Hey troops, do you wish Bush looked before he leaped into Iraq?
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I never wanted the troops to go in the first place.\n\nOne could say we might be seeing the GOP cut and run on this one, what with Rummy bidding a fond adieu.
716203
Sorry, baby. Your daddy will be coming home very soon, because many of us voted today, to bring the troops home soon.\n\nHang in there!
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Very badly I'm sad to say.  We should have known this,  and no doubt Bush was told of this possibility by his military.  I don't believe it is republican pride so much as from everyone's being deliberately lied to about why we should  have been there in the first place.  We should have gone to Afghanistan to get Osama, whatever happened to him?  He's probably  sitting in a Paris cafe drinking coffee and reading about Iraq in the paper.  Iraq was a deception perpetrated on the public,taking advantage of the patriotism of the American people.  The shame is that it looks like Iraq will never improve, only serving those who are pro fitting from it, while our troops get wounded and die, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis perish.
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I think that Iraq was on Mr. Bush's mind the day he took office.  On day one he put a target on Saddam's head and was ready to use any excuse to finish his daddy's job.\n\nHis father, however, knew the consequeces of a march on Bahgdad.  That is why we stopped short of Saddam in 91, we had a clean victory and Sr. quit while he was ahead.\n\nJr., however, wanted blood.  He was convinced that Saddam would one day become the next great tyrant.  Like Johnson in 64, Bush was ready to pounce at the first sign of any agression.  The perfect reason to declare open-ended war fell into his lap on an early september monday morning.\n\nIt has been reported that just hours after the planes hit Bush was heard asking his advisors if Iraq was involved.  He was asking very leading questions of his advisors, including donald rumsfeld, who both wanted to pin 9/11 on Saddam before the towers even hit the ground.\n\nBut some would say they were smart, they went for the easy win first.  They needed to prove to the public that America could lead a successful nation-building war.  Of course I wouldn't call Afghanistan rebuilt when 95% of their economy is from the sale of opiates (I am against prohibition, but Bush isn't).  Even today, after the supposed elections and overthrow of the taliban, the only way an afghan woman can make any kind of living is to work in the opium fields.\n\nWe all saw the buildup for war.  He and his messengers (condie, rumsfeld, right wing puppet congressmen) had us all believing that we were about to be nuked.  The sad thing is that the public at large bought right into it.  I must say he even got me wondering just what Mr. Saddam had up his sleeve.  I suppose that's why I was rather exited to watch the war on tv, I just wanted to see what this guy had.  I watched the sabre rattling in the weeks leading up to 'shock and awe'.  It was entertaining to watch these two morons square off.  I thought Saddam would have had more of a back bone though.  I expected to see a tienemen square scecne in Bahgdad, but right away I could tell once we entered the capitol that something was wrong.\n\nIf Bush had been right, I have no doubt that Saddam would have used those weapons on American soldiers.  But they never existed.  Just like the second attack at the gulf of Tonkin.  It never happened.  LBJ however did not lie himself, rather his advisors lied to him.  True, Johnson was willing and ready to pounce should a tit-for-tat oppertunity present itself.  He believed the second attack on a stranded US cruiser was just such an oppertunity.  His advisors knew of his willingness to decalre war and fed him intel that would lead him in that direction.  LBJ wanted to look strong on defence and strong against communism going into a tough 1964 election.  He knew that he would be judged to the standard of 'what would JFK have done?' in the public eye.  Once he had blindly acceped the attack as truth and declared war, it wasn't long before the conflict spiraled out of his control.  "For all I know, they're shooting at whales" Johnson said the next year about the war that was now out of his control.\n\nThe rhetoric leading upto Iraq was different.  The intel was 'misread' by everyone in the aministration, so either everyone is lieing or everyone is that dumb.  I think they were seeing what they wanted to see.  As soon as any intel came accross that would give a glimmer of hope to uniting the country behind a war surfaced, they took it as fact because they wanted to.  It suited their political end.\n\nI believe that this intel was also pressured out of the cia and nsa from the white house.  Bush pushed so hard for 'actionable intel' that people eventually told him what he wanted to hear.  This still continues as they try to quell the uprising.  The president is so desperate for information on both insurgents and al-queida (sp?) that he is willing to turn his back on the rest of
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Ask President Bush why we are REALLY overseas!!!
