Is bush really the reason why we r in the middle east?
350483
Come on what do you think check out some web pages on what happened at the pentagon and then you tell me!!
964603
because bush wants their oil
400998
I think you mean Bush does not want the Iraqis to be united in order to control them. This is right, but USA should not be blamed Iraq is made of two major ethnic groups and two major relgious groups and already divided.
1098491
George Bush, or is it the other way around.
157452
I think liberals have a valid point when they say that we have alienated some countries over Iraq, but most of those countries weren't really lining up to help us anyway. The prevailing attitude that you see with many liberals is that America's foreign policies are to blame for 9/11 and other terror attacks, and this is simply not true. The terrorists who attacked America on 9/11 were the same terrorist who attacked America several times during the Clinton administration, when Clinton went out of his way to be "the good guy" towards the islamic world. Foreign policy is not to blame. The terrorists simply hate the Israelis, and therefore, we are guilty by association.
414113
Please scratch "US". I want nothing to do with fighting in the mid east...loose-loose if you have noticed. ONly Bush would think it was a good idea, and he hasn't had a good idea in about 60 years...yes, I know he isn't 60...that is just the point.
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Oh, you are so perceptive!  Yes, I think it is THE KEY.  For whatever reason, and rightly or wrongly, the Israelis are seen as the aggressors, and the USA is seen as the supporter of everything Israel does.  We give Israel more foreign aid than we give to anyone else, and the Arabs conclude that we could force Israel to do what we really wanted--therefore, whatever Israel does, the USA must be backing it.The Arab/Muslim world would not focus its resentment on us to the extent it does if there were a genuine peace in Palestine; and if there were peace there would be a chance of prosperity and jobs, and the lives of the Palestinians would not be so desperate that suicide bombing would continue to be a worthwhile alternative.  I think that 9/11 is the direct result of the continuing war in Palestine, and our penalty for our failure to differentiate the USA from everything Israel does.
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Not really. In fact, the current occupation of Iraq doesn't have anything to do with the reason we went over in the first place.\n\nWe're doing nothing more than baby-sitting the country, and acting as its local police force, while it's in the middle of a civil war. There is no evidence, none, that says anything we're doing there has any effect on global terrorism. It's purely politics and empire-building.
430878
Yeah,Good or bad your in the history books.Heck of a reason to be President though.Don't you think Mr.Bush?
151099
Religion is just an ideological disguise.  Wars are always about territory and power.  The only reason that the US is in the Middle East right now is because this administration, following in the footsteps of the Reagan and Bush Sr. adiministration, has a serious comitment to creating and maintaining a US military stronghold in the Middle East.  Jimmy Carter laid it all out for the American people in an interview on NPR.  This "war" we are fighting is solely for maintaining economic and political control of an oil-rich territory.  The whole Isreal thing is a bogus excuse.  God will support the righteous--yeah right, what are you smoking.  According to the Bible, God instigated more wars than anything else.  He commanded massacres and genocide.  Isreal was formed, according to the Bible, because God commanded the Hebrews to kill all the Cannonites and take over their territory.  The modern state of Isreal was formed by the Allied powers after WWII because none of their countries wanted to take in all the Jewish refugees, so they picked their "historical" homeland, disposesed all the people already living their at that time and forcefully created a new state of Isreal.  Religion has always been and will always be an intricate screen to hide power-hungary facist regimes.  If people keep buying into the Bush administrations lies that we, a Judeo-Christian country that symbolizes all that is good are fighting Muslim countries because they symbolize all that is evil, the cycle of violence will perpetuate itself, and those people will only strengthen the ideological forces that promote this war.
611351
Ask President Bush why we are REALLY overseas!!!
648547
Touche. So I agree with you, and I don't want to bash Bush, but what's happening in the Middle East isn't acceptable either. Where'd you get that information anyway? I want to read it.
1158443
Bush Is invading the middle east to establish his interest in the middle east oil trade once his term in office is over. \n\nHitler was on a mission to create a pure race, and trying to racially cleanse a nation. \n\nBoth are wrong, and considering 2 wrongs don't make a right. I don't see any difference, Both got people needlessly killed for their own agendas.
20078
Yes, no doubt about it! The "America - a new world Power" mob, oil, and also his showing 'daddy' that he could get Sadam were likely the real reasons.
407177
This object is not the cause - it's merely an attempt at justification.\nDifferent foreign wars have different real causes, but economics is usually present.  These days it's the over-powerful lobbies of Israel, the CIA and the US Military.
73075
I think we're seeing the trend to the opposite  because so much of the world see's the U.S. that way.  And, the U.S. citizens are not the least bit happy about being seen that way.  If we wanted to rule the world we'd probably go ahead and become aggressive toward the whole world.  Unfortunately we're wrapped up in situations like Iraq only because we made the mistake of getting involved with the middle east after world war II.  Now we're so involved we can't get out without the middle east self destructing.  We can't leave or Israel would be a parking lot. So it's those things that keep us policing the world while we all hope in vain that the U.N. will start filling it's purpose.
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Yes. There was no war going on before George W. Bush and since he's been president, a pointless war is costing millions of dollars and thousands of lives. The middle eastern people (Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan) do not believe in Democracy, so why should the U.S. persuade them? They believe that man should be executed because he converted to christianity. People are harsh over there and they have a lot of hatred for anyone "different" than them. We're not even fighting to destroy Al-Quaida... we've lost our focus and all we do is try to change the people that canNOT be changed.