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Bush Legacy is Far Beyond Repair
Posted by politicallore • 1/29/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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So sad that Bush ruined himself.
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I think Bush was a great president. Any president in a time of war is always going to be backlashed by people. It could have been anybody sitting there. You can't win when you have wars going on. You always will have people who will hate you.
What happened on 9-11 was something nobody had to ever deal with. No matter what Bush did he couldn't win. He did what he thought was best after 9-11.-
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There's a difference between being a war president and being a war-mongering president.
Actually, most presidents who served during a time of war have been honored, not attacked. Up until the mid-20th century, we had something of an unspoken rule: don't invade a sovereign nation unless provoked and never, ever get involved in a civil war.
If you look at history, the only times we haven't come out ahead in a war situation is when we've done one of those two things. Iraq will be no exception. We invaded a sovereign nation and we plunged it into civil war and we can't extricate ourselves.
You only have to look at the economy to tell. Wars, historically, bring the economy out of a recession/depression because it galvanizes the country and it creates jobs. Funny how it's not working that way with GWB throwing money around like it's nothing. Not surprising, though, since he's done that all his life.
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Mikeny, your comment made me vomit in my mouth a little bit.
Fair warning is always nice...
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Bush was anything but a great president. We had no reason to invade Iraq. We broke with 200 years of tradition by attacking, and invading, a country without provocation. WITHOUT PROVOCATION! Saddam was contained, the inspectors found nothing, and everyone knows that the Oval Office has lied, lied, and lied more.
He is an embarrassment. He didn't cause 9/11 - he caused everything since. I rooted for his decision to go to Afghanistan. He didn't finish that job, either, and we STILL have troops there, did you know that?
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Come on mikeny, Bush started the friggen war himself in the first place to get back at Saddam for his daddy bush which you can read here archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/27/bush.war.talk/
Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11 and 9-11 had nothing to do with Iraq.
I hope Bush's legacy is decided in the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands -
'mikeny' lest you forget, we haven't found Weapons of Mass Destruction yet.
Bush did something that nobody else would have done unless being son of senior Bush. -
Oh Bush will have his legacy all right. It won't be the legacy his parents hoped for......
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I think bush's whole goal was to recapture the "bush glory" that his father once had, then lost...
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I think it was more, "See, I'm better than my daddy because I got Saddam!" GWB has always had an inferiority complex when it's come to daddy.
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Yeah...he's horrible. I voted for the guy (twice)I'm ashamed to admit, so it's partly my fault. Not even people in his own cabinet like him. The whole "my way or the highway" routine leads to you only being surrounded by sheepish "yes men' - and he's done this to himself, which I think helps explain how out of touch with reality he is.
It took a bumbling fool to squander the unity we had post 9/11, and he managed do that with unprecedented precision. -
By most measures, one could argue Bush's presidency was a success. He managed to get most of his agenda through Congress and didn't have to compromise on anything of substance.
Of course, one could also argue that was the problem.
No one political party or position holds all the answers. The US was built on compromise (two houses of Congress, three branches of government, the question of slavery, etc.) and the sooner someone who realized "statesmanship" and "brinksmanship" have two different meanings, the better off we'll be.-
Maybe it was a success for him personally and for all the wealthy people who got wealthier, but for the country, it was a miserable failure.
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Clinton was viewed better after Bush II than he was right at the end of his term.
I guess people thought he wasn't so bad after all..
After 4 years of Obama, people will be putting Bush on Mt Rushmore.-
...and then you woke up. -
Oh I wish that this joke of a president could just turn out to be a bad dream.
But alas, he's just a bad joke.. -
Under Clinton we had a healthy economy and fairly successful foreign policies. So once the right-wing smear campaign wore off, there were some real successes. You can't say that for Bush.
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I agree with journalist Helen Thomas (who has covered Washington for Years) who called Bush Jr. our "worst president ever" -
A good question is WHY was Bush a failure. It would be a long list. I think the bottom line was his conservative principles. It was not only the failure of Bush, but the failure of conservatism in general. I say this as a political moderate who distrusts ideology of any stripe. His downfall was that he took his ideology too seriously. -
From now on...don't rust anyone with a Yale degree! Just because someone went to an Ivy League school does't mean they are smart! -
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It is my belief that it is too early to tell weather or not he will be vindicated, how he goes down in history is dependent on how this country shapes up over the next few decades. The full extent of Bush's pros and cons are not yet known... personally I think it will level out -
The country will be reaping the bad seeds sown by Bush for years. We didn't go into an economic tailspin because Bush was a success. It took eight years, lies and bad judgement to get here. It will take a very long time to correct his mistakes.-
hello, hello, debt based money sytem = inflation rising mecanically at a geometric rate. Bush or Cheetah = same difference in economic terms.
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"So sad that Bush ruined himself"
so sad that he ruined his country! A strong cautionary tale for the voting public; say no to priveliged beltway brats! -
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once it's shaved, it never grows back the same
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