Peach, your well researched and referenced facts leave Iconoclast's already clearly juvenile argument shattered in pieces on the floor. He will reply with snide quips, denials, and will undoubtedly try and change the subject.
CPR and himself both must impugn Bush's intent with ridiculous claims of "empire", without providing anything even resembling a salient fact or even a plausible speculation as to what possible reason Bush could have to want to "conquer the world"... save descending into Buchanan's antisemitism.
The sudden amnesia both the UN-left and the Paleo-right seem to suffer from regarding years of investigation and revelation of the connections of Hussein's Iraq and the rise of Bin Laden's Al Qaeda, came on when it became clear that it was up to Bush to stand against the perpetrators of 9/11. Anything to bring down Bush, even sacrificing the security of one's own country... is a very dubious trait to share with the anti-american left, don't you think?
I see you understand full well how he'll respond. He has nothing else.
Facts mean nothing to some freepers and their desire to undermine the Bush presidency is so obvious that I often wonder who is paying them because surely there is no reason to come here without a paycheck as their ideology is so far removed from conservatism.