He's a politician, they do that all the time, but they call them promises. How do you think they get elected.
Your starting to sound like one of my wifes friends. When she was asked her thoughts on the war she replied 'must be ok Mr Bush is a nice person he wouldn't do any thing that was wrong'. I almost fell of my chair.
The western world does not have a very good track record as far as the middle east is concerned -
http://www.slonet.org/~ied/kmuscx.html
Here is a section from the article -

If one has any lingering doubts about the leaders of most resource wealthy nations being puppets, consider this: We all know that a large share of the populations of oil rich nations are poor and the elite are enormously wealthy. What is never considered is that almost 100 percent of that wealth is banked in Western banks and can be blocked at any time. Not only is Western military guarding those resources for the West, , so are Western banks guarding the finance capital which dictates who will process those resources and distribute the finished products. , Any nation's money denominated in dollars, pounds, marks, yen, or the new euros would be instantly frozen any time they revolted and that nation's own currency would be instantly worthless.

And here is some of the involvement with the CIA in the area -
http://www.gwu.edu/...hiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB28/
http://www.latimes.com/...ct11,0,2360915.story

The US economy at present is struggling. I sure that after this very expensive war that most of the wealth generated by the release of Iraqs oil will go right back into the US economy.
There all lining up now rubbing there hands together -
http://smartmoney.com/...20030318-000954-1324

Bob
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