Posted on 09/18/2007 4:36:00 AM PDT by NewMediaJournal
The accomplishments of President George W. Bush, I believe, will endow him with one of the most sterling legacies of all American presidents – right up there with those of other great wartime presidents, including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, FDR, and Harry Truman.
After the September 11th attacks on our country, the president responded with both righteous indignation and military action – and also the appreciation that all administrations for the past over-60 years failed miserably in bringing peace to the Middle East. The president envisioned a breathtakingly original idea: introducing democracy to the largely feudal regimes of that region.
He rejected the terminal pacifism of his immediate predecessor – and that predecessor’s waffling pro-war/anti-war wife – and first went after Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, and then, logically, Iraq, whose mass-murdering dictator had flouted dozens of U.N. resolutions, annihilated thousands of his citizens with poisoned gas, rewarded the families of Palestinian homicide bombers with hefty cash rewards, and was, according to virtually every intelligence agency on earth, accumulating weapons of mass destruction.
The president’s vision struck all the right chords and was embraced by democracy-loving countries throughout the world, voted upon by the usually terrorist-supporting United Nations, and endorsed unanimously by the U.S. Senate and a vast majority of the Congress.
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There’s alot to be said for this analysis. One does not get to be POTUS by being a dumb-ass — and one certainly does not get to be Governor of Texas by being a dumb-ass: GWB has done both: as POTUS he has done it twice.
I can easily remember a time when people used to laugh at Reagan for being senile. These same people would never dare to do so now.
Pings, what say you?
The president’s vision
You will discover what his “vision” is and was starting on jan 19, 2009......daddy announced it with a smirk on his face when he slipped it into his victory lap speech as Gulf War I ended.....”This is the New World Order”.
A common and boring claim, at this point.
But one which is never substantiated by a hard cost/benefit analysis for the US vs. Mexico.
Don’t know what the auhtor’s smoking, but I’m sure it ain’t cheap.
Two words.... Jimmy Carter
Sorry couldn't help myself :-)
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So true.
Thanks for the history. I guess Bush43 is too smart to actually use that phrase, though....but man, oh, man, does it ever flavor every decision he makes.
I hope this proves true. However, I am not sure about democracy working in Muslim countries. Turkey is about as good as it gets, and they have been a secular “democracy” for 90 years. The Army still has to threaten to kick butt from time to time. Also, Islam is back on the rise there.
LMAO
It’s a good analysis for those who appreciate the Middle East and have an understanding of Muslim culture vis-a-vis terrorism. Bush is sheparding the fate of half the world’s population away from violent confrontation by terrorist dictatorships to mutual coexistence amongst democratic nations. I’d say that qualifies for good leadership.
FRiend, you write:
> Two words.... Jimmy Carter
>
> Sorry couldn’t help myself :-)
Note please I said “Dumb Ass”... that requires a degree of dumbness, of bucket-headed stupidity: rather like a Welsh Springer Spaniel, completely without the ability to comprehend, far less predict.
Jimmy Carter does not qualify by those criteria.
“Willfully-Ignorant-Ass” perhaps. “Dumb-Ass” no. “Nudge-nudge-wink-wink-Ass” probably, particularly if asked about what was going on with the late-and-lamented BCCI. “Dumb-Ass” insults his intelligence and it is unfair for us to do so. “Silly-Ass” when it came to the Iran hostages — well, nothing much more to be said about that. But “Dumb-Ass” doesn’t quite fit Jimmy Carter.
Agreed, but the moderate Turkish society does much to prevent terrorism from taking hold there. You don’t hear much of “Turkish terrorists”. It’s usually the repressive nations which spawn the terrorists.
President Bush deserves our loyalty and respect. I am proud of all that he has achieved and grateful for his leadership.
Whenever I doubt his decisions and don’t understand his goals or strategeric thinking, I remember his track record of being right and doing what is good for America.
Jimmy Carter is a fool. No, he is not stupid, which I could accept. He is a fool because herefuses to use his God given intellect to actually look at facts and accept the conclusions they lead to. He is also a fool because he is now, in his twilight years, more interested in his legacy than in the good of the nation. This is only causing his already tattered legacy to be further eroded. He will end up being judged one of the worst Presidents and former Presidents of all time.
A refreshing and well-considered piece. I honestly don’t know what drive the other side, they are consumed with hatred for this man. I am still a fan.
