What do you think of our American President?

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Originally Posted by Hydrizzle

Correction: we went into Iraq on the agenda of the republican party, and if you remember, congress did vote overwhelmingly to send us to Iraq... it was a response to 9/11, and at the same time deposes a brutal dictator who would be willing to use WMD's if he ever got them, as the government knew..

Come on Hydrizzle, the republican party just follows Bush like obedient puppies. That's a huge problem with politics today. Everyone just follows party lines. They're so busy with being republicans or being democrats that they forget that they should be serving the people. Congress believed their president and was acting on false information

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Originally Posted by Hydrizzle

Did you see the man's face as he sat in that classroom after he was told of what happened? To me he looked devastated. I'm sure he cares about the death and suffering caused by conflict, but those are kind of hard decisions a president has to make. I'm sure Truman had many sleepless night knowing of the suffering WWII was casuing Americans.

What you took as devastation I took as cluelessness; "Uh, what do I do now...?" Plus, it is know that Bush anxiously asked if Iraq was beind 9/11 and when told there was no evidence it was he said to look again.

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Originally Posted by Hydrizzle

So it's okay to go to war to save one country from another, but not save a country's own people from it's ruthless leader and his nuclear ambitions?

Saving a country from its own ruthless leaders with the goal of helping the people who live there is a noble idea. But that's not why we were/are there. If it was we'd be a lot of other places too. Ever hear of Rwanda?

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Originally Posted by Hydrizzle

OK, first off, this whole thing about "he lied he lied" has not been proven, people just assume that because they found no WMD's...
perhaps they are telling the truth, that thier intelligence really did say that.

Yes, perhaps. But he should of made damn sure before he went to war. I firmly believe his eagerness to get Saddam seriously clouded his vision. Maybe he didn't lie but I doubt he wanted to know the truth.

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Originally Posted by Hydrizzle

Comparing any American president to Hitler is just stupid, and I'm not even going to comment on that ignorant statement.

You got me here, you are right. Hitler was an evil man, plain and simple. Goerge Bush may be dishonest, incompetant, and use some of Hitler's tactics but he is not evil. To say there are similarities is one thing, to say they are the same is ludicrous. My dislike of Bush clouded my vision, much like Bush's dislike of Saddam clouded his. Fortunately I don't command the strongest army in the world.