Bush Bashing

  • flawed diamond
    18 years ago

    Is there anybody else out there that hates that bigot Bush who is going to send all of America into destruction?

  • Kevin
    18 years ago

    Yeah i'm all for equal opportunities for people with learning difficulties, but personally i think that the leader of any country should be particularly intelligent in all regards, and Bush just ain't. Though many of his compadre's are.

  • SexMeister69
    18 years ago

    Longlive Bush! The only one who can lead the US into self-destruction. It is about time for this "great" country to realize what it has done to the rest of the world... Guatemala, Chile, Nicaragua, Iraq, Vietnam......................

  • aaron c s
    18 years ago

    1. By Executive Order, reversed Clinton's policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act.
    2.Made $33 million available for abstinence education programs in 2004.
    3.Requires states to conduct criminal background checks on prospective foster and adoptive parents.
    4.Expanded the role of faith-based and community organizations in after-school programs.
    5.Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people.
    6.Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules would have shut down every home business in America.
    7.Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains.
    8.Just three days after the attacks, in his address at the National Cathedral, the President reassured the nation when he said: "War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing."
    9.Saddam Hussein is now in prison. His two murderous sons are dead. All but a handful of the regime's senior members were killed or captured.
    10.Disarmed Libya of its chemical, nuclear and biological WMD's without bribes or bloodshed.
    11.Has been one of the strongest, if not THE strongest friend Israel has ever hand in the U.S. presidency

  • Jacklyn
    18 years ago

    i just don't like him, so many things he does just pisses me off! Bob i really won't stop you from doing that thing with the bat to him. go right a head

    ~Jacklyn

  • Kevin
    18 years ago

    Have a gander at this and if you can get to tbe end...i'll give you a sweetie.

    IRAQ

    1. The Bush Administration has spent more than $140 billion on a war of choice in Iraq.

    Source: American Progress

    2. The Bush Administration sent troops into battle without adequate body armor or armored Humvees.

    Sources: Fox News, The Boston Globe

    3. The Bush Administration ignored estimates from Gen. Eric Shinseki that several hundred thousand troops would be required to secure Iraq.

    Source: PBS

    4. Vice President Cheney said Americans "will, in fact, be greeted as liberators" in Iraq.

    Source: The Washington Post

    5. During the Bush Administration's war in Iraq, more than 1,000 US troops have lost their lives and more than 7,000 have been injured.

    Source: globalsecurity.org

    6. In May 2003, President Bush landed on an aircraft carrier in a flight suit, stood under a banner proclaiming "Mission Accomplished," and triumphantly announced that major combat operations were over in Iraq. Asked if he had any regrets about the stunt, Bush said he would do it all over again.

    Source: Yahoo News

    7. Vice President Cheney said that Iraq was "the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault for many years, but most especially on 9/11." The bipartisan 9/11 Commission found that Iraq had no involvement in the 9/11 attacks and no collaborative operational relationship with Al Qaeda.

    Source: MSNBC , 9-11 Commission

    8. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said that high-strength aluminum tubes acquired by Iraq were "only really suited for nuclear weapons programs," warning "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." The government's top nuclear scientists had told the Administration the tubes were "too narrow, too heavy, too long" to be of use in developing nuclear weapons and could be used for other purposes.

    Source: New York Times

    9. The Bush Administration has spent just $1.1 billion of the $18.4 billion Congress approved for Iraqi reconstruction.

    Source: USA Today

    10. According to the Administration's handpicked weapon's inspector, Charles Duelfer, there is "no evidence that Hussein had passed illicit weapons material to al Qaeda or other terrorist organizations, or had any intent to do so." After the release of the report, Bush continued to insist, "There was a risk--a real risk--that Saddam Hussein would pass weapons, or materials, or information to terrorist networks."

    Sources: New York Times, White House news release

    11. According to Duelfer, the UN inspections regime put an "economic strangle hold" on Hussein that prevented him from developing a WMD program for more than twelve years.

    Source: Los Angeles Times

    TERRORISM

    12. After receiving a memo from the CIA in August 2001 titled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack America," President Bush continued his monthlong vacation.

    Source: CNN.com

    13. The Bush Administration failed to commit enough troops to capture Osama bin Laden when US forces had him cornered in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan in November 2001. Instead, they relied on local warlords.

    Source: csmonitor.com

    14. The Bush Administration secured less nuclear material from sites around the world vulnerable to terrorists in the two years after 9/11 than were secured in the two years before 9/11.

