This is one of the stupidest opinion pages I have ever heard. I think you should rethink your first statement because you are saying some of the most pompous things I have heard come out of a human mouth.
First of all, in response to the fact that Bush should be impeached for lying about Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. It was not his fault. The CIA, FBI, and the DEMOCRATIC LED Senate investigation team all determined the same thing, faulty intelligence. All current intelligence, intelligence collected by the US, the UN and Interpol said that Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction still not accounted for and he had yet to comply with UN regulations. After having UN inspectors hassled at every turn for a year, Bush decided that the threat was too great for the possibility of a vicious dictator that has already used WMDs on his on people to have the capabilities to attack another country. Also, Bush can’t be convicted in a war crimes tribunal because the only current one is the ICC, which the US hasn’t ratified yet, so keep up on your current events. Even if he could be tried, it would be unanimously decided that he was innocent. He never ordered the torture of any of the prisoners. To suggest so is so incredibly close to my definition of sedition that I would be very suspicious of your motives. Secondly, none of the people tortured by US soldiers could be called innocent by any means. They were caught in the act of suicide bombings in public places. Thirdly, every person involved in the Abu Gharib prison scandals was court-martialed, convicted, and punished. The US doesn’t tolerate torture by anyone, and Bush showed that.
Second of all, you really need to keep up on your current events. The one thing you did get right was the Saudi Elections. The UN wouldn’t allow US election monitors into Saudi Arabia, so yes the elections were quite slanted. However, this is still progress from a monarchy. Although the elections can be called free by no means, they were still elections, and even the US started off with all-male elections. Democracy has taken hold in Saudi Arabia, we just need to wait until it flourishes. Now Iraq, which had election turnouts of both sexes surpassing 60%, which beats even the US and France. The reason liberals have said that perhaps Bush was right is not because they were selling out, but because they see the success. They weren’t bitter about their mistakes, Bush apologized for his, so the only one not yet admitting they are wrong is you. Libya suspended its nuclear program because the US pushed for it, the UN voted not to sanction Libya. Evidently you haven’t read the newspaper in the last month because Syria pulled out of Lebanon almost that long ago. Changes are happening in the Middle East, and closing your eyes because a conservative president helped do it isn’t going to make it go away.
Lastly, the only thing that can be said bad about Bush’s foreign policy stance toward the Middle East is that it doesn’t go far enough. Abbas is screaming for US support in the region, which we are slowly relenting to. Hussein of Jordan is pursuing an active campaign to get the US to resolve conflicts around the West Bank. Israel has agreed to pull back settlement camps in surrounding Palestinian territory after being pushed by the US. Bush’s report card isn’t as bad as you claim it is, and not everthing he does exudes the bumbling-idiot persona. It’s time you got your head out of the liberal circulations you spend your life in and look around. Democracy is taking hold in the Middle East, and at least part of it is because of Bush.
This is one of the stupidest opinion pages I have ever heard. I think you should rethink your first statement because you are saying some of the most pompous things I have heard come out of a human mouth.
First of all, in response to the fact that Bush should be impeached for lying about Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. It was not his fault. The CIA, FBI, and the DEMOCRATIC LED Senate investigation team all determined the same thing, faulty intelligence. All current intelligence, intelligence collected by the US, the UN and Interpol said that Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction still not accounted for and he had yet to comply with UN regulations. After having UN inspectors hassled at every turn for a year, Bush decided that the threat was too great for the possibility of a vicious dictator that has already used WMDs on his on people to have the capabilities to attack another country. Also, Bush can’t be convicted in a war crimes tribunal because the only current one is the ICC, which the US hasn’t ratified yet, so keep up on your current events. Even if he could be tried, it would be unanimously decided that he was innocent. He never ordered the torture of any of the prisoners. To suggest so is so incredibly close to my definition of sedition that I would be very suspicious of your motives. Secondly, none of the people tortured by US soldiers could be called innocent by any means. They were caught in the act of suicide bombings in public places. Thirdly, every person involved in the Abu Gharib prison scandals was court-martialed, convicted, and punished. The US doesn’t tolerate torture by anyone, and Bush showed that.
Second of all, you really need to keep up on your current events. The one thing you did get right was the Saudi Elections. The UN wouldn’t allow US election monitors into Saudi Arabia, so yes the elections were quite slanted. However, this is still progress from a monarchy. Although the elections can be called free by no means, they were still elections, and even the US started off with all-male elections. Democracy has taken hold in Saudi Arabia, we just need to wait until it flourishes. Now Iraq, which had election turnouts of both sexes surpassing 60%, which beats even the US and France. The reason liberals have said that perhaps Bush was right is not because they were selling out, but because they see the success. They weren’t bitter about their mistakes, Bush apologized for his, so the only one not yet admitting they are wrong is you. Libya suspended its nuclear program because the US pushed for it, the UN voted not to sanction Libya. Evidently you haven’t read the newspaper in the last month because Syria pulled out of Lebanon almost that long ago. Changes are happening in the Middle East, and closing your eyes because a conservative president helped do it isn’t going to make it go away.
Lastly, the only thing that can be said bad about Bush’s foreign policy stance toward the Middle East is that it doesn’t go far enough. Abbas is screaming for US support in the region, which we are slowly relenting to. Hussein of Jordan is pursuing an active campaign to get the US to resolve conflicts around the West Bank. Israel has agreed to pull back settlement camps in surrounding Palestinian territory after being pushed by the US. Bush’s report card isn’t as bad as you claim it is, and not everthing he does exudes the bumbling-idiot persona. It’s time you got your head out of the liberal circulations you spend your life in and look around. Democracy is taking hold in the Middle East, and at least part of it is because of Bush.
Ben Denissen
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