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

To: goldworldnet who wrote (529099)	1/25/2004 1:02:53 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 769667

>>> Sure Iraq has oil,<<< You didn't really address my comments relative to the oil issue. Why was it only the Iraqi oil ministry building was protected, but not the buildings where birth, residency and employment records were kept of Iraqi citizens? Aren't the latter important for founding a democracy? >>>but Saddam was also a huge destabilizing force in the region.<<< Then why didn't any of the nations surrounding Iraq share this sentiment. The Arab League, as most of the world (this is an undeniable fact, by the way), opposed this war! Message 19730140 >>>Everybody there was trying to compete with Saddam, but they can't compete with the US.<<< How could Saddam compete with world sanctions imposed upon him? No way, Jose! >>>That's why Gaddafi rolled over.<<< Not true at all. Don't you remember all the uproar when Libya assumed a rotating chairmanship in the UN? Hey, you might even have been one of the ones protesting this back then. Gaddafi had reformed long before the invasion of Iraq! That the Bush Administration, for its own political purposes, didn't recognize this didn't mean it didn't happen. >>>The US is cleaning up some big messes in the world and Americans are proud of it and you can bet our soldiers in uniform are proud of it too.<<< Now, here is where you're most shortsighted. Contrary to what many war proponents think in this regard, the US is actually breeding more terrorists via its militaristic and occupation strategy. Bush is not making the world safer by any means. Hey, the real threats are in North Korea and Pakistan--not Iraq! To a fundemantlist Muslim world--which has an extremely large younger population--repression has been for centuries and the teaching to stand up against this repression has only recently begun. Consider that their sense of time is much longer than a US election cycle. What we've only succeded in doing is making Iraq very much like how the Israeli and Palestinian conflict has been for past decades. Tell me how you think this might impact Jordan. And when these regional younger Arabs grow up they'll not see America as we'd like them to view America; instead, they'll see America as how they've been taught to see America--a hated enemy who always took their oil. Indeed, the Arab monarchies the US has for so long helped to keep power have gotten most, if not all, of the oil rewards--not the Arab people! You really think they'll come to see a bright bulb in Iraq? Very, very doubtful! And, finally, don't you realize that all it takes is one more large and great tragedy to happen in our nation for the words of comfort you've presented to become folly? We should learn a lesson from the drug war: Take out a drug dealer and another takes his or her place; take out a terrorist and another takes his or her place. Only a radical change in world thinking can prevent this--not what Bush is doing.