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>>>I don't know whether Bush is very evil or very stupid. I'm not sure which is worse.
Debbie, UK
>>>Patriotic misinformation of which the Iraqi Information Minister would be proud.
Brendan, Portugal
>>> I flew fighter jets off a carrier for a living. Mr Bush, if you wanted to be a Navy fighter pilot, you should have flown an F-4 into Vietnam and gotten a real taste of what it is like to serve your country. Instead, you plunged us into a needless war and killed thousands of people. It is very easy for you to sign a piece of paper putting the many lives of our finest young men and women at risk to fulfil your policies. That is not your son or daughter coming back in a body bag, so what do you care? Those dead Iraqi citizens are not part of your electorate so why should you care?
VZ, USA
>>> I didn't vote for him but I'm coming around. Can you imagine how much more popular he'd be if he could deliver a speech well, and had JFK or Clinton's charisma?
Lee, USA
>>>As usual, and not without reason, the winners write the history books. Power never exercised is power not accepted by others. I would draw comparisons to the Pax Romana or Pax Brittania where one "empire", and I do not shy from or look down on that word, rather more civilised, or much more powerful, than those around it leads to a settling force, making others fit a uniform, structured world to the benefit of civilisation as a whole. If not to the benefit of each member of each country in that world.
Bill Popovich, USA
>>>While I am happy for the people of Iraq, I am not happy with us going in there without the UN. The financial cost may be more than we can bear.
L M Harbin, USA
>>>The US and the allies have prevailed? Oh, please! After Mr. Bush is through with the US, we won't have any allies left.
Leena , USA
>>> It was meant for the TV sound bites and for those "patriotic" people back home who like to congratulation themselves on not picking on someone (country) their own size and pulverizing them.
Ajana, Hong Kong
>>>In this age it's sad to see arrogance prevailing over logic, and might over justice. Indeed we are going centuries back into the dark ages, into lawlessness. Terrorists act from behind because they are weaker; USA does it from the front as they are strong!
Anwarul a. Khan, Canada
>>>The war in Iraq is not over, Bush is declaring victory to be elected second time, but people in Iraq soon will throw USA out.
Narine, Syria
>>>If the American public are so easily swayed by buzz words and useless phrases then I am afraid in the past I have given them more respect than they deserved...
Adam, St Albans, UK
>>>I have no comment on this speech, but I ask the Americans: Next time, please choose another president.
David, Belgium
>>>Sounds as if Baghdad Bob's speech writer has a new job.
Ross Macleod, Australia
>>>I do not feel safe with Bush as president of the US. I suggest he spends more time in his church so he has more compassion in his heart.
Kasem Mungkorn, Thailand
>>>Clinton lied about a sexual episode and was castigated. Bush lies about weapons of mass destruction and is applauded for his character. The contradictions are dazzling.
Nancy Simpson Hoke, USA
>>>The speech based, first, on political considerations and, second, on wishful thinking, characteristic of a mindset of the Washington politicians, who never paid attention to subtleties of Oriental realities, Islam included. 40 years of work on Middle East problems and 5 years in Afghanistan makes me very sceptical about the whole idea of American cabal of neo-cons to "civilize" the East.
Youri Tyssovski, journalist, Russia
>>> A president getting his country even deeper in debt in order to open the way for another fundamentalist regime...
Dan Kato, Japan
>>>I don't know whether Bush is very evil or very stupid. I'm not sure which is worse.
Debbie, UK
>>>Patriotic misinformation of which the Iraqi Information Minister would be proud.
Brendan, Portugal
>>> There is no credible evidence that Iraq was allied with Al Qaeda, or ever planned a terror attack against the US. Mr Bush's speech was based on this claim. At best, he looks naive; at worst, a liar.
Michael Thaddeus, USA
>>>Bush went to war against a country that had not threatened or attacked his country, his own people are suffering from the worst recession since the 30's, the nation has the biggest debit ever. How much further does he want to drive the country down, another war?
Alan Huckerby, USA
>>>Nothing is more humiliating and embarrassing than having George Bush represent this country. No amount of staged landings will change the fact that he is opposed to the constitution, international law, and the needs of the poor.
Ric Brown, U.S.A.
>>>Where is Bin Laden? Where is Saddam? Where are the WMDs? Where is the US economy? Where is America's reputation? Sorry, can't see a reason for applause.
Wolfie, England
>>>It's interesting to see Bush revive the old May Day tradition of stoking the flames of nationalism through the gratuitous display of military hardware.
Mark Dahlquist, USA
>>>Quite how Bush believes that, since no WMD were found, he can now try and link the invasion of Iraq is anybody's guess. The man obviously believes his own rhetoric. If history is anything to go by, Poland may well be next...
SET, UK