Re: What do you Euro\'s think abou this?
The article made it seem that bush was making some kind of huge sacrifice in order to fight the islamists, like he personally is impoverishing himself.
Thats crazy, homeboy and his boys are laughing their way all the way to the bank. They are making billions off of this supposed war on terror. Its a little fishy to me as a matter of fact. Truthfully, He is loving it that the dollar is getting weaker and weaker. He has basically said as much. The other people benifitng from "the war on terror" happen to be islamist extremist governments in the middle east.
Another eror in that article was that Iraq was not a case of Islamic extremism, Saddam was an arsehole to be sure, but his government was one of the more secular places in the middle east. Women held high positions in government, you could buy alcohol on the street, women were not required to cover themselves, and there was relative freedom of religion. As a point, Saddam in the early 80's payed for a chaldean (iraqi christian) church and community center about 5 blocks from my house in Detroit. The islamists hated him as much as anyone.
Also, what about the apeasement of the Israelis? If you recall, Manachem Begin used blatant terrorist tacticts, (blowing up hotels, massacreing villages) in order to get Israel founded in the first place. The thing is that his tactics worked. Much as the palestinian bombers suck, they learned that terrorism worked, from who else? the zionists. (Not to be confused with the jews, just as the palestinian movement should not be confused with islam).
But basically I wish I could believe that Bush and friends are nobel warriors fighting the bad guys. But frankly, well no, they are just making themselves rich the easiest way they know how which is to steal.