Why do alot of people hate George Bush?

Question

From what I see, the United States is doing great & the war in Iraq got Saddam Hussian out of power. Every change in government causes a riot therefore the troops are still there.

I'm from the UK (Northern Ireland to be exact)

Answer 1

Alot of people feel Mr. Bush has not well and truly represented their interests or the interests of the US.

Objectively, we know, without being partisan that Mr. Bush & Co. have done a number of "questionable" things to hinder US intelligence and military efforts for strictly political purposes and take a rather imperial view of the executive office.

It is for these reasons alone that I find I can not support the president in much these days.

Doing great is a very relative term. To suggest we are doing great is to ignore some very important facts.

1. The Iraqi on Iraqi violence has never been higher, with respect to kidnappings, thuggery and ambient violence, most civil systems long ago broke down and have not been replaced or reconstructed due to security concerns.

2. As a result, between 20,000 and 70,000 Iraqis are leaving Iraq, each month, creating a non-trivial humanitarian crisis on all of Iraq's neighbors.

3. The two primary factions, Shia's and Sunni's are both being respectively funded by their benefactors, the Iranians and the Saudis respectively.

There is a recent set of thinking coming out of the intelligence on the middle east that if they various interested factions are less troublesome in the next few months, during the remainder of the "surge", Mr. Bush will feel comfortable moving along as he currently is, and then those parties will drive home the insurgency violence during the run up to the elections.

This is a long game strategy, the solution - for Mr. Bush is to just play for time and hand off the situation to the next president.

Increased violence during the '08 election cycle will virtually assure a democratic victory and strategic withdrawal to Kuwaiti bases or northern bases in the Kurdish sector or southern bases in the deserts of southern Najaf and Anbar provinces.

I suggest you review the movie "No End in Sight" before suggesting we have been entirely successful. Coupled with the litany of serious lapses in judgment in a spectrum of other areas, this has not been a presidency which in any meaningful way furthered the interests of the majority of citizens of our country.

Answer 2

Ask the Iraqi wife and mother mourning her husband or her children. If anyone dares to show them, look at the statistics.
More civilians have been killed since the US invasion than during Saddam's rule.
Iraq is an artificial country. Ethnic Kurds in the North, Sunni Muslims around Baghdad and Shia Muslims in the South.
There was no plan, except maybe making a huge profit out of rebuilding the infrastructure which the US had itself destroyed.
No one seemed to react when Saddam or Chemical Ali poisoned Iraqi Kurds in 1988. Why not? Because Saddam at the time was fighting Iran with weapons supplied by the west.
I remember seeing film on TV in Switzerland showing horrific injuries caused by gas attacks on Iranian soldiers (some of them boy soldiers) who had been air-lifted to Switzerland for treatment.
That's why the USA were convinced that Saddam had WMD's. They knew they had been provided by the USA and certain European countries.
Maybe you're too young, but I can see a total disaster. I already have pictures in my mind of helicopters evacuating USA personnel from Baghdad's Green Zone. Ring any bells?

Answer 3

i'm with you CP123. i do no longer discover any of them to be undesirable human beings and George W. Bush is a magnificent guy and an excellent president. invoice Clinton substitute into an excellent guy and not rather much as good a president as Bush. Obama is a magnificent guy and we've yet to work out what variety of a president he will make. i do no longer carry lots desire yet shall we wait and notice. i do no longer understand why human beings hate Bush lots. i do no longer understand in case you have been around while Truman substitute into president. He had an 18% approval score while he left place of work. Now he's fairly between the final and the comparable will take place with Bush.

Answer 4

Perhaps because he acts like a spoilt child. That stupid look on his face after uttering some idiotic remark makes me think of a little boy who has just managed to use the adult lavatory for the first time.
Nothing too clever about getting Saddam out of power but do note that he had to have some allies, too fearful of going it alone but he had Blair drag us into it so no worries there! What Bush and a lot of Americans can't get their heads around is that winning the peace is just as important as winning the war. That takes diplomacy, a knowledge of your opponent and a willingness to listen to those who know what they are talking about. Bush has none of these qualities. Blair should have known better.

Answer 5

Bush was warned about all this rioting before the war and ignored it, Bush only got Saddam out in order to open the oil fields to texan oil cartels. Human rights and tyranny were the last things he was concerned about as he is a tyrant himself have a look at the lifeloss he is responsible for and how he exploits the 9/11 attacks to his own advantage! I am not anti US at all but this President of yours is making America a hate figure due to his bloodthirst and corporate greed!
I wish you well !

Answer 6

If you need to ask this, you obviously are American living in the USA. The rest of the world knows exactly why. The man has made the world a dangerous place and at the same time the USD$ has plunged to record lows.

In Afghanistan the world was behind him - it is still a mess, he used this to go into Iraq - no one was for it - we all know this is a mess of his causing (why disband the Iraqi Army and have anarchy) - and now he wants Iran. The sooner he is out the safer the world will be.

