Archer, you're still in college, so you can be forgiven for being a little naiive.
Don't you think that if terrorist groups had the capacity to launch additional attacks, they already would have? They've been trying to as hard as they can since 9/11, but trouble is, they continue to deal with an acute staffing shortage, as well as interruption to their communication, funding, and supply. Nothing will change when we take Saddam out, except that one of the terrorists' sources for weapons, training, and money will be removed.
EalgeRJ, First of all, people in college can be wiser than people who are about to fall over and die. A college student that follows the news, discusses and debates political issues, and is informed, can be much wiser than a middle aged or 70 year old man or woman who has been a farmer and doesn't even know even where Iraq is!
Aren't the bombings in Israel, sorry...the ROUTINE suicide bombings in Israel, enough proof that terrorists can defeat even the strongest of nations, no matter how many nukes or aircraft carriers they have in their military? Isn't 9/11 enough proof that even America, the great CIA, the great US Armed Forces cannot prevent the deaths of thousands of Americans in the heart of New York?
Just because terrorist don't strike, doesn't mean they can't! They just need some motivation, like America killing more of their fellow mulsim brothers in Iraq. Once they have that excuse, they will find the means to stricke back. Islamic extremist leaders in the UK have warned western powers. But the west does not heed warnings, and underestimates and ignores terrorist retaliations.
Archer,
If you look at your history, I belive you will find that people in the Middle East have been fighting for slightly longer than Bush has been in office, even longer than 50 yrs, and actually a little longer than the USA has been in existence, like by thousands of years.
Sidesaddle, I know my history, don't worry. People in the middle east have been fighting just as much as Americans have been fighting against the British, or among themselves, in the past. War existed in every corner of the world in some form or another, one time or another. Don't stretch things too far back.
Before 1948, Israel did not exist, and Palestinians lived happy and in peace. Obviously, relative to today. The Ottoman empire treated them with respect and gave them much more freedom than Israel...which is currently denying them existance.
But, Jews decided they want their own country, unlike Christians and Muslims, who have been persecuted throughout the years just as much, in other locations and times. And with the help of America and other western countries, Israel was created, and the problems of the Palestinian people begun.
With a billion dollars of military aid a year, Israel is now in possession of one of the greatest and most experienced armies in the world, it's intelligence agency, the Mossad, competing with the CIA and MI6, and obviously, the Palestinians, who are still in the same stage of development as half a century ago, while Israel expanded and developped, can't do much but resort to terrorsim.
Now, innocent Israeli chidlren are born every day, and they derserve to go to school in safety and peace, and have hope for the future. Israel is formed, and has existed for 50+ years now, and you can't do much about it. The only solution is co-existance...but neither side is allowing this.
I got a little off track, but the point is, if Israel has one of the greatest armies in the world today, and immense superiority over the Palestinians, is because of America. If America didn't support the Israelies, they would be throwing rocks just like the palestinians, and it would be a fare game, rocks against rocks.
But America had to supply arms, just like to many other countries in the world (to which it waged wars against at times), and destroy the balance, and intensify the trouble in the middle east.
So, Bush doing nothing to prevent further wars.
If Iraq has these weapons, and if the CIA is the greatest intelligence agency in the world, and if America is the greatest most just nation in the world, why does it not come up with concrete evidence of these weaons using the CIA, and why does it not reveal to the world these proofs?
And media is also the biggest bunch of bull crap put together on TV, and it can be twisted to the desire of the West. Western and Eastern media can tell the same event, from two totally different prospectives. A very good example of this is the Israeli and Palestinian newspapers...how they report events in their own way, twisitng the facts.
Just like CNN and BBC do, compared to Middle Eastern news agenies..
you can't trust what you see on TV, but unfortunately, most people do, and this is how their minds and way of thinking are manipulated, and the world is divided, and hatred and ignorace spread.
But at least, if the CIA finds proof of weapons of mass destruction, and CNN shows them to the world, it'll be a start, and then, will Bush's plan to invade Iraq, and in the process kill thousands of innocent civilians and loose American and European troops, yet in the name of a good cause, i.e to prevent the use by Iraq of nuclear/chemical/biological weapons of mass destruction that could kill millions of people and bring about devastation, be justifed.
Until then, until proof, world stability and peace are of more importance than one nation's interests.
Archer
