by J.R. Anthony

Created on: July 10, 2007

You have to be extremely foolish to believe that George W. Bush is anything like a tyrant.

Who asked this question?

First off, it's impossible for any U.S. president to be a tyrant. We have checks and balances. There's Congress, and the Supreme Court. The branches, thanks to our brilliant Constitution, monitor each other to ensure freedom from tyranny.

Not that Bush has even come close.

Seriously, if you're going to pick on any U.S. president - why Bush? What has he done that wasn't by-the-book?

You want to talk Iraq war? A vast majority of Senators and U.S. Reps voted to green-light the war.

You want to talk Valarie Plame? Um, the U.S. attorney spent an inordinate amount of time trying to crucify Bush only to conclude the investigation with a single process crime - which had nothing to do whatsoever to do with Plame or her identity.

You want to talk Guantanamo Bay? That was a case of the media believing enemies of war over our own soldiers. No wrongdoing was ever discovered.

You want to talk Abu Grhab (or however it's spelled)? What commander-in-chief has exhibitied 100-percent control over every single military officer. Clearly, there was no coverup and no wrongdoing from the top on that one (had there been, the media would have crucified Bush over it - and they sure tried, even with profound lack of evidence).

You want to talk wiretapping? A Federal Court ruled that President Bush was within his rights to protect our country from terrorists by listening to their overseas phone calls (side note: there was NEVER domestic wiretapping - as media outlets repeated ad naseum. The wiretapping was restricted to international calls to and from terror suspects - never domestic calls.)

You want to talk the firing of nine U.S. Attorneys? Hello? They serve at the president's pleasure - he had every right to fire them for any reason he wanted, political or not. Just ask Bill Clinton, who fired every U.S. attorney in the nation at once. THe media, oddly, didn't seem to notice that one so much.

You want to talk the Scooter Libby pardon? Well, you're really reaching there. Every president has pardoned people with worse "crimes" than Scooter Libby - whose only real wrongdoing was not recalling a series of phone calls he had two years prior. That was - and still is, I guess - a Democrat party witchhunt.

So. What else do we have?

A bunch of people hating George Bush and blindly following big media outlets? That explains all the name calling.

A tyrant? Please.

He cut taxes, not raised them.

He's trying to STOP abortions, not force people into them.

He's trying to protect us from Terrorists, not terrorizing his own citizens.

He's even being a little too nice to illegal aliens in my humble opinion.

The truth is, George W. Bush is a good man with a good heart, who a whole lot of people disagree with - some genuinely, others because they don't understand the issues.

He's closer to a saint than he is to a tyrant.

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