I've never understood how Bush gets away with saying this, it's an illogical and thoroughly unpleasant claim, for two reasons:
1. If there were 5000 people in the world willing to kill themselves in suicide attacks against the west before the Iraq invasion, there are now 10 times as many people willing to do this (because of all the hatred against the west created by this war). You reap what you sow, why can't Bush and Blair see this.
2. This claim also implies that it's morally ok to make another country into a battlefield. It looks like more innocent people have died in Iraq since the invasion, than during Saddams rule.
I agree that Saddam was a very bad man, and can even entertain the notion that Bush and Blair went into this with the best intentions of bringing democracy to Iraq. What I can't understand is Bush's statement about fighting them over there, doesn't he see that this just creates more enemies of the US an Britain?
2006-11-06
22:25:12
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