Do you think George Bush is being grilled just for nothing?

Question

Whatever has he done, is for the nation. Everyone does to the best of his/her ability, but still Bush is being attacked day in and day out.

Answer 1

how can you say he did nothing???

1) Seizing power to wage wars of aggression in defiance of the U.S. Constitution, the U.N. Charter and the rule of law; carrying out a massive assault on and occupation of Iraq, a country that was not threatening the United States, resulting in the death and maiming of tens of thousands of Iraqis, and thousands of U.S. G.I.s.

2) Lying to the people of the U.S., to Congress, and to the U.N., providing false and deceptive rationales for war.

3) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians, civilian facilities and locations where civilian casualties were unavoidable.

4) Instituting a secret and illegal wiretapping and spying operation against the people of the United States through the National Security Agency.

5) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently changing its government by force and assaulting Iraq in a war of aggression.

6) Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary executions, kidnappings, secret and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture and physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to obtain false statements concerning acts and intentions of governments and individuals and violating within the United States, and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents elsewhere, the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

7) Making, ordering and condoning false statements and propaganda about the conduct of foreign governments and individuals and acts by U.S. government personnel; manipulating the media and foreign governments with false information; concealing information vital to public discussion and informed judgment concerning acts, intentions and possession, or efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction in order to falsely create a climate of fear and destroy opposition to U.S. wars of aggression and first strike attacks.

8) Violations and subversions of the Charter of the United Nations and international law, both a part of the "Supreme Law of the land" under Article VI, paragraph 2, of the Constitution, in an attempt to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in wars and threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and usurping powers of the United Nations and the peoples of its nations by bribery, coercion and other corrupt acts and by rejecting treaties, committing treaty violations, and frustrating compliance with treaties in order to destroy any means by which international law and institutions can prevent, affect, or adjudicate the exercise of U.S. military and economic power against the international community.

9) Acting to strip United States citizens of their constitutional and human rights, ordering indefinite detention of citizens, without access to counsel, without charge, and without opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer to challenge the detention, based solely on the discretionary designation by the Executive of a citizen as an "enemy combatant."

10) Ordering indefinite detention of non-citizens in the United States and elsewhere, and without charge, at the discretionary designation of the Attorney General or the Secretary of Defense.

11) Ordering and authorizing the Attorney General to override judicial orders of release of detainees under INS jurisdiction, even where the judicial officer after full hearing determines a detainee is wrongfully held by the government.

12) Authorizing secret military tribunals and summary execution of persons who are not citizens who are designated solely at the discretion of the Executive who acts as indicting official, prosecutor and as the only avenue of appellate relief.

13) Refusing to provide public disclosure of the identities and locations of persons who have been arrested, detained and imprisoned by the U.S. government in the United States, including in response to Congressional inquiry.

14) Use of secret arrests of persons within the United States and elsewhere and denial of the right to public trials.

15) Authorizing the monitoring of confidential attorney-client privileged communications by the government, even in the absence of a court order and even where an incarcerated person has not been charged with a crime.

16) Ordering and authorizing the seizure of assets of persons in the United States, prior to hearing or trial, for lawful or innocent association with any entity that at the discretionary designation of the Executive has been deemed "terrorist."

17) Engaging in criminal neglect in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, depriving thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and other Gulf States of urgently needed support, causing mass suffering and unnecessary loss of life.

18) Institutionalization of racial and religious profiling and authorization of domestic spying by federal law enforcement on persons based on their engagement in noncriminal religious and political activity.

19) Refusal to provide information and records necessary and appropriate for the constitutional right of legislative oversight of executive functions.

