Has George W. Bush Become the World's Worst Terrorist?

It is no secret that I am not a follower of the liberal left agenda. I cannot be. I am still able to stand and be counted as a keeper of the original principals that the United States was built upon. I don't find any of that offensive because I have no will of my own to affect upon any other people. I am not offended by the fact that the world has homosexuals on it, but I don't believe I should have to have the homosexual agenda driven into my face at every turn and do not feel that homosexual rights is a widespread issue and I feel that tying up American courts with those issues is an abuse of the legal system which belongs to us all. I am dis-inclined to believe that I am any more than a grain of sand to this planet and do accept that an order of power greater than myself is responsible for all life. I find no religious views at their point of origin objectionable to me, unless of-course they do not respect the equality of my freedom to be as I choose as well. I cannot fathom an act such as abortion being used as an alternative to responsible sexual activity, but I do not think that judges and lawyers should be in that controversy. That should be between a doctor and the patients-men and women. I believe that hate is identifiable and objectionable. I believe that people who deal in the perpetuation of hate are committing a crime against humanity. I believe that the people who pedal hate philosophies, and act in their hate to the effect of destroying the lives of others should be tracked, sought, apprehended, terminated or otherwise neutralized because no man on earth is free while people are enjoying free reign to murder and destroy others who do not assign to their principals and beliefs or for any other reason. Also, that the victims of people who think to behave that way have an inalienable right to protect themselves and their interests using all manner of force necessary.

That said, it is necessary to dispense with a narrow minded and fundamentally flawed liberal philosophy that is being wielded against all mankind in the form of hate being exerted against our president, George W. Bush. There are many who seek to destroy the value of the elements of what is a war on terror. One of the elements is the person of George W. Bush. He has identified something that is easy for him to see at his age. That is a relentless and merciless assault on America's interests and people the world over for over three decades.

In 1979 the US embassy in Iran was overrun and all of the occupants were taken hostage. That may be hard for some today to empathize with, but the lack of ability to approach that event empathically does not make it any less real to those of us who remember it. George W, Bush is one of those among us who does remember it. It was a terrible event and one that we were unskilled at handling. We had a very good man for our president at the time. His name was Jimmy Carter. He was a good, kind, honest hard working peanut farmer from down south. He was not a skilled strategist, but did as well as could be expected given what he had to work with, no time, no preparation, a population base that was 'exhausted with war in Vietnam' and a dis-emboweled military that had recently lost all of its WWII veterans and had left in it the leadership remnants who stayed after the Vietnam War, and a few quickly tiring Korean Veterans.

With that set of conditions, determinants and standards President Jimmy Carter tried to do something. His something was best described in retrospect as just simply "anything". It was a spectacular blood-letting and mis-directed fiasco from the start. The raging lunatic Ayatollah Khomeini held up in front of cameras for the world to see the burned, charred, and ashen remaining body parts of the American service members that in their own zeal and enthusiasm to do well crashed and burned of their own hand in the Iranian desert. These Troops were sent on a mission, clandestine, covert, to rescue the American hostages being held in Iran by a mob of kidnappers lead by the now president of Iran, Ahmadinejad.

Place this into perspective. The United States President was influenced by 'opinion' so strongly that he was afraid to make a rightful show of force in order to rescue our citizens from a terrorist faction who thinks to bend times and places and events to suit their own manifest of belief. The people in that embassy were victims no less than the people in the Towers and the Pentagon and the Field in Pennsylvania. They were victims of Muslim terrorists.

Then, as if that were not enough, in 1983, just three years later the American Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon was attacked. And, yes, this too is something that George W. Bush remembers. This nation did nothing. No act of retaliation was engaged. We sent cops, researchers and writers. Pointless acts all of them if we were not to learn from them how best to handle the growing and active terrorist threat.

