Bush: Freedom Has Brought Hope to Millions

American Forces Press Service ^ | Steven Donald Smith

[MikefromOhio]

No I don't see any evidence that we are dragging anything out.

A country the size and population of Iraq will take some time to secure stabilize and build up.

We don't want the region to sink further into chaos than it already was before we went in there.

[MaineVoter2002]

Here's a video that proves it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGLWd2FAKU0&feature=PlayList&p=752B8F6CD19EBA72&index=51

[observer5]

"Bush: Freedom Has Brought Hope to Millions"

It also brought "freedom" from their jobs and their shops, which they can no longer open for security reason.

[observer5]

"Meanwhile, we are trying to inject some stability into a very volatile region and it's not going to be easy OR quick."

Hope you are not talking Iraq here, because there isn't another country in the Middle East as UNSTABLE as Iraq.

[MikefromOhio]

Hope you are not talking Iraq here, because there isn't another country in the Middle East as UNSTABLE as Iraq.

I said region. Didn't you see that? Besides which I wouldn't even recognize the Iraq of today because it is VERY MUCH more stable NOW than when I was there in 2004.

[Nickname]

Please don't talk down to me with "your" leadership, they are OUR leadership.

I think we are dragging things out because of politcal correctness.

Al-Jazeera will soon have a TV station here in the US, we're still importing Islamic students and employees, we're building Islamic worship centers at Quantico.

We're doing these things to show how nice we are, while the hateful among these Islmaics chuckle behind our backs and sharpen their blades.

Muslims have not proven that Islam is a religion of peace, as our leadership has said.

There is no DOUBT in my mind that our military giving and doing all that they can within Washington's restrictions, but I do belive that, as usual, in a time of war, war becomes politics.

War is politics in Washington.

[MikefromOhio]

Please don't talk down to me with "your" leadership, they are OUR leadership.

Ummmm ok...mind pointing me to where I was talking to you about leadership????

I think we are dragging things out because of politcal correctness.

Mind pointing me to where we are dragging things out???? You still haven't done so.

Al-Jazeera will soon have a TV station here in the US, we're still importing Islamic students and employees, we're building Islamic worship centers at Quantico.

The market will take care of Al-Jazeera and all that other stuff is PR.

We're doing these things to show how nice we are, while the hateful among these Islmaics chuckle behind our backs and sharpen their blades.

And while we are putting them into the ground when they attack us. Don't forget that.

Muslims have not proven that Islam is a religion of peace, as our leadership has said.

There is no DOUBT in my mind that our military giving and doing all that they can within Washington's restrictions, but I do belive that, as usual, in a time of war, war becomes politics.

War is politics in Washington.

And if the administration was REALLY worried about politics, they would've pulled out of Iraq already. That hasn't happened and a full pullout probably isn't anywhere in the plans. Stablizing Iraq and with it, the region isn't going to happen overnight. I'm talking decades here. This isn't like Germany or Japan where there were single agitating countries. In the ME we have SEVERAL groups all vying for both being the top dog in the region, and having their sect of their religion on top. At the same time they are all sitting atop a vast amount of oil that the rest of the world both wants and needs to function. A stable Middle East is a good thing. We can only try. If we don't we can only blame ourselves.

[Hot Tabasco]

What he said was the truth!!

Where is the truth in what he said about Bush bringing the terror home to the US?

[Hot Tabasco]

It also brought "freedom" from their jobs and their shops, which they can no longer open for security reason.

Oh really? All the reports I have been reading over the past months vastly differ from your allegation. In fact store owners have been nothing but enboldened in their attempts to thwart any and all attempts to terrorize them out of business........

We've been trying to tell you for the past several years that the Al Jazeera news outlet is nothing but a propaganda machine for the enemy, but do you listen? Noooooooooooooooo..........

[Nickname]

See your post #37 where you talk about leadership. We can write that off as nit-picking on my part if you wish, but that stuck in my craw.

Mike, we're bringing in 15,000 more Saudi students alone soon.

My heart tells me this really isn't a good idea and that it is politics.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687086/posts?page=17#17

This school year, college towns from Florida to Oregon will host an estimated 15,000 new Saudi students, nearly all of whom have full scholarships paid for by the Kingdom's royal family. They're part of a new exchange program brokered by President Bush and Saudi King Abdullah last year that will soon quintuple the number of Saudi students studying in the United States.

I don't like this at all. We are importing what we are fighting.

[MikefromOhio]

I know what I want to say, but I just don't know how to say it.

Maybe some of those students will go home and realize what they've left.

We shouldn't change our country just because of them.

Sure we can change the security of our nation, do what we have to do to make sure that security continues to happen, but we should remain as open as we ever were to students, tourists and immigrants (the legal kind of course).

Part of this ties into the NSA program. We need that program up and running. If any of those students actually DO cause us harm, take care of it.

Chances are the vast majority of them won't do anything at all.

And we really aren't fighting very many Saudis in the ME either. It's mainly a stew of some Saudis, but some from the UAE, Jordanians, your occaisional Egyptian, a few syrians, etc....