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>Let's hope that all freedom loving nations will come together to fight the evil empires and the tyrants that impose their will upon their citizens.
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Hi Dale,

I think you'll find that all freedom loving nations have come together to fight the evil empires and tyrants that impose their will upon their citizens. And that they are still together in that common cause.

The difference is that many of those same freedom loving nations disagreed with President Bush's approach to the Iraq problem. Most, in fact, wanted to let the UN inspectors complete their work, using that time to employ additional means displace Saddam or squash his power somehow. [it's also agreed that the UN Inspectors would never have been allowed into the country had it not been for the heavy military pressure applied by the U.S.]

The implication of your words is that those countries that did not participate in the Iraq invasion are NOT "freedom loving", which is balderdash.

I don't think I need to remind you that a good many "evil tyrants" - Saddam and Bin Laden being but two of them - were heavily supported by the U.S., to the point that they were able to gain the 'stature' they achieved by that very support.

To date it has not been deemed "acceptable" for one nation or group of nations to "interfere" in the internal situations in other countries (save of course through clandestine means, as was common through the "cold war") and at this point it remains unacceptable. It is changing slowly (Kosovo may be an example) but it is still "under discussion" as witness Rwanda and East Timor before and Sudan today.

That the U.S.'s definition of "freedom loving" is to be the yardstick for agreed action amongst countries against another simply is not on because it would then be driven by the U.S.'s thirst for oil and basically nothing else!

That the U.S. is the most generous of countries is indisputable, at least in my eyes. That the U.S. is the only super-power left in the world is a simple fact.
Until President Bush decided that Iraq was a legitimate target (and Blair the puppet danced to the tune) the U.S. had maintained a reputation of being very very careful in the exercise of its might. It was always clear that diplomatic means were exhausted before the U.S. delpoyed its military.

Summarizing... virtually all of the countries of the world ARE participating in the effort to put and end to terrorists. Even the French and Germans and Russians and Canadians and those others who were not in the "coalition of the bribed" in the Iraq war!!! But that seems to fail the definition of "freedom loving" in the eyes of the U.S.

Jim