If President Bush lived in an imaginary world.....?

Question

....where all theories were equally plausible and valid, do you think he would change his position every day or so like most democrat politicians?
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Do you think he seems less flexible because he has to try to pick the right answer in advance, rather than position himself to be able to say he picked whatever turns out to be right in 20/20 hindsight like most democrats?

Answer 1

If he lived in an imaginary world, we'd all be slaves.

Answer 2

Colbert's statements on Mr. Bush were dead on,

Mr. Bush believes on Wednesday what he believed on Monday, despite what happened on Tuesday. The distinction is one between principled determination and intellectual inflexibility.

I would feel comfortable if President Bush had made well informed and principled but difficult decisions.

However he has generally not , he made poorly conceived / ideologically mis-informed and difficult decisions.

We need look no further to see this mechanism in play with Iran TODAY, where ideology trumps the facts.

A nuclear Iran is no more or less dangerous in reality than a non-nuclear Iran, the weapons are a RED-HERRING, their use by terrorists or Revolutionary Guard elements would spell immediate US/Israeli retaliation to significant portions of their state. Even many Iranian politicians acknowledge and agree on this fact.

Largely shaped by the counsel of neoconservative thinkers in and around the administration, these guys largely stood to both influence policy in directions largely outside the more commonly accepted national policy direction and fostered a much larger degree of instability thruout the Levant that existed previously.

Radical action was not only not required regarding Iraq but has detrimentally affected our ability to combat the situations in Afghanistan and Wahiristan,Pakistan.

This neglect has now fostered widespread and violent political instability in a country of 300,000,000 million which already possesses nuclear weapons.

Furthermore, the elements directly responsible for the attacks of 9/11 not only have not been effectively dealt with, but have in fact thrived and come to influence the political elements now vieing for power in Pakistan.

The considered opinion will - in a few years time and among many well informed analysts presently, is that we have largely wasted vast amounts of treasure - nearly 7 years of effort , thousands of honored dead and injured , and fostered nascent radicalism in a state which was - at least - stable if not friendly to our interests.

This is not to suggest that Mr. Hussien did not represent a threat to our interests or our allies, it is however to suggest the difference between diabetes and AIDS, with respect to the immediate danger, one is manageable, the other invariably kills.

It is not at all clear to me that Mr. Bin Ladin and co, are not the more dangerous of the two, especially if they should /or already have gained influence and authority with elements of the ISI or other sympathetic elements of Saudi or Pakistani society.

Answer 3

Yep, the GOP has really gotten to you. What a dunderhead!
Fact: Under the Republicans Saddam was supported throughout the Regan Administration because Iraq was fighting a war with Iran.
Fact: Under the Republicans Donald Rumsfield, Richard Cheney and a whole host of neo-cons were working quietly providing support for Saddam.
Fact: President Bush (elder) did not send clear signals to Saddam and he believed that he had tacit approval to invade Kuwaite.
Fact: President Bush went to war against Saddam and Administration that was militarily and politically supported by other GOP Administrations.
Fact: We (CIA) knew that Saddam had nothing to do with 911.
Fact: When the current Bush Administration took office they immediately sought out ways to take out Saddam. Why? He had to much damming evidence of their complacity in their support of him and needed him eliminated.
Fact: Richard Cheney did far more damage to the Department of Defense as the Secretary of Defense than Slick Willy ever did.
Now why don't we get this straight. First they were for Saddam, then they were non-commital for Saddam, then they were against Saddam, then they left Saddam ride for a while and finally they became scarred that Saddam would expose them - so he was eliminated.
Your trash talking about Democrats is just that - TRASH TALK. I was there for 30 years (in the U.S. Navy - I've seen both the Democrats and the Republicans and I will tell you - there isn't an iota of difference between the two. Each party is only in it for themselves.
If you weren't in lala land you'd know better.

Answer 4

He does live in an imaginary world, and if you wanna talk flip flopping...

http://www.50bushflipflops.com

Some gems...

FLIP: A week after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Bush said he wanted Osama Bin Laden "dead or alive."

FLOP: But he told reporters six months later, "I truly am not that concerned about him. It's not that important. It's not our priority."

FLIP: Bush promised in 2000 to renew the assault weapons ban.

FLOP: Then he said and did nothing as Congress let it lapse.

FLIP: BUSH OPPOSES NATION BUILDING... "If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, then we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road." [Gov. George W. Bush, 10/3/00]

FLOP: BUSH SUPPORTS NATION BUILDING "We will be changing the regime of Iraq, for the good of the Iraqi people." [President Bush, 3/6/03]

Answer 5

Securing each and all of the unfastened nuke aspects in 4 years does look naive. the the remainder of his FP platform is surprisingly sane inspite of the undeniable fact that. i do no longer see him eager to be acquaintances with everybody yet he does understand progression is maximum in many circumstances made with with open strains of verbal exchange and international help. Iran and N. Korea grew to become greater beligerent whilst Bush began conversing trash with a bypass-it-on my own physique of recommendations and decrease the telephone strains with them. Now the U. S. is chatting with NK back and progression (albeit sluggish) is being made back.

Answer 6

It would make for one chaotic nation if he did like most of the democrats do never firm in their resolve changing at whichever way the wind blows. How can you hold any kind of real power when you show so much weakness as they are showing right now?

Answer 7

IF he lived in an imaginary world? He does!
Let me clue you in on something...GWB doesn't know what to think until someone tells him what to think. The min he opens his mouth unprepared he says something utterly stupid like:
-Heck of a job, Brownie!
-I'd tell the terrorists: Bring it on!
-Fool me once shame on me.. fool me twice.. ah ah ah.. well the issue here is that ...

I don't care about comparing dems and reps.

I care about the guy on the seat now and the one to take it after he gets out of it!

Dems vs Rep= Sharks vs Jets In the end, its all BS.

Answer 8

President Bush DOES live in an imaginary world where omniscient beings tell him to attack nations who have not attacked us.

All politicians flip flop. ALL do.

Answer 9

If he lived in a imiganiary world he would just throw all the Dems in Congress into Guantanamo, which is fine by me.

Answer 10

a fantasy world of spin is where he lives