sawal
17 Answers
Colleen
He took on tyranny by embracing torture. He fought a war for freedom by trampling human rights. He enriched the already rich, excused their excesses, and then bailed them out of trouble and handed us the bill.
He squandered the budget surplus.
He tried the already proven to fail trickle down theory and made his wealthy friends wealthier. Do you really believe the wealthy spend their money here in the states?
He lied to the American people and the world. Every argument for war against Iraq was a delusion, and hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost as a result. Saddam Hussein was not responsible for 9/11 in any way. He was not a danger to the United States. The Bush administration ignored or dismissed mountains of evidence that showed that Saddam was not building an arsenal of chemical or nuclear weapons. Bush rushed to war without giving diplomacy or weapons inspectors a chance. Later, administration officials blew the cover of a CIA employee whose husband told the truth, and then lied about their involvement.
By his own admission, Bush authorized interrogation practices that are illegal under U.S. and international law. His administration at best looked the other way and at worst ordered prisoners at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib to be tortured.
He embraced a theory of dictatorship. Bush, under Vice President Dick Cheney's guidance, encouraged an imperial presidency answerable to no one. Working with a complacent Congress, Bush gutted the constitutional checks and balances that are supposed to keep any part of the government from growing too powerful or too corrupt. In the name of an endless war against an amorphous enemy, he canceled our most fundamental rights of habeas corpus and the right to be free from unreasonable government spying.
Just to name a few.
No, he was not a good president.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 11 | |
jhharlan
I liked him but then, I'm a republican. I though he held himself well...
| 13 years ago. Rating: 8 | |
Ann
No. He started two wars in the middle east that make no sense. Especially in Iraq, where too many of our soldiers lost theire lives and too many civilians lives to count. Subsidies for Oil Companies, Tax breaks for the rich .To be fair, he was not responsible for for our housing crisis, That started under Pres. Clinton.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 7 | |
Headless Man
Vinny
I voted for Bush, I am not happy of the outcome, he made many mistakes, I didn't really like him when I voted for him but I voted based on who was running against him, I disliked them more.
The left has reason to complain about him although I do not buy the 'stolen election(s) this is another story. not here, not now..
I just think that people myself included need to know more about the person running, not just vote because they are democrat or republican. Obama is a failed (so far) president as well and I am sure that if he goes another term the evil list on him will also grow as GWB's list had grown. I think that its time to let GWB and his presidential policies and mistakes rest. Concentrate on the next election, and as usual, we don't get to pick who is running, only who wins.. Vote agenda, not party.. As I see it now, many democrats themselves wish they hadn't put Obama in office. I don't want a 'panderer' I want someone that will stand for 'all' the people, not just their personal agenda limelights that will reelect him..
| 13 years ago. Rating: 6 | |
nomdeplume
UK Prime Minister Blair also supported war against Iraq even though weapons inspector Hans Blix proved Iraq did not have weapons of mass detruction. Many lost lives on both sides and now Christians being persecuted in Iraq having previously living in peace with Moslems. Blair also recently found to have brown-nosed Gadaffi.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 6 | |
I blame Bush for Obama...
| 13 years ago. Rating: 5 | |
bigben
No, I don't think that he was. I suspect that the job was too big for him just as it was for Jimmy Carter. However, that being said, I do think that in his last two years he achieved a certain political maturity developed while in office, but by then the problems he caused were too large for him or possibly anyone to handle.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 5 | |
TSC
GWB has screwed up some things but overall the decisions taken by Mr Bush in the immediate aftermath of 9-11 will be pored over by historians for the rest of our lifetimes. One thing they will doubtless conclude is that the measures Bush took to lock down America's borders, scrutinise travellers to and from the United States, eavesdrop upon terrorist suspects, work closely with international intelligence agencies and take the war to the enemy has foiled dozens, perhaps scores of would-be murderous attacks on America. There are Americans alive today who would not be if it had not been for the passing of the Patriot Act. There are 3,000 people who would have died in the August 2005 airline conspiracy if it had not been for the superb inter-agency co-operation demanded by Bush after 9/11.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
Mr.Den
I say BUSH was better than the one we have now. Considering most of congress were opposet of Bush's workings.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
redslider
He was a disappointment to many. I do, however, think a president is only as strong a leader as is his co-operation of Congress and the Senate. He made a mistake that was approved by Democrats and Republicans in our elected offices. During his administration, 911 reaction should have been more carefully countered.
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are unwinnable. We will never change those people. They will continue for power no matter what government tries to form a democracy. They are still fighting a civil war over there. His last 4 year term was just doing anaylegies on ongoing action in Iraq. Sad.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
eggplant
Clonge
He left an economic mess for Obama to straighten out, and he didn't like kissing babies. 
| 11 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
Just look at the stock market for things turning around.
As for the stock market, it can be and is manipulated to perform the way the it is needed to perform according to agendas. Do not believe it isn't.
As for English just re-read your last response and tell me.
One typo...big deal. You seem to have trouble translating so you actually understand what a person is saying. Case in point, when you went after WD when she said nothing wrong at all.
By the way, I have nothing to apologize for. You're a mere mortal man. I can stand taller than you even as a woman. That is real life outside of your religion. Deal with it. Your internal issues are your own. Don't even begin to think you can lay them in my lap. Deal with your own anger towards women who step up to you and Americans that you clearly have an issue with. Don't bring it here. When ever you come around here you try to cause drama. Find another forum for your need to disrupt.
No discussion you ever have is frank and do not attempt to feed me the crap that you respect me. You've long made it clear that you do not. Your troll friend proves that.
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