Preemptive war is one of many reasons G.W.Bush claims worth the cost...?

Question

What if the entire world felt preemptive war was the answer? Do first what some else COULD do to you? Is this going to be our reputation?

Answer 1

Memorable Quotes by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld


"I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started."

"We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead."

"We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat." –on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction

"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."

"Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things." –on looting in Iraq after the U.S. invasion, adding "stuff happens"

"As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time."

"[Osama Bin Laden is] either alive and well or alive and not too well or not alive."

"I am not going to give you a number for it because it's not my business to do intelligent work." -asked to estimate the number of Iraqi insurgents while testifying before Congress

"I believe what I said yesterday.




Funny George Bush Quotes



I don't know what I said, but I know what I think, and, well, I assume it's what I said."

"Needless to say, the President is correct. Whatever it was he said."

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."

"If I said yes, that would then suggest that that might be the only place where it might be done which would not be accurate, necessarily accurate. It might also not be inaccurate, but I'm disinclined to mislead anyone."

"There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying the same thing in a different way. Simply because you do not have evidence that something does exist does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist." -on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction

"It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months." -in Feb. 2003

"Well, um, you know, something's neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so, I suppose, as Shakespeare said."

"Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning."

"Learn to say 'I don't know.' If used when appropriate, it will be often."

"I don't know what the facts are but somebody's certainly going to sit down with him and find out what he knows that they may not know, and make sure he knows what they know that he may not know."

"I'm not into this detail stuff. I'm more concepty."

"I don't do quagmires."

"I don't do diplomacy."

"I don't do foreign policy."

"I don't do predictions."

"I don't do numbers."

"I don't do book reviews."

"Now, settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm gathering my thoughts here."

"If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't, I'll just respond, cleverly."

"Oh, Lord. I didn't mean to say anything quotable."

Answer 2

The world did think the war was necessary. The UN passed resolutions that they themselves would not enforce, Britain and other countries saw the threat and even the failed Clinton administration admitted to the need for "action"




"In the next century, the community of nations may see more and more the very kind of threat Iraq poses now -- a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction ready to use them or provide them to terrorists, drug traffickers or organized criminals who travel the world among us unnoticed.

If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow by the knowledge that they can act with impunity, even in the face of a clear message from the United Nations Security Council and clear evidence of a weapons of mass destruction program."

President Clinton
Address to Joint Chiefs of Staff and Pentagon staff
February 17, 1998
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/02/17/transcripts/clinton.iraq/

Answer 3

When the Gulf War began, I learn a piece of writing in "Vanity Fair Magazine." It recounted that George W. had borrowed hundreds of thousands from the Saudi financial institution, BCCI (Bank of Commerce and Credit International) owned by means of the Bin Laden household. He purchased an island with an oil refinery off the coast of Bremen and a few construction in Bremen. His father stimulated Saddam Hussein to assault Kuwait given that Kuwait used to be approximately to offload oil available on the market, and the cost of oil used to be going to plummet. Hussein used to be stimulated to burn the Kuwaiti oil fields as a way to wreck their oil reserves. That warfare used to be a well displaying for American army could. Our army giants, like Halliburton, Vought, and so on. bought to show their wares, and George bought to pay his money owed to the Saudis. This warfare used to be and is a continuation of that, in my brain. There isn't any different rationalization that makes any experience.

Answer 4

Unfortunately, it seems that this is going to be the reputation of the US. But it is not only G. W. Bullshit and his father. What about Penis Clinton and Mad Albright?

Answer 5

It's been done lots of times. Many wars have been started when there was no threat.
"When some one comes to kill you, rise up early & kill him 1st".

"When some one says he's going to kill you, believe him."