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Originally Posted by Dylflon

Has the Bush administartion actually accomplished anything beneficial for the American people in the last six years?

Accomplishments are of course in the eye of the beholder. Conservatives would say yes, liberals would say no. I think Bush has done a good job with defense (minus Iraq) and with the economy. He has not done so hot with several domestic issues.

The Bush administrations spends all of your money on war.

Untrue. More money is spent on Medicare and Medicaid than on defense. More money is also spent on Social Security than defense. (source)

Trillions of dollars.

Approximately 318.5 billion dollars will have been spent on the Iraq War on September 30, 2006. So not trillions of dollars. (source)

He went to war on false pretenses. He said that Iraq was involved in the 9/11 attacks. And then a couple years down the road he DENIES having said anything of the sort.

I'll avoid getting into a he said/she said affair, but I will make a quick case for invading Iraq. Although I would like to say that I do not think we put enough troops into Iraq intentionally and still do not have enough troops in Iraq and we went about that side of the war the wrong way.

I believe Bush's goal of the Iraq war was two fold. One, to stabilize the Middle East - the most volatile area of the world. And two, stabilize the oil supplies found in the Middle East. It's pretty much common knowledge our country was built on cheap energy... which isn't becoming so cheap anymore. So basically we need to control as much oil as possible until research will speed up in other fields (which it really should have a long time ago).

Now, you may ask why we invaded Iraq and not Iran for example. One reason is that Iraq would have been much easier to invade than Iran. And two would be location.



Iraq is situated between Iran and Syria - two volatile governments. With a democratic state on their borders it will pressure these reigmes to democratize their own countries. It's been done before in history if you would like to research the domino theory.