Again in 1983, the Marine Barracks in Lebanon was attacked and 241 US Marines were killed. They were ambushed. This was an unprecedented behavior. There had been no indicator, no warning and no precipitous event. This was an act of war, but, how do you approach a warring band of religious extremists. It began to become clear that we had better get it figured out. Wheels were set in motion to begin posturing for a more aggressive stance with regard to Muslim terrorists in the world. This event also signaled to Bin Laden that the US was impotent against his brand of warfare, but, that is an entirely different and additional story which would spread the arena of this topic over far too much territory for a mere enlightenment article.

In Scotland, over Lockerbie, in 1988 an American Jumbo Jet was removed from the sky leaving 270 people dead. George W. Bush remembers this too. We still did not know how to handle the problem. The problem was escalating and everybody who knew anything at all knew it was going to continue. This was also, by the way, a Muslim terror attack.

To go on with the dispensation of facts establishing the hate and subsequent mad homicidal activities of the extremists who have adopted a deviant variant of Muslim to assign credibility to their manifest doctrine of hate would be excessive for this venue. Allow it to be known in the interest of brevity that in the twenty years from 1981 thru 2001 there were almost 7600 terrorist attacks world wide. By this fact, with terror attacks occurring at the rate of almost 380 per year the world was not safe. Thousands and thousands of people were dying traumatic deaths while drinking damn cups of coffee in coffee shops. Innocent civilians were being slaughtered by the thousands with no warning, no announcement and no precipitous activity beyond that in the manifests of hate filled extremists and the retribution for the perceived violation of their manifest ideology was what they thought to exert. No trial, no voice heard by anyone, and no way to manage even basic safety.

That last paragraph could become a rage filled rant from me into the face of the liberal American who descends to the level of placing George W. Bush in the rank and file of the terrorist. America was attacked world-wide and engaged near to nothing in retribution or remedy and did absolutely nothing in effective terms to stem the tide of terrorism up to the calendar year of 2001.

It was in 2001 that the United States saw clear to employ the gleanings from the years of terror attacks and actually strike back to the very heart of terror. The fact is, if we did not carry the terror war that had been declared against us in 1979 to the world in which it originated, it was going to unleash upon us here. There is no intelligent way to doubt that.

It may be opinion in the strictest sense of the criteria used to define what an opinion is, but to draw another one is worse than drawing none. That war had reached our shores and did so at a monolithic cost.

Many exhort to speak that we knew it was going to happen. I need to ask those people, instead of responding to that, "With over 380 attacks happening per year and people like Saddam Hussein at the helm of nations proclaiming it, how can anyone right thinking not know it was going to happen?" To inquire whether or not the US knew of it before hand is likened to asking if a child with a package of gum is going to chew it. We have not seen it, but since about 1983 we knew it was going to happen. Its like asking if smoking tobacco will kill you. You are not dead, but if you smoke, you will die and it is highly likely that tobacco will do it...if something else does not first.

With anyone over 45 years old, there is no doubt the war on terror is real. Some of the citizens younger than that may have to look into it some, but it can be established easily that there has been an active terror minded enemy out there and that enemy means nothing less than to kill everyone who is in his way. And that includes Muslim and non-Muslim alike. The United States, and the world, has an enemy. It has declared war and we will either be in it, or, we will be in it. That is not a typo, nor a flaw in my thought process.

Go ahead and blame GWB, but, I have seen what he has, and what he has seen is what constitutes the evidence that we either address this enemy on our terms or on his. We waited in WWII until we were invited. We fought against some .06 percent of the world's population. We waited until we were invited to this one also, some thirty three years, and this enemy has a population pool from which to extort combatants that is representative of 25% of the world's population. It will be bigger, it will take longer, but, make no mistake, we are in a live or die struggle and it is against an enemy as ruthless as all the ruthlessness the world has ever known combined and packaged into one.

I guess that to leave this on a question it would be this, should we wait longer, until that declared enemy has actually developed all that is required in order to actually accomplish what right now he cannot?

You decide.