In The Shadow of Bush

Methinks. I really like that post. It misses one point, Bush could not have done those things without his Republican brothers.

George Bush made such a mess of this country, that it will years to come to terms with the federal deficit, and makes a Clinton Restoration inevitable. John McCain looks like Bob Dole 1996 and Huckabee looks like Goldwater 1964, both destined to lose by wide margins. Bush has single-handedly destroyed the military with the war in Iraq, let New Orleans become a dying city, robbed from the poor with his tax cuts aimed at the wealthy, destroyed the US Constitution, and no longer to people around the world look up to the United States. The aftermath of Bush vs. Gore destroyed the reputation of the US Supreme Court and made the majority look like partisan hacks.

I disagree with the last comment that there is nothing good to say about President Bush. Here are a few things people are missing. We have not had a terrorist attack on American soil since 911. During his term we have, until recently a very strong economy. When he said he was going to do something he did it and did not make decisions according to what the polls said, as most Democrats will do. I have retired from the military with almost 21 years service. I spent my time in the light infantry. One of the deciding factors on my retirement was President Clinton. I have served with both Republican and Democratic Presidents and have found that Democrats more likely get soldiers killed and then leave without completing the mission. So then their deaths don't count for anything. For example Carter in Iran and Clinton in Somalia.
Today everyone blames Bush for so many Guard and reservist in Iraq. What people do not remember is that was Clintons plan when he cut the military even further than the first President Bush did after the first Gulf War. This cutback was the reason I retired. I could see our Military going the way of Carter. Now we blame President Bush and so do the Clintons.
It is easy to be an arm chair quarterback and luckly we live in a country that allows us to do this. Unless you have actually been in that situation and had your life depend on the decisions from the person at the top you don't have the knowledge to make those opinions. Remeber the last war the Democrats started and managed was Vietnam.

BW

I think the President's greatest failure has been as the spokesman or champion of a Republican ideology. Since 1994 the Democrats have run a perpetual negative campaign to define Republicans as "mean, greedy people, who hate children and puppies. They have been successful. As a result of that success, we see Evan Thomas implying that the GOP???s core ideology has been rejected, or has somehow outlived its usefulness. I don???t think so.

I think people still want a smaller, less intrusive, more efficient, more effective government. Republicans have no faith in the ???central planning??? model that has been such a dismal failure in the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba. Rather than having our governmental decisions made by some faceless bureaucrat in some Ivory Tower in Washington, we prefer to have power held by elected officials, and for that power to be held as near the people as practical, at the state and local level. So that the people can hold those local officials accountable and exert more direct influence than they could over federal officials.

The Republican principal that government benefits should be dispensed on the basis of need rather than race or gender doesn???t make us racists. The Republican preference to give those in need a job and an opportunity to earn their own way isn???t motivated by greed but rather by the principal that it is better to ???teach a man to fish??? that to give a man a fish.

The President???s shortcoming as a champion for the ideology has thus far been shared by the candidates. I don???t care how many times a candidate has been married, or who hates abortion the most or who is the most religious. I do care about the principals by which he or she will govern.

Mustard gas was used to kill hundreds of Curds. Women and children lay dead in the streets. What if that was one of our cities? Nobody knew what to expect when we went to war. We are in it now and we need to finish it. Republicans radical? We have always fought for this country. My brothers, Father, and Husband did. Did you? Not for power but for freedom. If your common sense had not been educated from your minds, you could see more clearly. There was evidence that Saddam PAID to palestinians when they killed innocent people. Their families recieved $10,000 for their loved ones life. They were told they would have 100 virgins waiting for them after they died. Do you really think you can deal intelligently with people with so much hatred against us? Hatred only because we (some of us) believe in God. The want to destroy us only because of OUR religion. Yes we are infidels because we don't believe tin allah.

I didn't know anything about any CURDS (sounds like something they make in Wisconsin), but I do know about the Kurdish people. I find it laughable that Bush says Saddam "gassed his own people" when in fact Bush provides intelligence to Turkey who then use airstrikes against them. Whats the difference? Gassed or bombed your just as dead. Oh and MMShadow, didn't we do that in Afghanistan? We provided the tools for them to oust the Soviets but when they pulled out, there was a huge vacuum left behind, and thats what created Al-Qaeda. And for Air Force Mom: Democrats have led this country to war more times than the Republicans have. I'm all for the draft, I think we need it and its necessary. Ages 18-40 (I say 40 because then that includes me, and I am fully capable of going). I believe in this country too and just because I didn't sign up shouldn't make it any different. You sign up, you shouldn't complain when its your turn to go, because thats what you signed up for.