    Source: nti.org

    15. The Bush Administration underfunded Nunn-Lugar--the program intended to keep the former Soviet Union's nuclear legacy out of the hands of terrorists and rogue states--by $45.5 million.

    Source: armscontrol.org

    16. The Bush Administration has assigned five times as many agents to investigate Cuban embargo violations as it has to track Osama bin Laden's and Saddam Hussein's money.

    Source: sfgate.com

    17. According to Congressional Research Service data, the Bush Administration has underfunded security at the nation's ports by more than $1 billion for fiscal year 2005.

    Source: American Progress

    18. The Bush Administration did not devote the resources necessary to prevent a resurgence in the production of poppies, the raw material used to create heroin, in Afghanistan--creating a potent new source of financing for terrorists.

    Source: Pakistan Tribune

    19. Vice President Cheney told voters that unless they elect George Bush in November, "we'll get hit again" by terrorists.

    Source: Washington Post

    20. Even though an Al Qaeda training manual suggests terrorists come to the United States and buy assault weapons, the Bush Administration did nothing to prevent the expiration of the ban.

    Source: sfgate.com

    21. Despite repeated calls for reinforcements, there are fewer experienced CIA agents assigned to the unit dealing with Osama bin Laden now than there were before 9/11.

    Source: New York Times

    22. Before 9/11, John Ashcroft proposed slashing counterterrorism funding by 23 percent.

    Source: americanprogress.org

    23. Between January 20, 2001, and September 10, 2001, the Bush Administration publicly mentioned Al Qaeda one time.

    Source: commondreams.org

    24. The Bush Administration granted the 9/11 Commission $3 million to investigate the September 11 attacks and $50 million to the commission that investigated the Columbia space shuttle crash.

    Source: commondreams.org

    25. More than three years after 9/11, just 5 percent of all cargo--including cargo transported on passenger planes--is screened.

    Source: commondreams.org

    NATIONAL SECURITY

    26. During the Bush Administration, North Korea quadrupled its suspected nuclear arsenal from two to eight weapons.

    Source: New York Times

    27. The Bush Administration has openly opposed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, undermining nuclear nonproliferation efforts.

    Source: commondreams.org

    28. The Bush Administration has spent $7 billion this year--and plans to spend $10 billion next year--for a missile defense system that has never worked in a test that wasn't rigged.

    Sources: www.gao.gov/new.items/d04409.pdf, Los Angeles Times

    29. The Bush Administration underfunded the needs of the nation's first responders by $98 billion, according to a Council on Foreign Relations study.

    Source: nationaldefensemagazine.org

    CRONYISM AND CORRUPTION

    30. The Bush Administration awarded a multibillion-dollar no-bid contract to Halliburton--a company that still pays Vice President Cheney hundreds of thousands of dollars in deferred compensation each year (Cheney also has Halliburton stock options). The company then repeatedly overcharged the military for services, accepted kickbacks from subcontractors and served troops dirty food.

    Sources: The Washington Post, The Tapei Times, BBC News

    31. The Bush Administration told Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan about plans to go to war with Iraq before telling Secretary of State Colin Powell.

    Source: detnews.com

    32. The Bush Administration relentlessly pushed an energy bill containing $23.5 billion in corporate tax breaks, much of which would have benefited major campaign contributors.

    taxpayer.net, Washington Post

    33. The Bush Administration paid Iraqi-exile and neocon darling Ahmad Chalabi $400,000 a month for intelligence, including fabricated claims about Iraqi WMD. It continued to pay him for months after discovering that he was providing inaccurate information.

    Source: MSNBC

    34. The Bush Administration installed as top officials more than 100 former lobbyists, attorneys or spokespeople for the industries they oversee.

    Source: Source: commondreams.org

    35. The Bush Administration let disgraced Enron CEO Ken Lay--a close friend of President Bush--help write its energy policy.

    Source: MSNBC

    36. Top Bush Administration officials accepted $127,600 in jewelry and other presents from the Saudi royal family in 2003, including diamond-and-sapphire jewelry valued at $95,500 for First Lady Laura Bush.

    Source: Seattle Times

    37. Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge awarded lucrative contracts to several companies in which he is an investor, including Microsoft, GE, Sprint, Pfizer and Oracle.

