Do you hate George bush Why?
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Not everyone hates George Bush, but a lot of Americans do (http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm). Most likely do the length of time our troops have been deployed in Iraq is a major source of this disapproval, but others sources are most likely the huge tax breaks that oil companies have received and record high gas prices. Another source could be the huge amount of corruption the republicans have in congress.
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No I don't like president Bush. It's not him as a person. It is him as a leader.  Maybe he believes in God, and wants to save unborn babies.  Maybe he is otherwise a great guy but that doesn't mean he knows what he is doing in the way of leading a country.  Perhaps Bush coveted ,only, the idea of being president.  He wanted to follow in his daddy's footsteps, and be a great and powerful man.  Now he has what he wanted and doesn't know what to do with it.  He's like a teenager who just got his license and now wants to drive everywhere for no reason at all except for the fact that he CAN.  He figured "Well,... I have all this military power at my disposal.  I want to have some fun with it before I go".  Like a little excited kid playing make believe with the nation. His motives aren't as much for the good of the world as they are for is own childish enjoyment.  Sadly many Americans bought into him.  People have always had problems with Americans and probably always will, but with George W. Bush the world really has lost what respect it had for the U.S.
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I don't hate him. I think him and his administration have done tremendous damage to this country, but I don't hate him as a person.\n\nHate implies emotion. I do my best to not allow emotion to cloud my judgement when it comes to such things. People should vote based on logical reasoning, as opposed to emotional bias.\n\nYou have asked a difficult question. Which of the many errors and aberrations is the one that "takes the cake".\n\nI would have to say Iraq and the policy of the pre-emptive strike. With Afghanistan, there was at least some logical justification for attacking them. But with Iraq, there was none. Absolutely none. Really. \n\nThere were never WMD's. It's hard to have a secret weapons program when you can't even keep the lights on. There were also no connections to terrorist groups. Saddam believed such extremists represented a threat to his power (as most dictators do).\n\nThe bi-partisan congressional report stated these facts. So that brings us to the last reason: Removing a dictator.\n\nWell, the problem with removing an iron-fisted dictator in a region known for sectarian violence and instability is that there is a high probability that such violence and instability would resume. Bush Senior was smart enough to listen to his advisors on this (and remembered what happened to Soviets in Afghanistan in the '80's). They realized that going all the way in and removing Saddam from power would create a lot more problems than it would solve and cost serious money. Even news analysts at the time stated that removing Saddam from power would end up being a serious problem.\n\nBush Jr., however, did not listen to the lessons of the past. He also seemed to disregard the advice of recent advisors.\n\nIf you're not going to learn from the past, or listen to your advisors, then you'd better have a damn good plan. If you disregard the fact that the war was an incredible mistake, the military planning was only OK. If we had been fighting even a somewhat comparable foe our forces would have gotten smacked (review the war strategy to see why). But since we were fighting a massively inferior force we won militarily.\n\nOf course, military victory is only half the battle. Afterwards, you have to win the peace, the hearts and minds of the people. This is perhaps where the biggest mistakes were made. Looking at it objectively, it would appear either some large assumptions about the Iraqi people were made or the Iraqi socio-cultural history was ignored. In any event, the administration's plan was broken and has led us to what we see today.\n\nYou can try and blame insurgents/terrorists, but that doesn't make logical sense. The insurgents and terrorists weren't there before the invasion, and only a fool would think that they wouldn't quickly move in to try to fill the power vaccuum left by Saddam. \n\nYou can also try to blame the democrats, but the republicans had control of the house, senate, and presidency. Besides, the democrats contributed to this problem as well. Don't let the spin fool you, both sides share the blame on this.\n\nAnd to really rub the salt into the wounds, the massive expenditure of the war plus the tax cuts (if your're going to have a war, at least have tax money to run it) has caused us to borrow even more money from foriegn countries to pay for it. Not what I would call fiscally responsible. In order to pay off the national debt, every man, woman, and child in the US would need to pay $17,000.\n\nNow we're mired in a war that had no legitimacy, has no exit strategy, was against the will of the world (UN refused to back it with such shoddy evidence), the country seems to be well on its way to a civil war (which was warned), we've spent over $500 billion (also warned), and so far the only thing we have to show for it is hanging a former dictator and thousands of dead bodies, both soldiers (theirs and ours) and civilians.\n\nFrom a lo
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I don't "hate" Bush, I just think he's a bit thick . . . I felt he went about the Afghan and Iraq wars the wrong way.  It has just stirred up even more hatred towards the West - the Muslims who bombed London on 7/7/05 used Britains' involvement in these wars as an excuse, and this has led to a lot of bad feeling from Brits about the whole conflict and Blair getting involved with Bush's war.\n\nBut honestly, given the choice I side far more with America that I ever could with the Muslim Terrorists.  \n\nYes I grew up with Muslims in school etc (we all did over here) but I can't say I ever had any Muslim friends or have any sympathy for the radical cause.  I spent far more of my time around Hindus, many of whose parents had been driven out of North India by Muslim violence, plus I've had some really bad experiences with Muslims throughout my life, I feel far more trusting of Hindus than I ever will of a Muslim due to these experiences. \n\nSo I'm not one of those Brits who says "I have Muslims friends and they are great" or has any sympathy for their cause.  \n\nI was disgusted at 9/11 and canot accept any excuse for it.  I was even more horrified when it hit our own shores on 7/7 and the latest arrests of Muslims trying to blow up British people.  It makes me very angry.\n\nSo if I had to choose either Muslims or Bush I'd choose Bush, I just don't really like him  and I really wish he hadn't drawn the UK into his war as its not done us any good at all.  The money wasted on that war should have been put to better use (health care, housing etc) in the UK.
