What are Your "non-blind" Reasons for Hating Bush?

Question

Conservatives always rant that there is "blind" hatred for Bush. (their only defense for deflecting valid criticism) Well, I have several rational reasons for not liking him.

First and foremost, He's inarticulate, coarse, dimwitted and I'm sick and tired of him representing this proud country to the rest of the world. I'm embarrassed by him and pissed off about it.

He has also done enormous damage to American prestige and good will throughout the world.

Nothing "blind" or "irrational" about that. And that's just for starters.

Throwing us into a needless war for WMD's (lol) that did not have to be fought is another.

3,000 troops needlessly dead is another. I could go on....

What are your reasons?

I do personally think his is a dork-headed, smirking, frat boy, in over his head, but that's just personal. The about reasons are tangible.

Answer 1

Someone wrote this and it is a good start though he left out the CIA torture camps set up in other countries like Poland and essentially eliminated habaes corpus to anyone he decides that he wants to declare a combatant, even if a US citizen expressing there views!

I Know he lied, I don't have to think about it!

) 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 hundereds 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, kidnaping, 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


And his refusal to allow the international Red Cross to see those who are being helad as combatants which is against the Geneva Conventions, and something the US always DEMANDED of those who held our troops as POW's!

Answer 2

In the last 5 years my expenses have more than doubled but my income has not kept pace with inflation. The gap between the wealthy and the middle class is spreading. The vast majority of tax cuts have been a benefit to the very wealthy while the average American has seen tax increases. This is personal to me, but is is also a very rational criticism of the Bush administration's economic policies. It is provable, rational, and certainly not blind to millions of Americans.

Answer 3

One situation is you confuse Al-Qaeda for Iraq. enable me provide you some information - information. Al-Qaeda and Hussein did no longer have ties to a minimum of one yet another. Bin encumbered and Hussein HATED one yet another because of the fact Iraq and Saudi Arabia have been enemies. if it is so, then why did bush attack Iraq? Why did no longer he end the job in Afghanistan? you ought to no longer hardship approximately how human beings protesting bush would be remembered, you ought to hardship approximately HOW BUSH would be REMEMBERED. He has alienated many international locations, he and his administration felt they have been ABOVE the regulation by using time out a CIA good and their unlawful wiretapping software, and the mess he's leaving with yet another president with regard to the Iraq war. i will inform you what's going to coach in 20 years: He replaced into the Worst President in history...

Answer 4

I agree with you...I'm not sure if the 33% of Bush supporters understand...that God forbid if another 9/11 takes place we wont have much sympathy...after 9/11 the world was on our side...
After Iraq the world is waiting to say we told you so!

Answer 5

Well, first, he's a Christian. Second, he has defended this country. Third, he protects innocent, unborn babies from horrible pain. Fourth, he loves America. Fifth, he supports our troops. Of course, the best politicians are people like John Kerry who undermine our troops. By the way, it is sickening to compare Bush to Hitlar. I wouldn't compare anybody but an abortion doctor to Hitlar.

Answer 6

I think he outright lies,Something had to be done in Iraq,But he went about it wrong,If somalia and other countries with genicide had oil , He would have us fighting there to.If Bush was a diamond trader instead of an Oil man ,We would be fighting in Africa because they had wmd"s.Everything out of his mouth seems like a lie.

Answer 7

1) He is not inarticulate. He has given a number of very effective speeches & is very articulate in casual conversation.
2) Define what you mean by course. Compared to whom?
3) Explain how a "dimwit" earned (yes, earned) 2 Ivy league degrees. How many do you have?

They rest are just opinion, not fact.

Answer 8

these guys have to try to run ur country whitch has always glutted itself on free energy. If a guys elected I believe people should get behind him until the next election. Basically nowadays half the us population are undermining themselves. The chinese dont have your problem u better watch out.

Answer 9

Iraq wasnt all about WMD, shows how ignorant you are. And sorry to break it to you, but the president rarely makes a decision by himself, Congress is usually telling him what to do. And its just not Republicans that are smart enough to relize the importance of the Iraq War, its the Democratic Congress now too. Look at what they promised you, cutting and running from Iraq. What have they done? They tried to get the draft reinstated; why are you mad at Bush when its your own kind thats lied to you and is edging the war on? (I support Operation Iraqi Freedom)
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Yupchug- Exactly

Answer 10

I don't despise Bush as much as I do his supporters who continue to rally to his defense. The reasons you give are all many of the same as mine, but I'd like to add his division of the people in this country. I have never seen such hatred between the republicans and the democrats as there has been since he took office. It is elevating to the point where we are going to have our own civil war to worry about.
PS. By the way, "I hate liberals", the newly elected majority of democratic congresspeople haven't taken their seats yet. You're already blaming them?

Answer 11

well bush is a good president he is not one one of those democract people who speak about helping others and doing good stuff and blah blah it never happens. you should be proud he is the president not kerry