Does anyone else respect the achievements of George W. Bush? Please read before you answer.?

Question

In this era of instant gratification, it seems Sept 11, 2001 is too long ago to remember.

April 18, 1983: Suicide bombing of the United States Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. It was the deadliest attack on a U.S.building up to that time, and is seen by some as marking the beginning of anti-U.S. attacks by Islamist groups.
DEMOCRAT response: none

1998 U.S. Embassy bombings (August 7, 1998), 257 people were killed and over 4,000 wounded in simultaneous car bomb explosions at the United States embassies in the East African capital.
DEMOCRAT RESPONSE: launched 2 missiles into a sand dune.

Democrats sent a clear message to terrorists..."we will not fight you" as Clinton cut military to the bone.

Sept 11, 2001: 19 terrorists using commercial airplanes as guided missiles flew into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. Killing thousands in a firery inferno of burning jet fuel until the buildings imploded.

TEXICAN G.W.BUSH responds with a surprising war.

No attacks on US soil since.

Why are Americans so eager to get rid of him?

No weapons of mass destruction? What do you call the terrorist mind? I think its a weapon of mass destruction. Ask families in New york if they agree.

Does anyone remember or care anymore?

And if it IS all a scam, who set that up, the Clinton administration? What happened to AMerica?

Remember, we never re-elected Nixon's party for a while!

So basically then you want it to go back to how it was, right?

Glad I dont live in America.

Parrot...ask them if they think a terrorist mind is a weapon of mass destruction.

crct my IQ is 127...above average, but thank for your AWESOME rebuttal.

Answer 1

Right On!!! I'm glad someone out there has a brain!! Thanks for pointing out the blatant facts to head-in-the-sand Americans that can't see past the fact that President Bush is a Christian. I didn't agree with Clinton's beliefs, but you didn't hear me whining and moaning about it. We have a system of voting in our leaders. Deal with it. He won - twice. The country chose him, next time you can choose the poor leader of your choice Dems.

Answer 2

Bush is the darling of the religious right because of his religious views. He is a total idiot when it comes to foreign affairs. He took his eyes off the prize, which was Bin Laden, and started an ill-advised war in Iraq. With no post-war plan! Then, he insists we're winning the war all the up until the voters said enough is enough with the last election.

When he gets the chance to actually save some lives by signing the stem cell research bill, he uses the veto for the first time in his presidency. It clearly shows he doesn't care a bit about the health and well-being of the American people.

I don't think there are any achievements of President Bush to respect.

Answer 3

So the ends justify the means? Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden are not Iraqi and did not train in Iraq. Iraq DID NOT attack the United States!!! GW bush invading Iraq had nothing to do with the war on terrorism!!! To start the ending of terrorism and terrorist activity we first and foremost need to apprehend Bin Laden and as many Al Qaeda generals we can and bring them to justice. Since 9/11 they haven't attacked the USA but they have attacked other countries.

Answer 4

You are entitled to your own opinion and simplistic naiive approach. I disagree that a president should use the population grief and disgust over Sept. 11 as an excuse to lie and drag the whole country into an unnecessary war, where thousands of American lives are lost and more than 10 times that many wounded or crippled and more than 300 billion dollars wasted.....till now, not to mention the tens of thousands of Iraqis that are killed and the total destruction of a whole country. If you want to call that "achievement", that's your business.

Answer 5

No - and I hope you will think more on this.

The only "achievement" you list is his war in Iraq. Let's review the history on this... he had troops closing in on the actual master-mind of the 9/11 plot, but then he called it off to attack Iraq. The attack on Iraq was based on intelligence that he knew to be weak, and we have subsequently determined that our suspicions of WMD were false. His only achievement in Iraq was to remove Saddam, an admittedly bad guy. But now, it is not even clear that this was a good thing, because the resulting situation in Iraq may actually turn out to be worse! The situation in the middle east is possibly more chaotic than before the invasion.

In the process of conducting this dubious war, untold thousands have died, including 3000+ US. Bush has authorized torture and the whole world knows it, he holds prisoners without charges or trials, he has spurred a civil war in Iraq, and he is hurting the US economy by continuing to finance this lost cause.