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check you spelling OK.but hate this bush guy.that what he done now he just have the us in a big mess for sure.
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I don't hate President Bush, I almost in some ways feel sorry for him. \n\nHe's the puppet, Carl Rove is the evil puppeteer.
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You guys just don't get it. It is not about hate. It is about public policy. In just about every policy decision he has made he has demonstrated either clueless ignorance, craven indifference, laziness, outright lying, or gutless pandering to line the pockets of his cronies.\n\nI don't hate him; I pity him. But I do hate what he has done to the country. We deserve better than an incompetent, ignorant, clueless, dishonest, greedy, part-time president.\n\nIt is all about choices. For some reason, George Bush just cannot stop making the wrong ones. I'm with Newt Gingrich (imagine that!), who said last month that the Democrats' slogan for the 2006 midterm elections should be "Had enough?"\n\nI for one have certainly had enough. If you haven't, maybe you aren't really paying attention.
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Do you have a particular reason for asking this?  Osama Bin Laden is a terrorist and Bush is a President.  It is a difficult question as disliking one does not include liking the other.  I dislike Osama for many reasons much more serious that the ones I have for disliking President Bush. Likewise, I have some sense of patriotism that nudges me to help support our president from a national point-of-view when I think it appropriate.  While, at the same time, I have nothing but ill-will towards Al Quaida and other groups that take the beautiful religion of Islam and slander it to create hate around the world.
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I absolutely hate him! The only reason why he is president is because the office was handed to him on a silver platter by the Supreme Court in 2000, and not only that, but there is evidence that there was possible election fraud in 2004. He has started a war that was based on a lie and he has failed to capture Osama bin Laden, the real culprit behind the September 11 attacks. People who hate him are often accused of being un-American, but in reality, Bush and his cohorts are the ones who are un-American, because thanks to them, we now have domestic spying! They have no respect for the Constitution, because they are doing everything possible to break down the separation of church and state, which is clearly established in the Constitution. And not only that, but people's First Amendment rights have been infringed upon. An example of this is the fact that whenever Bush visits a major U.S. city, protesters aren't allowed to demonstrate anywhere within his range of vision.\nSandra Day O'Connor has actually said that we are slowly moving towards a dictatorship, and you know that whenever a Republican-appointed former Supreme Court justice says something like that, we have reason to worry!
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I like President Bush and I think he is doing the best job possible during a period in history that is very difficult and dangerous. I think he will go down in history as one of the better presidents-- not necessarily well liked, but better. There's nothing that says he has to be liked, but he should do the best job that he can, and I think he is doing that.\n\nAs to why people dislike President Bush and slam him so, I think there are several reasons. One is the movie put out by the hatemonger Michael Moore. The man is so filled with bitterness, it is evident that he wants to blame somebody for what hapened, but he seems to be afraid of agreeing with the rest of the world that the perpetrators are the ones who have boasted that they did it.\n\nWhat is even more frightening is that he has convinced others to hate blindly-- all the while pretending that he is fair and unbiased-- so the people he has led into hatred also think they are being fair and unbiased!\n\nThe media have played their part. Good news does not sell newspapers, as an old saying goes, and this is also true of tv news. By selectively choosing polls and slanting questions, it is possible to make the popularity numbers imply almost anything. Once more, let us remember that this is not a popularity contest, but a serious job.\n\nI cringe when I hear people say, "If I was President I'd do this and I'd do that" when it is clear from what they say that they haven't any idea of what the President's powers and responsibilities are.\n\nI have already given several Answers on the topic of the war in Iraq and related subjects; for those who are interested in hearing what I have to say instead of blindly disagreeing with me, I welcome all to check them out instead of repeating myself here.\n\nI will limit my comments to two things. Saddam Hussein did have unconventinal weapons of mass effect; one of the most dangerous was counterfeiting of American currency on the grand scale, which was weakening the American economy. He was trying to do to us what we did to the Soviet Union with our 'Star Wars' spending years ago: cause incredible inflation and eventually bring down the national political system. It was a deliberate attack.\n\nSecondly, Saddam Hussein claimed and boasted of being involved with nuclear research, much as Iran is doing at this very instant. He wanted the entire world to believe that he had or was on the verge of getting nuclear technology. If at any point he wished to reassure the nations of the world, all he had to do was to allow the UN weapons inspections teams into Iraq and let them do their work. He refused. He wanted to control the rest of the world by means of fear.\n\nTo draw an analogy, when a man threatens a cop with a gun, the cop does not have to determine whether it is a real gun or a water pistol. That man is simply bought and paid for; his death is on his own head. If he did not want to take the risk of being shot, he should not have threatened the cop and has no right to complain.\n\nSaddam is an enormously swollen version of a schoolyard bully. He wanted to intimidate the rest of the world into giving in to him, or leaving him alone until he could become even more powerful. \n\nWell, he succeeded in intimidating the rest of the world. But we had a responsibility to see to it that he didn't retain that power, in addition to the ability to attack us economically. He has nobody but himself to blame for prompting us to attack him and remove him from his power base.\n\nIf anything, we should have taken Saddam down back at the time of the first Gulf War. President Bush is, unfortunately, reaping the consequences of the USA being a nation that acts with restraint and adheres to the doctrine of minimum use of force. That is not HIS fault.