Answer 7

That my dear is a really hard question.

Part of the problem is he's unwilling to bend to public opinion (at least the most vocal ones). In some ways that's good, especially during war. But in today's america they want their pres. to be firm but only in THEIR opinion of right and wrong. Some in the democrats love this strength. But alot of liberals are very vocal. They want proof there was a threat to the U.S. regardless of what he did to the rest of the world.

But many of Bush's domestic policies really smell of rotten eggs. There are millions of americans that can't afford healthcare, clean water, sufficient food or even a roof over their heads. Yet he delegates and listens to people that haven't a clue how much those policies worsen life for those who work hard but have little.

I live in the appalachian area so it's kinda hard for me to feel sorry for an Iraqi w/o electricity a few hrs. a day when I know some here who have never had it. Same goes for clean drinking water. I descend from a long line of coal miners that worked 12 hrs. a day, 6 days a week & like the song owed their soul to the company store and still could barely provide for their families. The minimum wage worker is pretty much the modern equivalent to the coal miner. Few rights, no healthcare & living in dilapidated homes or run down projects.

I don't have to see WMD to know Bush did what big daddy should have to begin with. If his daddy had I don't think we'd have even a fraction as many problems. But in the same respect the way our government treats the working poor is a situation that for the most part because of neglecting what needs to be done before it became a major problem is now almost out of control.

Though a democrat I support his strength of character in correcting a wrong. His ability to stand firm against the opposition. But I think he went about it the wrong way and keeps waiting too long to change course. I also think alot of his domestic policies are damning. But he's a product of the republican elite that hasn't a clue about the real world of their own country and it's suffering.

What we need is another JFK. Someone strong in defense but realizes even his own need help. Camelot I think was a once in a lifetime experience. I have yet to see one regardless of his party affiliation that comes even close.

Sorry, I digressed. To answer your question simply I think that thanks to the media and shows like Jerry Springer people think it ok to scream obscentities at those whose opinions differ from their own. He just happens to be the current target.

Answer 8

This is going to be long. 8^) You probably won't read all of it, but I'm answering your question.

For starters, Bush was not elected legitimately. Even if you consider that he -was- legitimate, he won by the closest election in US history (actually the TWO slimmest margins in US history), but from his first day in office he behaved as if he had won by a huge landslide.

He has arrogated many powers to himself and his office that the Constitution doesn't allow. At first he did this because he had a Republican Congress to work with. They were supposed to be providing oversight but they didn't get in his way. He even said in a meeting once 'Don't quote the Constitution to me, the Constitution is nothing but a goddamned piece of paper!'

Lacking congressional oversight, Bush's administration became one of the most corrupt ever, perhaps -the- most corrupt. Most of the top people in the administration have quit under a cloud of prosecution, including two attorneys general, his chief of staff and longtime political advisor.

There have been a number of major scandals in Bush's administration. A covert CIA operative was 'outed' as a punishment to her husband for writing something Bush didn't like. And Bush's justice department tried to use US attorneys to illegally gain control of the electoral system so elections could be rigged. Those are the two biggest, but there are MANY more.

The War in Iraq is a failure. Bush was warned by every actual military expert on his staff that it would take 500,000 people to stabilize Iraq but decided instead to take advice from a group of inexperienced idealogues. Consequently from the very start the war has gone badly. Bush lied about our actual motives for fighting the war in the first place, and when the lies were found out and discredited, he told more lies to cover them up, and then more lies. Despite catching and executing Saddam, no actual objectives have been accomplished. Our military is being hollowed out because soldiers and national guardsmen are being kept long after their tours are over. We are losing people and not enough new people are joining.

Yet Bush and his people are unable to come up with a new plan for the war. Their only strategy, apparently, is to keep the war going until someone else takes over, either the Democratic Congress or the next president, so Bush and his people can claim that he was winning but the Democrats made us lose.

Answer 9

Because he's an easy punching bag. i noticed this trend shortly after the invasion of Iraq virtually EVERYTHING in some way was blamed on this man. People had the gall to blame their own personal problems on Bush as well. It was and is passe of media to blame Bush for all the ills of society. I remeber when the first mine collpased, the incredulity of the left wing biased media put that problem at Bush's front door. Unbelievable. In reality Bush only inherited many of the problems of today caused by many people long since dead or retired. I think many people in general are filled with an intense rage and anger and somehow rationalized this as a result of Bush. It may be due to a general American hatred including American liberals. Anger and hatred starts from within. The sooner these asses can work with us the sooner we can end this war. Libs have in many ways facilitated the insurgents early victories. Iraq PM Maliki admonished the US left over this. I wonder how these irrational, enraged folks will re-direct their hatred and anger once Bush is no more than a distant memory. It will remain a scary world. Now UBL wants us to convert to Islam to save us from ourselves. How many American libbies will seriously consider this?

Answer 10

I am Glad alot of people hate George Bush