Almost all experts now agree that the war in Iraq has STRENGTHENED terrorist organizations, including al qaeda!

How can anyone respect these "achievements"?

Answer 6

I have a lot of respect for George W. Bush because unlike other politicians he stands by what he believes in without flip-flopping.

Is there anyone out there who cried over Sadaam's death?

I supported going into Iraq, but now I feel that G.W. took advice from some bad advisors and didn't carry out the mission well.

I do not support his idea of sending more troops in now. I think we need to think of a more creative way to leave, yet not let the silly Arabs kill one another in a bloody civil war.

I think that the best thing that could come out of this whole thing is if the Kurds could finally get an independent state of their own.

Why doesn't anyone care about the Kurds?

Anyway, I think G.W. should get an A for effort - at least he tried to deal with a nasty dictator and mass-murderer who happened to be sitting on 20% of the worlds oil supply.

Answer 7

Yes.

I have a great deal of respect for ANYONE who stands for what is right.

As a people, Americans have isolated themselves from the realities of the world.

We refuse to acknowledge those parts of human nature which we find distasteful. Sadly enough, denial does not alter reality (except that denial of threat often results in a reality devoid of the "denyer" (sic).

Formulation of opinions seems to be a lost art as well. Much easier to just turn on the tube and let "them" tell you what to think.

If folks actually looked around and evaluated what they saw based on what life has taught them, then things might be different.

Until we lose the attitude that "I am all that matters", we will continue do irrational things.

just my thoughts on the matter...

BTW, If you are logging achievements, how about the economy?

Although the "media" seems to think that we are in dire economic straits, I an in my mid 40s, I have been all over the world, and NEVER seen a hotter marketplace!

What's that all about?

The people also seem to be unaware that current democrat leadership has plotted a sure and steady course to socialism.

And yet we plod along behind, cokin' n jokin'.

Answer 8

Take a look at the dates from those attacks. 1983, 1998, 2001 - 83 to 98 to 01 - that's a long time. Surprisingly few attacks. I know that as an American, I do not respect Bush's achievements. I think he is insane and needs to be removed from office. Think of the countless innocent lives his war is taken. we are involved in something we never should have messed with. Now we pay the price. We will soon be all alone over there.

Answer 9

The reasoning is post hoc, and hence flawed, but nevertheless much of what Bush is done is defendable. The tax cuts improved business so much that tax collections INCREASED by over $1,000,000,000,000 more than they would otherwise have been in the subsequent five years. The response to 9/11 was appropriate. The Iraq invasion was appropriate also, notwithstanding the morass that exists there now. I cannot defend the veto of the stem cell bill, the partial-abortion law, or his meddling in the Schiavo case.

Answer 10

I think it is too early to say Bush stopped terrorists, or even delayed them. There attacks seem to take place years apart. I would need a couple more years of no attacks before I would say he did anything relevant to stop the terrorists from attacking America. Also outside of America, terrorist attacks are happening at a higher rate than at any other point in our history.

Answer 11

You make a very good point.

My neice served a year in Iraq with the army. Her husband did as well.
Do you know the enemy we are fighting drill holes in people...yes, an electric drill...as torture...or in their children to keep them in fear? They have pictures!

My nephew is in Bahgdad now.

I had a friend whose son was killed by a roadside bomb.

Why don't you other children ask the soldiers what their take is? Both my relatives say the news isn't telling you everything and they are proud to serve and I am DAMN proud of them and everyone over there.

They give the ultimate sacrifice so we can sit at our cozy computers and bash away the president. Yes, the economy sucks, and the little"W" is not the greatest, but in the middle of a war, you support your government and its soldiers. I grew up during Viet Nam....I hope this country never makes that mistake again. But, I was always proud of our guys and gals in uniforms.

If we don't stick it out now, those deaths will have been in vain. Don't do that to the vets and their families.

I remember 9-11 well. I still cannot find the words to describe my feelings on that day. And, as I recall, the entire country was saying...go get 'em Georgie!

Thanks for the reminder!