Bush not a liar!

You may not be anti-American, but the truth is that a large and growing segment of the world's population is. And I think the anti-bush and anti-war propoganda is a major factor in that. We should not have installed the shah or many of the other dictators that we did, but we did so to control a greater threat. Money is a major key to understanding world events, but power is also a fundamental key. There was money to be made, but more importantly, there was money to be kept out of Communist hands, money that would have provided greater influence. There was oil to be had, oil that would power either the Soviet machine or the American one. Our policies have been imperialist, selfish, and greedy. There can be no doubt about that. But you can't seperate policies from their historical context. People were generally doing what they thought to be in the best interests of tthe United States at the time. We realize after the fact that these policies were ill-concieved or flat out wrong, but hindsight is 20/20. In fifty years, we will be able to judge the legitimacy of the Iraq conflict and the ultimate results of the War on Terror. But we have to fight it today.

I can answer that, he is a rich one...

Contrary to your belief, money doesn't buy everything. The presidency of this nation isn't some under the table kind of scam, my dad is bigger than your dad situation. Save your conspiracies for big foot and the loch ness monster, buffalo.

Many of the countries that opposed the actions against Iraq were making money from the oil for food program, including some high ranking employees of the UN. Remember France, Russia and Germany all make Billions on the Oil for Food plan and they had paid Sadam money for future oil certificates that could be sold on the world market. With Sadam out the certificates were worthless. Check out history. After WWI the French and British redrew the boarder of the middle east and created new countries so that you could not have another Ottaman Empire. One of the groups they feared were the Kirdish people and they were divided between several countries including Iraq and Turkey. One of Turkeys fears was that the Kurdish people would unite and become a new country threatning part of Turkeish terrority. The Kurdish people are minority populations in several different countries but share some common border. Don't forget that the Spanish, Poragees, Austrailians, Japan, and South Koreans also had troops on the ground in Iraq. The only countries that have the capablity to dispach a large force to any reagion in the world are the US and Britian. Russia and China have large military forces but not the means to move them quickly ot other countries. France does not have an Army large enought to send any force overseas. Look over the past few years and who has been the peace keepers in the world for the UN. When large amounts of troops are needed it is the US and Britian troops being sent with different countries sending a couple of dozen troop by comercial planes or US military planes to the trouble spots. In Somilia when the Blackhawk Helecopter went down and the US needed support from the UN to rescue the troops, who were on a UN requested mission, the Packansan commander could not risk his countries vehicles to go get the troops with out tank support. The UN did not want to offend anyone with a show of froce. American troops could die but the UN would not offend the enemy. The often over looked part of the whole incident was that the US troops were successful in capturing the person the UN wanted and later the UN released him for the promis of returing to the negotiation table.

Americans are dumb. Well, not so much, but Americans like to think that they are really really busy and don't have time to do their own in depth research. So they believe what the news tells them. They take it with a grain of salt, but they generally don't take time to find out more than what the CNN crawl says about the world. The fact that several other nations opposed the war is not suprising. At the outset, we thought it would be a much longer and bloodier conflict than it turned out to be. Turkey probably had better info than we did, being in the region, but also had good reasons to stay on the sidelines of what could easily have become a regional war, spilling over international borders. The UN likewise was averse to the war for political reasons, as well as economic ones. The UN had passed resolution after resolution threatening Iraq with use of force if Sadam refused to comply. When the US couldn't get the world to stand firm on this situation, we went with the coallition we had and did the job. It's very funny that under Clinton the UN expected the US to be the military arm of the UN - to be the world's police. But under Bush, the UN expects the US to drag out negotiations interminably to the detriment of US interests. The UN's agenda is world governance and the dissolution of national sovereignty, and Clinton was willing to play into that agenda while Bush's wars are firmly grounded in US national sovereinty and US national interests. That is why the "world" is so upset about this war.

I think that it's funny that your anti-American if you speak up against things that are wrong. I am a Canadian that begged my parents to let me live with my cousin and her family so I could get my American citizenship so I could join the USAF. I love America and what it stands for, I love the American military. I have 4 family members in the USAF. I am not anti-American I am not anti-war (if the war is for a good reason) I am, like you opposed to the way the war began, and the lies the Bush administration told to get their way.

How is it that I knew the President was lying, and others knew the President and his administration were lying and nobody listened to hear us tell you that the President and 'HIS' administration was lying. So we are there now just deal with it? Excuse me? I'll tell you how we deal with it we get out of there ASAP! We prosecute those that brought us this quagmire, especially 'Dichard' Cheeney and his fabricated information. President Bush should resign, and the peace keepers should be allowed to do their jobs. Peace is created by creating a peaceful environment. How many millions are we going to kill? We can fight a war to create the peace by killing a nation of people, are you willing to be part of this holocaust? Can we serve up some genocide for the spreading of our government? The plan sounds all too familiar. Who wants to be party to War crimes?

Regime change was always a part of the goal for intervention.... Duh... Saddam had ties to terrorism: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/550kmbzd.asp http://www.cfr.org/publication/9513/ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,84291,00.html http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/02/05/sprj.irq.alqaeda.links/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,779359,00.html http://www.floppingaces.net/2007/02/11/no-evidence-of-a-saddam-osama/ And here's a few facts about the "missing" WMDs: http://www.nysun.com/article/26514 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/13/AR2005081300530.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200499,00.html http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/31/1080544556813.html?from=storyrhs http://www.casi.org.uk/info/scriraq.html http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2003/18513.htm http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:hAm0Dj5426sJ:www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/new/documents/quarterly_reports/s-2004-435.pdf+unmovic+report+netherlands&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/3/13/101911.shtml http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwDJRBOsj78 http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/01/21/bush.blair/index.html http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LarryElder/2006/05/25/who_thought_iraq_had_wmd_most_everybody

MrNiceGuy, I wish you had posted this as a repsonse instead of a coment. It is the best response and should have been designated as such. Thank you for your work reseaching this and bringing these things to light.

well , idon t dislike him as a person , but i don t like him as a president, and i think he should go to trial for crime wars along with others when he s out of the office

Comparing Bush to Hitler is so far off the mark of what has really happened. Bush is nothing like the sick evil that Hitler was. A lier, a manipulator, to trigger happy Bush is all that but evil no. He may very well believe that what he did was fro the best of his nation but his lies have caught up to him and ruined good peoples lives.