Right.

[first_seventhe]

Okay, first off: Ohio? Plz to be stopping with the smear ad campaign, for God's Pretty Sake. Seriously. Look, I know this one guy voted for/against some stuff, and this other guy voted for/against some stuff, and you want to capitalize on that. But those of us with brains can see exactly what the fuck you're doing! It's all just semantics

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[siva630]

I could see how bombing Afghanistan (an extremely poor country with, btw Mr. Bush, ONE OF THE HIGHEST DEATH RATES IN THE WORLD) could be a counter to the 9/11 attacks, but Iraq had nothing to do with those attacks. Hell, the majority of the terrorists came from Saudi Arabia, and we know that America wouldn't touch them with a Pacific-sized barge pole with the amount of links and investment that they have in there.

I never really paid attention to the Iraq war very much, but I've gathered that they initially moved in because they thought Saddam had some weapons. Then, after it became more and more likely that they weren't going to find any weapons, they started pushing for the "idealistic" angle of "spreading democracy", etc.

I understand what you mean about not exactly endearing many of the Iraqis to the USA after the whole invasion thing. To be honest, I think they could have created much better, more stable relationships if that douchebag Bremer hadn't disbanded a large portion of the Iraqi army and fired most of the old conservative elite.

STUPID WAR AND ITS NUMEROUS COMPLICATIONS

Though I really don't know what we're going to do about this whole "Islamic extremist" problem. Nobody can breathe a word about Islam publicly without having a stupid protest and some bomb-wielding idiot spitting threats at the person who DARES TO EXPRESS HIM/HERSELF LIBERALLY.

...though I do agree that people as influential at the Pope should keep their mouths shut about such touchy issues.