Bush has made millions mad

Catholic New Times, April 20, 2003 by Tom Trottier

Re CNT's "Atari War begins," April 6, 2003), the war has started and will soon be over. The dictator Saddam will be gone. Bush said that the war is to disarm Iraq and remove any chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. Once Iraq is subdued, he will have achieved this end.

However, in the process, Bush has made billions of people mad at him, Like battling the Sorcerer's Apprentice, smashing one danger may only create tens hundreds, thousands, millions more angry Muslims and Arabs. The most important resource terrorists have is anger, and anger can only be created by their enemy. Without anger, terrorists do nothing.

If Bush is truthful that his aim is to avoid future terrorism, he must stop when he has won and completely turn over Iraq to the UN or other neutral body to aid them to become a democracy. Bush should support Iraq's recovery with money only, not troops or administration.

Once the world sees that Bush was honest, that he leaves Iraq after achieving his stated goal, only then the world will grudgingly think that the U.S. did the best thing and begin to believe again in U.S. morality. However, if the U.S. stays in Iraq and takes all the contracts for U.S. companies, then the world will realize that Bush's ideal is not democracy, but oil, and that his God is not Jesus Christ, but Mammon.

Tom Trottier

Ottawa