Wow. My main problem with dubya isn't that he's a moron. It's that that moron is in charge of (Let's face it) one of the most powerful countries in the world. Having him in charge during 911 is the best thing that could ever have happened to AQ. Think about it. You want to blow stuff up in the US and you want to arouse anti-US sentiment at the same time. That's difficult. Bombing some place without any (Immediately obvious) provocation generally makes the victim seem sympathetic.
Enter Bush. The only man dumb enough to think that bombing ENTIRE COUNTRIES in hopes of killing, say, 50 people, was a good idea. That's afghanistan. As for Iraq there are reports of meetings he had two weeks into office where he said "(about saddam) Let's find a way to get rid of this guy" If you recall, Saddam was put into power by the US in the first place. It's only when George Sr. finds exception with him that anything bad was suspected. I wonder why that is?
Suddenly, (HA! suddenly...) tons of anti-US all over the place. Leading the people into a war based on WMDs we had every reason to believe were not there, (as stated by the intelligence reports) is a HUGE breach of presidential authority. Come on! We impeached Clinton because he got head from an intern and lied about it. Nobody was hurt. Yet Bush gets to go on a war rampage fueled in great part by complete lies. Thousands of people die on both sides; everybody hates the US; and there is nothing to show for it. Where's the poetic justice, damnit?
As for reasoning with Terrorists, it's pretty obvious you can't. The entire UN tells Bush that this war is a bad idea and will kill lots of civilians for minimal, or as it turns out, NO results, but does he listen? He couldn't do that! They hate our freedom! It's time to kill people who have absolutely nothing to do with it!
And of course in the process of this witch-hunt more and more people see the US as a capitalist blight intent on hurting others for their own benefit. Rightly, I suppose. As 911 was in fact in response to the US murdering hundreds of citizens via bombing during what was supposedly peace-time. What will this bombing do but create more terrorists? Kill some people. Get us some more oil. I think that's about it.
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