Re: “Obsession: What the War on Terror is Really About” (VIDEO)

Thoreau Dogood — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:59:24 -0000

M"any have the opinon that Bush’s policies are creating more terrorists and not effectively combating them." The problem I have with this statement and the "Bush's shoot first and ask questions later policy" is that they are spins on the truth. Bush does not shoot first...he sat and looked at years of U.N. resolutions against Saddam that had all failed. He looked and saw and oil for food program that was empowering Saddam. He looked and saw that the U.N. was doing exactly what the League of Nations did...all talk and nothing to back it up. He looked and saw Saddam Hussein firing hundreds of missiles at U.S. airplanes in U.N. mandated "no fly" zones. He saw the French, German, and Russian governments making deals with the Saddam for cheap oil in exchange for ending the economic sanctions. He saw Saddam murdering a million Iraqis. He saw that Saddam had invaded his neighbors not once, but twice. He saw that the U.N. was doing the same thing as the League of Nations was doing to stop German, Italian, and Japanese invasions pre-WWII. So he got the U.N. to agree unanimously that if Saddam made one more mistake he must suffer the consequences. He did and the U.N. did nothing so Bush did.
The real issue I have is that Democratic policies during Clinton's presidency have led us to this point of Jihadist strength. The fact that they were allowed to attack the World Trade Center, the African embassies, and the Cole without any real retribution strengthened their support because they celebrated them as victories. People joined up when the Jihadists had success. The Clinton administration was weak in his response and so that emboldened the Jihadist to think they could win. Then Bush gets into office and 9/11 happens and everyone blames this president of 8 months. The problem I have is that bigbingtheory wants to blame Bush for current problems when alot of the problems come from the implementation of bigbingtheory's solutions. If Clinton HAD done the things Bush is doing now or something with a little more military oomph...like in the Balkans...Al Gore would have probably won the presidency and 9/11 might not have happened. Remember that Osama started planning 9/11 two years before it took place so he felt he needed to attack America based on U.S. policies that existed during the Clinton presidency.

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