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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (27138)	5/19/2004 12:44:51 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

<<Most political movements in this country affect the edges of people's lives. The neocons movement has every indication of wanting fundamental change in America and even in the world. It can't be ignored because it won't leave us alone. Therefore it has to be understood.>> So why not call them profoundly wrong instead of evil? Using American might to promote American values used to be a liberal idea mocked by conservatives. It's funny how times change. But i think we confuse the reasons for invading Iraq with the reasons used to sell invading Iraq. Wolfowitz pretty much said it himself: WMD was a sales point, the main reason was to get our troops out of Saudi Arabia. According to Woodward's book on the first Gulf War, the first Bush administration concluded they could remove Saddam from Kuwait with or without war. But they chose war as the only way to legitimatize a large permanent military presence in the region. 10 years go by and that presence is one of the reasons for the rise of Al Qaeda, our presence in Saudi Arabia threatens their government whom we consider our friends. So our troops can't stay in friendly countries (they destabilize them) and we're not welcome in un-friendly countries but we're convinced we need a presence in the region. What to do? Knock over one of the un-friendly countries: Iraq. But of course you can't really sell geopolitics as a reason for preemptive war to the American people. So we see what we've seen. The problem, of course, is the Iraqis don't want us there and the whole thing is becoming a debacle. Steve Dietrich