Is president bush listening to the American People? Below is my opinion. What is yours?

Question

The President isn't listening to the American people's call to end this disastrous war. What further proof do they need than the timing of his veto? The President vetoed the bill that would end this war and bring our troops home the week of the fourth anniversary of his infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech that declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq. Four years after that misguided speech, the President keeps making the same mistakes in Iraq.

This bill would have achieved exactly what the American people elected Congress to do in November 2006. It would have fully funded troops on the ground, started to bring them home responsibly, held President Bush accountable, and ensured our veterans get the treatment they deserve back home.

Congress has responded to the will of the American people. President Bush has not. The President is clinging to his failed stay-the-course strategy in Iraq, while brave servicemen and women risk their lives for his mistakes.

Must our troops just continue to be slaughtered because no one knows the answer. The Bill the president vetoed would have set dead lines for the Iraqi's to take over their own affairs. They will have to deal with it. Yes it is our presidents fault that this mess is here now. But we can't keep sending our sons and daughters to die for our presidents mistake, dishonesty, corruption.

Answer 1

No!

Here is a direct quotation from Bush addressing very rich and influential individuals: "some people call you the elite, I call you my base."

In other words, Bush doesn't see himself as answering the people, but moneyed corporate interest.

Bush has no interest in democracy and is demonstrating it with his actions.

Answer 2

Congress has responded to the WILL of Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party. Sadly, if they thought a pro-war stance was the momentum, they'd be rallying around our troops. What they fail to realize is that the anti-war propaganda machine gets more press than the pro-war propaganda machine, so what they think is "the will of the American people" could be just another case of garbage-in, garbage-out. If a poll of 1,000 Americans showed 65% want an immediate troop withdrawal would be a great statistic, it would be meaningless however, if those thousand people were in Berkley, CA.

"This Bill would have achieved exactly what the American people elected congress to do" is also quite an exageration. I really don't think the American peope, Republican or Democrat wanted either party to tack BILLIONS in totally unrelated pork barrel projects to an Emergency War Appropriations Bill. I think the American people, regardless of their view on the war, want a fiscally responsible government. I also wouldn't call it "Responsible" to set a firm date for troop withdrawal, regardless of the state of the Iraqi government. That wouldn't be a troop withdrawal date, it would be a surrener date.

Answer 3

No the president is not listening to the people. I didn't agree with going into Iraq in the first place. However, because of the "politics" of the region, there has to be a stable government in Iraq before we remove all our troops. In Afghanistan, we reduced the number of troops, and slowly but surely, the Taliban is regaining power. We went in, removed them from power, rebuilt their infrastructure (I have friends in the Army Corps of Engineers who have been over there for the past 4 years building water treatment & power plants, schools, drainage systems, etc). Many "amenities" are actually better now than before the US attacked Afghanistan. And I'm not trying to make excuses for the president. Other presidents have "frabricated" excuses to go to war against public opinion, however, they won (Spanish American War) (War with Mexico). If when Pres. Bush proclaimed "Mission Accomplished" and it really had been, Iraq had a stable government and our troops were home, opinions would be quite different. America is a nation of "Winners". So long as we're winning, everyone is happy.

Answer 4

I understand, appreciate, and respect your position on this. We *do* need to get our troops out of Iraq, and even though I label myself a conservative republican, I am not in favor of the war, and I believe that the American people were duped and misled by the Bush Administration into supporting this war in Iraq. It had absolutely nothing to do with the events of 9/11, nor did it have anything to do with weapons of mass destruction.

However, we are there now. We must finish what we have begun, or the radical extremists who are supporting the insurgents will win. They will take over and the middle east will be even more unstable than it is at the moment.

As unfriendly towards our Commander-in-Chief as I am, I *do* agree with his point that if we set deadlines and timetables, it's as though we're saying to the radical extremists, "Yes, just hold out until next October. Then we'll be leaving and you can take over!"

I don't know what the answer is. I don't pretend to have the answer. But I'm pretty sure that A) we shouldn't have gone there in the first place, and B) we can't now just pick an arbitrary date and say we're done by then.

Answer 5

In our system of government we elect people we believe will do the job, then they go out and do something, maybe good maybe not, it does not really matter because you have no recourse except to elect someone else.

This is not a type of government where the decisions are made based on polls, they do not call you up and ask you what you think they should do. They go and do what they do for whatever reason, but it is their call to make, not yours or mine.

Bush is doing what he was elected to do, and I cannot say that about congress. Congress is trying to do the executive branches job in directing the military, and clearly that is not their role otherwise we would not have the executive branch we would just have a politburo, which is how congress is acting.

So I would say Bush is doing his job and Congress is not. Pretty simple really.

Answer 6

You dont have a clue as to what needs to be done.

You sit from the comfort of your little bedroom, in your nice american house, money in the bank, freedom, liberty and all of the niceties that this great country has to offer.

What the hell do you know about IRAQ ??

Your a solution looking for a problem.

This aint your parents 60's kiddo. It's a whole new world out there, and I'm real tired of listening to people like you. Get a clue.

Use some of that claptrap to better your neighborhood or something.

Answer 7

So, who then do you complain to if we do bring the troops back home; then while we sit at home thinking how nice it is to leave the middle east alone then the terrorists come over here and start blowing things up again? Would it Bush's fault then too? Are you too stupid to realize that we are going to be in a battle with the Islamo-fascists either over there with our troops or over here? Get a clue.

Answer 8

The conflict in Iraq has no relating our liberties. after we went into Iraq it had no relating the perfect "conflict on terror". It does now by using way the conflict has been mismanaged. i won't be able to help his judgements if i believe that they are unfavourable to this us of a. that is not merely my perfect as American to communicate out, its my duty as a citizen. As for the address this evening, that is organic politics. it really is all the State of the Union message ever is. it really is why i do not take it too heavily. i opt to confirm movements, not merely listen rhetoric.

Answer 9

Not everyone is calling for the end of the war.

The whole government does not care.

Congress also approved the war. It is not just Bush's mistake. It is all of their mistake.

Answer 10

Veto was correct, we elected Bush , President not those,
Gutless Clowns in Congress.