are you kidding? i'm jumping right to Iraq first. read slowly and understand because alot of you forgot. WE INVADED IRAQ BECAUSE OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION! they were a "unique and immenent threat" ( your pres) not to liberate Iraqi's. the plan was to eliminate Saddam his army and the WMD's 3 to 6 months tops and a cost in the billions not trillions, thats what we were told, remember? Powell and Rummy testified to the U.N. that we had specific knowledge of these WMD's locations contradicting U.N. inspectors findings or lack there of. when we first invaded we immediatley took over the oil fields, not the ancient artifacts of babalyon, not the financial institutions, the oil.
when we couldnt find WMD's we changed the plan to operation Iraqi freedom. selective memory for most of you republicans, i know. we invaded a soveriegn nation on falsehoods or outright lies and then changed the reason we were there to cover our azzes. the truth is Iraq was no threat whatsoever and had no ties to Bin Laden the Taliban or Al Queda and they had no WMD's or an existing WMD program.
a recession is what we have now, a weak economy, rising inflation, a falling dollar, and an unpredicatable market. a surplus is what we had under Clinton, millions of new jobs, a strong dollar and a strong market.
Islam and democracy are like oil and water, it will never happen. why aren't we pushing for a democratic Saudi Arabia? in Saddam's Iraq women could work drive and teach an Christians were free to worship. none is the case in Saudi Arabia. why dont we care about them as much as the Iraqi's? why dont we care about the North Koreans? or freeing the people under Mugabi's rule in Africa?
do you REALLY think Bush was worried about the livelyhood of the Iraqi's when he wasn't even concerned about his own people during Katrina? and i already know your answer stability in the region. but at what cost? 750,000 Iraqi lives, 5,000 american lives, thousands more injured and trillions of dollars. not to mention we already have our strongest ally in the region in Israel, and friends in the Saudi's and U A E.
the Iraqi oil company made of Exxon, B.P. and others was kicked out of Iraq 36 years ago when Saddam took over and declared the oil fields national. 5 years after our occupation they're back. with a no bid contract to manage a portion of the fields now and take over more in the future.
your president compromised our security, our constitution, and our livelyhood to make his oil/military industrial complex friends rich! and used 9/11 as an exuse to do so. he's a criminal!
Originally Posted by
stdreb27
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Why don't you explain to us the difference between a recession and a budget surplus?
I'm still not seeing how Iraq is a fault for bush, to make a country like Iraq into a democracy stable enought to handle their own security within 10 years, especially in as volitile an area as the middle east should by any SANE analysis be a crowning achivement.
Unless you don't like democracy and would prefer some sort of dictatorial government...