why does nt george bush have his own media ,besides fox news , who act like everything is ok in iraq and agree with almost anything the president says,in which it shows actual evidence of progress being made there..schools,events,jobs(besides halliburton).If there is actual progress being made in iraq then there should be evidence of it...its funny how they can make up evidence for going to war in the first place to catch the so called terrorists..all you people that believe this man is doing the right thing for our country are a joke and should come back to reality ..where is osama bin laden....or did you so called americans forget about him??
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That's a pretty odd definition of "truth" you have there. If you really believe that everything you see on television is the truth I suggest that you turn off the television and start reading so books or some accounts done by people who are actually at the places where the news happens.\n\nI've got some news for you ... all the major news networks ARE biased and they all slant the truth to suit their own purposes. For example, do you think they're more likely to get viewers with a story about how well things are going in Iraq or by telling you that the whole place is freaked out? The answer is obvious, they actually did get you to watch by telling you a slanted truth.\n\nOf course there's problems in Iraq, there were WAY MORE problems in the beginning of the USA than there are in Iraq and if you think that there is no good news at all you've only managed to be brain-washed enough to become a life long customer of the crap coming out of the major media.
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You're kidding, right???\nTime to get outside the Fox bubble.\nLet's see....Krauthammer thought Cheney "did the manly thing" in withholding information shooting his hunting partner.\nOr, how about "everyone looked at the same intelligence and came to the same conclusions?" Really? Bush doesn't have access to more info than the rest of us?\nMaybe you prefer his claim that "Bush is probably the least poll-driven president in history?" Read Woodward for a contrary view.\nEven better, his claim that the Iraq war has not boosted recruiting for Al-Queda, despite numerous reports to the contrary, including the national intelligence council & other intelligence reports. \nOn the other hand, I agree that he has no schmaltz and that his comments are well thought-out. Unfortunately, they are not necessarily based on evidence or fact, but are calculated to put the administration in the best light possible and the "liberals" in the worst light.\nI'll even concede that, given a choice of O'reilly, Hannity, and Krauthammer, I'll take the latter most any day. Fortunately, I don't have to take any of them.
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If we celebrate the conviction of Saddam, then we should also convict our own President, as he is just as guilty of "war crimes" as Saddam and then we should celebrate his conviction as well. As far as I know, Bin Laden is still in hiding, although I am sure our President has always known where he is and will never bring him to justice...Bin Laden didn't have a personal feud with Daddy Bush, only Saddam. Just my opinion folks...don't come down on me too hard, but I'm not in favor of this war in Iraq, and I feel we have no business there. When all the weapons of mass destruction were NEVER found, we should have high tailed it back home and let those people live in peace or at least live the way they are accustomed to, there has always been holy wars over there and we have no business in a holy war with them or anyone else for that matter.
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Thanks for making this point, itd really pisses me off the way the liberal media wants to make our conservative president look bad.  They show the soldier that was wounded in a car bomb instead of the millions of iraqis that have freedom to dress how thy want, go to school, drive cars, watch tv and listen to the radio.  \n\nAs for the human rights groups, ever since vietnam they have been anti-american.  In the war we are in now that makes them pro-terrorist.  honestly, rush limbaugh was talking about this yesterday, did you know that not one american taken captive by the insurgents have come back alive.  Terrorists make videos of our fine american soldiers being tortured.  Where are the human rights groups here????????  It is ridiculous that liberals go so far out of there way to give the conservatives a bad name.  It kills me to see this, half of the human rights activists should be arrested for treason.
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having been in Iraq, I am totally shocked at how different the reality of the war is from how it is covered. We captured Saddam, killed his sons and Zarqawi and created a democracy in the Middle East, one that has higher levels of participation that in our own country. Yet all I hear are about mis-steps and allegations.\n\nI don't get too down about it though, think of it this way. Do you ever read about good cops? Nope, only the bad ones make the news. We live in an age when a doctor can replace your heart with  a donor heart or a Jarvik heart- which is like something out of science-fiction-  yet you never read about stuff like that.\n\nIt's not that the media is liberal or anti-war, so much as it is negative.
