George W. Bush is the PEOPLE'S HERO
> The point you make in a few of your posts is basically, "Look what a
> difference three months makes". Well, take your own advice. Wait
> three months. Wait three years. See where Iraq is then.
> Because Iraq will almost certainly fail. This is not a desire of mine.
> This is simply the likely scenario. Indeed, the idea of a democratic Iraq
> should thrill everyone in the world. Who wouldn't want that? Who would
> prefer Saddam Hussein? But serious questions are unanswered. Will this new
> government be able to implement its policies? Will Iraq be a strong state
> or a loose confederacy? Will the new regime tilt toward theocracy? Will
> the new regime be friendly to the United States, or to Iran? Will the
> United States suffer blowback? Have more terrorists been created by our
> war, or has the U.S. stamped out huge chunks of the enemy?
> Right now the answers to those questions don't look good, either for the
> United States, or for the idea of a free, sovereign, Western-friendly
> Iraq.
> And you're grossly simplifying the left. Michael Moore, ANSWER, and all
> the others are merely the most visible elements of the extreme left. There
> are far more moderate leftists, like myself, who believe that the corrupt
> origins of this war will only plant the seeds for a poison blossom. The
> Bush Administration has lied about this war from the word go-- even if one
> takes a kind view and holds that Bush and the war machine didn't
> deliberately lie, but simply believed what they wanted to believe and
> hence were acting in good faith in a loose sense, lies still pollute this
> war. Not only that, but once begun the war, in almost every phase, has
> been a catastrophe of world-historical proportions. The mismanagement has
> been disgusting, starting with the number of ground troops Rumsfeld sent
> and the appalling lack of security provided to the Iraqi people and their
> infrastructure ("stuff happens").
> That's the issue many people on the left have with Bush's war. And now
> some Republicans are starting to agree. Some Republicans are starting to
> comprehend that Bush isn't even a good Republican President, let alone a
> good President. The compromise of American principles to fight an elective
> war on Bush's part has been steep, and may get worse. The U.S. is not
> safer than it was three years ago. All sense of fiscal responsibility is
> gone from Washington. Propaganda is filling the airwaves both at home and
> abroad-- also known as officially sanctioned lying. A White House leak
> compromised a CIA agent merely for political retribution. The President of
> the United States is obviously condoning torture, despite what he claims.
> Our armed forces have been gutted.
> The Republicans control Washington. The Democrats are in a decisive
> minority and spineless to boot. Bush got everything he wanted and it's all
> gone sour. There's just no one left to blame anymore. Certainly not
> Michael Moore or Cindy Sheehan or any of the circus freaks who make up the
> extreme anti-war party. Bush got his war, and these elections are hardly
> the watershed moments everyone-- even diehard lefties-- wants them to be.
> You do understand, don't you, that the last round of elections, as fun as
> they looked on TV, pushed Iraq away from the United States? That it was a
> victory for a government that would be closer to the Axis of Evil than to
> Uncle Sam? What makes you think this one will have a different outcome?
> The fact is, one no longer needs to be an extremist left-winger to oppose
> this war. One merely needs to be sensible about things, and mindful of a
> smattering of history, to understand that this election does not undo the
> damage Bush has done to this country, and it in no way guarantees the
> success of Iraq as a Westernized democracy that will "turn the
> tide" in the Middle East. The U.S. hit the iceberg a long time ago.
> Now it's just a question of how fast we sink.
> As for Iraq, I hope I'm wrong. I hope all the signs pointing to a failed
> state vanish. Really. Dead Iraqis give me no pleasure, nor does the daily
> reminder that the U.S. is losing the war. But like you said-- wait. Since
> 2001 Bush has spun his fables from on high, but every one of them-- every
> last one of them-- has failed to come true. You might call that a trend.
> The scales will fall from your eyes soon enough-- assuming you have eyes
> to see.
Bollocks mate. Even as an Englishman I agree that George W. Bush did something heroic and brilliant. I wish Blair could be half the man as the American, but then again, I wish England was part of America. Mr. Bush will go down in history as greater than even racist prick Churchill. If not for Mr. Bush, London would be run over with terrorists.
