My personal opinion is more along the lines of a big hanging question-- why NOW? Why not 2 years ago, or 5? We've let a butcher sit there as a threat for years, and all of a sudden we're taking him out. What changed?
Bush sort of answered that indirectly tonight-- he said that his strategies have dramatically changed since 9/11. But I can't feel that he's doing this merely out of a desire to protect America from bombs-- there's a lot more about this that has to do with oil than we're being told. And that upsets me. Whether the fact that the oil businesses in our country are heavily tied up in that area or that Bush comes from an oil family is truly relevant or not to the threat Saddam presents to America, I can't say. But I'd like to feel that the current government is being honest with us, the American people, about it's long-term intentions for Iraq, before I decide that they're right or wrong. I don't feel that way right now.
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Date: 2003-03-06 09:23 pm (UTC)Bush sort of answered that indirectly tonight-- he said that his strategies have dramatically changed since 9/11. But I can't feel that he's doing this merely out of a desire to protect America from bombs-- there's a lot more about this that has to do with oil than we're being told. And that upsets me. Whether the fact that the oil businesses in our country are heavily tied up in that area or that Bush comes from an oil family is truly relevant or not to the threat Saddam presents to America, I can't say. But I'd like to feel that the current government is being honest with us, the American people, about it's long-term intentions for Iraq, before I decide that they're right or wrong. I don't feel that way right now.