Posted on 04/18/2013 8:22:16 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
George W Bush: I'm comfortable with my legacy
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Again, no sir. A Congressional authorization to use force is not a declaration of war. Only a declaration of war is a declaration of war.
An authorization to use force is just a weak, unconstitutional way for everyone involved to avoid committing themselves fully. It's the coward's way out.
As far as Afghanistan becoming “Vietnam”, that is attributable to Obozo.
Again, no sir. Afghanistan and Iraq belong to Bush, just as Vietnam belongs to LBJ, and not to Nixon or Ford.
And for what it's worth, I say all this with a heavy heart. Bush is a very decent man, and he did keep the homeland safe after 9/11 (no small feat).
But he dropped the ball in regards to Afghanistan and Iraq, no way around it. And we will pay for that for decades to come.
His approval was like at 20% in 2008. That comment is pointless. He left nothing but disaster.
And left lost of excuses,’Oh the complete collapse of the economy after his 8 years was all Barney Franks fault’
You wouldnt buy such idiotic BS from Obama.
I specifically remember too how GWB swore that the Iraq and Afghanistan mission would NOT end like Vietnam!
I’m sorry, but GWB doesn’t do anything for me. My four votes for him didn’t do much.
I must disagree here. The 2006 election had a huge impact on the economic collapse, as did the oversight (or lack thereof) of Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac and the resultant packaging and reselling of loans on wall street. Bush warned congress 17 times about the impending economic collapse, and Barney Frank went on T.V. crowing loudly about how wrong Bush was. What more could Bush, who at that point, thanks mightily by the Lame Stream Media, had little support from anyone.
BOOM! You got it!
He and Cheney convinced us that it would be like WWII except Iraq would pay for its rebuilding with oil.
The ball was dropped beginning Jan 20, 2009.
Yep!
Looks like you scooped up a troll. You're good!
That was Roves doing. AND the MSM. They lied consistently. He freely admitted that he told Bush NOT to answer critics. This current mess is more Roves fault than it is Bush. Rove is a Rino.
He was certainly a long sight better than obozo, but that ain’t sayin’ much.
He lost me with five words: “See ya at the signin’”. (Amnesty)
I agree with both of you. I think history will look kindly on GW. He faced tremendous challenges unlike any president in recent memory, and did it with courage and dignity. He loves America and did his best, with the knowledge he had, to protect her. He will be remembered well.
And btw—if I heard right, he’s now a grandfather! May he have many years to enjoy that delight. When my boss’ grandchildren (between about three and six, IIRC), come into the office, he lights up like a sparkler. :)
Democrats took over jan 2007 and the nation went straight to hell.
Yet people on FR blame bush.
Deficit in 2007 was 160 billion.
Today the deficit is almost ten times that amount.
Compare Iraq to Egypt Libya or Syria and it looks pretty good by comparison.
There were no terror attacks on the us after 911. Bush fought hard and successfully for a too ungrateful nation.
Katrina was a success and not a failure. Casualty rate was 90 percent lower than experts predicted due to a massive military action to save lives.
Within the next few years we will absolutely see US helicopters take panicked Americans off from the rooftop of the embassy at Kabul. It will be like the fall of Saigon, only worse.
And I say worse because Ho Chi Minh had no real desire for a caliphate stretching from Europe to China. But the radical islamists want just that. And they may eventually get it, all because Bush did not rally the West to crush radical islam in the days after 9/11.
I always find it interesting when you see people whining about “undeclared wars”, and you know they are the people who will scream the loudest when nothing or little is done after 3000 people are killed.
George Bush was great. He got tax cuts for everybody, finally took on Islamic terror after the cowardly Clinton did nothing, and got a bunch of pretty good justices on the Supreme Court and US District courts. He wasn’t perfect and I certainly didn’t agree with him on everything, but compared to the homosexual African communist the country has now? Wow. No contest.
I dont remember him doing that once till the TARP vote when it was way too late/
I do remember this though:
President Bush Mortgage Speech 2002(Helping those w bad credit buy houses)
Early in George W. Bush’s first administration, a home ownership initiative was introduced, sometimes referred to as the Blueprint for the American Dream, to close the homeownership gap by 5.5 million minority families. Along with this homeownership initiative, there were other policies implemented to dismantle barriers to homeownership in minority communities.” from :
The Great American Mortgage Scam & The Latino Community
His first 4 years he took advice from Cheney. The last four from Rove.
Who hired Rove? Who was POTUS? Was it Rove?
Do you make these same lame excuses for Obama ?(rhetorical) Was it all Axelrods fault?
I miss him too. He respected the office of the presidency and has a generous heart; I wish I could post two photos: one, of him hugging that little girl, with tears in his eyes, who had lost her father on 9-11, and the other, with him shouting into the bullhorn on top of the WTC rubble, telling terrorists they won’t win.
And oh, yeah, a photo compare-contrast of him throwing a great pitch while wearing a bullet-proof vest on opening day, compared to Obama’s lame pitch. LOL ;)
Here we will agree. I rate Bush a 3 on a scale of 1 to 10. As I mentioned before, he did keep the homeland safe, and that's worth something. When rating Obama, I'd have to go deep into negative numbers.
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