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Originally Posted by Minte
I can't imagine how frustrated you conspiracy buffs must be when you already know that in a few years,president Bush will retire with all the benefits of a former president. He will live out the rest of his life in luxury. And in time history will judge his presidency. And time has a way of softening the reality. I vividly remember how the rest of the world hated Nixon. Now that he is gone,he is remembered for his diplomatic triumphs and watergate is a mere footnote.
The current president Bush will almost certainly be looked at as a hero.
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This is a most interesting post.
It's not secret that Bush enjoys the lowest popularity rating of any recent president. Everyone is complaining about how we are still in Iraq. I don't think Bush ever intended in leaving Iraq - and maybe he's smarter than all of us think.
In the 1980s when Iraq invaded Iran, the ships in the Persian Gulf carrying our oil came under attack by Iran. The US military had to step in to "protect shipping in the Gulf". (It's also a little known fact that the US pretty much dstroyed Iran's navy in less than a week.)
Twenty years from now when the oil starts running out, when it becomes harder to find and more expensive to pull out of the ground, we could see WWIII. We'll be fighting all of the other countries who need the same oil we do. China will be involved, and make no mistake they are in fact a world power (and huge!). Japan too will be involved; They've already gone to war with us over oil in WWII.
The Middle East will be the battlefront.
Hopefully by then we'll still have a huge presence in the Middle East. And only then will we look at President Bush and his crowd in a different light.