Looking Back on President George W. Bush's Troubled Presidency

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Les journalistes et surtout CNN devraient cesser leur harcellement à propos du Président George W. Bush. C'est un Président qui a fait ce qu'il avait à faire, personnellement je pense que son entourage lui a nuit. Laissez la poussière retomber et vous verrez en étant plus objectif que ce Président a été élu par le peuple américain et qu'il a pris des décisions parfois bonnes et parfois douteuses.

Jacques-J. Thibault 9:58PM February 18, 2009

For keeping us safe from another 9/11 attack and having a Harvard degree means you are stupid--where is your degree? And congress was stupid to pass the votes for the war right?

Amazing how people listen to the Media and SLN; instead of facts; oh yeah: Pelocsi is a charm blaming dereglation on Bush and the media jumped all over it; when it was Clinton's fault. No one wants to look at Congress at all; let us blame the president! When they tried to pass regulation and a democratic congress refuses. Let us see how well Obama fares compared to Bush in the long run!

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T of MD 10:42AM February 18, 2009

The Years Bush is utter failure as the results and consequences shows. At the foreign office front the American Foreign policy is a total mess and failure and also economic front it led to a Global Depression.

Finally no true international problems solved but aggravated. Neither democracy truly established or freedom of worship and human rights are in the worse shape world wide.

The system of World Bank / IMF CONTROL over many underdeveloped areas not produced a mess but also left many poor.

Neither any African problems also solved as the war and diseases aggravated everywhere.

Because of their aid to dictatorships and short sighted policies it has no moral right over democracy.

It's a failure at domestic / international and as well as failure at individual level.But surly it's a sigh of God's punishment over the world.

Veera chary Pendota 10:23AM January 28, 2009

1. Preemptive wars in the name of democracy and freedom.

2. Doctoring or deleting scientific findings to match one's political beliefs.

3. Politicizing the Justice Department.

4. A hands off policy regarding the Israeli/Palestinian war resulting in the needless death of thousands.

5. Disregarding laws that don't correspond to political beliefs.

6. A wanton disregard of the Constitution of the United States.

7. Torture and the establishment of a concentration camp on foreign soil.

8. The inability to kill or capture the biggest mass murderer of U.S. citizens.

9. Using taxpayer money to support religious organizations.

10. An 8 year delay in the progress of stem cell research in the name of religion.

11. The loss of over 400+ billion dollars to fight an unjust war.

12. Katrina.

13. The deaths of over 4000+ U.S. service men and women.

14. Harriet Meiers, Douglas Feith, Alberto Gonzales, Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, and Donald Rumsfeld.

15. The destruction of the environment, clean air act, and endangered species act.

Yeah, great president.

Kippur of GA 11:12PM January 02, 2009

By: Jordan C. Fan, Prophet Of Environment

To be fair, George W. Bush may well be one of the better presidents in recent U. S. history. He is much better than everyone from FDR onward to Clinton and certainly a million times better than Obama who will be the worse president in U. S. history and also the worse leader our world has or will ever have. If I said from FDR on, it means all U. S. president we are familar with.

The reason for W's greatness is that he allows the price of oil and other natural resources to go up which will provide a fair opportunity for those oil and natural resource national to develop economically into other areas.

Those other areas for nations who have received money on their oil reserve can be on industrial development, infrastructure, education, environmental protection, etc.. Higher oil prices will help the Environment because there will be less consumption, less waste and less development and expansion into the wilderness.

When an oil & other natural resource producing nation is in great need of money to run its country, it has no choice but to lower its oil and natural resource prices to compete for cash income. I guess the best way to stabilize oil price and make it higher is for OPEC and other oil producing countries to have alternative income. With alternateive income from other sources than oil, then they don't have to depend entirely on oil for money to run their countries. Therefore, they don't have to lower oil prices to compete for sale.

May be that is the reason why the United States were trying hard to put other countries into poverty and insatbility in the past, especially those with huge natural resources. George W. Bush or maybe his father may well be the only U. S. president(s) who have been doing something good for those natural resource producing nations.

G. W. Bush's first mistake was to hire all Blacks for his foreign relation departments. To start his administration, Bush used Colin Powell as Secretary of State and Condi Rice as Foreign Policy Advisor. After firing Powell, Bush still insisted on using a Black woman - Rice as Secretary of State. Together, Powell and Rice have initiated numerous foreign policies which made the U. S. failed on all fronts. Quite obviously, they are all spying for Democrats especially when Powell is currently endorsing Obama. Since the Secretary of State also control U. S. embassies aboard, they can make it much easier for Africans to immigrate to the U. S. whereby increasing the population of voters who will vote against the Republican Party. Bush were to too greedy in thinking Iraqi oil can bring them great fortune. Saddam Hussein had problems making money from his oil reserve during peace time. How can Bush get profit from oil during a war? Even before Bush took office, the United States was already in a recession. The U. S. government was simply presenting fictitious economic figures to recover up their financial troubles.