US vs. Mexico? What do you mean? Bush had put the interests of cheap labor and illegals over the wishes of the majority of American citizens. Boring claim? Did you miss the amnesty fiasco and the trucking fiasco?
He is a globalist. We are not protected with open borders. Protect our borders first. Worry about world democracy after that.
Not everything has a price tag.
The poster spoke about US and Mexican "interests." Not all interests are financial, but they certainly can be ranked in terms of priority and described - otherwise they are feelings and not interests.
I honestly don’t know what to believe anymore.
George W Bush is a great president.
He saved western civilization and protected our way of life. He restored honor and dignity to the White House. He managed an economy that survived the terrorist attacks and the Clinton recession. He appointed to great justices to the Supreme Court. He toppled two repugnant terrorist regimes in the Middle East, and he kept Al Gore and John Kerry out of the White House.
History will be very kind to George W Bush, because he has been kind to it.
I mean: if one is going to claim that the President has served Mexican interests vs. US interests, in what ways has he done so?
Bush had put the interests of cheap labor and illegals over the wishes of the majority of American citizens.
A number of false assumptions here. Firstly, the President's job is not to do whatever the latest poll tells him to do, but to make decisions that he feels are best for the nation in the long term.
Second, the term "cheap labor" means two things: lower overhead for vendors and lower costs for consumers. The majority of Americans may whine about all the illegal aliens, but they have no problem paying the low prices for goods and services which that workforce provides.
Our existing immigration laws are stupid, counterproductive and broken. They do not work. And yet no one who claims to be concerned about immigration has the slightest interest in fixing them, apparently.
The American complainer votes in the telephone polls with his mouth, but the American consumer votes in real life with his wallet. I'll take a dollar over hot air any day.
Boring claim? Did you miss the amnesty fiasco and the trucking fiasco?
The immigration bill was simply not good enough as a piece of legislation. The so-called "trucking fiasco" was Teamster special pleading.
He is a globalist.
A meaningless term. Does the President believe in a global government in which the US surrenders its sovereignty? Of course not.
Does he believe that America has a leading role to play in international affairs? Absolutely.
We are not protected with open borders. Protect our borders first.
Border security is obviously important and it should certainly be improved. But what we should have as our first priority is taking the fight to our enemies, not passively waiting for them to come to us.
Worry about world democracy after that.
For every hand-wringer on the right who whines that all the President cares about is "world democracy" there is a handwringer on the left saying that the President is an enemy of "world democracy" for supporting Musharraf.
The President's main concern is fighting terrorists, and if facilitating a representative government in Iraq aids that objective, then that's what he'll do.
Too many of the border collies around here went to sleep years ago and just wake up to yip and growl on a thread. The illegals are going home. Yesterday when I turned on Cavuto he was talking to an activist who was bemoaning the fact that 100 a day are leaving Arizona and going back to Mexico. It’s happening all over. So that’s the New World order :). You are going to have to come up with another all purpose mantra.
I rose this morning.
Do either of you understand what this statement meant?
lol....
I understand your point but from what I read the article is $$$$$$ interests.
Some of us knew his agenda before he was nominated for POTUS, and we tried to warn everyone who would listen.
Most didn't.
President Bush’s “sterling legacy” . . . it’s already paying dividends:
http://www.thestarpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070918/NEWS01/709180353
“(Mexican immigrant) Rios picked up (10 year old) Gutierrez on her way to school, raped her and then strangled her, leaving her in a gravel pit off Black’s Cemetery Road near Albany.
On Dec. 13, Rios beat and strangled his wife and three daughters to death with his bare hands and an electrical cord. He also faces a plea of life without parole for those four murders in Allen County.”
Thanks for you reply. I have to go work.. I’ll reply later.
In other words, a crime committed by a psychopath is the President's fault - not the psychopath's - and this random incident defines his Presidency.
I don't know who are crazier, the A.N.S.W.E.R. lunatics or the border obsessives.
Does not get to be Governor of Texas by being a dumb-ass.
Ha...Does this ring any bells? Rick Perry.
Jimma Carter, also a Gov.
Unfortunately, I agree.
He is wrong on the relationship with Mexico.
I hope that doesn’t overshadow the good work he’s done, but many of us have always disagreed with him on this and it just gets worse and worse.
“I don’t know who are crazier . . . border obsessives.”
