G.W.Bush Declares "Freedom and Fear are at war" -Sep.20,2001

Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People

United States Capitol
Washington, D.C.

September 20, 2001


God bless America
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[TheTboner409]

He was not wrong. Just because the NEWS did not cover it, does not mean it did not happen. There is evidence that WMDs were found in Iraq. Saddam was using chemical and biological weapons on his own people and when he invaded Kuwait. Stop believing what the media tells you. And by the end of Bush's 8 year term he put us in debt around $5 Trillion in debt. Obama has been in office for 4 now and has added around $4 Trillion to our debt. Who is acquiring more debt? Check your facts.

[writr808]

It saddens me to see people thinking that 9/11 was some sort of conspiracy, and lashing out at the US and its soldiers and its people. Do you not care at all for the lives that were lost that day? Do you not care about the fact that, truly, and genuinely, GWB cared about ending al Qaeda's reign? That he was clearly shaken up by what had happened? I'll admit, I didn't approve of him in his later years as President, but seeing how much he actually cared about the people who died...that's something

[Patrick McGinnis]

Let's not harp about the decision to go into Iraq...because we said what is done is done.

Let's instead look at how poorly the war was handled and the negative and positive effects the war had on the region.

[Patrick McGinnis]

But you know what...I will cede your one point. It doesn't matter that Saddam was part of a CIA backed coup in 1963 or that in 1980's we armed Saddam to the teeth to counter Iran because that all in the past...we made mistakes so be it. Just because they're our mistakes...does that mean we can't do anything about them...no I do believe in taking preventative measures toward our mistakes. Manuel Noriega was a former CIA asset but I fully supported the Panama invasion.

[Patrick McGinnis]

And how can you be so sure things are better off because they happened the way they did???

Fantasy???...you're the one dragging up half-baked theories for the war that not even the Bush Administration used to justify action.

[batvette]

So tell us about this bullshit claim you're spreading about the US installing Saddam and the Baathist party?

I guess fantasy is all you've got because you live in a world where you think it's rational to claim history was a mistake, preventative measures were a waste of time, and you're sure things would be better if history would not have happened the way it did.

[Patrick McGinnis]

I've addressed every half baked justification you've listed...and you offered no counter to my counter-arguments. You simply move on to another half-baked theory of yours.

[Patrick McGinnis]

Haha yea you're right...it wasn't like we were attacked a year earlier or anything...

[batvette]

Keep in mind Al Qaeda's first and foremost grievance was the starvation and humiliation of one million Iraqi Muslims through sanctions with the UN. I think such spineless policies as the Clinton administration pursued like bombing aspirin factories and ignoring the negative results of sanctions are more provocative to the Arab Militant Muslim philosophy than going in with an army and removing brutal dictators.

[batvette]

I almost hesitated before lumping you in with the lying critics and saboteurs of US policy but it didn't take long before I found such a thing in your comments:

"We also installed Saddam and his Ba'ath Party". Or perhaps that is honest ignorance. We didn't install Saddam, we didn't arm Saddam, we didn't give him WMD.

[batvette]

Only if the question were a struggle for power over Iraq. Are you too daft to recognize their goals concerning America and Israel were the same? That his rewards for suicide bombers in the Palestinian Intifada praised "Martyrs" for "Allah"?

You don't address my point anyway.

Sorry I don't take any claims about anyone being enemies seriously from Bush haters, who routinely lie to claim Bush lied. You've offered no compelling arguments and only the same regurgitated nonsense.

[batvette]

Only the stupid would believe we wanted Bin Laden that early in the game.