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Shame on President Bush for wanting to maintain the world's strongest military! He should just be nice and let other countries pass us by. That would be the fair thing to do.
I agree with you. President Bush should try and maintain the US's military and economic power. But it's the actions that can be taken with this as an excuse that scare me. Does anyone really want World War 3? This strategy sounds like something out of imperial Japan.
How so? I like that you're reasoning this out, I just don't see where you're going on that particular point. Help me out here.

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National Security and Stability in the Region.......I don't need any other reasons than those.
Those are very, very good reasons-if they're true. Do you really believe Iraq was an "imminent" threat to our National Security?
I think after 9/11, almost every threat has been treated as an imminent threat. Whether or not you agree with the administration's other foreign-policy decisions, that's pretty cheap insurance. Honestly, if I were in the position to make those decisions, I would probably do the same thing, and it's probable you would too, seeing as you have common sense and all.

I'm curious though - if you were in that position and wouldn't approach things from that angle, what would you do? I hear a lot of people disagreeing with the Bush administration's decisions, but I haven't heard too many alternative courses of action yet. It's like people hate what's going on but they can't think of anything to replace it with.