- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Terran Grunt
Casey, I respect you point of view but I do believe that it has been perverted by right propoganda. How did George Bush respond to terrorism? By invading a country that had nothing to do with it, had no WMDs, and by definition was opposed to the ideals of Islamic extremists. Saddam had a secular government that was actually suppressing the extremists and terrorists in Iraq, unfortunately right along with the regular people there. Still, Saddam went after enemies of his regime, the average civilians went on living their lives. Now the country is in anarchy. Anyways, that irresponsible drunk who stole the election last time is doing nothing about terrorism, but he is using it as a tool to scare the masses. Honestly, he cannot stop terrorism. No one can. They can strike at will using any weapon conceivable through our seaports. I'm sure there are already hundreds of dormant cells waiting for a signal from Al Quaeda (probably sent out on Al Jazeera). One of the 9/11 hijackers had lived only four blocks from me. You seriously can't stop these people by invading random Middle Eastern countries. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Bin Laden staged an attack and purposely failed to help Bush win - after all, if the Armed Forces keep knocking off governments over there the extremists will be free to take over. Oh yea, did I mention that there are a hell of a lot more potential terrorists now? Thanks for pissing Islam off, you motherf***ing Texan excuse for a human being. Thanks for f***ing up America's budget and reputation. It's all on my generation now.
And while I respect your viewpoints as well, I might have to add that I think your thinking has been not distorted by the leftist control on our media today, but that you haven't seen the whole side of the story because the Media today is so obsessed with making Bush look bad that they censor the good things that go on in Iraq. They'll talk about how a building gets blown up or how a soldier gets killed, but when a building gets rebuilt or a soldier gives a kid a candy bar it's terrible news and shoudln't be let out of Iraq. Geraldo Rivera went to Iraq earlier this year (I think) and when he came back he said that it wasn't that bad over there. He said the media was making it look much worse than it really was.
Hey buddy, there's been tons of Islamic terrorists out for us way before Bush was in power, I hate to break it to ya. Islamic militants have been attacking American people and interests since 1970. Did you know that's why the Delta Force branch of Special Forces was created? It was to combat--you guessed it--terrorism! There have been a hell of a lot of potential terrorists ready to destroy American people and American interests for nearly thirty years.
I also hate to break it to ya, but WMDs aren't just nukes. Sure, we didn't find any nukes in Iraq, but you know what we did find? Sarin gas, Anthrax...those are Chemical and Biological Weapons of Mass Destruction. How else do you think Saddam killed nearly 100,000 Kurds when he bombed them with Chemical weapons?
I find it funny that you pin the blame of "pissing Islam off" on Bush. Like I said before, Islamic radicals were pissed at us far back as the 70's. Hmm...lemme think of who was President during the 70's...Nixon, Ford, and Carter! Not Bush.
Okay, Bush first responded to Terrorism by invading Afghanistan, not Iraq. Afghanistan has plenty to do with terrorism! Honestly, so does Iraq. Maybe it wasn't so much actively carried out terrorist bombings against U.S. interests from Iraq (although, Saddam did launch SCUD missiles at Iraq), he was raising all of his people to hate the U.S. And there was plenty of terrorism going on inside of Iraq, too. How else do you think Saddam kept such control over his people?