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For sure the enemies of freedom and Democracy are watching out for a fall of the Bush administration on the more polemic issues. I believe there is no greater American policy issue in terms of the whole world opinion than Iraqi war.
By engaging in a war with no support from the UN, with a weak support from the citizens of the countries that were allies with the US on this war, and worst of all, using as major argument a false argument it sure left the US in a weak position in the long run. Things could have worked if the war had finished rapidly and everything worked fine which is not the case.
I admire President Ronald Reagan attitude when he once said:

"The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor. We maintain our strength in order to deter and defend against aggression -- to preserve freedom and peace."

But the problem is that even with all the killing and suffering going on in Iraq which we see on television it’s hard to say that what is happening is completely wrong; because it isn’t.
Let’s look to the facts: Iraqi nation was under a totalitarian regime in which a minority, the Sunni, oppressed the majority of the country other ethnic groups which are the Shia (the major group), the Kurd another minority; which happens to occupy the more oil rich territories in Iraq. Kurds seem to be doing ok, so someone is enjoying the freedom accomplished by the invasion of Iraq. So the Iraqi War it’s not like the Vietnam War at all and something as already been successfully achieved.
The Shia group seems to be a very divided and sectarian group, divided in militias and enraged against the once oppressors, the Sunni. They are free now and sincerely if they don’t know how to live in Democracy that’s their problem.
The third group, the Sunni people, they were the oppressors and are now the insurgents; in great part because they are afraid of Iraq to be divided and them loosing their share on the bigger oil profits of the other ethnic groups provinces, since their provinces oil resources are the smallest. To me it’s natural the Sunnis behave this way but you can’t say it’s right.
So who’s to blame? The Bush administration freed a country based on the wrong arguments, but they freed it any way.
The Bush administration just acted accordingly with their principle of doing what is right rather than what is popular, the Bush attitude. And they made it right.
Maybe they are paying for their arrogance now, but still I wouldn’t like to see the enemies of Freedom and Democracy having their last laugh. Like the TIMES magazine called him President Bush is kind of a Lone Ranger and I hope he wins over the bad guys in the end.