240 even you cant be this stupid. A slight majority of Americans supported the war and the country was split at about 50/50 until things started to go south which didnt happen until we were already there for about 2 years. Bush stayed there because we had toppled Iraq's leadership and made the country extremely unstable. Despite being unpopular, pulling out was not a viable option. If you cant see the difference between pulling the vast majority of the USA military out of a country it invaded and occupied for 5+ years and releasing a bunch of terrorist suspects into other countrys half way around the world, your too stupid to post on the internet, let alone this message board. He didnt pull out for the same reason Obama didnt pull out- We cant. To do so would have left Iraq in a worse position then when we arrived, wasted billions of dollars and American lives for absolutely nothing. Now there is a budding democracy, we have a legitimate timetable for withdrawl, violence is down and there are free elections. If we pulled out prematurely Iraq would have turned into another Afghanistan. No matter what your position is on the war, staying once we invaded ( which I didnt agree with by the way) was the right move.
Facing international pressure from the fags in the EU, the democratically controlled Congress and Senate, the media, Civil Rights groups and a backlash from the country's judiciary- Bush released a few to appease everybody and shut them up. No big surprise he was right and they were in fact terrorists.
Let me see if I understand your point then- Bush and anyone who is president should never cave to political pressure over anything. So if Obama makes the economy 100000X worse and America's economy completely collapses, should he keep passing bad legislation because he believes its the right thing to do?
