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But i'm sure their opinon doesn't matter because they're "liberal" or something.



There opinion matters as much as anyone elses I suppose. But I dread the day the US tries to conform policy to someone elses opinion. Like Bush said and rightly so, the US should not and wont seek a permission slip to defend herself.



I dislike this sort of jingoistic rhetoric. What Bush said was: "America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country"which grammatically is a mixed metaphor. Who was he seeking to direct this invective against? His fellow Americans who did NOT give him permission to go to war ... because he did not ask them. Other "western nations" who disagreed with him and refused to join him?

This is more of the "if you're not with us, you're agin us" approach which is the bane of intelligent and informed discourse.

It was great rhetoric, but what in the world is he talking about? Let's grant the case that the world and the United States are better off without Saddam Hussein than with him. But Bush's feisty line directly suggests that Hussein was a direct threat to the security of the American people, as if he was about to launch weapons of mass destruction against the U.S.. That was never the case. But Bush wouldn't give an inch. He was right, most of the world was wrong. And we don't have to ask permission to defend ourselves. That he was even raising the issue suggests that his polls show he has a real vulnerability there. But how is widening his credibility gap a solution? The American people were fooled once. He's playing with fire if he thinks they can be fooled again.