    Source: cq.com

    38. President Bush used images of firefighters carrying flag-draped coffins through the rubble of the World Trade Center to score political points in a campaign advertisement.

    Source: The Washington Post

    THE ECONOMY

    39. President Bush's top economic adviser, Greg Mankiw, said the outsourcing of American jobs abroad was "a plus for the economy in the long run."

    Source: CBS News

    40. The Bush Administration turned a $236 billion surplus into a $422 billion deficit.

    Sources: Fortune, dfw.com

    41. The Bush Administration implemented regulations that made millions of workers ineligible for overtime pay.

    Source: epinet.org

    42. The Bush Administration has crippled state budgets by underfunding federal mandates by $175 billion.

    Source: cbpp.org

    43. President Bush is the first President since Herbert Hoover to have a net loss of jobs--around 800,000--over a four-year term.

    Source: The Guardian

    44. The Bush Administration gave Accenture a multibillion-dollar border control contract even though the company moved its operations to Bermuda to avoid paying taxes.

    Sources: The New York Times, cantonrep.com

    45. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush said "the vast majority of my tax cuts go to the bottom end of the spectrum." He passed the tax cuts, but the top 20 percent of earners received 68 percent of the benefits.

    Sources: cbpp.org, vote-smart.org

    46. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush promised to pay down the national debt to a historically low level. As of September 30, the national debt stood at $7,379,052,696,330.32, a record high.

    Sources: www.georgewbush.com , Bureau of the Public Debt

    47. As major corporate scandals rocked the nation's economy, the Bush Administration reduced the enforcement of corporate tax law--conducting fewer audits, imposing fewer penalties, pursuing fewer prosecutions and making virtually no effort to prosecute corporate tax crimes.

    Source: iht.com

    48. The Bush Administration increased tax audits for the working poor.

    Source: theolympian.com

    49. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush promised to protect the Social Security surplus. As President, he spent all of it.

    Sources: georgewbush.com, Congressional Budget Office

    50. The Bush Administration proposed slashing funding for the largest federal public housing program, putting 2 million families in danger of losing their housing.

    Source: San Francisco Examiner

    51. The Bush Administration did nothing to prevent the minimum wage from falling to an inflation-adjusted fifty-year low.

    Source: Los Angeles Times

    EDUCATION

    52. The Bush Administration underfunded the No Child Left Behind Act by $9.4 billion.

    Source: nwitimes.com

    53. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush promised to increase the maximum federal scholarship, or Pell Grant, by 50 percent. Instead, each year he has been in office he has frozen or cut the maximum scholarship amount.

    Source: Source: edworkforce.house.gov x

    54. The Bush Administration's Secretary of Education, Rod Paige, called the National Education Association--a union of teachers--a "terrorist organization."

    Sources: CNN.com

    HEALTHCARE

    55. The Bush Administration, in violation of the law, refused to allow Medicare actuary Richard Foster to tell members of Congress the actual cost of their Medicare bill. Instead, they repeated a figure they knew was $100 billion too low.

    Source: Washington Post, realcities.com

    56. The nonpartisan GAO concluded the Bush Administration created illegal, covert propaganda--in the form of fake news reports--to promote its industry-backed Medicare bill.

    Source: General Accounting Office

    57. The Bush Administration stunted research that could lead to new treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes, spinal injuries, heart disease and muscular dystrophy by placing severe restrictions on the use of federal dollars for embryonic stem-cell research.

    Source: CBS News

    58. The Bush Administration reinstated the "global gag rule," which requires foreign NGOs to withhold information about legal abortion services or lose US funds for family planning.

    Source: healthsciences.columbia.edu

    59. The Bush Administration authorized twenty companies that have been charged with fraud at the federal or state level to offer Medicare prescription drug cards to seniors.

    Source: American Progress

    60. The Bush Administration created a prescription drug card for Medicare that locks seniors into one card for up to a year but allows the corporations offering the cards to change their prices once a week.

    Source: Washington Post

    61. The Bush Administration blocked efforts to allow Medicare to negotiate cheaper prescription drug prices for seniors.

    Source: American Progress

    62. At the behest of the french fry industry, the Bush Administration USDA changed their definition of fresh vegetables to include frozen french fries.

    Source: commondreams.org

    63. In a case before the Supreme Court, the Bush Administrations sided with HMOs--arguing that patients shouldn't be allowed to sue HMOs when they are improperly denied treatment. With the Administration's help, the HMOs won.