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The Bush Administrations plans? What plans?\n\nThey just have our troops over there for looks! There is no exit strategy! They are there now so that they can guard the oil!
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Yeah Jimbo who idea in the first was it to go after WMD's in Iraq?  Have you heard any apology to the troops from Bush making that lie!
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I think he would have gone into Afghanistan and focused on getting Bin Laden. He probably would also have strengthened security measures within the states (something that Bush still hasn't done, or at least not to an extent where it shows a difference). One thing that he would not have done was go into Iraq for supposed WMDs.
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Oh boy!  You had to go there didn't you?  How many of them do you think will give a honest response?  Of course I suppose this could be reversed if this question was asked to Bush supporters .
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Yes. Bush Sr asked that troops be sent over there to remove the Iraqi occupation from Kuwait, not to remove the Iraqi leader. Once the Iraqi Army was removed and Kuwait was returned to normal, our job was complete. He did what he asked the troops for and got out.
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Ask George W. Bush personally.
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Exactly. I never understood why we went into Iraq.\n\nBy the way, read these real Bush quotes:\n\n"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." \n--GW Bush, 9/13/01\n\n"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."\n--GW Bush, 3/13/02
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My first wish would be that our president could step inside the body of one of our soldiers in Iraq and feel every ounce of physical and emotional wounds that soldier has to endure...I want him to look through their eyes and see the bodies and blood of fallen men and women, see the fear in another persons eyes as a gun is raised at them...look out at the desolate country that is far from home. I want him to feel the pain of having to shoot another person...the fear of having another person shoot at him. I understand it is their job and God bless them for accepting it but this war is not ours to fight. Let's see if he believes in this war after coming out from behind that desk. He couldn't even finish one weekend a month in the guard...yet he commands our troops. \n\nMy second wish would be that there was some sort of immunity bubble surrounding every child...where no cancer, no hunger, no AIDS, no drunk driver, no hands or fist could reach them. There is nothing more precious in the world than watching a child grow and discover life. \n\nMy final wish would be that we all use our imagination. We all imagined if it would have been us in those towers on September 11th...the vulnerability of whether we were next...let us now imagine what it is like to be the farmer who works his fields all night and bring him coffee...let us imagine what it is like to be the woman standing in line with people behind her with not enough money for her groceries and give her a couple of dollars...let us imagine being a child on Christmas with no gifts and not pass the Toys for Tots box without a second glance. Let us imagine that we are all in this together...this time and this world. Each of us different and yet the same.
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If you can believe what he said....No. Read for yourself.\n\nQuestion 1: Do you believe that the troops should withdraw from Iraq?\n\nKERRY: Over a period of time under proper circumstances, and I have laid out a plan for that. My plan is based on success. I’ve laid out a plan where you establish a series of very specific benchmarks for Iraqi performance, and with each benchmark, our troops should be able to return home. Clearly I’ve laid out a way where we could have made very different choices in Iraq, and I regret that this administration has never reached out to work in a bipartisan way, and has never done the work necessary to put these steps in place.
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it would b good for us to know wuts gonna happen, but also scary. im sure something horriable will happen. my man thinks its a matter of time before we get hit hard again and all of ur men are off still in iraq, and garuding the boarders and we will really b buffed. the us is just going down hill, we need someone to get us outta our rut.
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If more Republican leaders knew first hand how ugly war can be, we probably wouldn't be in Iraq right now.\n\nAnd you can add George W. Bush to this list.  He never did show up for assigned duty at the Alabama National Guard in 1972.  He said he was there, but not one witness who remembers seeing him has stepped forward in over 30 years and Bush's commanding officer testified that he never even met Bush, not once.\n\n\nIf it was you or me, we'd still be in military prison for desertion.  Bush goes AWOL and becomes freaking president!!  Oh god, this question is making me want to vomit.
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I feel our president is on track with Iraq.  It's a touch and go situation right now but from what I have seen and read I feel we are on track.  If it were possible I would like to see Iraqi troops and police taking over more responsibility of there country and maybe help them more than we have to accomplish this goal.  We know they want there freedom, are willing to die for it and hope we can help them achieve there goals.  So other than that there is not much I would or would try to change.  I have faith in our military and our president's actions.\n\nGood question.