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Remember when George Bush was a moron? A poor student who spent most of his life in a substance abusing haze, who cost America billions in the Savings and Loan bailout, whose only foreign policy experience was the “It’s a Small World” ride at Disneyland, and who stole the presidency despite forming sentences like the kid from “Deliverance”? Up until September 10 2001, Bush was the favorite whipping-boy of talk show hosts and columnists. But, in the wake of the Al Qaeda attacks, somehow that same George W. Bush became a hero. And a recent poll found that a surprising majority of Americans think George Bush is doing a good job as president. A good job? In the 3rd year of his presidency the US economy is still in tatters while he runs around touting a foreign policy that can be summed up as “Hulk Smash”, and people consider that a good job?\nMany people will tell you he's doing a good job because of his leadership after September 11. Huh? Why do they think Bush did a good job after September 11? Because he publicly led America’s response to the attacks? He’s the president, what other option did he have? Curl up in a fetal position and drool like Ozzy Osbourne? Hell, maybe if he got in a plane like Bill Pullman in Independence Day and actually joined the battle, fine, but giving him high marks for making speeches and waving his fists is like giving a student straight As just for showing up to class.\n\nMaybe they think Bush deserves extra credit for ordering post-911 military retaliation against those deemed culpable. *sarcasm*Wow, what a bold, groundbreaking move. Much as I supported the action, an American President ordering a military response is like the guy at the drive-thru asking if you want fries with your order. It’s the most basic, perfunctory function of the job.\n\nAnd what did he do after he took out the Taliban? Help keep Afghanistan from the clutches of nasty local warlords and gangsters? Start to build bridges with the anti-western world? Or maybe even pay attention to the continuing-to-falter American economy? No – he looked for someone else’s ass to kick. Bush with his military is like a boy who’s just discovered his penis – he can’t stop playing with it. After all, the War on Terror distracted people from realizing Bush was the same election-stealing, silver-spoon moron he was on September 10th, so why not keep it going?\n\nAnd so George W rooted around in his dad’s war-chest and pulled out some old scripts, and once again Iraq was the enemy. No question, Saddam Hussein is a world-class tyrant, torturer and oppressor of his own people. You’d think it would be easy to find a reason to take him out. But in the months since Bush focused his monkey-like attention on this shiny object, he still hasn’t been able to convince anyone but his cronies that war against Iraq would actually provide any benefit. It would de-stabilize an already volatile region, engender greater hatred of the west among Middle-Eastern nations, seriously damage any existing good relations with Arab countries, and likely only result in greater terrorism against the west. But Bush keeps stamping his feet and demanding his war, like a 2 year-old in a Toys R Us aisle screaming for a new BeyBlade.\n\nAnd that’s what really puts the lie to the notion that Bush is doing a good job – after months of trying, he actually has fewer people convinced the US should war with Iraq. If he was a halfway competent President, he could have cooked-up some decent Gulf of Tonkin, tossing babies from incubators propaganda by now. In fact, Bush is such a lousy president he can’t even convince Americans to go to war, which is, let’s face it, like trying to keep a dog from licking itself.\n\nI don’t really blame Americans. Their media’s become an extension of Ari Fleischer, they’re scared, and they want to believe – no, need to believe – that the guy in charge of their safety knows what he’s doing. It’s like th
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Osama Bin Laden had nothing to do with the war in Iraq. Also in a way we have won the war. We have taken over the country and we are fairly secure in our power there. Also we have created a new Iraqi goverment so that in itself is a win. But I think what you mean is when do we leave. The answer to that is when it is safe enough for the Iraqi people to live.
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i think he is a good leader and is looking out for our best interests. i know i know, "how is killing people for no reason looking out for our best interests?" but there is a reason. saddam hussein was threatening us and his people were in trouble and al quaeda attacked us. i feel so much safer now that saddam is out of power and we are looking for osama. plus, the news never shows the good things happening in iraq, like that a majority of the people their are grateful for our help and are so happy with their new freedom! i know this because friends of mine are in iraq and they tell us these things and ask why the news never shows it. they think no one here supports them! george w. bush is doing a good job as president and i think that if john kerry had won the election his head would be spinning and he would have no idea what to do about iraq. i'm notsaying this to offend anyone so please don't be angry! that's just how i roll.
