Didn't Bush invent this war on terror ?

jftdv2000

We have been fighting terrorism for a long time. The problem is, we are not exactly sure how to fight it. Before the administration of President Carter, we had no organized military or civilian agency whose specific mission was counter/ anti terrorism. We usually retaliated by bombing them with conventional weapons. There were many terrorist attacks that we did nothing about, even after Blue Light (the forerunner of Delta Force), Delta Force, SEAL Team 6 (whose mission was changed to counter terrorism after the Viet Nam War). I am a liberal Democrat, with 23 years in the US Army, and it is a difficult type of war to fight. I do not criticize any presidential administration on how they want to fight terrorism, because terrorist tactics change so frequently, and the only way to train for it is to try to counter the latest tactics of terrorists. The war on terror is not a war on ideas. It is a war that is fought against people that have attacked us and killed innocent people.

bumpocooper

In reality the US has not declared war since wwII. I look at the war on terror as similar to the war on drugs. You can't get rid of it completely, but you can hope to contain it.

gypsy

Let's see - in New York there used to be 2 skyscrapers THAT WERE DEMOLISHED BY HI-JACKED AIRPLANES FULL OF AMERICANS.

Yes, President Bush invented the whole thing. Hocus, Pocus.

zorro1701e

Plank, i feel your anger, but the president did not invent the war, this has been a long time coming. Bush was not the first president to be in office while attacked, president clinton's term was peppered with terrorist acts. Nothing is completely secure while still preserving some civil liberties. I know you are angry, but direct it towards the people who commit terrorist acts against america, if you cant do that maybe be a positive force for YOUR beliefs, instead of a negative one, as far as your question goes, sounds to me like your not asking one, instead you are making a statement in the form of a question. You are not meeting answers with thought, but with negative passion. I'm not a new age crazy guy, but just a guy reading your words. They are sometimes my words, but reading from someone else makes it sound so different. Try to think about things from other angles.

ffsotus

No, if i recall we were attacked on 9/11. Terror is not in a country so we can not decalre war against a country. The fruit balls are uneducated and spread out.

jerofjungle

I think you are giving Mr. Bush too much credit. The only thing he has done is see a place in history where he could play tough guy cowboy and he went with it. Unfortunately he plays too much.

TLH

actually long before 9-11 in other countries ,like Britain they already had anti terror police.

osunumberonefan

Seeing the WTC fall, on 9-11, caused me to know Bush didn't invent anything.

davcon1223

Apparently you can declare war on an idea because bush is doing a god job of just that, it was an idea the put the planes into the towers and its and idea that wants to kill all infidels even you right?Get this they will not rest until they kill all of us yes even the liberals in Washington who want to appease them, can you really talk to a terrorist?

Wow, I thought tomorrow was when the crazies came out...

War is a conflict involving use of weapons and physical force by states or other large-scale groups, coinciding with a lack of dialogue between the parties.

I think the radical Islamists throughout the world would be considered a "large-scale group".

So, no GW did not invent the "war on terror" other than perhaps the title. The war was started when a group of radical Islamists attacked the US...and that was long before GW. Just ask former President BJ Clinton.

Kennyp

NO! 9/11,the Cole,kobar towers,and the bombings of our embassies all happened. You are very wrong.

He didn't have to invent it. Its been going on for a long time. Bill Clinton did nothing about the terriorists even after the 1993 bombing at the World Trade center and the bombing of the USS Cole. He was too busy putting his man part in Monica's big, fat, skanky mouth!

Nancy D

Wake up!! Of course we declared war!! We needed to protect our security and not just for us; for everyone! What would you do if someone wanted to attack your family? Wouldn't you try to protect them?

ya girl

thats what i heard but im not sure.

Mistress Mollie

Exactly, Terrorism is an idea, you know why we did it?, The United States had no country to decare as an enemy. We're friends with China, Russia went bankrupt, So we had to invent an enemy. This was done with the help of Rumsfeld, and Larry A Silverstien, and George Bush. Silverstien needed the Trade Towers taken down, They contained asbestos, were outdated, and needed upgrades, just to come up to building codes. Rumsfeld needed A New Pearl Harbor, to get the public to go for extreme amounts of money, needed for the military, for global domination.

Silverstien made 7 billion dollars in insurance claims, Rumsfeld got his New Pearl Harbor, and George Bush got his excuse to take over an oil rich country, being an oil man himself and making a fortune in the war.

So as you can see, the ultra rich elite get to make a fortune and the average working joe and jill get to die so that these people can make their profits. Isn't it funny, that the liberties that they are claiming to protect are the same ones that they are taking away from us?

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gunner2za

911 was americas reward for bullying the world and trying to tell everyone what to do.....................it will keep on happening until america gets the message to BUTT OUT..........america thinks of itself only.......so it must then live with the consequences of it actions......have you noticed that america has very few allies in this........only those it has bribed to be allies through contracts to "rebuild" damage done and then america keeps the biggest for itself.........doesnt it make you wonder about it all.............AMERICA IS GOING TO FALL JUST LIKE THE ROMAN AND OTHER EMPIRES WHO GOT TOO BIG FOR THEIR BOOTS..............................USA..... going going .....GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

Kelly R

We are at war. It is just fought a little differently than it used to be.

The Mr. Pine

No. Its here and now.

soulstryker

i believe that bush attacked Iraq in a fit of anger

It Co$t To Be Around The Bo$$

In the word of Lil Jon "Yea-Ya"

catherine02116

Actually, that is a very good question. War cannot be formally declared against something other than a nation. As for the resolution, how will we know when it has been won? It's not as tho representatives of the country can officially surrender.

Will it be like George Orwell's "1984"? "We have always been at war with Oceania"

CajunBilly

Yes he invented this war and the bombing of the Beirut Marine Corps barracks, and the 93 WTC bombing and the bombing of the Cole, and he piloted one of the planes that hit the WTC by remote control on 9/11. And yes you can declare war on an idea when that idea is to kill all non-muslims.

DebiDel

No, it was Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer.

hobbled_1

did you forget 9-11?

Alien

Stop watching the evening news and basing your opinions on that. You'd be better off basing your opinions off of Spongebob Squarepants. Do you remember 9/11? How did you feel that day? Did you feel scared? Imagine if one of your family members were killed in that terrorist attack. Thank God they weren't, right? Well they might be if we don't stop the terrorists on their turf before they come to ours.

fatboysdaddy

No but it seems like most who hate the president think so.

3D Farms

No , but he invented the war on Iraq

No -- get more informed DUDE!!!!!!!!

yes

kobe

there is no war on terror.it's all a lie.

Redcat

We're all f'd! The world will burn and we will be converted to Muslim

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