Posted on 05/21/2008 5:22:55 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
I agree, History will mark him as one of our greatest Presidents. He took on the enemy....an enemy who for years laughed at Clinton's inaction. If it's not about "DEFENSE FIRST", WHAT IS IT ABOUT.
Anyone remember Bubba instituting new security after "THE FIRST HIT ON THE HOMELAND" IN 1993?
Anyone remember Daschel's wife lobbying AGAINST making airplanes more secure.
I'll always blame "THE CLINTONS" FOR 9-11.
They hate him for defeating gore and they have never forgiven him. They hate him for his faith. They hate him because he shows unswerving loyalty. They have never hesitated to use false statements, innuendo and "manufactured facts" to characterize him in a negative light proving that a lie told often enough, becomes the truth.
There are some thing he did and does that I wish he would do differently, but I can say that about any president, including Reagan. The fact is, he is doing an impossibly tough job while I sit here second guessing and back seat driving with 20-20 hind sight.
I refuse to be one of those who was for him before I was against him. I voted for him twice, he is there because I helped put him there. The alternatives for these past 8 years have been unthinkable proving we could have done far worse.
I’ll buy one of you bumper stickers.
What they REALLY hate him for is not hating them back. The fact that he seems barely aware of their campaign really drives them nuts, IMHO.
He will be vindicated not only by history but by the immediate horrors the left will inflict on us once Bush departs.
The present is vindicating Bush on Iraq.
I don’t think it will take that long to recognize how important George W. Bush has been to the United States, indeed, to the entire world, with his unwillingness to concede Israel, Afghanistan, Iraq, or any other country to the Islamic extremists.
To begin with, American columns should have cut through Baghdad three days after they began to roll, and exited three weeks later, leaving Saddam dead and the pliant Iraqi strongman who betrayed him—candidates would not have been hard to find—to keep the country harmless to the West or suffer the same quick take-down. Rather than being broken on the wheel of irreconcilable Muslim factions, the supple and intact American power would have shattered the Arabs' elation following September 11th, and by threatening their rule been able to discipline the various police states of the region into eliminating their terrorists. Far more efficient that way, without six and more murderous and unavailing years in which neither a single democracy has appeared, nor will one. (The surge is merely coincident with a change in Sunni strategy. Instead of watching the U.S. and Iran arm the Shia for a major sectarian war that our small force in Iraq cannot prevent, the Sunni choose to avail themselves of American arms while simultaneously removing the lunatic jihadists nipping at their heels.) Full essay
I support Israel 100%. It is the only freedom and democracy in the are. Besides that I love Judaism. I know George Bush is a genius. Is he perfect? Maybe not. But he has the intestinal fortitude of a true leader.
I disagree. President Bush will leave office with the country much stronger than Carter left it, economically AND militarily.
You are worng. Entitled to your opinion, however.
IMO, History will be 2009. Every time I look at any of the three candidates for POTUS, I am already missing Pres. Bush.
Great idea!
History reflects more the beliefs of those who write it than the deeds of those who live it.
Monday morning quarterback. I just love all the “hindsight” military experts.
When the people of Iraq were liberated they voted willingly under the threat of death in huge numbers.Nobody force fed anything to them. George Bush and the US military liberated them.
Keep in mind that many people around the world had the exact same opinion of Japan and Korea following WWII.
Those orientals were completely incapable of democratic government. It ran counter to everything. It was never going to work.
Look at them today.
Point is, we ARE nation building. The alternative after 9/11 was to bomb them into rubble and then bomb the rubble. That might make them hate and fear us, and to many people, including many on Free Republic, that is fine if they hate us as long as they fear us.
That is the viewpoint the Nazis had, and we are NOT the Nazis. We ARE different. The USA has done more good for more people on the face of the earth than any other country in history. We should be proud of it. We could be pumping the oil in Iraq under armed guard and shipping it to our refineries, but that is not why we are there, contrary to the heartfelt lunatic beliefs of many on the left.
So, yeah. This is an experiment, and it is costing us huge amounts of treasure along with the blood of many of our finest people. It may eventually fail, we might then have more 9/11s, and we can then bomb the Middle East into rubble and make them fear us more than they hate us.
But if it succeeds, a seed may be planted. IF they can learn to live together in Iraq without the iron hand of a dictator like Saddam Hussein, and IF they can find a way to distribute fairly the oil wealth of the country to ALL the citizens, and IF a free market economy can take root and flourish, the countries in that part of the world are going to look at Iraq and wonder why it cannot be them.
I believe firmly in the concepts outlined in Natan Sharansky’s book “The Case For Democracy”, and if given a chance, I think it can be borne out in Iraq, not to mention Afghanistan. Naive? No, just that there is plenty of time for the alternative, and the fact that I DO believe in the concept of American Exceptionalism, I think it is our responsibility to try.
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