What "global ambitions"? Not for territory that's for sure...we're giving Iraqis their freedom to run their own country.
As long as his lopsided Anti-American trade policies remain steadfastly focused on expanding our dependency on foreign resources, his policies of national borders eradication remain a legitimate issue to question his motivation.
That's what LBJ said about Vietnam.
Perhaps you've missed some of those great 'free trade' agreements signed of late by the White House. I'm for free trade but what Bush is doing is not free trade. FTAs with third world countries, namely CAFTA in route to FTAA, are going to make it even worse. I'll give him an a ounce of credit though. Protectionism won't work either. Now if he would only follow through with this instead of throwing up 30% tariffs for steel and the like. Problem is he's jumps from absolute opposites it seems depending on which way the poll, I mean wind, blows..
we're giving Iraqis their freedom to run their own country.
Sure 'we' are. Does that mean all 100,000+ troops can come home now instead of 2006? Hey, maybe while they're packing their bags over the next two years they may stumble across another buried missile or parts of 15 year old lab equipment confirming the existence of the invisble WMDs. But don't worry, when the troops do come home, our tax dollars will be flowing freely to Baghdad for decades to come. There is more than one type of an empire...