Citing History, Bush Suggests His Policies Will One Day Be Vindicated

The Washington Post ^ | 06/09/08 | Dan Eggen

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As the door begins to close on his tenure, Bush is increasingly drawing on selected events of the past to argue that history will vindicate him on Iraq, terrorism, trade and other controversial issues.

Historical analogies have become a staple of Bush speeches and interviews this year, whether he is addressing regional leaders in Egypt or talking to workers at an office park in suburban St. Louis. ...

[wm_tate]

It's not as if Big Media doesn't do the same thing in reverse: conveniently forgetting about the Clinton recession, Algore's Kyoto protocols that would have wrecked the economy, the anthrax attacks that followed 9/11, etc., etc. -Wm Tate, www.atimelikethis.us

[JamesP81]

Citing History, Bush Suggests His Policies Will One Day Be Vindicated

If he means judges and tax cuts, then yes. If he means spending habits, then certainly not.

[Slapshot68]

Not if the MSM remains liberal he won’t. In 20 years, 911 will be unquestionably our fault, Bush murdered Muslims for sport, etc.

[subterfuge]

Didn’t close the borders or build the fence.

Didn’t fight against the global warming hoax and embraced it instead.

Didn’t shrink government, grew it.

PLAYED BY THE DEMS rules and the new tone got the country screwed.

Allowed Terrorists to control us. Instead of checking our shoes, blow up some $^&*ing terrorists like we used to do.

[Mr. Jeeves]

He's right - but they could be vindicated today if he knew how to market them. ;)

[kjo]

George W. Bush will be remembered as the 21st century’s Harry Truman...like Truman he will leave the White House with the media hounding him...Congress trashing him...and even his own party wishing he could leave sooner.

But trust me...Bush drew a line in the sand of the Middle East...next time one of those little funny countries gets the idea to have some fun by backing terrorism...their leaders are going to remember Saddam Hussein’s body swinging at the end of that rope.

[Dilbert San Diego]

You just don’t know how presidents will be perceived in light of future events. For example, Clinton took a hit in his image after Sept. 11th, as in retrospect, it was seen that his inactions against terrorist attacks in the ‘90s helped set the stage for that to happen.

When Reagan left office on Jan. 20, 1989, nobody said that Reagan made history by our side winning the cold war, because communism was still in place in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe then. Only in retrospect did we see that the policies put in place by Reagan led to the collapse of communism in Europe.

Harry Truman had poll number approvals about as low as Bush does today, but in retrospect, historians have given him higher grades than people at the time did.

With Bush, let’s see in about 20 years. If we continue without terrorist attackes, if al Qaeda and similar groups are defeated, and if Iraq becomes a stable democracy in a troubled part of the world, the historical judgement of Bush may be very different than what people think today.

[GT Vander]

“”The war on terror will determine my legacy and how Iraq fits into that will determine my legacy.’ “ “

We have seen several articles in the last week discussing how we are on the verge of victory in Iraq and how the radical muslims are losing support through out the middle east. The unhesitating war on terrorism and the broad tax cuts will be his greatest calling cards in the light of history.

[griswold3]

Depends on your ‘definition’ of success and failure.

If progressives consider something a failure in their terms, it must be a success in mine!
Just like using the term ‘unpopular’ reminds me of being back in high school with those looking for approval of the ‘cool kids’.

[dalebert]

I think history will be kind to President Bush. All the spending is not his fault and Congress has done much to cause the spending problem. Look at what they are doing now. spending like crazy and not caring if anyone has bread on the table or fuel to get to work. Congress is the real disgrace.As for the press, its done its best to destroy this country and will probably succeed.

[what's up]

George W. Bush will be remembered as the 21st century’s Harry Truman

No, much bigger than Truman.

Pres. Bush has changed the face of the Middle East. He kept us safe for 8 years despite overwhelming odds that said it couldn't be done. He destroyed Al Queda and basically safe guarded the entire free world.

President Bush will be remembered very very fondly.

[MNJohnnie]

In 2000 there were 5 self identified state sponsors of Terrorism.

Iraq, Libya, Iran Syria and Afghanistan.

There are now 2. Iran and Syria.

Even Leftists should be able to understand that math.

[MNJohnnie]

In 2000 there were 5 self identified state sponsors of Terrorism.

Iraq, Libya, Iran Syria and Afghanistan.

There are now 2. Iran and Syria.

Even Leftists should be able to understand that math.

[RED SOUTH]

Here’s your legacy. History will compare you to president Carter and the big debates will be who was the biggest idiot ever to occupy the White House.
Conservative historians will say Carter and Liberal
historians will say you. Meanwhile 2 generation of Americans
will suffer for your incompetance.

Nice job.

