Why does Bush say that history will prove the Iraq war was a good idea?

Question

It is a little condescending, don't you think? A bit patronizing, perhaps? I guess Bush's big plan is too ingenious for the average person, college professor, military general, or Congressperson to comprehend. History will vindicate his decision, because we're the ones who lack perspective.

I guess we're all a bit too slow to grasp these concepts.

Future generations, on the other hand, will appreciate Bush. Why, he will be a celebrated American hero once we're all dead and gone. The last thing we will say before we go into the great beyond is "wow, that Bush, boy he was sure right about Iraq. How could we have missed it?"

It's so simple, after all. Just look at it from Bush's perspective. He went to Yale, and so he's smarter than everyone else. Plus, he's from Skull and Bones, and they know secret information that they can't reveal to us. Once that is out, we will realize Bush is a hero.

Or maybe we will realize he has tuna fish for brains.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070822/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush

Answer 1

It's not too big an idea for many. Those who hate the President will never see anything he does as favorable... But history will not lie... no matter how much you want to try and change it. Try looking at the big picture... at what the future may hold for our children... It was a good thing our founding fathers did. I am sure there were many back then that thought the same way you do now. Also, it isn't just Bush doing as he pleases... there is something called the intelligence community... and yes, they have a lot of intell and they are privy to a lot of information that us "common folk" are not privy to. Like all Presidents, they count on their cabinet to give them information to make the tough decisions. Many of your little democratic leaders voted for the war as well... looking at the same intell as Bush... How do you figure that?

Answer 2

To answer you "question" Bush believes that the war will bring out good results in the long run. Democracy will flourish, stability will return, and people will look back and say "We made the right choice by not pulling out and protecting civilians from an even greater massacre. We saved the Iraqis from Civil War, Genocide, Killing Fields" Just as people look back and see how Korea was worth it, that too was unpopular and there was much talk of withdrawal. I know it was worth it because should America have withdrawn, I would not be alive to write this, or I would be working in North Korea as a slave. I look back and regret the withdrawal from Vietnam, we should have stayed.

Answer 3

I believe history will reflect:
the US as a country in need
Saddam as a tyrant (ask the 100,000 dead Kurds at Al-Anfar if he's a tyrant)
Saddam refusing to allow the UN to inspect as a legitimate reason for war
Iran supplying a neverending stream of terrorism to Iraq

On the other side it will also show:
A lack of cutural awareness
Warping of intelligence to fit particular goals
Anti-Iraqi forces jaded against the US
The Arabs doing what they do best, fighting a war of attrition
the US losing faith in it's elected authorities

Answer 4

Perhaps its because he beleives the "intelligence community" - you know - the ones who told us all about WMDs, and have proven really good at finding Osama - the same ones who said the Iraqis would welcome invaders with open arms...he'd get better advice from Homer Simpson.

If there had actually been a plan to establish democracy & rebuild the country afterwards then maybe, just maybe, it would've been a good idea - but without any such plan, its about the worst US military idea since Custer decided to visit Little Big Horn.

Answer 5

those who still support bush are psychologically weak people...
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President."
- President Theodore Roosevelt
"A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution".
-- President James Madison
Bush has changed the reason we invaded Iraq so many times he can't even sort it out. It's now irrefutably obvious Bush invaded Iraq and 3700 of our kids/soldiers died for oil. Pretty evil, greedy and sad.
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Answer 6

Because if we didn't go to war we would've got blown up with probably half the world moron.

I don't like Bush that much either but he has my FULL support he's the best out of the other people that could be president!

Answer 7

WHat else is he goig to say? The war is a failure, he thought it was going to last a year at the most and it was going to be over, he was wrong then and he's wrong now.
This war will prove to be an even greater defeat and blow to the psychology of this nation than Vietnam was.

Answer 8

It will become evident when the next genius in the white house sets a time table and we pull out and then get attacked all over again.

The Iraq war was a good idea and was justified but it was executed hastily and incorrectly.

Lastly please not your violating Yahoo rules by answering your own question. Want to ask open ended questions and piss people off? Start a blog.

Answer 9

whats really ****** up is how he was so big on saying that the Iraq invasion is nothing like Vietnam early in the war, and now he's comparing the two as if its a good thing, even asserting that we should have stayed in Vietnam.

Answer 10

History will show that invading Iraq was a good idea. Leadership sometimes involves doing things that are outside of the immediate popular will.

I do find it comical that you use an emotional rant that contains no facts to call someone else stupid. I believe that is one of the symptoms of the disease known as liberalism.