I Do Not Think Anyone In Washington is Listening to the Cry Of The People, the immigration issue is one thing We Faced With a Border Since 1492, when we arrived the Indians Were trying to Protect their Border, then Someone offered Some Trinkets for their Land, some of the cheifs accepted and was forced to move, others tried to fight and was sent to a land no-one wanted until we found oil then Greed Wanted it Back, Remember What goes Around Comes Around and NO AMOUNT OF MONEY CAN REVERSE What Has Happened, Washington Paid Big Business to Leave America and while they Prosper the People who Purchase Most of their Products are Left with a low paying or No Job. Until America Wakes Up We can Only get worse, The News Media is Also Thinking of who does the best for them, real Soon People can not Afford Them or their Reasons. WAKE UP AMERICA!!!! We Need Help America before WW-2, was Self supporting Now we can not Survive on our Own.. Please Write your Elected Official about Your Concerns. Please..

bill50 did not take time to read Evan Thomas' article, then spewed forth typical Right Wing Republican ranting about Bill Clinton. I saw the intelligence and received briefings during the 1990s about terrorism, and who was and was not a threat to the United States. Saddam was way down on the list, though still repugnant There is no greater condemnation than to take a nation to war when it is not justified, unnecessary and is not with the consent of the people, acquired by rational, objective presentation of facts and reality based arguments, not lies, deceptions, mischaracterizations and falsehoods. Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rove, Rumsfeld, Bolton, Wolfowitz and the rest of the signatories to the infamous 1998 letter to President Clinton advising the invasion of Iraq must all live with the blood of hundreds of thousands of people on their souls, not that any of them truly care. They escaped accountability here on Earth, but one hopes they will not escape in the Hereafter. The Republican Party must prove to me and to most Americans that it can be trusted to do more than protect Big Business from justifiable Federal Government regulation and paying their fair shared of taxes to support our country. It must prove that it can be trusted to be more than just greedy. Maybe in 2024.

Would you folks please stop referring to some republicans as "evangelical voters"? There are not two parties within the republican party (evangelicals and non-evangelicals). I don't think you really know what evangelism is. If you did, you wouldn't use that term.

???On March 11, 2002, on the 6 month anniversary to commemorate 9/11 our Republican Yale University Skull and Bones Secret Society graduate knew to say, "There will be a day, when the organized threat against America, our friends and allies, is broken. And when the terrorists are disrupted and scattered and discredited, many old conflicts will appear in a new light - without the constant fear and cycle of bitterness that terrorists spread with their violence. We will see then that the old and serious disputes can be settled within the bounds of reason, and goodwill, and mutual security. I see a peaceful world beyond the war on terror, and with courage and unity, we are building that world together."

"End the occupation of Arab lands," this war President tells Israel in Jerusalem?

7,5 years ago he said, "If elected, I'll go after America's internal terrorists?"

"History shows us what is possible?"

Caught in Thought, Mr. President, you and your global Illuminati co-conspirators?

This is nothing less, more or else than another "modern" round of fascist Skull and Bones Crimes Against Humanity, a war against Go(o)d.

There is no "war on terror" but another war against Judaism and against Israel.

Distance yourself from all campaigns of division and hatred and negativity, do not take any part in this for it is an illusion of the five-sense world, do not allow yourself to be instigated and pulled into a hate zone for on a metaphysical/spiritual level of invisible energies like attracts like and so you'll make yourself vulnerable to those who are aroused to hatred and violence.

Love thy neighbor no matter what.

What would Clinton have done after 911 if he was president. NOTHING. This is proven by the first attack on the World Trade Center Yes Clinton did have a surplus but he did this by raising taxes and cutting the Military and CIA. He told us that the Reserves and National Guard could pick up the slack in a war. That is what we have today and everyone is crying about it. It is because of these cuts that we are in the predicament we are in now. An cut down CIA was inaffectual and now our military is small. We did not get the right intelligence before 911 and Iraq. Could Iraq have weapons of mass distruction. They had them and used them in the past so there was nothing to say they did not have them then. Was Iraq training Terrorist. Yes. Have we done the right thing disposing a dictator that was killing his own people by the thousands. Yes again. We are fighting terrorist now and they will not go away or negotiate. As long as we are fighting them in Iraq and Afganstan we are not fighting them here. Lets not make the same mistake again and elect another Clinton or pull out of Iraq before we are finished. One thing the terrorist have learned from Clinton and Somialia is that if you hang in there and make it tough on Americans they will fall apart and leave especially if a Democrat is in office and the polls are against the war. That is how they plan to win.