So the war in Iraq is about oil and presence in the Middle East, not about terrorism, human rights and Democracy? In fact that is also the common explanation in the Arabic world and in Europe for this war!

Preventing terrorism is not the primary goal of the war in Iraq. We know that there are any number of people who actively hate the US, and these "terrorists" come from other places besides Iraq. The 9-11 hijackers carried Saudi passports. Many of them had lived right here in the US before 9-11. As did Tim McVeigh.

Many countries were rated worse than Iraq on democracy and human rights prior to 9-11. NOrth Korea is certainly no democracy and has a horrible human rights record. The same can be said of China.

No, terrorism is real. The causes of terrorism are what's not well understood.

Absolutely!

Is that what you would call a SUCCESS?

That depends on whose definition of "success" you're using. From Bush's perspective, and the perspective of the neoconservatives, he's a qualified success. But that's because the primary objective of his administration was to establish a permanent US military presence in the oil-rich Middle East as described in the various documents of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC)

Fighting terrorism, finding WMD are secondary or even tertiary goals. The primary goal of the Bush administration is to keep the US corporate engine supplied with oil at a reasonable price.

Labeling Bush a "failure" using Google Bombing is somewhat funny, and it takes a certain amount of internet savvy to game the Google search algorithm, but Bush and the neocons couldn't care less what Google users think of them. I suspect that Bush's biggest failure was Harriet Miers and Social Security.

Artie

It's called "Google Bombing." Read all about it at:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/google.asp

Artie