20) Rejecting treaties protective of peace and human rights and abrogation of the obligations of the United States under, and withdrawal from, international treaties and obligations without consent of the legislative branch, and including termination of the ABM treaty between the United States and Russia, and rescission of the authorizing signature from the Treaty of Rome which served as the basis for the International Criminal Court

Answer 2

I do not find any sense in the saying"to the best of his ability". A President without any ability, as is being depicted by Dubya, should not be the President in the first place. Heading a democracy of the most powerful nation in the world is not a mean job. He has a lot of responsibilities and accountability to the nation as well to the world.
His acts have been gruesome. The concoction of the 9/11 attack is the most shameful act on part of the prez. The Iraq invasion speaks of his Hitler type overtures.
To make things worse he has come out with the Patriot Act. Finding excuses to tease the entire populace is a mean act.
The truth seeker has ample evidence of his acts.
I am sorry to say but it is a fact, his best is the worst for the nation and the world as a whole.
The answers put down here tells the story. The fact remains, he is not worth to be the Prex of the country. The entire nation is waiting for his demise from the post of the President.
The disapproval of his policies has been clearly shown in the recent elections.
He needs to be grilled and thrown out.

Answer 3

Dude. This isn't a kid getting a C- in Geography. This is the President of the United States. Doing things "to the best of his/her ability" isn't good enough if it screws up the country.

All Presidents are attacked day in and day out.

I would agree that it goes over the line when people start talking about impeachment. This was a line that the Republicans crossed when going after Clinton ... it was no longer just criticism of the President, but an all-out quest for blood. And it is a line I firmly hope the Democrats do NOT cross with Bush ... again, it would be vindictive and pointless.

But criticizing, and even grilling a President, especially when things have gone as badly for him as they appear to have gotten ... is part of what he signed up for.

Answer 4

I believe that all the BushHaters can **** off bcuz GW has done the best he can and becuz he made some teenage young adult mistakes wit drugs and alcohol b4 he was prez he's gettin a tight leash. Also he isn't ignorant his ppl are more to blame 4 not bein there bests. I think ya kno wut he had to go through Congress to go to war so why is everyone of the damn liberals and democrats all over him they voted for it so shut the hell up when the man does what he thinks is right for our nation as a whole. He's the MAN in my book and I wish he could pull an FDR and run nd b elected 3 more times i'd vote 4 him every time he's totally and utterly unresponsible for any and all **** ups ni this 2 terms of services to the nation the media al;ways grills the pez for not lookin smart at speeches but his policies and plans are brilliant if the damn dems could get past his party and give him a chance to prove his plas they'd see he's not a republican or democrat he's an american doin wut any american wanted to do after 9/11/01 attack the f***ers wh o did itto us leave him be Long live GWB o there u go and by the way i'm al for McCain in'08 cuz he ain't no p***y eitherhe'll protect us there's apoint where u say f*** diplomacy.

Answer 5

The best of his/her ability has the former President of Iraq scheduled to be hanged.

Sometimes the best you can do is not good enough. When that happens the best thing you can do for your country is to resign. Bush has yet to resign so you cannot say that he has done his best.

If you are a Bush supporter, just be happy that we cannot hang him.

Answer 6

yeah right. more like whatever he has done he has done TO the nation and what he has done is make a HUGE frigging mess that benefits no one but himself and his merry band of war profiteers.
GW Bush is an employee of We the People and We the People are entitled to explanations and an accounting of the who, hows, wheres and whys our country has lost 2853 troops, have had maimed 21077 troops, have killed (at a minimum) 47061 Iraq civilians, are nearly 9 TRILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT and are failing miserably despite the enormous expenditure of blood and money.

next we need an explanation as to why the man who swore to uphold and protect the Constitution of the United States of America used that beloved and revered document as toilet paper.

Answer 7

No he deserves it.
"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 8

he is being grilled because even though he is doing his personal best, his personal best is that of a complete idiot.
He was appointed the first time by a neocon, and the second time he had a million less popular votes. You maybe right, that he does not deserve this, but why don't we run it by the rest of the country.(oh yea, we did, and the neocons got their *** kicked!)

Answer 9

I think you are not a citzen of the US. Most of those who are outsiders to US, do not understand the psychy of the voters there. They seem to be having difference perception. That is the success of democracy in the US. Please visit my question on the same lines and the answers I received therefor.

Answer 10

If when you do something to the best of your ability and you end up doing S*H*I*T*, then maybe you shouldn't be the president!!!

Plus, pretty much everything he does is either in his interests, his family's, or the republican party's interests.

Answer 11

Because he works for us and is accountable to us, the public. How do you know that he's working for us, and not for a small group of wealthy elites? That's a big assumption on your part.