Bush is aiding terrorists

I expect another lil big horn over there. they are messing with tribal peoples,it will be a mess and alot of lives are going to be taken. More then we are expecting. Yes Bush is the cause,but then he knew what would happen or at least someone knew. I really think Bush is to stupid to have planned all this,he is not smart enough. THe stratigies involved are not up to his level. However his cocky ignorance is going to cause alot of backwash and its gonna fall on the American People

We won the war, remember shrub getting dressed up in flight suit?--we are losing the occupation--as should any country involved in an immoral occupation of another country.

Bush came to office with zero foreign policy experience and it has shown. He is arrogant and an absolute disgrace in my opinion.

Their were several reasons why we didn't have to bother Iraq. But now even Bush in a quiet moment probally has to say he can see why Saddam had to be the way he was. Our way of during things and expecting people to come to a rational conclusion. Just don't work over their these people have been fighting for so long they probally don't remember why! And our President thinking that he was going to tell these folks how to live and pick up control of some oil at the same time. Just openned the door for the Terrorist. What ever Saddam did he did not have Terrorist running all around blowing his country to pieces. He kept the civil wars under control they could hate each other but all of that fighting and blowing each other up. He just didn't put up with it. And the great group of Hawks from America just knew they could do it better. And have now completely turned the Middle East againest us and now have all of them trying to kill us. Our President and his advisor's have got to stop thinking like it's still the 40's and 50's. When they could frighten other cultures by flexing their muscles. And then we would go in and make servants out of a countrys people and live like Royality. These people are not excepting the American White Man coming in and making a bunch of half -breed babies and raping the country of all of it's resources. They have shown that they are willing and ready to die frist to stop anything like that from happening.

This doesn't help matters:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=088_1185425715

And withdrawing wont solve anything. Leaving will only cause more terrorism. I would rather deal with it in Iraq than have to face it else where around the world, including at home.

"Dealing with it there so we don't have to deal with it here" is only a well repeated Bush slogan that makes no sense. Making things worse don't make them better.

I know dang well that right wing Muslims want to stone gay people to death. Making more of them extremists-from-moderates won't help that one at all. We are forcing MORE Muslim extremism with our actions.

Just because there were LOTS of terrorists before 9/11 doesn't mean we make lots and lots more (occupying Iraq certainly does that) and then they go away.

If we go away then they only have themselves to content with (and they will anyway).

The terrorists did not go away when we left Somalia or when the Soviets left Afghanistan. In fact, more terrorists appeared after those conflicts officially ended, and more Americans died as a result. We also had to go back into those countries, and look at the mess that has caused. We can only expect the same thing from Iraq. Lets finish the terrorists now, and make sure that we wont have to go back ever again.

There was very little to deal with there before we got there. Excellent article, Peter.

Bush has pushed this to a point of where is the end? I do think that we need to get out of there. This war is about oil, money and very dirty politics.
9-11 was as Pearl Harbor it was allowed. So they could start there gobal war they want so badly. Wake up this is just the start if they have their way. There is more going on under the sheets then we can see and I do not mean a blow job.

The populations of Somalia and Afghanistan are not like the population of Iraq. The people of Iraq are not terrorists and they hate terrorists and will not be told how to do their religion by terrorists. So let them get rid of them. We can't. We MAKE terrorists by occupying Iraq!

The people of Afghanistan and Somalia are not terrorists either, and none of them like terrorists, since terrorists only cause death and destruction. But the environment in Iraq will be just like it was after the withdraw from forces from Somalia and Afghanistan. There will be a huge power void, and terrorists will be able to use Iraq as a safe haven. Leaving will cause more terrorism, and more American and Iraqi lives will be lost.

It's about oil and Halliburton and KRB and no bid contracts.

They kill our children and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians because it's profitable.

Oh, by the way, I've sat and talked with some Imans, the knew I was a lesbian. They had no problem with it because I am not a Muslim.

Interesting conversation. I remember reading in an English newspaper that it was ironic that the person speaking for English values was the French leader. I suspect he was speaking for wise values, not just English ones, based on knowledge and experience, and those with neither wouldn't listen.

The U.S. isn't going to be the one to clean up a Muslim country as iconic to Islam as Iraq. It's just too scandalous a thought to them. It may not be a scandalous thought to me or you here in the States, but all the countries surrounding Iraq are just scandalized by our being there and we are weakening whatever is moderate in their governments for it.

We are making things worse. We can't bomb our way out of this one, either.

And leaving wont make things better. The war will expand. More people will die, including Americans. We will face a myrid of new threats, and we will have to invest more into that region to protect our interests in the Middle East.

Maybe going to war was a mistake. But leaving wont correct that mistake. The only reason why most of Iraq has not gone to hell is because of the US presence there. Were it not for us, it would be a lot worse. Maybe we cannot fix Iraq by ourselves, but the Iraqi's cannot do it on their own either.

The war is not won, but it is far from lost. Most of Iraq is stable and relatively normal. Millions of Iraqi's are grateful for what we have done, and they depend on us for safety. That is worth fighting for. I have served three tours in Iraq, and I would gladly serve three more to fight for this cause.

the fool didn't learn anything in Iraq ????

It's a giant mess.

YES!!! GET OUT!!! ALL AMERICANS OUT! Only have DIPLOMATIC REALATIONS!

That is very real.

Bush Jr was fully warned of all of this by his dad before he went in like he did. His dad was against the war before it happened. So this isn't just a 20/20 thing.

Peter, diplomatic relations rarely accomplish anything. Leaving Iraq and talking to them wont solve the problems over there.

We made a huge mistake, so now we have to deal with it. Leaving wont correct our mistake, it wont save lives, and it wont make things better. Stay in Iraq, and try to solve the problem.

We are the problem.

You make it sound like we deliberately and for no reason decided to attack the whole Muslim world. The perceptions of the Middle East were not understood which is why we did nothing really to the war criminals in that area of the world, we only seemed concerned with Europe and Japan. The world has gotten smaller, and things get around.