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Bush Compares Iraq War with WWII

Bush Calls Iraq War Moral Equivalent Of Allies’ WWII Fight Against the Axis
“They will fail, because the terrorists of our century are making the same mistake that the followers of other totalitarian ideologies made in the last century. They believe that democracies are inherently weak and corrupt and can be brought to their knees.” But, he added, “America will not run in defeat, and we will not forget our responsibilities.”

Democracies aren’t inherently weak and corrupt — it’s just people like George W. Bush who make them look that way. Oh, rest-of-the-world! Don’t judge all of us or our system of government by the behavior of the jerk we were foolish enough to put into office.

Bush’s comparison of the Iraq war with World War II is really offensive. Sadam Hussein may have been a bad guy but he was no Hitler. Iraq may have tried to take over Kuwait, but they never had anything even close to the imperialist aspirations of the Japanese and the Germans during WWII. The war in Iraq is about oil — don’t let anyone try to persuade you otherwise — it’s about the United States securing access to OIL. Any “moral” components are purely coincidental.

My own father was a sailor in the Pacific during World War II and, though he’s been dead for over 30 years now, I feel pretty confident that he’d have been offended by Bush’s remarks too. I’m pretty sure he’d have considered this whole war in Iraq a HUGE mistake.