Yeah, he was. Probably one of the best presidents we ever had from a sportsman's point of view.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/comment/0,12956,1036687,00.html

Interesting reading.

That is some very interesting reading. I read something very similar recently that drew the same conclusions.

Sounds like a Clancy novel, doesn't it? Damn scary that it's all factual and true.

The Guardian is not above telling un-truths so take some of it with a grain of salt. BTW, they are British and very left-wing. But if you slant that way it my be gospel. As i can see the choir is in their proper chairs. Just havin fun.

The Guardian is all truth and fact???? Come on boys...

If the Bush administration was more forthcomign about their strategy in the middle east, sources like the Guardian wouldn't need to be sniffing around and writing stuff that sounds like an Oliver Stone movie...

What intrigues me is a long term presence in Iraq and the advantages that it may have for the US. You could certainly argue that the polices of the past hasn't exactly worked and fed the situation that we are facing today. Uh oh, I'm starting to sound like a neocons...

I say we sell the oil!

Take the lump sum for the cost of the war and give the rest to the iraq people to rebuild...Better yet we can use all the money found from husseins hidings and use it first..

Also if we use americans to rebuild that means the money comes back to the states

Halliburton ring a bell? Of course I wouldn't count on too much of it getting spread outside their doors.

harley- it does as a matter of fact I just talked to them about some work 'over yawnder' my money comes back here!

If you can get in on it, that's cool. I'm kind of irked that Halliburton got some no-bid contracts that are open-ended, no less. Lord only knows what they're gonna stick the US for. I just don't trust them.

I think there should have been much more competitive bidding. Plus, I think Cheney being in the Whitehouse and Halliburton getting such a sweet deal is just more than coincedence.

And you want the US out of Iraq when?

Many times competitive bidding hires the biggest fool who made the biggest mistake in bidding not the best one for the job.