Thanks for posting this.
It is the hard truth that far to many Bush critics are unwilling to face.
Maybe on the war, but not on limited government.
History will only redeem Bush if my daughter and her Nat’l Guard buds (and John McCain) have enough ass to cash the check Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld’s mouth wrote. Right along with those three, I was blind to the long-term near-impossibility of force-feeding modern elections and representative government to fundamental Muslim tribals in Sandland.
History will redeem Bush if, and only if, we’re able to do another South Korea. Under McCain, we’ll, hopefully, set up some kind of client state, leave enough troops to keep the opposition nervous, declare victory, and move on. If Obama takes over, we cut and run amd wring our hands as the Iraqis convulse and collapse and kill, just like we did when the North Vietnamese slaughtered their way south in ‘75.
I crossed party lines in 2004 to support the President's reelection, saying at the time that I did not agree with him on a single domestic issue, but I did believe he was the only one running who appreciated the threat of Islamic terrorism to American values and Western civilization and was prepared to wage a war to defend those values.
He says he supported Bush because he was the only one that understood the threat of Islamic terrorism to American values and Western civilization and was prepared to wage a war to defend those values.
Yet he now supports Hillary when she is almost exactly like all of the other on the loony left that thinks we can just waltz out of Iraq with no consequences.
His politics aren’t real clear to me.
it will on the war on terror
but his immigration stance and poor GOP leadership will be judged for what it was
I’ve said this too. History will look kindly on Bush. For the reasons listed here and some others. I suspect that someday when certain stories can be told he will be considered among the great Presidents. Those who hate him now will pretend that they were in favor the whole time.
I’m thinking about getting some bumpers stickers made that say “Yeah, I miss Bush too”. I think they’ll sell well. :-)
I’m not arguing with this.
I do not believe that President George W. Bush is only one of a few leaders on the planet today who understands the larger picture.
I believe there are a great many of them but for reasons of their own, choose a different path and also attempt to cloud the truth and deceive those they are supposed to be leading.
I believe that is the scary truth.
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.
He will be vindicated not only by history but by the immediate horrors the left will inflict on us once Bush departs.
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.
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.
IMO, History will be 2009. Every time I look at any of the three candidates for POTUS, I am already missing Pres. Bush.
History reflects more the beliefs of those who write it than the deeds of those who live it.
How can one “fiercely love” one’s faith and not observe it?
Being “redeemed by history” is worth about as much as a bucket of warm spit. (Cleaned up from the original Garner version.) What worries me is not Bush’s treatment by history but a possible debacle for conservatism in November.