Typical ranting and raving from a guy who's either a lunatic, an ignoramus or both.
Who are all these people who predicted that democracy would never take root in Japan? I don't recall reading of any influential American who had such an opinion, and he or she would have had to be one dumbass fuck to have said so, since Japan had already functioned, as had Germany and Italy, as a democracy for decades prior to the rise of fascism and/or militarism.
South Korea in fact DID NOT function as a democracy until comparatively recently. It was a rigid dictatorship that used torture and repression to keep its people in line.
It's as though almost nothing that comes out of Bush's mouth can be anything but a lie, and only those who are totally ignorant of history can be taken in by his bullshit, but America is full of dummies, and if only half of the voters bother to vote, the dummies can tip the balance every time.
<<Both Osama bin Laden and Zawahiri invoke Vietnam. Bin Laden said: It is for us or you to win.
If you lose, it will be your disgrace forever. >>
Suddenly, bin Laden and his ilk are authorities on what's good or bad for America. "A disgrace forever." What the hell does he think Viet Nam was, with its 57,000 American and 2 million Vietnamese deaths, and a total defeat at the hands of Third World peasants in black pyjamas who didn't even have air-power? Americans managed to live down that "disgrace." In fact, they forgot all about it, in every movie they make about it, THEY are the winners.
<<To withdraw from Iraq without getting the job done would be devastating, Bush said raising his voice. >>
Better get used to it, schmuck.
<<"Our troops will get everyting they need." >>
They didn't for the past four years, who is this clown fooling now?
<<Abandoning the Iraqi people would embolden the terrorists . . . >>
Yeah, they seem very timid and combat-averse right now. They sure could use a little stiffening of the old backbone.
<< and they would raise more recruits. >>
According to all the success stories we've been hearing from the U.S. military, the so-called "terrorists" were getting killed off like flies. I guess the moron figures they were replenishing their ranks by resurrecting the dead, but after an American defeat, they'd be able to fill up the gaps n their ranks by more conventional recruiting.
<<l This enemy would follow us home.>>
Right. They don't want to blow up America as long as Americans are "guests" in Iraq, but once they LEAVE Iraq, THAT'S the time to blow them up on their home turf.
<< For America?s security we must defeat them overseas so that we don?t face them in the United States. >>
I think so. If you continue to occupy their homeland and install a puppet government to give you a big chunk of their oil sales, why would they possibly be motivated to strike at the homeland?
<<Like Japan, a free Iraqi will be a friend to the US and an ally.">>
Uhh, weren't the Japs ordered by their Emperor to stop fighting and surrender unconditionally?
This "President" is living inside somebody's pipe dream, where all he has to do is say it and it becomes true. He's an idiot preaching to morons, but the sad thing is that there are enough morons out there to make it worth his while.