    Source: ABC News

    64. The Bush Administration went to court to block lawsuits by patients who were injured by defective prescription drugs and medical devices.

    Source: Washington Post

    65. President Bush signed a Medicare law that allows companies that reduce healthcare benefits for retirees to receive substantial subsidies from the government.

    Source: Bloomberg News

    66. Since President Bush took office, more than 5 million people have lost their health insurance.

    Source: CNN.com

    67. The Bush Administration blocked a proposal to ban the use of arsenic-treated lumber in playground equipment, even though it conceded it posed a danger to children.

    Source: Miami Herald

    68. One day after President Bush bragged about his efforts to help seniors afford healthcare, the Administration announced the largest dollar increase of Medicare premiums in history.

    Source: iht.com

    69. The Bush Administration--at the behest of the tobacco industry--tried to water down a global treaty that aimed to help curb smoking.

    Source: tobaccofreekids.org

    70. The Bush Administration has spent $270 million on abstinence-only education programs even though there is no scientific evidence demonstrating that they are effective in dissuading teenagers from having sex or reducing the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases.

    Source: salon.com

    71. The Bush Administration slashed funding for programs that suggested ways, other than abstinence, to avoid sexually transmitted diseases.

    Source: LA Weekly

    ENVIRONMENT

    72. The Bush Administration gutted clean-air standards for aging power plants, resulting in at least 20,000 premature deaths each year.

    Source: cta.policy.net

    73. The Bush Administration eliminated protections on more than 200 million acres of public lands.

    Source: calwild.org

    74. President Bush broke his promise to place limits on carbon dioxide emissions, an essential step in combating global warming.

    Source: Washington Post

    75. Days after 9/11, the Bush Administration told people living near Ground Zero that the air was safe--even though they knew it wasn't--subjecting hundreds of people to unnecessary, debilitating ailments.

    Sierra Club , EPA

    76. The Bush Administration created a massive tax loophole for SUVs--allowing, for example, the write-off of the entire cost of a new Hummer.

    Source: Washington Post

    77. The Bush Administration put former coal-industry big shots in the government and let them roll back safety regulations, putting miners at greater risk of black lung disease.

    Source: New York Times

    78. The Bush Administration said that even though the weed killer atrazine was seeping into water supplies--creating, among other bizarre creatures, hermaphroditic frogs--there was no reason to regulate it.

    Source: Washington Post

    79. The Bush Administration has proposed cutting the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency by $600 million next year.

    Source: ems.org

    80. President Bush broke his campaign promise to end the maintenance backlog at national parks. He has provided just 7 percent of the funds needed, according to National Park Service estimates.

    Source: bushgreenwatch.org

    RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES

    81. Since 9/11, Attorney General John Ashcroft has detained 5,000 foreign nationals in antiterrorism sweeps; none have been convicted of a terrorist crime.

    Source: hrwatch.org

    82. The Bush Administration ignored pleas from the International Committee of the Red Cross to stop the abuse of prisoners in US custody.

    Source: Wall Street Journal

    83. In violation of international law, the Bush Administration hid prisoners from the Red Cross so the organization couldn't monitor their treatment.

    Source: hrwatch.org

    84. The Bush Administration, without ever charging him with a crime, arrested US citizen José Padilla at an airport in Chicago, held him on a naval brig in South Carolina for two years, denied him access to a lawyer and prohibited any contact with his friends and family.

    Source: news.findlaw.com

    85. President Bush's top legal adviser wrote a memo to the President advising him that he can legally authorize torture.

    Source: news.findlaw.com

    86. At the direction of Bush Administration officials, the FBI went door to door questioning people planning on protesting at the 2004 political conventions.

    Source: New York Times

    87. The Bush Administration refuses to support the creation of an independent commission to investigate the abuse of foreign prisoners in American custody. Instead, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld selected the members of a commission to review the conduct of his own department.

    Source: humanrightsfirst.org

    FLIP FLOPS

    88. President Bush opposed the creation of the 9/11 Commission before he supported it, delaying an essential inquiry into one of the greatest intelligence failure in American history.

    Source: americanprogressaction.org

    89. President Bush said gay marriage was a state issue before he supported a constitutional amendment banning it.

    Sources: CNN.com, White House

    90. President Bush said he was committed to capturing Osama bin Laden "dead or alive" before he said, "I truly am not that concerned about him."

