What Bush Got Right

To jsalernoca: You're hilarious. You say of the Democrats, "This is the party that banned smoking from most of our country. This is the party that wants to ban us from eating certain foods. This is the party that wants to implemnt laws telling us when and how much electricity we can use. This is the party that wants certain private shows taken from the airwaves because they dont like them." So your "freedom" is defined as the freedom to pollute others' air, to eat food manipulated my corporate food manufacturers, to use up however much stuff you want, and to listen to media outlets that are profit-driven and thus only dish out what their audiences want to hear. So, in essence, your "freedom" is the Freedom from Responsibility.

Hey johnfp and childer1 - what does it feel like to be a blind follower? Wake up and stop believing every word you read in the New York Times and Newsweeks of the world. You clowns are probably the types that drive SUVs with stickers on your car that say "No War for Oil". Unless you want to shut your airconditioners and tvs off permanently, ride a horse i nstead of a car, and live by candlelight, shut up and send our president a thank you card.

Since Both Programs of the WAR/PEACE RESEARCH Agency will share the
same purpose---to maintain governmental freedom of choice in respect to war
and peace until the direction of social survival is no longer in doubt -- it is of the
essence of this proposal that the agency be constituted without limitation of

time. Its examination of existing and proposed institutions will be self-liquidating
when its own function shall have been superseded by the historical
developments it will have, at least in part, initiated.


This two paragraphs above are the final words of the "Report from Iron Mountain" a private study
done for the government and seems to be being followed.

Read the report before you sign up for the military............

Follow the money...............

Folks this is a government study from the 60's that shows the purpose of manufactured WAR.

Since Both Programs of the WAR/PEACE RESEARCH Agency will share the
same purpose---to maintain governmental freedom of choice in respect to war
and peace until the direction of social survival is no longer in doubt -- it is of the
essence of this proposal that the agency be constituted without limitation of

time. Its examination of existing and proposed institutions will be self-liquidating
when its own function shall have been superseded by the historical
developments it will have, at least in part, initiated.


This two paragraphs above are the final words of the "Report from Iron Mountain" a private study
done for the government and seems to be being followed.

Read the report before you sign up for the military............

Follow the money...............

Folks this is a government study from the 60's that shows the purpose of manufactured WAR.

Because of the refusal of the Bush administration to just think about the consequences of its actions in domestic and foreign policies, our country is really gone back at least 40 years. Instead of being proactive in are stance on issues, were are always reacting to whatever is happening around us, for example the conflict now in the republic of Georgia. The next President, whoever it is, has no chance to go back to the policies of pre-Bush because we no longer have crediablility in the eyes of the world. I blame the Bush administration, but I really blame the citizens and the media of this country allowing the administration to head in the direction it took. We elect these people and if they do not do the job, we can unelect them.

while y'all defend/assault Mr. Bush........our economy is crumbling into an abyss. Enjoy watching the olympics. you may want to copy the following text and put it on a t-shirt.........may save yer life.

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I have to go. Here is a much more interesting article that Zakaria's. Maybe you should change the thread to this:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/21896154/without_a_prayer

An enlightening and believable article. Any problematic solution needs to be tempered with a "hows that working for you?" approach. Someone (guess who) was very bullheaded.

Oldrunner

So this is the lesson? That the US should embrace multilateralism under the umbrella of international law?

Fareed, I'm disappointed in you. Bush's biggest mistakes have been the erosion of constitutional guarantees, the centralization of power in the hands of the executive, the creation of a police state, and expansionary monetary and fiscal policy. The Iraq fiasco in historical terms is just a blip by comparison. Multilateralism will not restore habeas corpus, protect against search and seizure, and prevent warrantless wiretapping. Diplomacy will repair the balance of power so that we have more than a rubber-stamp congress and a judiciary that guards the constitution. Internationalism will not guarantee that our children will be able to travel freely in this country without being subjected to suspicion and interrogation (and possible detention without trial - Bush's laws allow this). Alignment of the IMF with the "new world order" [your words] will not finance the massive 4 trillion dollars of national debt this country has undertaken under Bush, nor will it tame the unprecedented inflation that is about to come in order to fund it.

So I am afraid that the wool is being pulled over citizens' eyes here. Yes, the Bush administration has become more pragmatist in the area of international affairs, which is a good thing. But the Bush's administration and the Congress - Republican and Democrat have committed heinous treason against their oaths to defend the Constitution against enemies both foreign *and domestic*.

I don't have a problem with living in a multi-cultural, international world. But I cannot stomach living under the tyranny of a "unitary executive". The time is soon coming when we Americans must decide whether we will say with our ancestors "give me liberty or give me death", or whether we would rather just have another beer and watch football. With a press that betrays us like this, I am not optimistic.

while y'all defend/assault Mr. Bush........our economy is crumbling into an abyss. Enjoy watching the olympics. you may want to copy the following text and put it on a t-shirt.........may save yer life.

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If rejecting the logic of all that went before him, attempting to re-invent the wheel, then abandoning that approach because it was a dismal failure, resorting to an incredibly expensive cut-and-try routine until something finally worked (or at least didn't fail so noticeably), all the while lavishing public monies on his cronies and refusing to acknowledge that there were ever any errors in the first place is your idea of success for Bush, then I have to ask: what would have been required in order to label his administration a failure?

I believe George W. Bush did what was needed after the attack on 9/11. Anything less wouldn't have been acceptable to the American people at the time. We lost alot of good citizens that day. Of course, we American have short memories after we see the cost and lives that it has taken. There aren't any winners, when war occurs,
Our international policies should change! We shouldn't try to be the World leader, just a member of the World.
It should be noted that the Senators and Congressman have a lower rating than the President. Maybe the American people aren't happy with any of our leaders preformance.

Who do we vote for? Someone with little experience or someone that has been part of the policy making over several years. Doesn't give us much of a choice! Try Mr. A or B. we still don't have the right ones to make good changes in the Senate, Congress or Presidents position.

And congress rating is so much better!Stop the blame game take responsibility for what they have not gotten done.Dems are in power as they wanted.Stop blaming others for not getting the peoples work done.Send them all home they have gotten to fat and comfortable spending our money,and blaming others.Get out of the way get new blood in office and get away from the blame game.

Statements like childer's, while perhaps true, do nothing to promote compassion and Peace. There has to come a point where we all change our automatically-negative ways of thinking and reacting. I am not a political or religious person, in fact, I believe that both have spoiled what we all could have, right now. Every single one of us.

Where does one learn the truth about a president and what they have done? How can anyone believe anything?

Did I spell everything correctly?