by Keith Smitherman

Created on: October 23, 2007

The United States has never been popular throughout the world. Even so, there have been times when we had more friendly support than opposing. Under the leadership of George Bush, the United States has been given a failing grade from the world community. His ideas and actions are creating more problems for America than we, as a nation, might be able to handle in the future. His ideas and actions do not seem to be formulated with the future in mind, nor do his ideas and actions show that he has the best interest of the people of the United States or the world in mind.

Whatever his reasoning might be, the kind of leadership George Bush provides us is dangerous and irresponsible to the United States and the world.

Bush and his administration told many lies to make the case for war in Iraq. Congress, the American people, and the United Nations were all told that Saddam Hussein was in the process of making Weapons of Mass Destruction. The fact is that Saddam and Iraq were in a weakened state of power before the war started. There were numerous organizations that reported these facts to the Bush administration, organizations that included the International Atomic Energy Agency. According to Bennet Kelley, the IAEA reported to the White House in February 2003 that "there was no evidence of ongoing nuclear or nuclear-related activities" and "they had not found any weapons of mass destruction" (9).
This was not the only agency that believed Iraq was not a threat. Again, Bennet Kelley points out that in a report to the White House in February 2001, the CIA informed them that "we do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since [the first Gulf War] to reconstitute its Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs" (9).
Yet, with all these warnings, the Bush administration kept repeating that Iraq had WMD's. Steve Perry reports that, Bush told the world in 2002 that an IAEA report showed that Iraq was "six months away from developing a nuclear weapon." After that statement was made by George Bush, the IAEA informed him that they had never put out a report supporting that fact. As a result the statement had to be retracted (1182). Through a campaign of fear, President Bush and his people deceived the world into believing that the war in Iraq was justifiable. Speaking about an interview between Diane Sawyer and President Bush, Bennet Kelley contends that, when Diane Sawyer asked President Bush about the failure to find WMD's, he replied "so what's the difference?"

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