Jordan C. Fan, Prophet Of Environment 10:01AM December 23, 2008

I am so glad to read that we do have some people who actually pay attention to what is going on in the world, instead of just depending on the liberal media of this country. For a good understanding about the WMD in Iraqi read "Saddam's Secrets" by Georges Sada (good luck finding it, try a Christian store). This guy was a general of the Iraqi Air Force under Saddam and he states they did have them up until we invaded in 2003.

Belinda Clark of OK 12:08PM December 17, 2008

All of you people seem to forget that 1. congress had the same intel as GW did. You also seem to forget that congress for the last 3 years have had a lower approval rating than GW. Congress and senate both did everything in there power to put blame on GW for things such as Katrina which the blame should have been on the government of the city and state. The presidents hands were tied. Someone tell me the last president that has to deal with that type of catastrophy. But you liberals want to put it all on GW. The president has had to deal with more catastropies that any president since ww2 and the great depression. look at it. first there was the twin towers within his first year and please remember that this started with Clinton and the first attemted bombing of the towers. 2 katrina. It is a terrible thing that happened to that city and its people but lets not forget that there was a 2 week notice for people to evacuate and they refused. FEMA and the national gaurd sent busses out to those not able to drive and they refused. How can GW be blamed for anything when the governor, mayor,senator,and congressman (all democrats did nothing to prepare the city for what they new was coming. I suppose you people want to blame GW for the levees breaking. He has also had to deal with numerous hurricanes,floods,tornadoes,genocide in Africa,and extremist islamic terrorists. Just to name a few. The recent economic crisis is looking very grim. But please dont blame GW. He is not the one who let the unions of the big three to pay there employees an average of 75.00 dollars an hour including all benefits compared to Toyota who pays there employees in the states alone an average of 48 dollars. Do you realize that the auto makers have to pay 95% of salary for retirement which they do not have to contribute to they even pay them there full salary if they are not working. No wonder the big three are in trouble. Please remember that its not GW fault the the big three sold around the same ubnits world wide as Toyota and ended up around 20 billion in the hole while Toyota made the reverse of that. Tell me how that is GW problem. That goes for the greedy banks and mortgage companies such as fannie mae and fannie mac(please see Senator Barney Frank for his comments as well as many other government bodies for that. It is not GW fault these banks gave mortgages to people who were later found out to be dead. To many people got into loans and credit cards they never should have received. Again look at all bodies of government and the greedy corporations that bankrupt the current crisis. Also please remember that this 759billion dollar bailout was passed by all government officials. Now we taxpayers have to pay for ignorant selfish money hungry companies and unions who killed the economy.Now its that auto makers turn. Then who? the airlines,homebuilder,national retail cains where does it stop and how is this GW problem alone. The state of the markets belongs to all the gov.

David c Burke of NM 4:33AM December 17, 2008

let's parse this: frustrated at his "failure to find WMD in Iraq" ...

why ? because that would have rationalized his sick war ?

i thought he was WORRIED about the spread of WMD --- so logically, he should be happy that he didn't find any.

if i call in a house inspector because i'm worried that i may have black mold growing in the basement, i'm happy when he comes up stairs and gives me the all-clear sign; i'm not disappointed that he didn't find any.

unless, or course, i preemptively set fire to my house to get rid of a problem that i was imagining in my unbalanced mind ....

time of KS 12:44PM December 12, 2008

I'm thankful to GWB for wiping out the 401k plans of millions of baby boomers in this country.

This will do wonders for our country.

Who's going to take care of them now? Perhaps about Medicare and Social Security? Wait I forgot, those programs are already bankrupt.

Mack of AL 5:42PM December 11, 2008

Forgive us for thinking we could do any better than you.Forgive us for thinking we could run the country after 911,Katrina and the other major set backs. But we do want to thank you for keeping our country safe. Best of all we want to thank the men and women who are still keeping us safe. I don't know about others but I do know about myself, and I wish to really Bless you as you go on to cilivan life, and Mr President don't lookback, you did what the Lord required, you listened!

Barbara J Solly of MI 2:27AM December 10, 2008

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