[SunStar]

Bush is sounding more and more liberal by the day. Dammit.

[jurisdog]

Wow. Global Welfare.

Go Go Conservative Principles!!!

[Uncle Bill]

[Bars4Bill]

If true we'd be attacked by Haitians.

[CRAW]

Every time GW opens his mouth, I fell like barfing,.....It's sad really sad.... I hoped with this admiration we were heading for greatness.... what a disappointment.

[johnfl61]

Bush is wrong. It has nothing to do with poverty. Bin Laden is a millionaire and the terrorists who destroyed the twin towers were from Saudi Arabia which is very wealthy.

[Mike Darancette]

Bush Says Poverty Can Spawn Violence

No he didn't.

[Darth Sidious]

Bush may have an MBA, but as a student of history he's a blithering idiot.

I supposed America never had such a drastically high crime rate as we did during the Great Depression, huh?

[Frohickey]

Hmm... I guess since most of the people that lived through the Depression era are dead and buried, Dubya can say this since there is no one around to refute it.

[Jesse]

Bush+New World Order+Doublespeak+Fatted Republican incumbents in Senate and House= NWORINOGOP.

[BulletBrasDotNet]

The United States has poured trillions of foreign aid all over the planet in the last 50 years. The recipients of our aid, still hate our guts.

Each country's leaders has a responsibility to their civilian population. Crime and corruption runs rampant in these third world countries, and the needy don't get a dime.

This is a pathetic move that W is proposing.

[Jorge]

"History has called us to a titanic struggle, whose stakes could not be higher because we're fighting for freedom itself," Bush said. "We will challenge the poverty and hopelessness and lack of education and failed governments that too often allow conditions that terrorists can seize and try to turn to their advantage."

The title of the article is rather misleading.
This is not a claim that poverty is the cause for terrorism but rather that poverty is effectively exploited by terrorists.
This is undeniably true.

And terrorists are by no means the first to do this. Evil men with bold ambitions have exploited poverty to gain power throughout history.
Bush is right about this.

[joeyman]

Poverty causes violence is a left wing lie right out of the Karl Marx handbook. If it were true than it would follow that wealth causes lawful behavior. Don't tell me this guy is a conservative anymore.