Why does the media seem to blame President Bush for everything that goes wrong in Iraq....?

Question

when Kennedy and Johnson were not blamed as badly for what went on in Viet Nam?
Think about it: 58,000 soldiers were killed...entire towns wiped out by the US military...the draft...the reported rapes...the treatment of POW's by the US military...the children who were killed...
Sure, civilians protested the soldiers, but they DIDN'T protest the president.
I'm not saying that the soldiers SHOULD be blamed (they shouldn't!) (I'm married to one!), but I'm wondering why THIS president takes the fall, when other presidents did not?

Nixon did take a lot of heat...but he's not the one who started it. He's the one that pulled us out!
Also, how is this only President Bush's war? The Senate and Congress voted for it...other countries joined us in it...
The war in Iraq started about fifteen years ago, when they invaded Kuwait. Sure, a cease-fire agreement was reached, but it never really ended the conflict.
Under Clinton, we were still firing on Iraq. Iraq was still attacking us (I have a friend who was stationed at Bahrain between 98-99, who was witness to it). So explain to me again how it's "Bush's war."

One problem with assuming that it's because the news media "thoroughly" covers this war: Many people I know that are in Iraq now, or have been in the past, say that it's not all like that at ALL. Yes, in some parts there is violence...but it is not as widespread as the news media would have a person believe.

Answer 1

The mainstream media is a fair distance to the left on the political spectrum and those who dwell in that region are anti-war (ANY war at ANY time), anti-corporate (the government should control ALL means of production and ALL means of distribution), and anti-religion (they FEEL superior to people who have religious beliefs and practices).

Because they're so far to the left they have different standards for Republican and Democratic Presidents. If a Democrat were in the White House today, the tone of (any remaining) criticism of the war effort would sound substantially different than it does with President Bush in office. It's simply the old double-standard.

This is their world-view and they will go to any lengths necessary to retain it. It's pathetic and sad but that's just who they are and, while not happy people (far from it!), they show no willingness to change.

Answer 2

The Media.
It has changes so much since the time of Viet Nam. The press is all over it like white on rice in a Styrofoam cup on a parer plate in a snow storm. The human race gets off on devastation and death. So the press shows as much as they can. They feel the need to give us "all" of the information even before they have it all! So things get really screwed up. People form an opinion before they have facts. Every thing gets blown out of proportion. It's like playing the telephone game with 20 trillion people. And who better to blame it on then the person that runs the worlds show. The President of the USA!!! I love him I voted for a winner and I don't give a hoot what any one else thinks. He's a good man. But he is the guy running the show so he is the guy that takes the heat and when he can't pass gas without it being on the news he is bound to be the fall guy. Any way that's his job.

Answer 3

Let me guess, you were not alive (or if alive, then not awake) during the 1960’s because you could not be more wrong.

As for Iraq, Bush has not gotten a fraction of the blame he deserves – he is responsible for the unnecessary deaths of thousands of Americans, Iraqis, Afghans and others – not to mention all future deaths that will result from his decisions now.

How can he not be blamed? You need to pay more attention – we have lost Afghanistan, we are losing in Iraq, and we are loosing the war on terror – all because of Bush, the conservation talking-heads that sold his policies and his war to a naïve and gullible public, and a pathetically weak and cowardly Democratic party that would not take the high-road-and-the-right-road even when they were offered a free ride.

And let's not forget the real journalists (i.e., not Fox's village of idiots) who have given this President a free pass on things that would have brought down (rightfully) any other administration.

Answer 4

You are obviously way too young to remember Viet Nam. Johnson lost his presidency over the war. Kennedy, BTW, had been dead almost 2 years before the build up in 1965. But both Johnson and Nixon took no end of grief for their conduct of the war. Nixon's first canpaign was on the theme, If I don't get the US out of Viet Nam in my first term, don't re-elect me.

Of course, he changed his tune once he was in office.

Answer 5

The Major media outlets are backed and funded by our Socialist Liberal Demoncratic Party.
Thankfully within recent years there have arose some independant outlets like Fox who provide both sides of an issue rather than simply swim with the current.
The Demoncratic party have always had a double standard.
Within their Party they have Robert Byrd a former member of the KKK. Ted Kennedy, who left His date Mary Joe Kopeckny to drown to death in the waters of Chappaquittick and never answered for it.
Howard Dean and Hillary Clinton can make some of the most racist remarks ever heard and no one cries foul.
However they are quick to indict any Republican who shoots off their mouth.
I believe the root cause of such hatred of George Bush is His highly visible Faith. Todays Demoncratic Party is the Anti-Christ party. The only time they want anything to do with God and Faith is for a Photo-Op of the Clinton coming out of Church.
This is the Party that will trip over themselves to make sure a Terrorist has a Koran, yet will not allow Christian American Children to Pray to God for a good day at school....
They really don't hate Bush.....They hate God.

Answer 6

Vietnam was a slow, gradual process--starting out with a handful of advisors during Kennedy's term---and escalated over time. Believe me, I grew up during the 60's, and many who protested the war focused their anger against the government, including Johnson and Nixon.

Bush planned on invading Iraq before he even became president in 2000. It wasn't a good idea then, and it's proven to be disastrous today.

Answer 7

For the same reason they forget that Democrat president Carter vetoed the bill that would allocate money to rebuild and upgrade the Louisianna levees back in the 1970's.

And how they forget that the National guard can only help a disaster area if that states governor asks them to.

Those things are all George Bush's fault just because they don't like him.

Answer 8

The senate and congress voted for the war based on the lies that the bush administration told them. That is nothing like vietnam.

And what do you mean they didn't protest the president. Of course people protested the president. They hated johnson and nixon alike.

Answer 9

People are blaming Bush, because he was the one who instigated the war in Iraq. Johnson was also highly criticized for Vietnam, he even resigned because of it. Although I believe that Kennedy should've gotten more crap for it because he was the one who started Vietnam as well. In my opinion, Kennedy is probably THE MOST overrated president in history.

Answer 10

The Israeli government prayed for the attack on Iraq, which has eliminated the strategic threat posed by Iraq. America was pushed into the war by a group of Neo-Conservatives, almost all of them Jews, who had a huge influence on the White House. In the past, some of them had acted as advisers to Binyamin Netanyahuwww.nowarforisrael.com/