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

To: Srexley who wrote (714044)	11/18/2005 5:25:04 PM
From: trouthead	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Yes two out of three ain't bad. You call the first one a noble cause and I call it misguided policy. It's not that I don't think a democratic free Iraq isn't better than a dictatorship. It's the way it's being done. It is and was sloppy from beginning to end which is making it more difficult to accomplish it's noble goal. I have little faith that GW will pull it off. I think the insurgency is growing and spreading. I think the swatting a bees nest is an apt analogy. And we went in without knowing what we were getting into nor being properly prepared. Our reasons for going in have changed as we discovered the current reason was no longer valid. Iraq was an imminent threat with WMD and an uncooperative dictator pursuing nuclear weapons that he planned to give to terrorists that dined in Saddam's palace. Only the slightest of evidence for any of that has turned out to be true. Yes he was in violation of UN sanctions. Was that reason enough to rush to war without international support? We could have continued to work with the international community until it was blatantly apparent that the world needed to step in. One of the things that Clinton screwed up on was not keeping the heat on Saddam. Saddam doesn't want inspectors in his country. Screw him! If we had done that what a different world we would live in today. Saddam and his ilk should never be tolerated. In the past we have actually supported such people because we thought it was prudent and in our best interest at the time. Now we are paying for such lapses in judgement. jb