Why do SO MANY people feel it necessary to criticize President Bush?

Question

I believe he is a good man, but he did not get the easiest presidential term to deal with. How do you think Clinton would've acted if there was a terrorist act on America during his presidency? I think that the war was necessary. If someone bombs your country, bomb them back, let them know you will not tolerate that. If you don't, they will probably do it again. Also, many people are saying that we should end the war now, and have the troops come back home, but if we left now, we would leave the people over there very vulnerable and open to attacks from other countries. What do you think?? Let me know....

I understand that people have their freedom of speech... but why criticize him? Do you really feel he has done that bad of a job? Could you do better??

Just so this is clear... I did not say America was bombed... this was just an example.
I also don't feel the attack during Clinton's presidency was as terrible as 9/11..!!

Answer 1

kelsea , your an awsome american thank you and the people like you. it doesnt seem your taking marching orders or reading from some democratic talking sheet tha we have seen in here tonight and alot of night. God bless president and may he always have the lord in his sights and as his guidance. its with great sadness that we have lost so many troop, but what war have we been in that has had so few, especially in infiltration and over throw. i have faith this president chose a great cabinet to surround himself with and as time goes on president bush 43 with be ranked up there as one of the best war times presidents. right up there with president reagan as a cold war president thank you for the great words and letting us know people like you exist.

Answer 2

He's not a "good man." He's proven that in so many ways. I can even not count the war or how he reacted immediately following the terrorist act... or things he said after Katrina.

I look at how he's catered to his big business buddies, how he is giving the rich big tax breaks while refusing to hear about raising the minimum wage or giving tax breaks to the working poor. How about decommisioning dozens of our forest lands so they can be wiped out by whoever wants to cut them down (probably more of his friends). Or how about not attempting to do anything about the high prices of gas because everyone who is in control of the pricing are all his buddies as well. Then there's how he has made sure that the rest of the world hates us... if a war were to happen here on our own shores, there are few countries who would come to our aid.

Then there's the war... but I think you know where I'd go with that.

Just so we're clear... I don't think Kerry could have done much better with the war issues based a lot on what you posted. But I do think he would have done much better on the other issues I've posted here.

And the issue isn't whether or not we can do better. It is our duty as Americans to question our leaders and hold them accountable for what they do in the name of the American people. He is not a dictator or a king... he's an elected official. Of course we can't do any better... but that doesn't mean we shouldn't speak out about what we feel have been his shortcomings while in office.

And his faith in God shouldn't matter one teeny tiny iota as far as his office is concerned. There is nothing in any of our laws that requires our President to be a Christian or religious man at all. Having "God in his sights" is irrelevant in how he governs.

Answer 3

I think people are just Ignorant when it comes to the Real World........

Also America was attacked by Terrorists during the Clinton years:US base in Saudi Arabia,USS Cole,1st World Trade Center Bombing.................

He did not respond to these attacks,guess it would have been Politically Incorrect to do so...........

Also look at the way Clinton screwed our Soldiers in Somalia(Terrorist state)If he didnt tie their hands and let them do their job, things might have went better...............

Im an Independent....

I agree/Disagree with our Presidents Policies.I feel enraged over his Immigration(Amnesty) Stance.......

Yet at the same time I understand that he has the hardest job on the Planet,And that he cant please everyone All the time.......

Your question should have been "Why do SO MANY people feel it necessary to make personal attacks against President Bush?"

People just show how Stupid they really are when they do that sort of thing..........

That's just my opinion..........

Answer 4

People criticize things they don't like.

Just like how you criticized Clinton.

People will probably criticize you for mentioning that. I personally would. Why? B/c it doesn't really deal w/ the question.

Your question is asking 'Why do we criticize this man?' but your insinuating that we shouldn't criticize him b/c he may have done some good things. Just b/c he may have done some good things doesn't mean he can still be free of all criticism. Criticism is healthy, not unhealthy. Should a man never be criticized b/c he did a few good things? Yikes, thats a dangerous way to think.

Your asking a question that doesn't deal w/ the entire paragraph you wrote below it. This, to me, is saying your judging your opinion on Bush merely off his reaction to terrorism.

This is a terribly narrow point of view. There's more to politics than terrorism.

However, I personally believe you can't blame the president for every wrong doing that happens. He alone isn't to blame for all our problems....If there's a problem, don't merely blame him, blame the system.

Same goes for Clinton.

Answer 5

I think you are not very bright. You apparently didn't realize there WAS a terrorist attack on America during Clinton's term. And he didn't invade countries that had nothing to do with the attack. He didn't torpedo the budget and sink the country into debt. He didn't decide he had unlimited powers to secretly repeal all the freedoms American soldiers DIED to defend in all those wars. He didn't actively thwart measures to fight global warming. In short, he did a great job.

Here's something to think about....Bush named Iran as a member of the Axis of Evil. Yet, he deposed an enemy of Iran (Saddam), and in his place, pro-Iranian Shiites were elected to power in Iraq. What lesson, exactly, did Iran learn? Bush has actually given a member of the Axis of Evil more power in the region. What you don't seem to realize is that Al-Queda isn't a national army representing a specific country. In fact, they want many governments in the Middle East overthrown. So when they see we'll do the job for them, it probably only encourages them to launch further attacks....

