Bush's acceptance speech

The actual reason was that the Arab countries which participated (Syria, Egypt) did so on one condition - that the object of the exercise was the liberation of Kuwait, and nothing else. They wanted Iraq as the continuing counterweight to non-Arab Iran and its mullahs, and they feared the break-up of the country if Saddam were deposed, and subsequent chaos. As Bush Sr. didn't want the whole thing to look like a Western v. Arab conflict, he agreed, and so the liberation of Kuwait stopped at the border.

Now Jr. has come and we have the chaos.

The interesting thing is that a state well en route to weapons of mass destruction (N. Korea) was ignored, as was another with known ambitions along those lines (Iran).

 

A slightly different take on the speech...

http://www.georgewbush.org/convention/acceptance.asp

 

...and a different slant on that worthless chicken Kerry.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5737787/site/newsweek/

 

Sorry Tones, I've not followed the US election campaign. Is there controversy surrounding Kerry Wot'shisname as well?

 

Read all about it here, Dev:

http://www.johnkerry.com/rapidresponse/080504_truth.html

 

A good link to the Council on Foreign Relations' page on election http://www.cfr.org/campaign2004/

 

would that be the election he actually lost but the 1/4 of Americans that did actually vote for him were saved by some nice fiddles by his cousin?

Bush was not acting in Americas interests by invading Iraq,he has put the US on the terrorists map for ever.

Courageous would have been to NOT invade,and go to the Middle East,and talk to Israel.Now that would have been courageous.As it happens,he was weak.Invading Afghanistan was his rsponse to 911,Iraq was a tag on to pay back old debts his dad still owed (I am not a Moore freak btw)

Bush is a lunatic in charge of a corrupt administration,and Colin Powell is correct,they are all lunatics.If there weren't so many Jewish voters in the US we would have a different world to live in.How sad is that?

 

Whinge all you want

George W Bush will win the election.

You can either lump it or shoot yourself.

God bless George W Bush

 

No chance! American people are getting wiser and he is losing support day by day.

He went too far this time; that godamn son of a bush!

 

Bush is now pulling ahead in the opinion polls. President Kerry? Just can't see it myself. Even though I'm no big fan of Bush, I think he will win.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/polls/usatodaypolls.htm

 

With such weak opposition, I sadly suspect he'll stay too.

Seems like the Kerry supporters, are MOre "anti bush" than pro Kerry.

 

another term in office by the oilman Bush will be a disaster for the world including the US.

"$182 per barrel oil, 50 percent yearly inflation, total economic collapse, unending resource wars, and a large-scale reinstitution of the military draft?"

Can anyone see this coming? Even George W. Bush's Energy Adviser, Matthew Simmons, fears it.

http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/Introduction.html

 

Seems to me Kerry's lot are playing into the hands of the Bush administration by trying to beat Bush over Iraq etc. Surely they need to divert the emphasis of the campaign on to domestic issues where ISTM Bush is more vulnerable. Have I missed something or are the American people so overwhelmed by 9/11 and in deperate need of a leader to make America "strong " in the world again. If so how close to Tones original analogy to a certain 1930's leader with moustache does that bring us?