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Originally Posted by bigrun
'When Bush stood with his arm around a NY fireman after the 9/11 attacks promising to find whoever did this to the nation, he was every American's president. His polls soared. He had a unique opportunity to unite America, to bring the U.S. together with allies round the world to fight terrorism and hate, to eliminate al-Qaida, to eliminate our vulnerabilities, to strengthen important nations threatened by radicalism. He did NONE of those things..He invaded Iraq!....excerpt from Richard Clarke's book..
Bush's approval rating was 93% at the time of the speech...I was in the 93%...Until March-03....
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I used your mission statement for Iraq, I didn't make up my own.
Taking out dictators that are unfriendly to US interests is nothing new and was not invented by W. in any way.
Do you think the Arab spring would have even been a consideration in places like Egypt were there not a war going on in Iraq that involved the USA?