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Was George W Bush a good president?[W:439:621]

Was George W Bush a good president?


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Re: Was George W Bush a good president?

Bush didn't tell any more untruths about Iraq than his predecessor, his predecessor's administration, and high ranking Democrats did.

Even assuming Bush and his predecessor said the same thing (they didn't), the BA shovelled more of it on the American people during a vulnerable time, in order to achieve an agenda.

I don't like to beat on Bush. It's old. But lets stop pretending that Carter, Obama, etc. are in the same league as him just because they're Democrats. They're not. Bush was a horrible, disastrous president. If you supported him, you were hoodwinked. Just accept it, and go back to bashing Obama over edited memos.
 
Re: Was George W Bush a good president?

We have a different definition of 'effective'.

That's fine. I'll go on assuming my definition is correct.
 
Re: Was George W Bush a good president?

Even assuming Bush and his predecessor said the same thing (they didn't), the BA shovelled more of it on the American people during a vulnerable time, in order to achieve an agenda.

I don't like to beat on Bush. It's old. But lets stop pretending that Carter, Obama, etc. are in the same league as him just because they're Democrats. They're not. Bush was a horrible, disastrous president. If you supported him, you were hoodwinked. Just accept it, and go back to bashing Obama over edited memos.

I didn't say anything about Carter or Obama. I didn't say anything about political parties. I don't know what edited memo you're talking about. I have no idea why you posted this to me.

Clinton and his administration said Iraq had WMDs. So did many high ranking Democrats.
 
Re: Was George W Bush a good president?

Even assuming Bush and his predecessor said the same thing (they didn't), the BA shovelled more of it on the American people during a vulnerable time, in order to achieve an agenda.

I don't like to beat on Bush. It's old. But lets stop pretending that Carter, Obama, etc. are in the same league as him just because they're Democrats. They're not. Bush was a horrible, disastrous president. If you supported him, you were hoodwinked. Just accept it, and go back to bashing Obama over edited memos.

Your statements are factually wrong. It was Clinton who signed a law calling for regime change in Iraq. Bush accepted Clinton's analysis of Iraq and continued Clinton's policy using more effective means. Stop trying to divorce the Democrats from the war. They agreed with the rationale for it and many of them voted for it. They own it as much as anyone. As for Bush's other intiatives, they are still in effect and supported by the current President including the Patriot Act and other counterterrism policies.
 
Re: Was George W Bush a good president?

Thank God we had a President like Bush when 9/11 happened. The 9/11 attack changed the whole world that day, and Bush didn't even blame a video for three weeks. The troops that go into harms way surely respected Bush more than Obama, and that was proven very recently at West Point. Those "tax cuts to the super rich" must not have been so horrible if our current President kept them in place. Those "unpatriotic" Debt Ceiling raises must not have been so horrible if our current President wanted them also.
 
Re: Was George W Bush a good president?

It was Clinton who signed a law calling for regime change in Iraq.

And? He also supported regime change in Cuba. Why didn't the US invade Cuba?
 
Re: Was George W Bush a good president?

Kill the people who put them there before they put them there.

That's been one of the complaints about the current rules of engagement, if an American soldiers sees someone carrying an explosive device or burying an IED along a roadway, they can't open fire and kill that person unless they are actually being shot at.
 
Re: Was George W Bush a good president?

I don't know if you have called Obama a liar.

Why does anyone actually needs to call Obama a liar, he is a liar.

Obama also is inflicted with narcissistic personality disorder.
 
Re: Was George W Bush a good president?

That's been one of the complaints about the current rules of engagement, if an American soldiers sees someone carrying an explosive device or burying an IED along a roadway, they can't open fire and kill that person unless they are actually being shot at.






That's a bad policy and should be changed.

Those bomb-planters are valid targets and they should be taken out before they do their dirty work.
 
Re: Was George W Bush a good president?

About 100,000 Iraqis died in Bush's war in Iraq.

Right now the relatives and fellow tribesmen of those people are looking for some payback.

Think about it.

And the majority of the dead Iraqis were killed by fellow Iraqis and Muslims, not by Americans.
 
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That's a bad policy and should be changed.

Those bomb-planters are valid targets and they should be taken out before they do their dirty work.

Someone with in the Obama administration doesn't agree.
 
Re: Was George W Bush a good president?

And the majority of the dead Iraqis were killed by fellow Iraqis and Muslims, not by Americans.




Who started the fighting in Iraq and where did the guns and bullets for those killings come from?

That's who the Iraqis blame.
 
Re: Was George W Bush a good president?

My answer is the exact same if the question was about Obama...

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NO!!!
 
Re: Was George W Bush a good president?

My answer is the exact same if the question was about Obama...

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NO!!!




That's your opinion, which most Americans don't share- they sent Obama back to the White House for a second term.
 
Re: Was George W Bush a good president?

That's your opinion, which most Americans don't share- they sent Obama back to the White House for a second term.

All that proves is that the Dems that re-elected Obama are as politically ignorant as the Reps that re-elected G.W. Bush.

They are not called 'ignorant masses' for nothing.
 
Re: Was George W Bush a good president?

Who started the fighting in Iraq and where did the guns and bullets for those killings come from?

That's who the Iraqis blame.

The guns and RPG's probably came from Eastern Europe or China and have no idea who's manufacturing the ammunition.
 
Re: Was George W Bush a good president?

The intelligence never existed, and what intelligence they did have they knew was unreliable. You're certainly giving a lot of leeway to Bush, when it comes to burden of proof. Do you afford the same to Obama?

What are you talking about? How do you know what other people knew or did not know? Simple answer to that question is you do not. I'm giving leeway to no one. You are the one who brought up Obama. Obama is obviously an unhealthy obsession for you.


Okay what? That's all you have to say? For someone who goes out of his way to be an instigator, I would think you would have more to say on the matter.



If you call Obama a liar, but not Bush, then we have an example of setting different standards and different goal posts. I don't know if you have called Obama a liar. Have you?

What exactly is it that you are looking to hear? Sorry that people just don't see things your way.


Never said you were.

Incredibly passive-aggressive. You implied just that, yet apparently are too cowardly to come out with your own true feelings.
 
Re: Was George W Bush a good president?

Buchanan only screwed up america not the whole world for a 100 years like bush.

LOL Screwed up the world for a 100 years.
 
Re: Was George W Bush a good president?

I suppose, in the context of the question, I lean right. One of my complaints about Bush is the reversal of "no net loss" (regarding wetlands) during The Patriot Act.
 
Re: Was George W Bush a good president?

How do you know what other people knew or did not know? Simple answer to that question is you do not. I'm giving leeway to no one.

Study: Bush, aides made 935 false statements in run-up to war - CNN.com

Okay what? That's all you have to say? For someone who goes out of his way to be an instigator, I would think you would have more to say on the matter.

You stated an opinion of Obama, and I said okay. What do you want? I'm out of cookies.

What exactly is it that you are looking to hear? Sorry that people just don't see things your way.

I'm not looking to hear anything, but if you've called Obama a liar and not Bush, now wouldn't be a good time to admit it. Since it would reveal a massive bias.

Incredibly passive-aggressive. You implied just that, yet apparently are too cowardly to come out with your own true feelings.

I think many people who hate Obama are not Republican. Some are "independent".
 
Re: Was George W Bush a good president?

So, in the two surveys so far;

GWB has 75% negative and Obama has 68% negative.


So basically, most American voters are USELESS at choosing POTUS's.

Well duh.


And, imo, the next one, whomever it is and from whichever party, will be as least as useless as these two at 'running' America.

Wake up America, the fault is not those in the White House...it's yours for putting them there.
 
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