From Remarks by the President on Bombing in Baghdad, via the White House
Bush Ranch, Crawford, TX
August 19, 2003
The terrorists who struck today have again shown their contempt for the innocent. They showed their fear of progress and their hatred of peace. They are the enemies of the Iraqi people. They are the enemies of every nation that seeks to help the Iraqi people. By their tactics and their targets, these murderers reveal themselves once more as enemies of the civilized world.
It is indeed a tragedy that terrorism continues to destabilize Iraq and the innocent continue to die. But Bush is dead wrong when he says that those bent on continuing to disrupt the rebuilding of Iraq fear progress and hate peace. What they fear and hate is the United States of America. They are not enemies of the Iraqi people, the U.N. or the other nations in Iraq. They are enemies solely of America, and there is a reason they hate us that has nothing to do with freedom or peace.
America acts like a charging elephant in its foreign relations: demanding, ordering, ignoring, bullying. The Bush administration in particular has informed the world that might makes right, that because we purport to be lovers of freedom, we have everyone’s best interests in mind. And dissent is simply not tolerated.
These are the reasons that bombs are going off in Iraq. They are the same reasons why Washington and the World Trade Center were targeted. Bush failed to look at least partially inward after the tragedies of September 11, 2001. It is now two years later, and the killings continue.
Maybe it's time for something other than war.
Support your troops. Don't be unpatriotic. Your website is sick, get a life.
Posted by: Get a Life on August 20, 2003 03:45 PMThanks for stopping by, President Bush, but we think we'll continue to publish the truth anyway!
Posted by: Thanks for the input on August 23, 2003 10:14 PMI'd like to say that I agree that support for your nation's troops in Iraq is important. Don't forget that they live with the decisions made by your gov't like all citizens. However, I agree that to date the U.S. foreign policy has largely been hindering the peace process in the Middle East. I'm sure that for many Americans the desire to liberate the Iraqis is genuine, but perhaps Bush's administration should start looking at what's best for other nations instead of what's solely best for America. All they're doing right now is creating more hateful people that may precipitate (hopefully not) more incidents like Sept. 11 or worse.
However, I suppose expecting the village idiot from Texas to understand something like that is asking a little too much.
It is definitely time for something other than war. Please!!!!!!!!!!!!