    Source: americanprogressaction.org

    91. President Bush said we had found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, before he admitted we hadn't found them.

    Sources: White House, americanprogress.org

    92. President Bush said, "You can't distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror," before he admitted Saddam had no role in 9/11.

    Sources: White House, Washington Post

    BIOGRAPHY

    93. George Bush didn't come close to meeting his commitments to the National Guard. Records show he performed no service in a six-month period in 1972 and a three-month period in 1973.

    Source: boston.com

    94. In June 1990 George Bush violated federal securities law when he failed to inform the SEC that he had sold 200,000 shares of his company, Harken Energy. Two months later the company reported significant losses and by the end of that year the stock had dropped from $3 to $1.

    Source: The Guardian

    95. When asked at an April 2004 press conference to name a mistake he made during his presidency, Bush couldn't think of one.

    Source: White House

    SECRECY

    96. The Bush Administration refuses to release twenty-seven pages of a Congressional report that reportedly detail the Saudi Arabian government's connections to the 9/11 hijackers.

    Source: philly.com

    97. Last year the Bush Administration spent $6.5 billion creating 14 million new classified documents and securing old secrets--the highest level of spending in ten years.

    Source: openthegovernment.org

    98. The Bush Administration spent $120 classifying documents for every $1 it spent declassifying documents.

    Source: openthegovernment.org

    99. The Bush Administration has spent millions of dollars and defied numerous court orders to conceal from the public who participated in Vice President Cheney's 2001 energy task force.

    Source: Washington Post

    100. The Bush Administration--reversing years of bipartisan tradition--refuses to answer requests from Democratic members of Congress about how the White House is spending taxpayer money.

    Source: Washington Post

    OPINION

    If the past informs the future, four more years of the Bush Administration will be a tragic period in the history of the United States and the world.

    Judd Legum is deputy research director of strategic communications at the American Progress Action Fund.

    © 2004 The Nation

    http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1023-23.htm

  • Jacklyn
    18 years ago

    sorry i just don't have time to read all of that.

    ~Jacklyn

  • Kevin
    18 years ago

    read any of it and the truth sticks.

    Bush is a capitalist murdering scumbag who doesn't deserve presidency over so many fine people.

  • Jacklyn
    18 years ago

    o no i did read some of it, just didn't have the time to read all of it.

    good facts to go against him and i agree with the statement you said above too!

    ~Jacklyn

  • Lyla
    18 years ago

    And thats why im proud to be CANADIAN!!!!!

  • Feline Fatigue
    18 years ago

    guys, don't forget that presidents are people too! and i'm republican! (and not in the mood for another political debate; they give me a headach!!!!)

  • Jacklyn
    18 years ago

    all i know is that Michigan needs some changes. we have the highest unemployment and the worst econmy right now i think out of all the states.

    ~Jacklyn

  • Kevin
    18 years ago

    I belong in Michigan...and i wish and wish again!

    Take up arms and sort your country out...it's the only way. You can't stop the children of the revolution.

  • aaron c s
    18 years ago

    americas still standing. its still the richest power on earth and Bush hasnt made it any less so. all Bush has done is make us more powerful to other nations and prove we are not just sitting here saying we'll do stuff. if u liberals want to talk but not do anything, and that is exactly what kerry would have done, then do it and vote fr some democrat in the next election. go ahead

  • JJ
    18 years ago

    *sighs*

  • Jacklyn
    18 years ago

    i think the reason he's not impeached is because the house of rep. and senate are mostly republicans aren't they? so they like him and those are the people that vote the president out plus you need a two thirds vote and loost at our history and how many presidents have actually been impeached.

    ~Jacklyn

  • Bret Higgins
    18 years ago

    I worte a typically amazing reply come rant that made me feel real good inside.

    Suffice to say my wireless connection buggered up just long enough for me to press the post answer button...

    the short version:

    Bush, Nixon, Clinton, Bush, Carter, LBJ... in the ever growing power of the media Presidents are no longer remembered for the good things they do, just the mistakes they make and the rumours, lies and general bad mouthing that people mdish out.

    Republican or Democrat, the next President will be just as hated because you have nothing better to do.

    You get the (very old and tired) point. And if you don't? You're in the right place.

  • Kevin
    18 years ago

    Tell you what bret, when a president or Prime minister actually represents the general will of the people, maybe they will be remembered better.

    You are the one writing big rants about this stuff. Maybe you need to find something better to do.

