"they should realise that peace is a vote winner."
But that's what they say they're striving for. A while ago Bush said something as ridiculous as 'this is a just war for peace' or something in relation to the Iraq war. The politicians talk doublespeak, knowing the vast majority of the world's population want peace, but in their quest for global power governments have to wage wars, so they dress it up in the language of peace. Besides, it's politically useful to governments to have an outside enemy, because it distracts people from the disasters of thier domestic policies. Without the distraction of a war and the 'terrorist threat' American voters would be focusing in Bush's domestic record in power, and he'd be nowhere near as high in the polls as he currently is.
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