Did they get him already?

[*KK*]

Originally posted by Mike AI@Mar 20 2003, 06:52 AM
KK what do you know? I am surprised you are not parotting the people who are saying this war is because of powerful Jewish interests. That the Bush team is leading the US to war for Israel.....

Well, let's see what I know Michael...

I know that junior Bush has managed to squander an entire worlds goodwill and support in around a year and a half, with his underthought, heavy handed ways... totally unneccesary.

I know that junior Bush doesn't even have his own country solidly behind him and as to paraphrase Robin Cook, had the hanging chad fallen the other way things would have been very different... that election was the start of the dissatisfaction.

I know that after decades of getting pretty much our way with the UN -- and proclaiming it to be a wonderful organization -- juniors done a 'take
my ball and go home' number on them, which is hypocrisy at its' finest... doesn't look too good from an objective standpoint.

I know that junior has the public personality of a wet cardboard box, something that's not going to win him support for his cause, at home or abroad... remember Churchill's speeches during WW2, he rallied a world, not just a nation with them.

I know that in years past when the US government (and others, we are by no means alone in this folly of thinking) has 'liberated' other countries from their tyrants and replaced them with new regimes the end result has been as bad if not worse than the original situation... central and south America and African countries come to mind.

I know that the US is just as much to blame for Saddam's power as anyone else, remember the Iran/Iraq war or how many times we've managed to screw the Iraqi Kurd population... 3 I believe I read on the news the other day, and these people stand between Turkey and Baghdad, potentially causing major problems if they stand to their word of fighting the Turks were they to cross the border for any reason.

If you try to put words in peoples mouths, they often come back out in a way you didn't want to hear.

I don't think anyone here is saying that Saddam is an angel, or that he doesn't create issues. However, politics and war are not arranged around one man's agenda or ego -- EXCEPT in a dictatorship.

It's a really sad day when people have to say that there better be some chemical or biological weapons used to kill people -- OUR people especially -- in order to justify what we've done.

And it's even more sad when you realize that if there aren't, then junior has manufactured a world situation that we will be reaping what we've sown for years to come and it won't be a pretty situation. The dollar is falling, countries that we've been on good terms with for years are denouncing us and can as a whole hurt us economically now and later, it's just a bad thing all the way around.

That doesn't mean that people who disagree with the war don't support the fact that the troops are doing their duty -- this isn't Vietnam and I fervently hope it doesn't turn into that type of situation, it would put more strain on an already stressed country.

At the end of the day the choice seems simple, lose our troops to prove a point or be a world laughingstock over the fact that our 'leader' furthered his own agenda in a major way at his country's expense.

junior is no politician, he's not the man his father was and no matter what else, to say he has no eye on his re-election is like burying your head in the sand as the camels go by.