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

To: jim-thompson who wrote (578211)	5/25/2004 1:48:43 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

History is history.

To: jim-thompson who wrote (578211)	5/25/2004 2:24:07 PM
From: microhoogle!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Forget history as dished out by "Liberal" news media. Even if you read the history as reported by "Conservative" outlets over a period of decades, the facts will converge to the same conclusion. Accept the facts for what they are and then debate on the merits.

To: jim-thompson who wrote (578211)	5/25/2004 3:08:29 PM
From: Rock_nj	Respond to of 769670

It's not a political thing, it's just the sad history of the region. She is basically correct in her analysis of the U.S. relationship to the Middle East. It has been a relationship of colonialism and oppression. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. Just look at how we mucked up democracy in Iran in the 1950s to control their oil, then supported Saddam for years through some of his worst attrocities, now we're in Iraq like colonial masters again. We wouldn't give a rats ass about the Middle East if it wasn't for all that damn oil. The ME would be just as irrelevant as Africa or Greenland is to us.