[pfflier]

You are absolutly right. The effects of the Bush doctrine have largely benefited all of us. Giving credit where it is due has escaped most of us. We concentrate on what we don’t like, not what has worked.

[what's up]

Meanwhile 2 generation of Americans will suffer for your incompetance.

Only childish ones will claim to "suffer" and will whine much as liberals do...those who don't know how they would have suffered in a US of A threatened every day by a new terror threat on a train, school, mall or water depot had we not had a good man in the Oval Office during these years.

Too many have been influenced heavily by the MSM jihad and their slant on a Repub President who is, in fact, an extremely competent leader and man of character of very high quality.

[Southack]

Presidency of George W. Bush -- Top Achievements

No New 9/11 Attacks On The U.S.

Tax Cuts

Signed 2 income tax cuts ---- 1 of which was the largest Dollar-value tax cut in world history

Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains

Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people

Eliminated the Estate Tax (AKA "Death Tax") that was taking small farms and businesses from families

 

President Bush signing a federal ban on Partial Birth Abortion

Banned Partial Birth Abortion

Reversed Clinton's move to strike Reagan's anti-abortion Mexico Policy

Stopped foreign aid that would be used to fund abortions.

Supported and upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals

Signed E.O. reversing Clinton's policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act

Killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty

Killed U.S. involvement in the International Criminal Court

National Missile Defenses (PAC-3, AEGIS SM-3, ABL, Silo-based ABM's)

First Missile is Installed For NMD on July 23, 2004

Killed the U.S. - CCCP ABM Treaty that was preventing the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses

Built ten ABM silos in Alaska and California so that America has a defense against North Korean nukes

Killed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty so that the U.S. can once again test our nuclear weapons

Gun Rights

Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit

Full Immunity From Frivolous Lawsuits For Our Domestic Gun Industry
Click Here

Ordered Attorney-General Ashcroft to formally notify the Supreme Court that the OFFICIAL U.S. government position on the 2nd Amendment is that it supports INDIVIDUAL rights to own firearms, NOT a leftist-imagined *collective* right

Told the United Nations we weren't interested in their plans for gun control (i.e. the International Ban on Small Arms Trafficking Treaty)

Signed the 2004 Omnibus Budget 1/26/2004 that now MANDATES that gun buyers' background check information be fully and permanently destroyed within 24 hours of the completion of the check, no matter what.

Repealed Gun Controls Against Active, Retired, and Off-Duty Law Enforcement Personnel Carrying Weapons Into Local and State Prohibited Zones (7/28/2004)

Enacted powerful tort reform legislation that moves many class action lawsuits from state to federal courts. Requires federal courts to hear cases where the amount of the dispute is more than $5 million, and when the defendant and any of the plaintiffs live in different states.

 

INTERNATIONAL

Disarmed Libya of its Chemical, Nuclear, and biological WMD's without bribes or bloodshed

Won an agreement that U.S. Navy sailors may now freely board thousands of commercial ships in international waters to search for weapons of mass destruction under a landmark pact between the United States and Liberia, the world's No. 2 shipping registry (signed Feb 11, 2004), and Panama 5/10/2004 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/11/international/americas/11ship.html).

Approves The First U.S. Counter-Intel Plan

Successfully executed 2 wars and rebuilt 2 nations: Afghanistan and Iraq.

U.S. Forces In Baghdad

50+ million people who had lived under tyrannical regimes now live in freedom...epitomized by their own free and democratic elections.

Provided Billions in aid, machines, and manpower to tsunami victims.

 Committed US funds to purchase medicine for millions of men and women and children now suffering with AIDS in Africa

Executed a WAR ON TERROR by getting world-wide cooperation to track funds/terrorists (has cut off much of the terrorist's funding and captured or killed many key leaders of the al Qaeda network)

Bush Administration diplomacy led to the 5/25/2004 peace accord that ended a massive 20-year civil war between Sudan's Islamic north and Christian south after two million deaths Click Here

  Delivered vital emergency aid to millions of survivors on multiple continents (e.g. Africa, SE Asia) of a devastating Tsunami caused by a 9.1 earthquake near Sumatra.

Brought back our EP-3 intel plane and crew from China without any bribes or bloodshed

Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia and has announced withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ.

Bush and Putin sign historic anti-nuclear treaty

· Largest ever missile cuts agreed

Friday May 24, 2002


Russian president Vladimir Putin (left), and US president George Bush shake hands before signing the treaty. Photo: Yuri Kochetkov, AP.
 

Presidents George Bush and Vladimir Putin today signed a landmark treaty to make the largest reductions ever in US and Russian nuclear arsenals but public differences were voiced over Iran.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,721544,00.html

Syrian Troops forced to withdraw from Lebanon, ending their 2 decades of illegal occupation 

Russians Troops Peacefully Withdraw From Georgia

Dramatically improved U.S.-India relations via a breakthrough nuclear agreement

Algeria has held its first competitive presidential election, and the military remained neutral.

