Resulting War on Terror

Bush waged a global War on Terrorism after 9-11, and asserted that an "axis of evil," consisting of North Korea, Iran, and Iraq was "arming to threaten the peace of the world." He launched the war with an invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003, which led to the quick defeat and the eventual execution of Saddam Hussein. More than 600,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in the U.S.-led war. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) also said two million Iraqis had fled to neighboring countries. To some Iraqis, Bush, a symbol of U.S. hegemony, is a nightmare just as the war aftermath is.

The terrible events of September 11 saw the considerable quieting of what was until then growing domestic and international criticism of the Bush Administration. The September 11 events resulted in a “war on terror” which saw support for Bush and his popularity soar at the time. Up to September 11, 2001, the Bush administration was being criticized around the world for its stances on various issues domestically and internationally. Even European and other allies were very critical of positions on numerous global issues. But even before the Bush Administration, throughout the world, many nations and groups of people had expressed their frustrations at how U.S. foreign policies had affected them on all sorts of issues, ranging from economic/globalization issues that have deepened poverty and/or inequality for most people around the world; geopolitics/arms/missile defense; environmental issues and so on. Protests either directly, or indirectly at U.S. policies have occurred all around the world—especially on globalization issues—as mentioned on this web site.

Yet that cannot be an excuse for the atrocity of September 11 as it killed many innocent people. At the same time, people have correctly pointed out that when other regions around the world have faced similar terrorist attacks, the outpouring of concern and condemnation has not been as much. The Washington Post (September 12, 2001) even dared to admit this at such a sensative time shortly after the attacks.

However, behind the unity of the American people in the shock of September 11, a heightened sense of security has resulted with concerns reverberating throughout the world, which of course affects all citizens. Many are concerned about the crackdown of freedoms and civil liberties in various nations that has resulted because of this. Many are concerned that various countries around the world can also use this “war on terror” as an excuse to pursue more aggressive options or other policies that affect the rights of citizens.

Bush is a Liar Bush lied Americans into war simple fact what lie is going to get them out and who is going to tell it?

"Can't you be honest at least once in your life, and admit that you are a deceitful liar who intentionally deceived your nation when you drove them to war in Iraq?" Osama bin Laden's deputy said, appearing in front of a standing lamp and a small, decorative cannon. - Al-Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri

TOP LIBERAL LIES ABOUT IRAQ

• Iran and North Korea were the more urgent threats.

• The lunatic regimes Democrats installed in Iran and appeased in North Korea had already acquired dangerous weapons and had not yet defied twelve years of U.N. Resolutions (which liberals insist wasn't enough time for Saddam). What happened to trying diplomacy first?

• Stopping Saddam from building more dangerous weapons was more urgent.

• The Iraqis never wanted Americans there.

• Long after change.

• Liberals incessantly misrepresented this as some hopeless "civil war" and, of course, as a reason to surrender. They also rushed in to protect the terror states and argued that such aggressions warranted negotiating with them, even though terrorists openly admit that this approach merely legitimizes them.

• Bush had no plan ('Mission Accomplished'). Between telling us the war was lost, that the surge would never work and that Iraq was a "distraction" (apparently we should wait for each individual terror-sponsor to hit us separately before acting against any of them), Democrats constantly accused Bush of not having a plan. This was before they took office and adopted his plan entirely. That plan was simply to rebuild the country and leave when the Iraqis could take over. This was made clear in the "Mission Accomplished" speech, along with the fact that the rebuilding process would be long and difficult. Liberals naturally responded by pretending the "Mission Accomplished" sign meant the entire war was over, rather than just the initial invasion, thus inventing a bogus gaffe out of thin air.

• The war has killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians.

• It completely ignores things like the lives saved by killing terrorists (as well as how much better off the Shiites, Kurds, women and Israelis are).

• Americans rushed in unilaterally. After years of failed diplomacy, we went in with a coalition of forty different countries. France, Germany and Russia were too busy protecting their deals with Saddam to lift a finger.

• . The war was illegal

• Saddam was an international outlaw. He had violated the 1991 Gulf War truce and all the arms control agreements it embodied, including UN resolutions 687 and 689, and the 15 subsequent UN resolutions designed to enforce them. The last of these, UN Security Council Resolution 1441, was itself a war ultimatum to Saddam giving him “one final opportunity” to disarm – or else. The ultimatum expired on December 7, 2002, and America went to war three months later.

• All Americans did was turn the Islamic world against us. Newsflash: They already hated us. Iraq was after 9/11, after eight years of unanswered al Qaida attacks and after decades of unprovoked attacks before that. It didn't start with us finally deciding to fight back. In fact, it was only once we started drawing the enemy away from U.S. soil and onto a Middle Eastern battlefield (part of Bush's stated objective) that we went seven years without a single domestic terrorist attack. Fighting back does create more terrorists, but so does not fighting back, as Democrats demonstrated when they retreated from Islamic terrorists in Somalia. Bin Laden responded by calling the American soldier a "paper tiger" without the "stomach for war" and using it to recruit. We need to stop worrying about creating more terrorists and just focus on stopping them.

• Saddam had no ties with terrorists

• Iraq is stable. The current administration will say it very soon.

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