To all you anti-Pres Bush Americans?

Question

What more can you ask of President Bush than there have been no terrorist attacks on American soil? This is a success, can you admit it? It has not gone perfect, but once again, there have been no attacks on American soil in 5 years. Can any liberals or anti-Bush people actually give the man some credit?

nowhereman you are flat out clueless. We had US embassiies attacked in Africa, which is American soil.

catie6206-here are some facts

1. The Louisana governor must call the National Guard to come in. The President cannot just go in there.
2. The levee system is the responsibility of New Orleans. It is in the LA constitution.
3. I highly doubt you are a real Republican. You want the federal government to deal with all these problems.

Can you answer the question? Can you give President Bush credit for anything? There have been no attacks on American soil. If you want to rant and rave, at least give him some credit. Some of you are proving that you cannot say anything nice.

To all of you who have asked questions back to me:

I clearly stated that things have not gone perfect.
You are not privy to all the intelligence information out there. You do not know what has or has not happened. You make assumptions without having all the facts.

As for all of you who complain about civil liberties, this is war. What you want must be put aside for the better good. You also probably think it wrong to lock up child rapists because they are likely to rape again. After all, personal liberties are more important that the rights of a society.

This question once again shows Americans cannot respect the freedoms we have and we deserve to lose them.

To clarify what I meant by my last comment, Americans are not willing to fight the terrorists and defeat them. We complain about this or that procedure. We are not willing to sacrifice our "rights". If we are not willing to use force to kill those who want to destroy us, we then deserve what we get, which will be a destruction of our way of life. One nuke in a major city and this economy is overwith. I am not advocating we lose at all nor do we deserve to. I completely support going on offense.

Answer 1

Seems most of us can quote law or scripture or news reports pertaining to how we view an item or event. I feel our failure, just by being human, is that while no one remembers what we do well, no one forgets what we do poorly. My experience has taught me there is a gap between the way things are and the way things are supposed to be. And there very few ppl who can enter this gap and act in a manner which is both beneficial and positive for everyone. Where one stands in this grey area is a matter of personal conscience.

To that end, while I may not agree with everything he does, nor how he does it, I feel everyone who has ever been in his position deserves credit, and our thanks, for doing many good things. It is easy, and everyone knows there are enough ppl, to blame him for things that go wrong. My challenge is for anyone - everyone - to step into the gap and do better!

You leave no option for direct contact so I'll just say it here; I am a conservative and I cannot, in any way, agree with your last posting. No person deserves to lose freedom.

Answer 2

I don't think we haven't had anymore attacks because of him. But in the last 5 years he has actively whittled our civil liberties, and used his position of power curiously enough like many of the dictators America has opposed (and sometimes secretly supported) throughout the last 60 years. I don't think having our rights taken away from us is a good thing, and to me that overshadows any supposed success in keeping the terrorists away.

I would also like to know why Osama bin Laden isn't rotting in a jail somewhere on United States soil. Why is he still free, 5 years after this horrible event? Surely you can admit that this is a failure on Bush's part.

I will and have always admitted that I feel that Bush did a good job in the immediate aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001, but since then he seems to have used the events for his own benefit and to secretly take away our rights. This is disgusting, unethical, and highly unconstitutional.

So, no, I will not give Bush any credit for supposedly keeping the terrorists away.

Answer 3

Once again, a con trying to use logic.

To Chase and birdsnakecats, the question was about terrorist attacks on American Soil. How about giving Clinton some credit. No terrorist attacks for the last 7 years of his administration.

What about the bombings in Madrid, London, and Bali? Those happened on Bush's watch.

I'll give Bush lots of credit.

For screwing everything up.

Answer 4

There have been countless attacks in Europe and against American interests in the Middle East. Al Qaeda stated they would focus on Europe and American allies, which they have. They also said that the next attack would be bigger than 9/11 so they raised the bar on themselves. You sound like Dick Head Cheney on trying to justify his crimes and lies to the world on Meet the Pres. That or you just got a copy of the latest talking points.

My home has not been hit by lightning as long as I have lived there. Does that mean I should be given credit for repelling lightning strikes? Hardly.

Answer 5

properly, he has already executed a lot. he over-threw sadam and no THAT terrorist chance is out of how and now the iracis get to have a democracy. i imagine that they have got already executed alot for us and irac, yet they arent going to go away till they have comprehensive helping the iracis set up there goverment. they nevertheless are scuffling with a number of there terrorists, yet i'm no longer particular that it truly qualifies for an acual conflict anymore. did you know that more desirable people die per week from violence in washington dc then all the persons scuffling with in irac? isnt it unusual it is more desirable risky to stroll by your countries capital then to strive against terrorism in irac? exciting. i actually do imagine that bush had the right mind-set, yet there'll continuously be terrorism because there'll continuously be evil people contained in the international, so if a terrorist attack takes position sometime contained in the destiny, shall we no longer basically bypass off and blame bush for it like the liberals continuously do.

Answer 6

When was the last time there was an attack on US soil prior to 9/11?
Tell you what, I have a magic rock that prevents terrorist attacks in north america. Don't believe me? I got it after 9/11 and there hasn't been a single solitary attack by terrorists in North America since.
That PROVES it works!
See what nonsense you can come up with when you use your brainless brand of logic?

Answer 7

I can ask more of President Bush. I can ask him not to stay on vacation while people drown in the street's of New Orleans. I can ask him to send water to the people of the gulf coast after the largest natural disaster in history. I can ask him to send troops after he took the Louisiana and Mississippi National Guards and sent them to Iraq during hurricane season. I can ask him to build levees that would actually withstand a hurricane. I can ask him to rebuild the wetlands of the Mississippi Delta to protect coastal Louisiana. I can ask him to declare Southwest Louisiana a disaster zone as quickly as he declared Texas one after Hurricane Rita. I can ask him to work towards policies & programs that leave this country energy independent so the middle east no longer matters. I can ask him not to be so single-mindedly focused on an unwinnable war. I can ask many, many things but it looks like I won't be getting any of them until 2008. OH, and in case you are wondering-I am a Repbulican.

Answer 8

nowhere man, in case you didn't know. US Embassy buildings are considered American soil. There were two, not to mention the Marine barracks and the USS Cole. Clinton never retaliated against any of those attacks, save bombing a pharm. factory. It's time we went after these fools.

Answer 9

I ask that he takes responsibility for starting a war with a souvereign nation with no ties to any terrorist organization. A war resulting in over 2600 US troops dead, 20000 maimed and countless civilians dead. A war which created a hub for which terrorists are now based. A war he had plan for long before 9/11.

I support the war in Afganistan as the war on terror but I forbid to allow myself to ever forget that Iraq was not part of the war on terror until we messed it all up.

Answer 10

Do some research. The average interval between attacks on US soil is 7-9 years, going back to the 1970s. So, it's really not much of an accomplishment that Bush hasn't screwed up this average.

Also, even if we give him credit for anything of the sort, it's still no excuse for willful violation of federal laws, when he could have done all the same types of surveillance and detention legally, just by following the proper procedures. Breaking the laws gave him no additional tools beyond what the law already allowed, so there is no valid reason to break the laws just because he didn't like them.