Is there anybody left who has any respect for Bush's Iraqi position?

Question

It's almost as if the President thinks the rest of us are walking around with blinds on and all he has to do is say, 'We will succeed' and everything is done.

WHY HASN'T HE ACHIEVED SUCCESS DURING THE PAST 4 YEARS.????

Answer 1

Of course there are people left who have respect for Bush's Iraqi position.

Military Contractors, Oil Companies, Oil Services Companies, Construction Companies and any other contractor who is getting their share of the 12 billion dollars a month that is spent on this war.

He has been unable to achieve success because he is trying to implement democracy (or some form of it ) on a country that has never known it. The only life that Iraqi's have understood are either a brutaul king or brutual dictator. Any form of goverment that does not act like either of these forms is alien and considered weak.

Answer 2

Yes, I respect George W. I grew up in the 60s in England. I played in houses that were bombed in WW2, I walked on beaches that still had barbed wire on to keep the enemy out. I played in shelters which housed the Land Army complete with machine guns that were situated in the ocean. Fortunately the enemy never got to our shores but that was only because we took the war to them and fought the war on the offensive. I know this is a different type of war, we cannot identify the enemy but the ideals of the enemy were just as mad. Hitler could have been stopped years before but the world did not take his threat seriously.
I don't know why people expected the troubles in the middle east to be resolved quickly. They never have before. The middle east has always been a threat to global peace, my question is where is the UN why is everything being left to the Coalition forces.

Answer 3

Why not?
Luke 24. 44-45, 47-49
Ever wonder how can he achieve success when everyone was at loss and blurr on what went wrong out there earlier?
The misery was only expose after living human kind was caught off guard with pants down in iraq.
Only then we knowwhat went wrong and have sense of direction to correct the blunders and slip-ups with human errors created back in the past being expose with time after the mystery of us-911.
Luke 10.24
The best kept dirty little secrets of the past dirty old men hidden in their graves over the loss of the missing x-files that was lost with time.

Answer 4

Yes, the oil companies.

"Fueling new resistance to the oil benchmark are reports that the draft law in fact says little about sharing oil revenues among Iraqi groups and a lot about setting up a framework for investment [by American oil companies] that may be disadvantageous to Iraqis over the long term." http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0518/p01s01-usfp.html

Why hasn't he achieved success? At today's press conference, Bush laid much of the blame on Gen. Tommy Franks.

Answer 5

No one in their heart truly believes that this is a salvageable war, not even the most vocal Neocons. They merely pay lip service to the nobility of this war, because their hubris prevents them from admitting that they were mistaken about this whole enterprise. Its funny that the side of the political spectrum, that talks the most about family values and the culture of life, is the one that would allow failed political and military policies to be implemented that cause the dissolution of families through forced separation of soldiers from their families and the destruction of life, all so they can save face.

Answer 6

Me. And what makes you think he hasn't made any success? granted, he hasn't reached all his goals (but then no president ever has) but at least there haven't been any more 9-11's or mass terrorist attacks in the U.S. Since I assume you mean Iraq, Let's put this in perspective. The state of California has a population of half (or less) than Iraq. Iraq is in a state of war, California is not. There are more murders every day in California, than Iraq. There are more rapes, and assaults every day in California than Iraq. There are more acts of violence evry day in California, than Iraq. Just over 3000 american soldiers have died in Iraq in 4+ years of fighting. Terrorsist killed over 2000 innocent men, women, and children in one attack on 9-11, and disrupted an entire nations way of life.
In world war 2, millions of men women and children died. Same in world war 1.
Their are more murders in Washington DC per capita each day, than occur in Iraq.
There are 700,000 doctors in the U.S.
each year 120,000 people are killed by doctors mistakes.
There are 80 million firearms in the U.S.
each year, 1500 deaths involving firearms occur. this figure includes murders, accidental shootings etc.
hundreds of thousands of children are dying each year from preventable disease.
Millions of people are starving each year world wide.
We are destroying our planet.
So, why are you so busy bashing Bush when there are more drastic and deadly happenings in this world that YOU could help solve? Oh, right, liberal. I forgot, silly me.

Answer 7

I do...

so, what do you think is more effective / productive... complaining and critizing about something, or doing something about it...

so far... i only hear people say.... change the course, we need new policy,,, change the course..... etc.... and not a single suggestion...

so, why hasn´t anyone been able to come up with a "better position" on the iraq war? yeah, surrendering is not a good position on the war in iraq... and that´s seems like the only option the democrates watn to give.

Answer 8

I don't think any1 cares what Bush says about anything. He's shown himself to be fairly incompetent at most things, EXCEPT the concentration of power in the executive office.

Answer 9

I do respect him. He has done everything he has to.
Remember he came in 2000 and the war was in 2002 so he did what he thought was right.
New York was terrorized in 2001 so he had to act fast.

Answer 10

Well, his polls show a 29% approval, so, my guess is about 29% have respect for Bush's Iraq position.