the stark realization that they bit off more than they can chew.