Is Bush truly capable of World Domination?

Prompt: America as an Empire?

In Why Are We At War?, Norman Mailer makes some valid points on why he believes that Bush, and his board of advisors, are trying to create a global empire. Although I do agree that Bush may want this for himself, I do not believe this is his core reason for going to war with Iraq. Even though I have not always been in to politics, I have noticed that Bush seems to be like a puppet, and he is controlled by someone in the background. An example of this would be Bush's speeches. Mailer himself states that Bush does not have the best rhetoric and speeching making abilities, but he brings up Bush's use of the word "evil." Do you honestly think that someone who has a hard time even writing or reading the speeches would have the ability to perceive that the word "evil" is like a narcotic to the American people? No!

Besides, if Bush or his board of directors who have been working with presidents for an underestimating amount of years truly wanted a global empire, don't you think they would have achieved by now? I honestly can tell you that I feel this is not Bush's goal, and that he truly did go to Iraq and in to this war for the reputation of America and to find the people who intentionally attempted to bring America down to her knees. Yes, Bush may want to gain unlimited power over the oil in the Mid-East, or he may even want to be able to control the Iraqis for a short time, but I do not think that he is able to create a global empire, if for anything, the simple fact that today, in the twenty-first century, not too many companies would allow themselves to simply be taken over. If that were to ever happen, Bush would be stopped just as Hitler was in World War II, and the leader of Korea was in the Korean War. We, as a group of patriotic Americans, must believe that we have a leader we can trust, and that he will continue to do what is best for the people he is leading.

Can I really blame him... I don't think so!

Prompt: Why Are We At War?

Through out Why are We at War?, Norman Mailer states some very clearly organized and well written ideas, going from Bush, the mastermind who wants America to be the Rome of the twenty-first century to the simple need for the Middle East's oil supply. As I read Mailer's ideas, I realised that I actually agreed with his ideas, although in a different way.

For instance, Mailer states that Bush wants to make America a global empire. He states that Bush wants America to be like Rome, with the Iraqis as our Greek slaves. My response? Name one person who has ever been president who did not want the United States of America to be recognized as a world power, and hopefully a global empire. Bush is not the first man to become president and do something crazy to try to gain more power. Is power not the reason that people become president, or a high-up official? I can not blame Bush for wanting these things, because these same accusations would be thrown at any other person in office.

Mailer also states that the U.S. troops are in Iraq so that America can obtain the oil supply there. According to the statistics Mailer uses in his book, Iraq alone controls 11% of the world's oil supply, with only Saudi Arabia ahead of them. Mailer goes on to state that America uses19.5 million barrels of oil per day, or almost 26% of the world's supply. Can you honestly blame Bush for having this as one of his incentives to go to Iraq? And, I do not want to hear any complaints out of anyone who drives a vehicle that requires gasoline. What would you do with out it?

One other reason that Mailer mentions is the need for revenge on Iraq for the damage done on 9/11. This one I know no one can argue, for we all have this mind set: THEY MUST PAY. Or, at least, we did. What we, as Americans, need to realize is, Bush is doing what we all pushed him to do 6 years ago, after that dreadful day when so many American lives were lost. Would it have caused any less stress for him if he had ignored the calls for war, and had not done anything? Would he still be as unpopular as he is today in America's society. Yeah....that's what I thought too.