imracin68j wrote on 06/10/08 at 2:33pm:Bush said he would hunt down Bin Laden- He didn't
Bush said the war was won - It wasn't
Bush said Iraq had WMD's - They didn't
Bush said he would stabalize the middle east - he has not
Bush took the strongest military in the world and compromised it.
Bush took the strongest economy in the world and crippled it.
Bush took energy prices to the highest prices ever. (Including inflation)
Bush took a paid off deficit that had a surplus and created a debt that your grandkids will still be paying for.
Bush has created more terrorist with our occupation in Iraq.
Bush has the lowest approval rating of any president. Even Nixon.
The economy is in the worst shape it's been in since Bush Sr. (Maybe worse)
What exactly has Bush said he was going to do that was a success???
O.K. I guess I got myself into this...
1.) Do you really believe if Bin Laden was caught that terrorism would die ?
Does not capturing him make Bush a Liar ?
2.) technically the war is over, we are not fighting saddam and his royal army of idiots, we killed them. Iraq has saddam to blame for where they are, he sure did posture like he had wmd's, maybe if he had a second chance he would let the U.N. inspectors look at anything they want.
3.) Again, this was based on intelligence gathered by numerous countries, if he lied to get us into war he would have been impeachable, how come he's still in office ?
4.) I don't think anyone with a 8th grade or above education thinks that is even possible.
5.) Just how is our military compromised ? Some experts say being positioned where we are has kept Iran in a bit of a check mode, not wanting to be the next Iraq.
6.) The strongest economy was being effected long before GW, do we forget that Enron and Worldcom went under during Clintons time, not to mention one of the biggest financial debacles was the dot.com b.s., again under the beloved
slick willy when the sec allowed the dot.com companies to be valued on their potential worth instead of actual worth.
Also to be factored in besides the cost of Iraq is the cost of, the attack on the twin towers,( look it up, it was an expensive attack) one that quite possibly would not have happened if Clinton would have responded to the first attack,
or the attack on the U.S.S. Cole, or any number of terrorist attacks going on in the world while he was the leader of our country. He Did Nothing.....
Katrina and numerous other natural disasters and NAFTA...... there's your economy.
7.)Refer to #5 ( especially NAFTA )
8.) Dan Ratherish statement, fanatical muslims hate us and Israel, but mostly us and our western liberal views and lifestyles, if GW was gone today muslim fanatics would still hate us, really, we all know enough about them to know how they feel, they just want us all dead, and they are very smart about it. They won't attack anybody as a nation wearing uniforms, that would be a real fight and they know they would lose, but the majority of islamic countries fund terrorism to kill innocent victims everyday but would never admit to it, muslims don't just hate GW they hate you too.
9.) Kinda what I was talking about history will say, " He didn't waver to others opinions" ( again, I'm not here to save GW's reputation, I just think there can always be someone worse, as I stated in the earlier post. )
10.) You have to take all things into consideration, if you look at it one way Bush has had a very low national unemployment rate through his whole 8 years, this is what has been used in the past to look at the countries economic condition,
if you look at it from gas prices and real estate disaster, then yes , you would blame Bush for all economic issues, but if you blame not the lenders, not the agents and not GW but people who got into loans they had no way of ever paying off, but stupidly thought property gains 25% in value every year and they can pay interest only for 2 years and sell and make 400,000.... these people can only blame themselves, they gambled.
As far as fuel prices, in the words of a US senator recently " if we even dropped just the drill bit for an oil rig on the ice tundra and acted like we were going to be self sufficient for a change, OPEC would lower its prices." Bush was highly critizied for proposing drilling there years ago. ( worse economy than even Bush senior ? Answer: Who is Jimmy Carter ) and you will never count in the price we pay for illegal immigration. billions.... and you can blame a few presidents for that.
Again, I'm not here to defend GW, but you can only blame one guy for so much. And then you have to look at who else had a voice in matters, as was posted in another thread, the dems have been less than impressive in the house.
and I believe this is because they suffer from wanting to do what makes people happy that minute not what they think is right in the long run. more worried about what the anchor man will say about them on the 6 o'clock news.
I would ask you to list what Obama has accomplished in his short political career that would lead you to believe he has the potential to be a decent president, I know he has voted over 100 times in his short term in the senate
"Present" which is what you say when you don't want to commit to an answer.
Not very Presidential to me.
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