Posted by
Sanity 102 on Friday, April 03, 2009 3:22:56 AM
Bush's greatest mistake was taking us into the Iraq war.
I find it utterly amazing how many people have forgotten that Sadam had made it perfectly clear that he intended to destroy America. And he didn't need WMD...he was the biggest supporter of terrorism, funding not just Al-qaeda groups but regimes in Syria and Libya; nations that upon seeing Sadam's teeth being examined decided they didn't want to mess with GWB and America. Don't people realize how much money and lives were saved by these nations volunteering to end their nuclear ambitions?
Then there was the Bill of Rights of Iraq and Afghanistan...the end of the rape rooms of Sadam's boys...the incredible courage of purple fingers...
THESE were mistakes?
Millions of innocent civilians died.
Did you expect us to fight and win a war where no one died?
Innocent people were captured and taken to prison where their rights were violated and they were tortured.
And many of those prisoners were released, to go home to become a high level officer in a terrorist cell...that killed civilians and captured and BEHEADED innocents.
We have to be better than the terrorist; otherwise what makes us different from them?
It is the height of arrogance to hold non-Americans to a LOWER standard than the one we set for ourselves. Why do we have to be extra-ordinarily good to the point of stupidity? Why can't we expect them to be as civilized as the rest of us--and punish them as we would one of ours that murder and terrorize?
Americans have nukes, why shouldn't other countries?
Just because the sane has weapons, doesn't mean the insane should have them.
GWB acted like he was the god of this world, he didn't even try to reach out and communicate with the terrorists.
GWB acted like the leader of the world's sole super power. The rest of the world thought he was god, blaming him for hurricanes, tidal waves, earthquakes, global warming.