Was bush set up to fail?

Question

in 2002 100% of all the media & congress & wallstreet backed up bush who said things would be hard & take years & cost alot of money, but after 3 years of struggling everyone is abandoning their prior loyalty, it makes america look so incompetent & weak

Answer 1

I'm surprised. Are you?

Answer 2

Wow,you actually remembered.I'm proud,you show character.If the American people could remember this and understand that the Democrats were left out of the loop for the last six years and are desperatly trying to regain control,they would understand whats happening today,we voted and sent a message to the Republicans,the Democrats however dont give a rats @ss about the war,only how to get back into power.Bush said this could not be an overnight war and he was right,the threat is very real to our way of life,but thge average American's attention span is only a week or the next scandal and their attention falls away

Answer 3

Bush never had 100% support. The Senate voted 77-23 and the House voted 296-133 in favor of the war. Many voted for it because they were afraid voters would hold it against them if they voted against the war, and later the US was struck by a mushroom cloud. But no sign of a new nuclear weapon program was found in Iraq. Lawrence Linsay was fired for saying the war could cost a couple of hundred billion dollars, now it seems to cost $100 billion a year, no end in sight. Vice President Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke optimistically in interviews and at briefings about the prospects that the war would be short, Iraqi resistance limited and Iraqi citizens welcoming.

In spite of all that, Bush got a second term to keep trying. Who set him up to fail?

Answer 4

I understand your point. That really is a difficulty.
The reason so many people have changed their opinion on the war is Bush's song and dance about why we invaded Iraq. It didn't play well.
Americans realized that Bush misrepresented the truth[lied] about going after the people who were responsible for the terrorist attacks perpetrated against us and really wanted to invade Iraq for his own financial and personal reasons.
The war against terrorism needs to be fought against Osama Bin Laden and his militia. Which by the way, at the last report I read was 2 million and growing! This radical Islamic leader and his followers and financiers are responsible for most of the terrorist attacks since at least the 80's.In the last few decades they have grown in numbers and influence in the Middle east.
In the 70's and 80's we provided them with money,training, and weapons to fight against the Russians who were attacking Afghanistan.
No good deed goes unpunished!!
We need to call upon the rest of the Arab community that doesn't want Osama to succeed. Don't they have a more vested interest in who controls so much power over their peoples lives. Perhaps too many of them see him as a shepard leading the true people against the oppressors? By whatever means necessary.
Either way, I don't think questioning your leaders makes you look incompetent or weak in this situation. I think it shows the people of the world that our system allows it's citizens the freedom to do just that. Question why we were so easily mislead and what we will do in the future to ensure more qualified people are voted into the highest office in our land.

Answer 5

were you paying attention in 2002?

Bush said they had WMD FOR SURE... and that WAS why we invaded...

is a war based on a lie going to be popular? NO... not ever...

waging a war based on a lie is a purely incompetent act... nothing anyone has done since then is half as incompetent as this original action...

and not only that but Cheney and Rummy both said it was going to be easy, in and out, and at virtually no cost to anyone... check out Cheney on meet the press right before the war started, I'm sure it's on YouTube... maybe he was setting up Bush for failure there?

Answer 6

I recall the unanimous votes for going to war, except Kerry who voted against funding the troops, thanks John! Then the liberal media started to undermine the effort followed closely by the demon-rats! I think those two groups HAVE set up the President to fail for their own agendas. Remember they ALL had the access to the same reports, from what remained if the intelligence communities AFTER Slick Willie gutted them and signed a law PROHIBITING the FBI and the CIA from sharing intelligence!

Answer 7

What did he fail? He has BIG OIL backing him and when he retires from government work, he will get a very cushy job working for the oil companies. This war is FAILING because we should not be there. Same as Viet Nam. Our longest war was when we fought the indians; 30 years.

Answer 8

yeah, I see your point, and actually I agree, everyone says we need the UN's approval for the war in Iraq, but the Irony is that we end up flipping the bill for the UN, Why should we have to flip the bill just to ask other countries how we should protect ourselves?

Answer 9

Yup. And Clinton was set up to get a hummer from Monica too.

Answer 10

Well only in the sense that he may be the fall guy for the coming"Apocolypse"