I am anti Bush and I was and am anti the war. My reasons are not just down to my belief that the war was hypocritical and immoral but because there was little thought put into the post war nation building that has been borne out by the present problems and the repeated reports of Iraqi civilians being offended by the way American troops have treated the Iraqi people leading to higher support of militants. I also think it was unwise to march into Iraq before dealing properly with Afghanistan.
What I would have liked to see happen was the stabilisation of Afghanistan before this went further, this could have then proved to be an example of how things would be done properly, what has instead happened is that the world has been shown that Bush is not prepared to finish the job properly.
I think that the truth behind the Iraq attack should have been presented - that Iraq was going to be an object lesson to the middle east that support of terrorism was not going to be accepted any more and that we were prepared to remodel unnacceptable regimes to a situation where they would not present us with a threat of any kind.
The war was started on a falsehood which has rightly led to the left condemning Bush's actions but I do think that now we have to all work together to produce a democraticly led Iraq where the people have political power rather than trying to impose a puppet regime. If we successfully do ths then we will be going down the road to producing a safer world. At the moment we are fanning the flames of hatred and stirring up the hornets nest even further.
To remedy this the US needs to be stronger on the hearts and minds war and needs to be seen to be providing the Iraqi people with democracy and a standard of living at least equal to that before the war.