  • aaron c s
    18 years ago

    all everyone is doing is putting blame on someone. its not all the presidents fault. congress has so much to do with it. and Bush is not killing his own men. the iraqis are. so if u want us to leave that war when we're not finished then u're stupid. we didnt shoot first. we are trying to finish what they started. what is wrong with that. men/woman die everyday but at least these men/woman know they are dying for something important. War is inevitable. nobody is perfect so it is gonna happen.

  • Bret Higgins
    18 years ago

    As a retired soldier I have a little insight to the situation. Unless he didn't realise that soldiers get killed in battle, your brother died for his country and died a hero at that. If he joined up to get free training in a trade he would have gone on to use after military life and wasn't prepared to die for his country then he was a fool, even if he was a brave one.

    Kev, as usual you're right mate... plenty better things to do, but there's always time to bash the bashers, right? Wouldn't be any fun if everyone agreed all the time.

  • authum darkness
    18 years ago

    FINALLY people who agree that Bush is a fagot!!!! How did he get back in office? He is so retarded!

  • Jacklyn
    18 years ago

    We don’t necessarily “vote” for the president it’s the Electoral College that does that part. We vote for who we want they see who they want and the Electoral College may still chose one guys over the other. Something I learned last year. So I don’t blame our votes really just the Electoral College. A president can win the popular vote of the people and still lose the election because of the Colleges vote.

    i just say thank god we limit the president to two terms!

    ~Jacklyn

  • SealedWithAKiss
    18 years ago

    omg if bush hadnt of done everything he has for this country ur ass would probably be hiding in a bomb shelter rite now.

  • Kevin
    18 years ago

    Yo Ashluvs spike.....your comment made me laugh....that was a no brainer but worth a basic hoot.

    As far as Bush is concerned..i'm learning to not hate the player but the game.

  • Jacklyn
    18 years ago

    the Electoral College is hard for me to explain maybe someone else can explain it better. i kind of breify told you what i knew about them. just don't have the time to explain it all right now

    ~Jacklyn

  • ReBecca
    18 years ago

    Bush is a capitalist murdering scumbag who doesn't deserve presidency over so many fine people.

    that sums it up in a nutshell

  • supaflyhonkyguy
    18 years ago

    Is Bush really all that bad? I mean just because were at war doesn't make him a bad bad man. Personally i think America should be more aggressive, we have been too soft for too long. The only reason you disagree with war is because its just not working for us

  • Kevin
    18 years ago

    Ah but you have to admit Plain, calling Bush a fag is funny. like when someone mounts an amazing case regarding why Bush is such a great leader of men, and the other person replies;

    yeah but he's still a fag.

    Class, politically uncorrect on many levels, and of course a no brainer...but worth a basic hoot.

    PS, whats with you attacking Bobby boy like that? I mean, seems a bit overboard even for you? You aren't serious surely?

  • aaron c s
    18 years ago

    everybody hates Bush cause we're at war "for the wrong reasons." generations to generation has thought war is absolute evil and in some cases it is. lets talk about the revolutionary war. a lot of people thought that that was was stupid and they hated George Washigton for it but in the end of it all it only made us stronger and made us who we are today. i know the war we're in right now isn't a revolution or anything and many of the people in Iran and Iraq don't want us there but in the end things usually get better. we have the chance to serve a nation, who, yes, doesnt really want to be saved, and if u think it is bad to protect the rights of the people in the middle east who want protection for the terrorists then you don't have your head on straight.
    I know we are there for oil also. George is looking out for his people. you say he is the leader of his country but you hate him for trying to get OUR country more oil for us to live on. Bush is not the best president we ever have had but he is certainly not a bad president.

  • marinecorps0405
    18 years ago

    If youve never been to iraq then i don't think you have earned your right to bash our president.
    i just got back after a 9 month tour and it sucks but id do it again. if were over there then guess where the terrorists are going. they get a chance to kill us legally. they arent over here thats for damn sure. but nobody wants to think about that.
    why do you think there are so many terrorists in iraq. theyre like ants. so maybe the next time you want to bash bush u should use what brains youve got left to realize you dont know everything

  • aaron c s
    18 years ago

    amen to that!

