If you are one of the minority who still believe that Bush has been 100% honest about U.S. purposes/goals in?

Question

Iraq, how would you describe the current mission - THAT IS, is it not "nation-building?"
Wasn't that something Bush swore he wouldn't engage in?

InTheWright, he claimed that the whole point of invading was to keep the U.S. safe because Saddam allegedly had WMDs (something I never believed - logic dictates that you don't bombard an enemy that is capable of massively killing you), now he is excusing himself with the fallacy that "if we don't fight them there, we'll have to fight them here, " or some such nonsense.

Anyway, we are involved in trying to create a certain mode of democracy there. That is indeed engaging in nation-building. You don't have to have a perfectly safe environment to "build" a nation- besides, the building is more political than physical, most obviously.

lol susi, you're right, I just like looking at Jay K. Johnson all day long:-)

I see that some voters (thumbs up or down) don't have the courage to take me on rhetorically, but would rather just use a click. C'mon, defend your neo-con, blethering, disingenuous idol.

Rick, I didn't need the condescending history lesson, and I apologise if my question was too bland- so it appears you have wasted your time.....Oh well, I do the same at times - surely we can both be out doing something quite more beneficial to our society than what we are at this moment - don't let me know about self-referential irony and that bit, --again I'm aware....

Occupying an untstable region and nation building, politically/socially are not murually exclusive. It is not an either/or situation, but a both/and./.....Cynthia, you talk about lack of reading skills. Read the entirety of my question, and address the issue of Bush changing rationale time after time!

Answer 1

He said his "administration" was against it before, but it is exactly what they are doing now.

Answer 2

He had WMD's. It doesn't matter how much rhetoric ya throw in the mix, that can't be denied. There's a joke that asks, how did Bush know Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, and the punchline is because he had the receipt. You have no idea though how close to the truth that joke is actually hitting. We put Saddam in power years ago, we developed those weapons and gave them to him so he could protect himself from anyone who might try rise against him, b/c we hired him to oversee business prospects in Iraq and in that area of the world. This forced plundering and pillaging we try to pass off as a 'war' in Iraq was pretty much the ultimate pink slip for Saddam. Very few of any of our Presidents have actually been entirely truthful with the American people, and the American people have even gone so far as to embellish and develop their own falsehoods about the past presidents and their actions. This is nothing new or revolutionary, the President lying to the American people is as American as apple pie and common as a dandelion. We aren't building a nation, we are occupying an unstable area of the world and instigating a civil war until they cannot stand on their own, and beg us to let them in. Our goal was colonization for business purposes, the same reason we kept Hussein on payroll for as long as we did. End of story.

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My friend if you are asking for a star on your question, make it more interesting. It's a bland re-arrangement of a very common and over asked question, and since thumbs up or thumbs down can no longer given on questions in Y!A you'll have to do better than that.

Answer 3

I believe he has been as honest as he can. From what I gather from his speech, the plan is to clean out Bagdad, train troops, see that the Iraqis are meeting their benchmarks and then start getting the heck out of Dodge beginning about October-November of 2007. In the meantime the Democrat Party has gone beserk. Evidently they can't hear or read.

Answer 4

You can't build a nation until it is secure of imminent threats. Did you have a suicide bomber in your backyard last week? Probably not, so I don't think they are at that stage yet, Skippy.

Answer 5

Philip Kiriakis, this doesn't sound like a question you would ask!

Answer 6

How can they rebuild when they are fighting others to get us the heck out of there? I don't think they will let us rebuild.

No, I'm not a Bush or war supporter.

Answer 7

anybody who honestly thinks bush was 100% honest is...blind, deaf, dumb....really really dumb. And they have been brainwashed by hannity, oreilly, or limbaugh. I mean, you can listen to the people that call in to those shows.....uneducated unemployed morons.

they are so dumb that they believe that we are in iraq fighting for our freedumb!

Answer 8

I do not agree with you.