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The US is fighting Al Queda in Iraq.  They have been doing so ever since we blew the country wide open and gave them extremely safe passage into a confused and disassembled nation.  \n\nI did read your sources.  The first one led me to one question.  GW has been desperate to prove Al Queda was in Iraq before 911.  He hasn't been able to find proof, so he has admitted publicly, and more than once, that Iraq had no connection to 911.  If these scads of documents prove his case, why isn't he calling for the proof to give to the American public?  Big question.  After all, GW has pretty much done what he pleases in office, it's resembled a dictatorship more than a Presidency.  Why hasn't he made a big deal out of this? If true, it would be huge for him and his party.  The fact that the Weekly Standard is a neoconservative publication couldn't possibly have a bearing on their reporting could it?  Hmmm...\n\nYour second source included a statement that there is no hard evidence.  Enough said about that.  With this Administration?  After the whole "they've got WMDs" debacle?  Yes, I want proof, not conjecture.\n\nYour third source states what we already know.  Yes, terrorists are now crawling all over Iraq, and we can thank our President and his Administration for that.  He's given them a brand new place to dodge, hide and plan our demise.  Good job.
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Bush is one of the best presidents ever!!! A very good man. True he is not right about everything but who is. He is doing great under the circumstances. The media totally misrepresents him.
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Because not everyone in the country beleives what is spoon fed to them by the media...we aren't all conspiracy theorists and don't publicly hang people without a trial.  If there was 1 shred of evidence to any of the conspiracy theories or "Bush lied" montra, the man would not be in office, he would be in jail.  Truth matters to many Americans, but that number is dwindling.
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People seem to have forgotten how the Taliban and rebels in Afganistan whipped the butts of the Russians when they tried to capture Afganista. The United states helped the Afganis with intel and arms, and Russia still lost. Bin laden was involved then, we supported him and his fight against the Russians. Bush policies had nothing to do with 9/11, that was a result of failed policies and promises made by Carter and his administration. It just happens that Bush was on duty when Bin laden put his plan into action. It's all about oil. It has always been about oil. Chasing down zarqawi is more for the press and to show the people back home that progress is being made in Iraq. We don't know what is really going on off camera. Zarqawi was self appoined to lead al-quida in Iraq. There have been reports that binladen didn't like him pitting shiites against sunnis and killing other muslims. The question still remains, should we be in iraq? It doesn't matter now, we are there, we need to send more troops, clean up that place and  get out. Then send our Iraq troops to Afganistan, and clean house there also, then build that darn pipeline.
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First, please, please, use the spell checker. Second, Bush may not be the smartest person on Earth but his basic policy on Iraq is correct.\n\nAlso, if you do not like him, how come you are so impressed with Ossama Bin Laden (double standards?)
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I agree with you.  Bush has never given a hoot about his ratings like a certain former president (wont say who, but his name starts with a "C" and rhymes with Flinton).  That's why we have stayed in the war as long as we have.  It's not over yet, we haven't won yet, we shouldn't pull the troops out.  When Dems got control of Congress I saw this coming.  They're probably going to send the troops home on a rinky dink little plane, then have Bin Ladin fly his terrorists here first class.  Good Lord, this is a bad, baaaaaaaaaad idea.
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What do you mean, "why won't republicans see we need progress?"?!?  How can you say that?  What do you think President Bush is seeking in Iraq and Afghanistan?  He's seeking progress for the people there that have been under harsh oppression for so long.  What do you think he is doing in raising security for our nation?  He's making it easier for the "independent minds" of America to make their own progress (we are capable of making progress without the government's supervision at every step) without fear of terrorist attacks on centers of economic progress (The World Trade Center).  You are simply wrong in saying that Republicans don't see that we need progress.  Perhaps if the Democrats would see that progress in areas other than their own is still progress, they would stop accuse the Republicans of squandering resources on unneeded action.
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excuse me, but havent we all learned that what President Bush says, and what is actual reality are not always in AGREEMENT. Just because he INSINUATES that the terrorists are happy (like a typical sore loser) does not mean it's true. The terrorists have been killing Americans regardless of who is in office. It doesn't matter.\n\nYOU TELL BUSH TO STAY AWAY FROM MY CHEESE PUFFS. How dare he...
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Thank you for posting them. Very informative.  Bush must do more of this.\n\nDon't expect the mainstream media to do any positive reporting.