President Bush?

Question

I am a republican, and though I don't agree with all of Bush's decisions, I think he catches a bad rap. Honestly could a Democrat have done any better givin the circumstances? And do you think, that after 9-11, if Bush had taken no action, he be in the same place? Still being criticized?

Answer 1

No matter what Bush does, he will forever be criticized! This is as factual as the sun coming up, it will never stop. The guy could die, and the left would say he chose the easy way out by not facing the problems HE created. So, even in death he would not be free from criticism.

The guy is not stupid, he did go to Harvard then Yale, but he is continuously painted as an idiot. No one who graduates from Yale, Harvard or both is an idiot. If that was so, then why would Harvard and Yale be so expensive and extremely selective? Furthermore, just because someone cannot publicly speak as well as others does not automatically make them dumb, but as far as Liberals are concerned, it does.

Also, many Democrats today who are against the Iraq war initially voted for it. For that matter, Congress predominately voted for it, if not, then we couldn't have gone there. President Bush acted on the information he was provided and the same information was provided to Congress and they acted. You cannot be blamed for something for which you acted in good faith, but Bush still has been.

Lastly, President Bush has paved the way for the next President to blame him for their mistakes. Watch, whenever we have a new president, if that president is a democrat, everything that goes wrong from that point forward will still be because of Bush's term in office.

Answer 2

Yes, a Democrat could have done alot better. The average Republican could have done better.

Bush had warning about 9/11 from the previous administration and from intellegence during his own. That intellegence included words like Al Qaeda, Twin Towers, Whitehouse, and airplanes. I believe there was a deliberate dismissal of the intel. for some reason and that led to the horrible events that happened on Sept. 11. Bush took action and that is good. Unfortunately he took the wrong action. He so wanted to go to war with Iraq that he was looking for something of an excuse to do that. The attack was that excuse. Although there were not Iraqi's involved and that Al Qaeda was not allowed in Iraq by Saddam Hussein he managed to link them in an attempt to sell his war on Iraq. Meanwhile Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, the actualy perpetrators of 9/11 are running free. Had Al Gore been named by the Supreme Court as President I believe things would have been vastly different. First we would have gone after Al Qaeda and Bin Laden relentlessly until we got them. Saddam's regime would have fallen and there would have been a civil war in Iraq. That would have been short lived as the others in that region of the world would have handled it.

We would now be less energy reliant on other countries and be in R and D as well as manufacturing of machines, chemicals etc. that would put us on the road to energy self reliance with clean, renewable energy sources. There would also be many new jobs created by doing this.

The lies and secrecy of this Administration would be non existant. We would probably have a handle on health care costs by now and would still be admired around the world.

Bush is incompetent, corrupt, and deceitful. He does what he sees is best for him and his corporate buddies. The Democrats are more for the people. While the Democrat may not be totally honest, the amount of deceit, corruption would be significantly less and certainly competence would be greater.

Answer 3

Before 9/11, Bush was getting a bad rap on the economy, since there was a small recession. That would have been quickly solved if 9/11 had not happened, and it's still not as bad today as it was then.

If Bush had invaded Afghanistan and left it at that, gone after bin Laden a little more aggressively, and left Saddam and Iraq alone, I think he might have gone down in history as a great president. But by invading Iraq and speding us into trillions of debt to pay for this personal vendetta of his, he has guaranteed his place in the annal of Presidents Who Damaged America. I don't think a Democratic president would have invaded Iraq.

Answer 4

Well, that makes the foolish presumption that 9/11 would have happened under a Democrat. Methinks it would not have. But lets see even if it did.....

Keep in mind that the entire world was behind us post 9/11 until this stupid Iraq talk started up. We could have had global support in fighting terrorism, and our allies would be even more willing to accept the challenge. There was no significant opposition - at home or abroad - to Afghanistan. And since Iraq, the Taliban has reunited and controls part of Afghanistan. The only reason I'm happy this criminal got re-elected is because he has sunk the republican party for a generation.

Answer 5

Bush took action in Afghanistan, however left that mission to predominantly NATO forces and invaded IRAQ which has absolutely nothing to do with 9-11.

So the answer is bush did take action, however diverted energy and resources away from he mission in Afghanistan before it was even close to complete,

Answer 6

I agree, Bush is getting a "bad wrap" but we live in a society that has the luxury of free speech. And NO democrat alive could have done a better job...if that were true he/she would have been elected into office already! Rock on my fellow republican!

Answer 7

People often critize W as if he were a moron when in fact is IS a graduate of both Harvard and Yale.

Between you and me, I don't know a lot of people that graduated from either of these two colleges, much less have the smarts to get into them, therefore I don't listen to them very much. Besides, W may look dumb, but he was a pilot in the US Air Force -- there aren't many critics out there that can say they are smart enough to have been pilots in the Air Force...

...Something to think about. Cheers !

Answer 8

No democrats wouldn't have done better. Many of the criticisms of Clinton aside from his constant immoral and criminal behavior was that he did nothing to "bring those who attacked Americans to justice". The Clinton's put George Bush in the white house.

Answer 9

Lol, if a Democrat was in office it would have been like the show 24, nukes going off in Valencia, Embassies being stormed the whole shabang. Bush isnt the bightest crayon in the box but hes a million times better than any commie democrat liberal.

Answer 10

I agree with you - the problem is this US is divided 50/50. I would think 2/3 of Dem's & republicans or unified - guess we need a 3rd party and get rid of the extremest