The United Arab Emirates recently announced that half of its seats in the Federal National Council will be chosen by elections.

Kuwait held elections in which women were allowed to vote and run for office for the first time.

Citizens have voted in municipal elections in Saudi Arabia and parliamentary elections in Jordan and Bahrain and in multiparty presidential elections in Yemen and Egypt.

Broke the Chinese Yuan to Dollar currency peg

CAFTA - President Bush signing CAFTA

Signed the Peru free trade pact

US rules out extra pledges on global warming

Bolton to the UN

DOMESTIC

Chief Justice John Roberts
Justice Sam Alito
Killed the liberal ABA's role in vetting federal judges for Congress.

Bush-appointed Judges: Most Conservative On Record, New UH Study Finds

Fed Chairman Bernanke

GWB signed an executive order enforcing the Supreme Court's Beck decision (re: union dues being used for political campaigns against individual's wishes)

Signed Bankruptcy Reform Into Law

Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession.

Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals.

Signed into law the No Child Left Behind legislation delivering the most dramatic education reforms in a generation (challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations)

Reorganized the INS in an attempt to safeguard the borders and ports of America and to eliminate bureaucratic redundancies and lack of accountability.

Signed trade promotion authority

Passed Medicare Reform (authorized $39.5 Billion per year for preventive medicine such as drugs and doctor visits as well as included a ten year Privatization option)

Started the USA Freedom Corps

Nominated strong, conservative judges to the judiciary

Energy Bill (new tax cuts...after 5 years of opposition)

President Bush opened up an additional part of Alaska for domestic oil drilling. In 2004, the National Petroleum Reserve, an area west of the existing Prudhoe Bay field, was approved for new energy exploration and production.

Increased U.S. Oil Drilling Permits 70% Above Clinton-era

Implemented "clean diesel" EPA mandates that reduce diesel air pollution by up to 97% as well as enable U.S. refiners to profitably use U.S. coal or natural gas to produce diesel in a move that aids our environment as well as enables the U.S. to gradually wean itself from Middle-East oil

Lifted The Oil-Drilling Ban in Alaska's Bristol Bay

Waived Make-Work Enviro Studies For New Oil Drilling

Using Closed Bases For New Refineries, Cutting Refinery Red Tape

Changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary clean-up of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger.

As part of the national forests clean-up, the President restricted judicial challenges (based on the Endangered Species Act and other challenges) and removed the need for an EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) before removing fuels/logging to reduce fire danger.
New Forest Rules Gives States Power Over Federal Forests Inside Their Borders
Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops.

4.5% unemployment
3.4% annual (after inflation, 5.5% actual) reported GDP Growth

IMMIGRATION

President Bush signed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of illegal Aliens
S. 1685, the Basic Pilot Extension Act of 2003, was signed by President Bush on December 3, 2003.
It extends for five years the workplace employment eligibility authorization pilot programs created in 1996. It expands the pilot programs from the original five states to all 50 states.

700 Miles of Border Fencing Approved And Funded

 

 

 

The Essential President Bush (click here)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/06/20060623-10.html

Executive Order: Protecting the Property Rights of the American People

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to strengthen the rights of the American people against the taking of their private property, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to protect the rights of Americans to their private property, including by limiting the taking of private property by the Federal Government to situations in which the taking is for public use, with just compensation, and for the purpose of benefiting the general public and not merely for the purpose of advancing the economic interest of private parties to be given ownership or use of the property taken.

Sec. 2. Implementation. (a) The Attorney General shall:

(i) issue instructions to the heads of departments and agencies to implement the policy set forth in section 1 of this order; and

(ii) monitor takings by departments and agencies for compliance with the policy set forth in section 1 of this order. ...

AP

July 27, 2006: John Walsh, right, gives a thumbs up as President Bush, left, looks on during a signing ceremony for the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act in the Rose Garden at the White House.

U.S. govt gets giant cross in San Diego [with President Bush's signature...........]

New Civil and Military Space Policy (includes using nuclear power for long-range space exploration)

Enforced Mandatory Declassification of All Government Documents older than 25 years, Automatically

President Bush opens NAZI Holocaust records to the public for first time (after more than 60 years!)

[pfflier]

To paraphrase your comments on this thread...

"History will compare you to saner minds and who was the biggest idiot ever to post on Free Republic".

[Blind Eye Jones]

But the big question remains: why doesn't he fight back against all the misinformation, hatred and propaganda the MSM and Democrats dish out!

I'd like Rove to answer that if he is on the board today.

[Revolting cat!]

Everybody except me knows what future history will say. All I need is for someone to correctly predict the next MEGA LOTTO numbers!