Evaluating George W Bush
It's been eight years and now he's got just over one week left in office. President George W. Bush. How do you rank the president, the man, the administration? How will history assess this administration?
I have mixed feelings about his administration. Namely, I believe he was the right man at the right time on September 11, 2001. I'm also grateful for the Supreme Court Justices apppointed by President Bush. However, I'm also very disappointed by his actions and failure to act with regards to the border and spending.
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Reader Comments (2)
There are many things I like about President Bush. First and foremost, I like him as a person. Unlike his predecessor, President Bush is a completely devoted and loyal husband and family man. Also unlike BJ Clinton, our current President does not engage in lies and deceptions. While both BJ Clinton and President Bush come across as nice people, only President Bush's moral character can be trusted.
President Bush has been perhaps the best friend that my Jewish State of Israel has ever had. John McCain would have likewise been such a loyal friend; how tragic, from my people's persective, that John McCain was not able to beat the man who was born and raised to be a moslem.
President Bush has kept us protected from any further islamofascist attacks, which is just short of miraculous in our huge country. He has stood firm on the necessity of fighting and killing islamofascist terrorists, so that we and free people everywhere can feel safer.
President Bush lowered our taxes three times, helping cause the biggest economic boom in all of human history. It is only when the Dummycrats siezed control of congress in 2006 that the economy started going downward.
President Bush nominated several solidly conservative Supreme Court Judges. I have to wonder if those conservatives who refused to vote for John McCain, realize that they have contributed to oBongo being in charge of that all-important function instead.
While there are some criticisms that I have of President Bush, there is no doubt in my mind that he has been our greatest President since Ronald Reagan.
Was the invasion of Iraq justified?
There seems to remain an ongoing discussion whether or not the invasion of Iraq was justified. This discussion is for 90% being fed by political motives and the remaining 10% too, because all I can hear is how terrible war is. And with that people are right.
War however, does make a part of out society and I think that the justification of a war can be based upon what this war is trying to improve or to avoid.
Sometimes I try to imagine how Eisenhower must have felt when he gave order to start operation Overlord. In that moment he signed, with full conciousness, the deaths of tenthousands of young men. As well on German side as on the side of the Allied Troops. The question is whether he shouldn’t have done it because of that. I can also hear Marcel van Dam (a dutch radical marxist chimp) saying that the allied bombings on Germany were crimes of war. The people who had to cope with the nazi dictatorship had quite a different opinion. What is being forgotten is that in 1940 England suffered such tremendous bombings that 90% of the civilians wanted to surrender because they couldn’t take the bombing anymore. Another thing left out of consideration by our left brothers are the thousands of V1’s and V2’s that were thrown in the city of London, bringing terror to the civilians.
When I try to judge the invasion of Iraq I ask fled Iraqi’s how they think about it.
Amongst them is a female doctor. She gives me a rewarding answer that I will share with you.
Life in Iraq under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein was no life. Nobody trusted anyone. Even brothers, but also fathers and children distrusted eachother and anybody could at anytime of the day be arrested. Justified or not didn’t matter. That is different now. The Americans accomplished that a new sort of government was installed with a normal live for everybody as starting-point.
The problems are being caused by the old junto that used to surround Saddam and had a good live under his regime. Now that they are seeing their old privileges being taken away they try with all means to restore their old positions and to prevent that a democracy is being formed.
In addition to that is the fact that none of the surrounding countries are happy with the changes in Iraq. The people in power in those countries are terrified by the idea that the democratisation of Iraq could set foot in their own country and undermine their privileged positions. In any way possible the democracy in Iraq is being contravened and in this plot a human live is worth as much as a grain of sand in the desert. Thousands are being pushed across the border with the only mission to spread hate and destruction.
The remaining point is the presence of weapons of mass destruction. I can’t make a judgement on that because I have to settle for the information I get from the media. What I do know is that a lot of things happen out of sight of the media, or let’s say NOT all things get published.
In the above picture you can see Saddam Hussein holding a piece of yellow cake in his hand. It could be fake.
For now I will consider this picture just as real as the fact that 512 tons of this little goody were shipped from IRAQ to America. Yellow cake is the basic ingredient for nuclear weapons and is quite expensive. What someone wants to do with 512 tons of it in their own house is up to them. Maybe it was one of Saddam’s hobbies. I am glad though with the fact that that 512 tons are in America now, far away from people like Saddam.
For now I will keep the possibility open that over 20 years, the international community will draw the conclusion that the invasion of Iraq has been the beginning of the demolition of the negative forces in the Middle East. And I think our fellow leftwing Dutchmen would not agree with it, judging upon their publications.
Pieter Stolker
Live is battle, what you don’t defend you will lose.