Answer 6

Where are the nukes we told were over there. Were is all the anthrax. I agree that we should not stand abck and do nothing. But there was no plan there was no thinking. It was simply jump in and do. Who does that? Now we have NO CHOICE> We have to stay there and basically clean up the mess we made. Meanwhile, kids die and starve, women get raped, and thousands of our men die while their families grieve. What did we really accomplish? What did we think would happen if we busted in with big guns and no brains? That why so many criticize him cause he has tons of guns and no brain. As for the Clinton thing who cares it didnt happen get over it. I love how a man could get impeached for cheating on his wife but not for lying to an entire nation about reasons for war.

Answer 7

Note that most of the criticism (re: war) was originally limited to the tactics used, not the war in Afghanistan itself. Almost everyone agreed we should have taken them out, and it was very clear that the Taliban was openly supporting and harboring Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Clinton, Gore, Bush, Cheney... all of them would have gone to war in Afghanistan. Maybe tactics would differ, but the major strategy would be the same.

The problem came when Bush pushed for war in Iraq, which wasn't necessary by the same standards that Afghanistan was. Iraq, of course, didn't attack us, and Iran and Syria were more likely to support Al Qaeda than Iraq was, and we knew then and now that this was the case.

You seem to be combining entering Iraq and Afghanistan into one, when Iraq didn't become a center for terrorism *until* we invaded.

Answer 8

Many of them do it because they ARE Patriotic. But just like those who attacked President Clinton, there are those who do it in seditious ways. Simple to avoid, regardless of your "side"
1) Be a U.S.A. citizen and Patriot first, party second.
2) Don't call our elected officials names.
3) Don't spread unfounded rumors about them.
4) Don't presume they are "guilty until proven innocent".
5) Vote, every time, and respect the results of the vote. That doesn't mean don't check for fraud, but complaining about things you had no problem with going in, but complain about after you lose? That's seditious as you can get. Kind of dumb as well.

If you feel it is best for the United States (NOT the world), then disagree, dissent, and protest. Those are often tools for Patriots. The same with those who defend against them.

Respect our laws most of all. It is not necessary to disrespect our country and elected officials to fight unjust policies and goals. People do that just to try to influence others regardless of the cost to the country.

That's sedition. It may not be illegal. It might be free speech.

But it's still sedition, against either President.

Answer 9

1) He disobeyed the United Nations and went to war with Iraq. It isn't showing a good diplomatic example when the most civilized, industrialized, and modernized country on Earth violates a group of representatives of other nations whose primary goal is to establish worldwide peace. He did exactly what they said not to do, go to war with Iraq.
2) America has no right no be in Iraq, and no purpose. Supposed "weapons of mass destruction", which Bush claimed Iraq "stockpiled" were never found in our immoral and illogical raid of Iraq. Although the Saddam Hussein regime was likely the most brutal regime since Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, Hussein and Iraq have never threatened America once during Hussein's dictatorship.
3) The lives of innocent human beings are being lost because George Bush feels it necessary to be the planet's judge, jury, and executioner. He wants terrorists to be tried as war criminals, when he himself should be tried as a war criminal, because our soldiers lives are being lost due to the newfound "necessity" of America to remain in Iraq to prevent the country from falling into a civil war, out of which a new Saddam Hussein would emerge, and we would end up being in the same situation, with our children on here asking "why criticize president so and so?". It's obvious with the I.E.D.s and roadside bombs and terrorist attacks and suicide bombings in Iraq that the majority of Iraqi people do not want America to be there, so the Iraqi population seems to be in agreement with a large percentage of the American population. If they don't want us to give our lives for their cause, the most logical solution is to pull out of Iraq beginning now, because if the people we're trying to save don't want us there, why should we be there?
4) I'll agree with you, George Bush is a good man who believes what he's doing is what everybody wants and what he's doing is the right thing to do. It's like Christians who go and evangelize Jews, not understanding that 1)the Jewish people are pretty firm in their faith, and not readily willing to switch religions, and 2)Most Christians don't understand how hard of a gap it is to close up between Judaism and Christianity, seeing as how Christianity for centuries persecuted Jews under the false lable of "Christ-killer". Bush thinks it will work in the long run. Maybe it will! But in the time being, the American people will be unsatisfied with any job that any president would be doing. If George Bush hadn't gone into Iraq, we Americans would've been saying that we should've. So it's not fair to criticize Bush on some levels, but considering the options we as Americans had to deal with the Iraq situation, I believe (along with the majority of Americans) that the government under George Bush choose the wrong option.

Answer 10

Because he dosent see oportunities when they are there. On 9/11 we had the whole world on our side crying and holding vigils, but how many countries hate us now? Most people in other countries hate us and I don't blame them. He may be a good man, but when someone lies to get us in a war and kills 100,000's of people I feel it necessary to criticize someone. Do you think Iraq and Afganistan are better now? How is anything better? You are a fool I am sorry to say.

And yes I could do better.

Answer 11

My disdain for Bush has nothing to do with his reaction to terrorism but rather to the fact that he is at his core a greedy, help out my rich friends, misleading moron that can't talk his way through the most simple of sentences. He is an embarassment.

And guess what, it isn't the JOB of Dems or Libs or whatever you want to call them to have a "plan" to deal with anything. The Republicans are in charge. The Whitehouse, both houses of Congress, even the Supreme Court. It is THEIR job to have a plan and so far they can't figure out how to pour piss out of a boot with the directions on the bottom.

And it isn't about ME doing better. HE was elected. HE wanted the job. It is entirely HIS responsibility and he has totally FAILED.