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Will Bush's past be vindicated?

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Yes
39% 17 votes Total: 44 votes
No
61% 27 votes
Yes

George W. Bush will be judged well by historians, and there is little doubt that most of the ridiculous liberal left wing rhetoric will be exposed as nothing more than shallow personal and political attacks that the Democratic party has been reduced to engaging in. Whomever doesn't agree with a liberal, according to lefty liberals, is dumb, uninformed, and beneath them.

The Democratic party is led by a group of elitist snobs, most of whom are extremely wealthy, who try to make themselves feel better by playing with peoples emotions and creating class envy by denying that they too enjoy the financial success which can be achieved by anyone in this great country that is willing to work hard and contribute to this nation by becoming a productive member of society.

Take a good look at the leaders in the democratic party, it's a real eye opener. Bill Clinton? The very name induces jokes, I mean, the man was a real embarrassment, although he did invent a new use for the cigar. If not for the Republican led congress which dominated his administration, he would have accomplished nothing.

Newt Gingrich, and his contract with America, laid the foundation for economic growth and put an end to some of the most egregious welfare fraud being perpetrated against middle class taxpayers and their families. Bill Clinton simply signed his name to a lot of republican legislation, and then took credit for it.

Hillary fell apart in her bid for the presidency, and there was such a weak field of candidates, that we wound up with a way too young and inexperienced Barack Obama, whose resume is probably the most pathetic of any modern day president.

He has no experience at anything, except as a "community organizer", and he won the election by using groups such as ACORN to register empty headed young people who lacked the "real life" experience to make an intelligent decision as to who they should chose to lead the country.

If you go down the list of the other so called democratic party leaders, it's more of the same. Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barney Frank, John Kerry, Al Gore, Ted Kennedy and the like are all elitist snobs who haven't a clue as to what it means to be a member of the middle class attempting to raise a family and make a living in this country.

George W. Bush was saddled with the events of 9/11, and this attack on our country had to become the focus of his attention. He did a great job of protecting us, and he and Tony Blaire did what had to be done. The United Nations is nothing but a paper tiger, which we here in America have been burdened with and must finance, and after trying to negotiate some kind of support from this organization to keep the murdering Saddam Hussein in check, Bush and Blaire took the only action which was left to them.

Hussein was thumbing his nose at us, ignoring the conditions of his surrender, running rape rooms, torture chambers, using weapons of mass destruction against his own people (so don't tell me that he had none), offering sanctuary to terrorist groups, shooting at our pilots as we attempted to keep him in check, and eventually kicking the United Nations inspectors out of Iraq. It was a real circus which had to be dealt with in a decisive way, and Bush will be looked at as a president who took the necessary action.

Bush and Blaire brought down a horrible regime, and gave Iraq a chance at giving it's citizens the ability to vote for their own leaders, and in doing so, he planted the seed of democracy in the middle east. Bush had the vision and the tenacity to take the bull by the horns, and because of his leadership, we are on our way to finally getting a handle on the middle east.

This should have been done forty years ago. If you are female and reading this, can you imagine living in a world in which you are little more than a slave to men, having no chance at an education, and being forced to walk around covered from head to toe? I doubt it, and if you don't believe that what Bush accomplished was for the good of all, then you must be a Kool-Aid drinking liberal, too wrapped up in lofty ideals to see what is really going on in the world.

Even Obama realizes that we have to maintain a presence there, and we have to kill our enemies. That is the reality. There are still people who want to kill us all and bring this country down, and that is why Obama is ratcheting up the war in Afghanistan.

I wonder why the liberal press isn't complaining about Obama keeping our troop presence in Iraq, and escalating our military actions in Afghanistan? More of the same old double standard by the main stream media.

Bush needs no vindication from anyone. His actions were justified and are deserving of praise. He did what had to be done in order to allow us to continue to maintain our freedoms. Radical Islamic Fundamentalists are our enemy, and are a threat to world peace and prosperity. Bush was right, he was always right. He didn't tire, he didn't falter, and he didn't fail us. Thank you, George W. Bush. You will be judged as a great leader and president.

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No

Bush's past will never be vindicated. The damage done to just about every aspect of our government and society is so comprehensive, that tens of millions will have suffered during the eight years of the Bush/Cheney regime.

First of all, our form of government was, for the first time in our History, considered to have met the standards for being declared a dictatorship. Every last one of our institutions was infected with the requirement to marshall resourses and to make decisions based on whether the political or personal fortunes of elite Americans and foreigners were improved.

As an example, the dedicated, hard working career professionals of the Federal Emergency Management Administration, will forever be associated with cold blooded incompetence and mishandling of one of America's worst natural disasters in history that can be tied to Bush. That Bush actually showed up, days late and dressed like a slob, to add insult to injury will never be forgotten, let alone forgiven by many who suffered.

Whether it is proven to a finality or not, the suspicion that Bush had foreknowledge of the 911 attacks, ushered the Saudi Royals and other Saudi suspects out of the country, and had prearranged a suspiciously long vacation away from Washington, D.C., will always linger. There will always be the image of Bush holding a book upside down and refusing to act for several minutes as he pretended to read to schoolchildren.

Many Vietnam era veterans, their survivors, and other veterans will forever resent the fact that Bush did not complete his reserve military service, that records were criminally destroyed, and that he was never brought to the same level of prosecution as any other AWOL soldier.

That the Justice Department fired and hired attorneys on the basis of politics, will rest on Bush's head, no matter how he edits the material in his library. That his administration attempted to influence decision making, interfere with investigations and thwart justice in order to favor some while scapegoating others, will be a permanent reminder of the level of compromise of our institutions that Bush was willing to enact.

That our economy lies in ruins, millions have lost jobs and homes, and the world economy is teetering on the edge of collapse, is for Bush to acknowledge as his responsibility. The gutting of regulations which would have prevented eight years of hedonistic greed, gambling on theoretical financial products, and excessive redistribution of wealth is on Bush's head.

That our reputation as the moral, ethical, and socially superior superpower in the world is now a joke in almost every country in the world is a by product of the excesses of Bush's tenure.

The torture crimes alone give Bush a life sentence as the worst President in our history. But compound torture with the prosecution of an entire war that was conducted at the cost of our treasury, an entire generation's supply of our best soldiers, and the ruination of our reputation. Put that compound on Bush's head, too, as he actively lied and compelled others to lie about our reasons for prosecuting that unnecessary war.

The truth about Bush and his attitude toward torture has been revealed. As more and more of the truth is revealed, there will be no hope of any group or any power removing the taint of failure, corruption, stupidity and evil from the legacy of the Bush administration.

Not now and not in the future.


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