  • TinyDancer46
    18 years ago

    I agree with the guy from marine corps... you guys I'm not into choosing one side and stuff... but reading this thing pissed me off alot! Sure, we all have our different beliefs... but why do you need to sit around saying that Bush Sucks and you wanna kill him and how he's such fag? Sitting here saying that crap isn't going to change anything. Personally, I think he's amazing. He went through September 11th, Hurricane Katrina, and tons of other major events and helped us pull through. Now before thinking about the mistakes he's made, how bout you think about how you're life would be if he hadn't been there to help us get through all of these things? I could sit here complaining too because guess what? I lost a family member in September 11th AND a close friend in iraq. I could sit here blaming it all on Bush but do I? Never. Because I know that Bush is doing everything he can.

  • aaron c s
    18 years ago

    im so glad there are actually people her who like Bush. i was starting to wonder. and what ^ just said is totally true but he did send them over there without congress consent first but then after the troops were already there the congress gave consent. just thought you'd like to know.

  • Steven Beesley
    18 years ago

    ^^^ What is there to like???? Done more damage then good.

  • Lydie
    18 years ago

    Lol this is why I am so god damn proud to be Australian!

    -Lyd

  • aaron c s
    18 years ago

    steven? what did more damage than good?

  • Steven Beesley
    18 years ago

    Duh!!! Who do you think? Bush of course.

  • aaron c s
    18 years ago

    how has he done more damage than good? cause we're at war to make our country better? or cause we're at war cause terrorists basically made our economy crash? or maybe cause hes against abortion? hes done a great job under the circumstances he's been through. and hes been through a lot. i would like to see any of u do better than him. or maybe u think Kerry would do better? now that just makes me laugh.

  • Steven Beesley
    18 years ago

    No sorry, I'm the one that's laughing! LMFAO

    Just the fact that so far "NO ONE" has found any so called weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as he claimed there would be is a big Joke in itself. Need we really need say much more? I don't really think so. The overall handling of Iraq in the past and now is a sham! Do you really think he knows what he is doing over there and how it should be handled? Give me a break, please.

    His so called efforts in the Hurricane Katrina relief incident speaks for itself. His batting average I'm afraid to say is pretty poor! Sitting on his rump and doing nothing, yeah great executive decision making indeed.

    Take a look at a past press release from the BBC :-

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/01_january/19/bush.shtml

    The article indicated that a BBC World Service survey of 21 countries across the world indicated that his re-election is seen as "negative" for global security by the majority of people in 16 countries and by another sizeable 39% of people in 2 other countries. Go figure!

    You might like to take a look at http://www.pollingreport.com on his ratings. Some 42% think his administration is a success whilst a 55% majority think it has been a failure. Again, go figure! Argue with the majority.

    For goodness sake, the man can't even speak or write without buggering up the English language.

    May be Ronald McDonald would be the next candidate? Yeah start throwing burgers and fries instead of bullets at the poor nations. Basically comes down your choice and flavour of moron.

    Those who want a "good laugh" should look at the "Bush resume" on topplebush.com at http://www.topplebush.com/bushresume.shtml. Can you laugh at what he's done or cry?

    After reading about the things he's done in office as president, I wonder if you would be so sharp and quick to say he's done good for your country or the world for the matter?

  • aaron c s
    18 years ago

    u are right that most peolpe dont like Bush. it is pretty close to a 50 50 though. but yes the dislikes are over the likes. and the weapons of mass destrucyion u cant blame on him. yet again u forget that it is not the president who comes up with ideas and such. he had information that he thought was true and that the whole nation and world thought was true and we all found out it wasnt, at the same time. yes he kept looking for them, i mean of course he did. if there was even a slight chance that there was then we would all be in a lot of trouble right now. so if him continuing the search for weapons of mass destruction is bad then u need to look at the general well fare of the people. he cant have a nuclear warhead heading for our country.
    Now for hurricane Katrina. what in the hell did he do wrong. the people that hes protecting are lashing out against eachother and killing eachother and u have the balls to blame it on him. thats just low. whenever something goes wrong we blame it on the leader even if it's not his fault. get with it. put ur blame on the people who actually deserve it. do some research on people that are affiliated with the presidency and see how they have affect on the situation. so maybe look at the CIA who gave him some of the info about the weapons of mass destruction. oh yeah and i jsut remebered. if the president is stupid cause he should have seen that the info was wrong then u are calling Great Britain stupid and Germany and other nations. so what im saying is that its not the presidents fault that things arent going perfectly. so dont "bash" Bush. hes doing a good job and i will stay by that until proven wrong which still hasnt happened.