Peace and Politics

I believe that peace is possible. I also believe that the war in Iraq is wrong. We had no right to pre-emptively invade a sovereign nation on the pretext that they were a danger to the American people, which they never were. There were no weapons of mass destruction, no terrorist cells before we invaded. The Bush administration concocted a whole panoply of lies to convince us that we should be there. Not only did he lie before the invasion, but has continued to lie, obfuscate and hide behind executive privilege and secrecy. With each passing day, more lies have been revealed. What he has done also defies our constitution. By invading Iraq, we have left a power vacuum in the region that is being filled by the very terrorists Bush fears. The Bush administration and the war machine he commanded are not "liberators", but oil hungry invaders and occupiers. Why were the oil fields protected, but the museum in Baghdad that was full of priceless antiquities left to looters?

The only way to bring peace to the region is to bring in United Nations peacekeepers and for our troops to leave. This must happen as soon as possible. For our country, this also meant getting rid of the cause of the problem: George W. Bush and his cronies. He never had a real plan and his only real motive was to show his Daddy what he can do and to make Iraq an easier place to get oil. Hopefully President Obama will do a better job.

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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Meade

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle."- Erin Majors

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another." - Winston Churchill

"I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war." - Cicero.

"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war." - Desiderius Erasmus

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent." - Mohandas K. Gandhi

"And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." - Isaiah 2:4

"Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time." - Lyndon B Johnson

"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind...War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." - John F. Kennedy

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