Didn't read the article. Who cares what some nobody thinks.
The answer to his question is: YES.
Any other questions?
Do you have a Michael Moore email for us next?
Everyone thinks they know what's best for America. Foreigners should mind their own business. Btw, happy anniversary! I just had mine in April. I signed up just a few months before you did. Now, I'm totally addicted. LOL
This guy needs to go back to his origami and leave the political analysis to the big boys.
Thank goodness his ilk weren't running the show during WW2. If the Allies had quit due to spinelessness at home after only one and a half, two, three or four years of war neither I nor my mother's side of the family would be alive. What a short attention spanned bunch of schmucks this world has become.
Obviously.
This is why Japan has won no awards or otherwise even attracted any attention for the quality or originality or depth of its journalists. This reads like a college newspaper "think-piece".
I think the real reason they-re anti-W is that they've never forgiven his father for hurling on Kichi Miyazawa.
Loss of lunch leads to loss of face.
The Japanese media hardly have a lock on that. It's pretty much a global effort.
sayonara (sp?)
Then maybe those countries need to get serious about killing terrorists.
President Bush says that is why he is waging the war on terror and confronting the ideology of hate that gives birth to terrorism by spreading peace and democracy. This position, however, cannot escape the fact that the Iraq war is now seen by many as a war without a just cause. To American people, I ask, do you think that this policy will really succeed in ending the vicious cycle of hatred?
Since your owncountry's got a bit of history with a "vicious cycle of hatred", perhaps you could answer your own question.
The American war with Irag didn't start in 2003, it started in 1990 when Saddam's army invaded Kuwait, with the intent of then capturing Saudi Arabia's southern oil fields. Perhaps the writer of this article will understand the importance of oil, as it was the reason that Japan tried to create an empire in the 1930's, and when the USA slapped an oil embargo on Japan the Empire attacked the USA at Pearl Harbor.
The writer makes the mistake of believing that being "wrong" is the same as "lying". Or perhaps, he believes that Bush should've known that Iraz didn't have WMDs. However, in 2002, every country that had an intelligence team believed that Iraq had WMDs. That includes China, Japan, Britan, France, Russia, and Germany as well as the USA. There was not one nation on the face of the earth that believed that Iraq didn't have WMDs.
IN fact, Saddam didn't have stockpiles of weapons, but had kept his programs alive albeit in a dormant state. That was in the Dulfer report too.
(Patient sigh) No, that was not the main justification for the war. The main justification for the war was the suspicion that Saddam was activating WMD programs and that his refusal to cooperate with UN mandated inspections was indicative of ill intent. If the reporter had read the report instead of quoting selected second-source bits of it he'd have realized that the justification was valid.
Part of the problem a lot of people have with putting perspective on this is that they forget that Saddam had lost a war that he started and that there were conditions for his remaining in power that he flagrantly flouted. This thing didn't just happen, and it certainly didn't just happen because Bush fils wanted to avenge an attempt on Bush pere's life. The process was long, drawn-out, painful, and at the last unsustainable.
Justification for war:
They were bad.
We are good.
We stopped them from hurting US before they could.
(Gee! That's almost a Haiku!...Who cares?)
I sent my opinion
I am one of the majority that will re-elect George Bush on Nov. 2. You ask, "Do you think that this policy will really succeed in ending the vicious cycle of hatred?" I can tell you as one of the victims of that cycle of hatred that American policy of inaction or little action for eight years made us a bigger target. Yes they killed 3000 on 9-11-01 but we also realize they were trying for more like 50,000 and things didn't go like they planned. You and other journalists like you , what do you want? Do you want an apology? Maybe we can send you a few headless corpses. We are going to go and kill terrorists, wherever they may be. We will send our sons and daughters, fathers and mothers while you who complain sit back and second guess us. We will fight and we will win. We don't give a crap how you "feel". If you want to fight, fine, we welcome your help but from you I seriously doubt it. You don't have the will and from the looks of most of our press in America you don't believe we have the will to fight. But you are wrong, our men and women in uniform are magnificent and we are free because of the brave. The press in this world has not told the truth of what we are really doing and the stories are there, you refuse to look. You run when there is trouble like little school girls, not to the real story but away from it.
Your folks just have to think further than the current headline.
If you look at what we are doing worldwide, you will see the wider picture.
Freedom must be paid for.
Freedom leads to peace.
Peace leads to opportunity.
Opportunity leads to prosperity.
Prosperity leads to enlightenment.
Enlightenment leads to God.
The one that I'll never forget was an ad for a bra. In English, it was proclaimed as the "Good Up Bra".
That, and Bill Murray's Lost in Translation says it all. (Especially the strip club scene)
We will never understand them, they will never understand us. They aren't voting for our president, we are.
Dear Mr. Wada: I speak no Japanese whatsoever,so please don't take the following as a gratuitous criticism. You may want to find some neutral translator to convey the subtleties of English; evidently, you had the President's words translated by an American "progressive". This led you to a fatal linguistic error: your basic premise is wrong, so everything that follows is also wrong.
There is no way to tell if the "... that Iraq had WMD stockpiles was the main pillar of justification for his decision to go to war in Iraq. is your conclusion or the "progressive's", but in English we call that a personal inference, similar to an opinion, and equally prone to error, depending on the political inclinations of the reader.
Thus, your entire article is false, since the "main pillar" you initially describe is no such thing. If you need more accurate translations of our President's speech, including all of the reasons he listed for going to Iraq (all equally valid), just let me or anyone at Free Republic know. Many of us would be quite pleased to help. Sorry you have wasted your time.