What do you think motivates Pres. Bush when he defines the war on terror as the defining conflict of 21st cen.

Question

Is he basing this statement on intel reports or politics? or something else?

Answer 1

I would say more of intel reports, but politics is involved. Also, he says that it is the truth, he realizes that since terrorists don't mind being killed, then they will be relentless and will not stop until they are all obliterated, and the idea is destroyed(but you can not destroy an idea). Its a new kind of enemy, and it will define the 21st century and maybe centuries to come, unless something worse comes.

Answer 2

.Do you really want the truth? Its our government..terror is a Business enterprise.
That George Bush had plans to invade Afghanistan on his desk before 9/11 demonstrates only the value of being prepared.

The suggestion that securing a pipeline across Afghanistan figured into the White House’s calculations is as ludicrous as the assertion that oil played a part in determining war in Iraq.

That Afghanistan is once again the world’s principal heroin producer is an unfortunate reality, but to claim the CIA is still actively involved in the narcotics trade is to presume bad faith on the part of the agency.

Mahmood Ahmed, chief of Pakistan’s ISI, must not have authorized an al Qaeda payment of $100,000 to Mohammed Atta days before the attacks, and was not meeting with senior Washington officials over the week of 9/11, because I didn’t read anything about him in the official report.

That Porter Goss met with Ahmed the morning of September 11 in his capacity as Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has no bearing whatsoever upon his recent selection by the White House to head the Central Intelligence Agency.

That Goss's congressional seat encompasses the 9/11 hijackers' Florida base of operation, including their flight schools, is precisely the kind of meaningless factoid a conspiracy theorist would bring up.

It's true that George HW Bush and Dick Cheney spent the evening of September 10 alone in the Oval Office, but what's wrong with old colleagues catching up? And it's true that George HW Bush and Shafig bin Laden, Osama's brother, spent the morning of September 11 together at a board meeting of the Carlyle Group, but the bin Ladens are a big family.

That FEMA arrived in New York on Sept 10 to prepare for a scheduled biowarfare drill, and had a triage centre ready to go that was larger and better equipped than the one that was lost in the collapse of WTC 7, was a lucky twist of fate.

Newsweek’s report that senior Pentagon officials cancelled flights on Sept 10 for the following day on account of security concerns is only newsworthy because of what happened the following morning.

That George Bush's telephone logs for September 11 do not exist should surprise no one, given the confusion of the day.

Answer 3

something else...First i must say i like president Bush and i was praying he won if Gore would have won we would be in deep **** and knee deep in terrorist attacks,he dosent have the balls or the brain to deel with 9/11,but the truth can not be hidden,the bush and binladen famliys have ties sinse the 80's and they've allways done buisness together starting with his father bush senior there buissneses are primarily crude oil related and Chaeny has gotten involed in the buissnesses as well,pres.Bush more then likely could had done something about 9/11 but 9/11 was not his fault that blame falls squarely on the shoulders of usama,at the time of the attackes thier was several binladen famliy members in the USA and while no one could fly due to the attacks Bush autherized privet flights for the binladen famliy to get them out of the country that very day then started a little squermish with afganistan to please the people and then went on to the reason i think he did nothing about9/11,you see unocal(an oil company with ties with bush and chaeny)and other oil companys have been constructing a super tube that crosses the middle east and could not be completed because of one country,can you guess witch country,thats right IRAQ,hents the attack on sadam hussain witch has no ties to alquada and has never attacked american citezens(it's all good though he was a sociolpath that needed to taken care of anyways)and when all is good in iraq guess what project gets finished,your smart the,super oil tube,so you see his motivations are't right,but the end result is primarily money in bushes pocket,dead terrorist(very good),and a little more control of the oil market for americas benifit(also good,even thogh we should looking to other forms of fuel),they had a chance to get usama in the first week of the incurtion of afganistan when they cornered him,they could have easly arrested him but instead watched him slowly ride away on camel with a small group of his bodyguards,you know he wanted to keep good relations with the binladen family so he let him go,it,s not the most honest pres. we've had but thats the price we pay for the freedom he all enjoy...and i still like Bush.

Answer 4

He bases it on the fact that the people the west are fighting would kill each and every person in those countries without a second thought. He bases it on the fact that these terrorists affect nearly every country and will not go away unless we make it. We are all in this war until it is done. Don't think you are? Go up to a terrorist and try to make your peace with them. You will be struck down because they care not for and do not respect peace. They thrive off violence and will not stop because you want to be peaceful. They will kill you simply for what the majority of your country believes.

To coragryph:

One man is not in charge of this country. It is a network of people we elected. Holding Bush responsible for all your problems is like saying we are ruled by a dictator and is not fair. ALL our leaders are responsible for the situation we are in. Bush is just the one who takes all the criticism.

Answer 5

It's a power-grab. By making everyone believe that the "war on terror" is more important than anything else, now and for the next several decades, he can attempt to justify any action, no matter how criminal, by claiming that following the laws is less important.

Answer 6

Evil Agenda!

Answer 7

He is thinking of one thing, the same thing his whole administration is thinking. MONEY. Their selfish behavior will bring this country down for no other reason then their greed.

Answer 8

Hello!
What do you think is more important?
You don't realize people really want to take down the U.S. - and this depends on it?

Answer 9

this war will not decide what's right...but what's left.