Is Bush stubborn, stupid or smart?

Question

A bipartisan study says talk with Iran, Iraq, Syria and others in the region.

Rice and Bolton agree with the panel that there must be talks, likewise the Senate and Congress.
Blair's going over to begin talks with them

BUSH says he's not talking unless those countries have an agreement in place on issues. And he has not given a
new strategy for the mess there.

Is he smart or idiotic to expect agreements without first talking?

Answer 1

He was smart enough to get elected
Stupid enough to get us into this MESS
and stubborn enough to keep us in it

Answer 2

Smartest=Barrack Obama Stupidest=Mike Huckabee

Answer 3

He is stubborn. But he probably thinks that talks will be useless anyway so why bother. The demands to stop nuclear work is just an excuse to avoid talks.
If we have talks, they always get concessions from us, promise some to us and then break the promise, so why bother indeed. So he is smart and stubborn.
The issue is not talking. The issue is how do we really stop them. Talking will not do it no matter how many talks we have. they would use talks to stall our other possible actions until it is too late. Once they get nukes, we are doomed. You cannot win a negotiation with an Arab. They invented it. They only understand power, not reason.

Answer 4

If you paid attention, the Iraq Study Group publicly stated, that the ONLY reason that 'talks' with Iran were suggested, is because we know they won't 'talk' and we want to PROVE TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, that they are obstructionists !!!!!!

Oh, by the way, President Bush is very smart, and if you saw the press conference, featuring Tony Blair and President Bush, you'd have seen a very smart, and passionate President George W. Bush !!

Answer 5

I like american's idea. I would not say he's stupid just not smart. He's surrounded himself with yes men/woman and doesn't want anyone to disagree with him. The results is as you'd expect when you don't listen to both sides of any question. You make a lot of wrong decisions. The Iraq will go down as a complete disaster for this country.

Answer 6

I think he would rather delegate the finer points of his duties, for the most part. He doesnt really act like a true leader unless it deals with a religious right-wing hot button issue like federal funding for stem-cell research or some other crap to feed to the masses.

Answer 7

He knows something most people who hate him won't admit. That Syria and Iran are extremely dangerous to western civilizations and that it is foolish to try to reason with a madman. Kind of like the old saying.."Never try to teach a pig to sing, it annoys the pig and wastes your time".

Those two countries want nothing in the way of constructive conversation, they want Israel dead. They want all western influences dead. Nothing less than that will satisfy them.

The man is NOT stupid, despite what many here wish so desperately to believe. Just watch some of the footage of these people.

Answer 8

The only person that I think are idiotic are those that think you can solve a problem by talking to the people that are actually causing some of the problems, maybe it's me and I have lost all sense of logic.

Answer 9

He's foolish and stubborn -- refusing to compromise.

While he is unwilling to talk to the regimes in charge of Syria and Iran, he's all-too-happy to hold a White House reception for the communist dictators of China.

Nice, eh?

Answer 10

He is smart for thinking for himself and not listening to a study based on opinion and not fact.

Answer 11

He is a leader who will show the socialists, communists and terrorist that America isn't going to be pushed around by opinion.
He is a man of principle and resolve who doesn't have to take an opinion poll to know what is right and what is wrong. If you keep changing your direction, you will never arrive at your destination.
Seems to me that he was voted into the most powerful position in the world.... I wouldn't think that just "happened" by mistake.