The Enigma In Chief

I have never wasted my time posting comments before and I never will again. Obviously most people who post comments are not interested in discussing historical or proven facts. They just want to rage. Whether you are on the left or right, pro-Bush or anti-Bush nothing is going to progress with this kind of "dialogue". Have fun, I 've got to get back to the real world!

I see people making points about different Presidents in history and the situations in which they have taken office.

Posted By: Zebedatious @ 01/12/2009 5:57:58 PMCarter came in with a Republican Congress and an already deteriorating economy. Bush came in with the first Federal surplus in the last 40 years and a Republican Congress. What's his excuse?

Bush was actually a President and one during one of the worst attacks 9-11. Yes, we had a Federal Surplus, but what had Clinton done in 8 years to keep us safe. Khobar, Embassy bombings, USS Cole, First WTC attack, etc..... it is easy to balance the budget when you aren't doing anything, but smoking (sucking) a few cigars. In some ways the success or failures of Obamas Presidency I believe will have a very big affect on the "History of Bush". It is the typical "wait and see" situation.

Heck the GTMO situation reminds of another GTMO situation although the last time it was "refugees" and a lot of them. We had a Bush in office, a Democrat took over and let all of them in. And people wonder what happened to our Health care system and other jprograms.

Bush will go down the history as one of the worst presidents America has ever had.

Mr. Weisberg: As someone who worked at a foreign affairs agency until 2003, the answer to both of your subtitle questionis is YES. I was intimately familar with all/all of the information going to the White House about both terrorism and Iraq, and I personally know and worked with some of the players. My professional (not political) colleagues and I saw om 2002 that the White House was determined to find a reason to go into Iraq. We also knew that there was no/no evidence of weapons of mass destruction, but that that that was not what Cheney or Rumsfeld wanted to hear. It was our impression that Bush did not lead this charge, but was most certainly easily led. He exhibited no curiousity about what he was told but seemed to be willlng to believe whatever Cheney and Rumsfeld told him. Condi Rice was not particularly influential on these two issues at the time, and Colin Powell was cut out of the inner circle on these decisions. He was the only person in Washington at that time who was respected by all, but was fed cherry-picked information and, after discoering this, chose to continue in his job rather than embarrass the Administration by resigning at a sensitive time for U.S. foreign policy. But in the end, he knew/knew he'd been had. He specificially said so. .

As I said before..

Bush's administration exposed in full view the imperial shadow side of U.S. democracy.

He will forever be remembered for starting a war under false pretences-Undermining global security by legitimizing a doctrine of preemptive war.

All while abondoning any thought of fiscal responsibility and allowing a casino like climate on wallstreet to spin out of control as he encouraged/supported destructive deregulation, sitting idly by as corporations continue their assualt on the middle class.

History can only make a bad apple worse.

Listening to the fearless leader Dubya, I couldn't help being moved by the fact that everyday as president was joyous for him. I would imagine being the leader that sends thousands of young men to die on a "gut feeling" that it was the right thing to do, may have caused some unjoyous days. Or, maybe because he lacks a sense of remorse for human life, the fact that we're pumping a couple trillion dollars into the rat hole called Iraq, again because of his gut feeling, may have caused him some unjoyous days. Don't worry Dubya, I know you were doing a "more better" job and all those elite are just "missunderestimating" you. Don't let those prep school and Ivy League grads from Harvard and Yale get you down, most of them had the advantage of being born into an influential family, unlike you, and never had to work or prove themselves, like you. Filthy elite.

This is so fitting I thought I would repost it:

Posted By: TxLongbow @ 01/12/2009 4:36:15 PMBush should face prison. We have never had a president that hunted down a persons family members and killed them on by one. He not only wanted to kill Saddam, he wanted to extermnate every member of his family. In modern times it should be the principles that suffer, not their mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, nices, nephews, uncles and aunts. We have lost more than 4,000 of our kids to his war and 60,000 to 80,000 that will need medical and mental attention for the rest of their lives. We have a history of fogetting our vets. Iraqi's have lost more than 500,000 men, woman and childern. How can this man sleep at night? How can he be so nonchalant about the deaths of so many people? Starting then screwing the war up is no just a little mistake that he can apologize for because we Americans wil be paying for his mistakes for generations. My father was a vietnam vet and my brothers and sisters suffer while he suffered his mental demons. We owe the world 60 trillion dollars. I am so tired of them painting a pretty picture of a few trillion or 10 trillion and seldom acknologing 60+ trillion. Bush was America's Katrina. He is walking away from one of our greatest desasters and may wellbe our Cesar who sank Rome. I truly believe he will be viewed in all history as the worst president this country could ever have had and his only legacy will be our children and their children trying not to repeat the same mistake ever again.
I was absolutly sickened to hear that the Bush clan would like Jeb to be president. avent they visited enough misery on Americaand and the world. Now we may face a round 3 of desaster of monumental proportions. Do these clowns have any love of our country? Do they have any feelings for anyone else? Do they have any morals at all? How can these people sleep at night knowing all the hundreds of thousands of deaths, suffering and misery just 2 of them have done?

BUSH supporters are what is wrong with this country. They support the tearing down of our values, and prop up incompetence and call it leadership. They are the problem. Their mentality is been bought with cheap rhetoric and fear. They are afraid, and succumb to the terrorism used and promoted by the Bush adninistration.

We msut NEver allwo them the power again to corrupt our constitution or exploit sacred words like patriotism, or Hero. We can never allow them again to sell the soul of this great country to stay in political power.

Bush supporters crawl back into your roach holes because the light that will shine forward will burn and expose you as puppets of a lie, adn a munipulation. You are weak and fearful and you must never have the power to embarass the USof A ever again...