What Bush Got Right

???It was a political coup that put Bush in the White house to begin with, are you surprised things
have gone the way they have. Hitler was not that intelligent either, he too was a puppet for the
super rich. Since he has been elected there has been an energy crises beginning with power plants
in California which increased cost for electricity and profits for Enron which had ties to the White
house, then there was 9-11 which led to war which put market pressure on Oil which led to the
current gas prices. Look up Prescott Bush and Nelson Aldrich. You have to go back a ways to
see why we have to situation today in politics and the economy.

It???s the end of the world as they knew it. Things are getting worse for the poor and better for the
super rich. This is not always because their stupid its because man has dominated man to his
injury. You think Bill Gates is rich ---- he not by the standards of the super rich. You have no real
idea what the Rothschild's are worth because they want it that way --- in excess of 300 billion.
You have no real idea what the Rochefeller's are worth because they want it that way in excess of
300 billion. Bill gates maybe 60 billion. That???s like saying the guy driving the pinto is of the same
status as the guy driving the Rolls Royce. And remember Bill Gates drives the super rich don???t
drive they are escorted every where they go. Those who control all things political and economic
are behind the scenes and they want to keep it that way.

The puppet masters have taken over the whole world. And all you can do is become informed and
then speak out about it to reveal them and there moves lifting hands, kicking out legs, knocking
down the other puppets in this play they have created to make you think you should do this or
should do that to fix the problems when the real problem is those who pull the strings.

I feel sorry for people who believed in Bush what a disappointment.

Posted by Bala iyer.@08/09/2008
It was the Bush administrtion that strated with ABC (anything but Clinton) as policy, without thinking of consequences. If people do not recognize Bush's sucecess, it is because Bush has yet to accept he made any mistake. Even the few sucess stories (due to policy changes) has been attributed by Bush to his earlier failed policies. So even following his few corrected policies will look like the new administration has changed Bush's policies.

Answer to the Top Story --------------- He got absolutly nothing right that I can see other that make he and his buddies who put him in office even richer. Enron, Exxon Mobil, to mention two. To ell in a handbacket is the only thing that comes to mind when I think of what Bush has accomplished.

What a JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"It went in with too few troops, dismantled Iraq's Army, bureaucracy and state-owned factories, arrested tens of thousands of Iraqis, mistreated and tortured some of them, and used overwhelming military force against all perceived threats."
I should have known better than to be lulled into thinking Newsweek could actually post an article about Bush and not reduce themselves to drooling neandetals. The copied piece posted above is the one that got to me. To again try to paint our solders as terrorists and torturers by cherry-picking individual incidents that have been and are being ejudicated by the courts is abominal. Last I knew the defendents in the Haditha
incident are all but cleared.

....and the media wonders why we are all going over to talk radio and the internet for our news.

I'm surprised at how inaccurate this article by Zakaria is. At four pages long, it's hard to know where to start. I'd grant that we cannot simply follow the blanket belief that everything Bush ever did was wrong. Yet, in thinking about this question in the last few months, the only thing I can give Bush credit for was the Do Not Call List enacted in his first year in office. Banal, to be sure, but nevertheless the only good thing I can think of.

On Iraq, Bush is merely doing the rational thing he should have done from the beginning, which called for more troops. But he does so when our treasure and patience have reached their lowest level. He is still cavalier in keeping the troops there, not with any clear idea of success in mind, but until the "next president" decides what to do, basically passing the puck. He is writing the term paper and hoping to get an A, the night before it's due, after spending the weekend drinking. Too bad this is not a harmless college class but our blood and treasury he gambled with.

On Afghanistan, we are still undermanned in our war effort, mainly because most of the troops are in Iraq, and not where they should be; smoking Al quaeda out of mountain holes.

On Israel and Palestine I could not believe Zakaria's quote on the Annapolis summit:
"for the first time, both Israel and the Palestinians accepted that the purpose of the exercise was to create a Palestinian state."
Really? I seem to remember there was almost an agreement on a Palestinian state during the Clinton summits with Barak and Arafat, which the latter -not without good reason- backed away from. Bush's summit was seen by all parties involved as what it was, a belated attempt to leave something meaningful behind, which unsurprisingly did not yield any result.

The things that matter the most, Bush has still been unwilling to compromise on. As states in the article, his irresponsible use of the national treasure will ensure our children will still be paying for his short-sighted and downright moronic adventures. The rich have gotten richer while the poor are poorer and uninsured.

I know the article wasn't meant to congratulate Bush, and the last paragraph, although well-meant, it's naive, because anyone with a brain would know what Bush didn't; that it is not enough to merely stand against something. I've no doubt that Obama and McCain, or anyone without self-righteous stubbornness would know that.

In the end, the irony of the Bush presidency does not surprise me. I believe, as so many people have written about, that this was his struggle to emerge from his father's shadow. But it's ironic, is it not, that after unchecked power and hubris, untold blood, suffering and money spent, after a rubber stamp and then a spineless congress, Bush still acts like a spoiled frat boy who was always bailed out of trouble by the adults. He had it all going for him, he made a mess of it and now he'll let someone else worry about it.

Thank you for the wonderful illustration of Bush by Parada. While you in the press may not understand it, more Americans (and Europeans) than you realize regard President Bush as an honorable public servant and the most consistent and sincere advocate for human freedom currently on the world stage. The press has done nothing but denigrate the man for pretty much his whole term, even before he took office, and he's taken all your hits and never hit back. Whatever. I'm grateful you could manage to be halfway decent to him in this issue.

Bush chooses World Bank hed-honcho? Eh-hem....World Bank chooses who gets to run for President in the first place. 89-719 says so.