You forgot “bigot” & “vigilante”, and to remind me that I must not want what’s best for the country.
Were you sound asleep this past summer, wideawake? For your information, President Bush, Ted Kennedy and other open border lunatics, presumably including yourself, tried to screw us all.
As a result of ignoring our southwestern border, “immigrants”—”psychopaths”, as you put it—like Senor Rios continue to prey on the American public.
These “harsh judgments,” Rove said, “have not weathered well over time. Fortunately, while contemporary observers have a habit of getting presidents wrong, history tends to be more accurate.”
I think President Bush is one of the great ones.
I love it and I totally agree. I still think Harriet Meiers was to draw fire for the Chief Justice who got in relatively easily. The immigration thing—at least we all know what we think. And Bush didn’t alienate the Mexican Americans by being against their relatives...See? Maybe I am just an apologist, but hey....I love the guy.
Self-pity in lieu of argument? Sad.
Were you sound asleep this past summer, wideawake? For your information, President Bush, Ted Kennedy and other open border lunatics, presumably including yourself, tried to screw us all.
Really? How did these individuals try to screw you?
As a result of ignoring our southwestern border, “immigrants”—”psychopaths”, as you put it—like Senor Rios continue to prey on the American public.
So if our borders were put on complete lockdown, there would be no crimes committed by psychopaths in this country?
Interesting thesis.
I am so grateful that W was elected President for this time in history. The consequences of the two others up for the job at the time would have been catastrophic.
I wish his policies on illegals wouldn't have been what they are. As much as I love so much of what W's accomplished, the black mark of the border is just so ugly.
TAGLINE = WHAT VP CHENEY SAID ABOUT TERRORISM...
Sometimes money trumps ah... uh... hmmm... uhhh... truth.
What a bunch of horse pucky! It is not just the Demos that swallow the spin hook, line and sinker. The Repos are just as easy to reel in. All one has to do is think for himself, and this spin reveals itself. Jorge staked his Presidency solidly behind the illegal immigrant invasion. His support of the illegal invasion was so solid that in pre Kerry-clinton-Fonda years he would have been widely accused of treason. Now, after surrendering much of the labor force to the illegal invaders, surrendering the electoral process to the invading hoard of peons and setting the stage for a cultural revolution based upon peon votes, someone tells us that we are stuck on some all purpose mantra as if we should forget about the invasion of the USA, trust those who facilitated the invasion and think about something else. One hundred a day out plus hoards in, plus 30 million already here. That is no exodus. It is a ploy. The very fact that this silly spin is floated is nothing more than another attack against us. The globalist money has funded the politicians who have appointed the key judges and prosecutors. Now, at threshold of victory they are going to give it all up and prove it by sending 100 invaders home each day? Horse Pucky!!
Go back to sleep. People all over the country are taking care of that problem, now. We are dealing with reality and not all that paranoid junk you poison yourself with.
Could you be more specific?
And what is your solution?
Don't forget that there are 12-million plus illegals here now; half the country votes Dem and Dem controlled areas w/Hispanic populations are declaring themselves sanctuary cities in which local law will not assist (and may very well try to inhibit) federal efforts to enforce the law.
Further, remember that the last time a Dem held the White House he expedited the citizenship process for a lot of people who might very well not have been here legally.
Further, remember that those GOP senators who took hard lines on immigration -- such as Santorum and Allen-- lost.
Further, remember that a lot of Hispanic citizens are basically conservative yet have friends and relatives who are here illegally.
Good post above, wideawake, btw.
“Self-pity in lieu of argument? Sad.”
Ad hominem by your ilk has been irrelevant. “Sad” is nothing more than feelings.
“How did these individuals try to screw you?”
They tried to screw all of us by saddling us with 20-30 million foreigners, and their friends and relatives, all hungry for social services. The SSA estimates that by 2041 payroll taxes will pay only 75% of anticipated pay-outs. (That’s based upon current population.) Cite? Look on your SS Earnings Statement.
“So if our borders were put on complete lockdown, there would be no crimes committed by psychopaths in this country?”
Assuming you can achieve, as you say, a “complete lockdown”, yes, I believe it a sustainable thesis that the likelihood of future crimes by “immigrant” psychopaths would be much less likely, once we begin deporting those here in violation of our law.
Alejandra Guiterrez, 10 years old. Raped and murdered by a an illegal alien who then murdered his own family.
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