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I see that Bush has already had to back off his SOTU promise to replace 75% of Middle-Eastern oil imports with renewable resources.
bq. One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America’s dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said Wednesday [...]
A friend of mine says to me today, “I know the mess in Iraq is bad, but shouldn’t we stay and fix it? Wouldn’t it be worse to leave the job undone?”
Under different circumstances, I’d agree with him. We _should_ stay and do it right. But staying and doing it right is not an option [...]
So, let me get this straight:
We “didn’t find any”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3740-2005Jan12.html?nav=headlines weapons of mass destruction. We were, of course, supposed to.
Iraq is *now* a “training ground for terrorists”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7460-2005Jan13.html and we’ve helped unite and radicalize the Muslim community against us. We were, of course, supposed to *break up* terrorist training camps in Iraq and use Iraq as a base to [...]
We are often reminded — particularly by those who support military action against people suspected of participating in thinking about potentially planning possible weapons of mass destruction-related program activities — the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. We must always be on guard against threats from outside our borders.
But there are forces _inside_ our borders “who threaten our freedoms as well”:http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000743012. [...]