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

To: Peter O'Brien who wrote (485358)	11/2/2003 5:35:17 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

the problem with your argument is that you are looking backwards in a vacuum of what the outcome ended up being and assuming all variables remain the same which they most certainly would not have. On the other hand, based on what actually happened, it is clear that a pre-emptive invasion of Germany during the 1930's would have been preferable to what actually happened during WW2. Yes we could have knocked out Hitler, but that is all we could have done. Exactly what happened in Iraq with Hussein. Then the German people would have had to deal with the collapse of their economy with some other leader. After the treaty of Versailles it is not like the anti-Europe or anti-Jew sentiment among the starving working classes in Germany would have embraced the "hearts and minds" of their liberating force. They could have found another fascist leader (given their economic plight you can almost be assured it would be a fascist)- and the murder of their leader might have been misunderstood by other parts of Europe like Russia. Russia then could have viewed the US/UK alliance as their true enemy and we could have wound up at war with Russia, and that battle we may have lost. The point is, who the heck knows what will happen but going in and murdering leaders of sovereign countries based on shaky evidence is not good policy. You need overwhelming evidence and a REAL coalition behind you. The WORLD, not just a few neocons in office, need to believe that what you are doing is right. That is how to win. I don't think the majority of the US thinks Bush's position was right and in the ROW, the US has proably less than 10%.