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It sounds like most of the President Bush haters are either children, uneducated, or forgot that sterling example of the democrats, President Clinton - who was almost impeached.\nIt is always proper as a citizen to call our president - by his title & name President Bush. If not a citizen - shut up & stay out of our politics. God bless our Troops & the USA.\nWar does not always work out the way we hope but I believe it was entered into for what we thought were just reasons. As a mother of a Army Lt., my sacrifice could be much greater than yours and I still pray for President Bush daily.
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Please, read the questions that have already been answered first, instead of asking the same thing over and over.\nI will copy-paste my response to a similar question some days ago...\n\n"I hate Bush because:\n\n1 - He got elected despite having around 500,000 votes less than Gore, what makes him illegitimate and undemocratic.\n2 - He lied to the international community when he said that Iraq had WMDs, invading said country under false pretenses and without the support of the UN, or most of the international community, acting like the president of a rogue state, and doing so to be able to expand his lobbysts' (Halliburton, Lockheed-Martin, oil multinationals, etc.) economic interests in said country.\n3 - His economic policy of tax cuts is creating a situation of permament boom in the US economy, what in consequence makes the US deficit to grow larger everyday, causing the Dollar to devaluate and increasing US economic dependency with China. This situation will eventually cause the US economy to crash, when the Chinese can't finance the ever-growing US deficit anymore by buying dollars and the american economy enters in a bust cycle, thanks to skyrocketing unemployment and a low savings rate.\n4 - I don't live in the US, but as far as I know, he's also destroying the American school system, cutting taxes mostly for the rich, and allowing all US companies to close their factories and outsource all their labour production to sweatshops in Asia, effectively causing a rise in unemployment and a slow de-industrialization of the US mainland.\n5 - He has continued the American hypocritical policy on the Middle East by supporting dictatorial governments in Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE and many others, just because these governments bow to western bussiness interests.\n6 - All oil wells in Iraq are operational, yet many large Iraqui cities remain without drinking water.\n7 - He initiated, under largely exaggerated or distorted pretenses (like portraying Al-Qaeda as a unified terrorist organization, which is a lie, since Al-Qaeda is just a political front that sponsors many small terrorist cells independent from each other), the so-called "War on Terror", which has served as an excuse for both western government to restrict civil rights (the patriot act, domesting evesdropping, shoot-to-kill policies in the UK), and for the Chinese government to crack down on Ughiur resistance. (Ughiur people are from East Turkestan, a country China invaded and brutally anexed in the 1950's, and whose people are now being persecuted under the false label of 'terrorists').\n8 - His policies in Iraq, the Middle East and elsewhere have actually helped to increase terrorism, not to reduce it.\n9 - His agressive foreign policy has propped rogue states like North Korea or Iran to adquire nuclear weapons, as a buffer from possible US agression against them.\n10 - For the fact that he is an alcoholic, a murderer, and a dumb person that has only risen to such high position thanks to his money, contacts, family and background.\n11 - Because, for all the reasons stated above, he has shown to be a puppet of US bussiness interests and large corporations.  "\n\nI hope those are enough reasons.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nALSO: To the user who posted above me, who claims that \n"Bush and Blair want to destroy the 'bad guys' before they have a chance to do anything",\nI ask you...Why does the Bush administration support the dictatorships in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, then?\nAren't those 'bad guys' too? Or do you seriously believe that there are "good dictatorships" and "bad dictatorships"?\n\nIf Saddam was always evil, then why did the US supported him during the 1980's? Why did the US consider itself an ally of Saddam Hussein when he was gassing the Kurds in the 1980's?\nWhy did the US position change, coincidentally after Hussein decided to national
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I'm not George Bush fan, but thanks nonetheless for this question.   Hopefully, some of those who are blinded by their hatred will learn to "simmah down" a little.  To be credible with criticism, you've got to maintain perspective.  I see some have already succombed to temptation, and demonstrated that they can't operate within the constraints of the question . . . sad really.\n\nMuch as I find to dislike about him, I also do find some good things.  He is willing to stick to his principles, even when he fully knows it is politically unpopular.  He has tried (unsuccessfully) to change the poisonous atmosphere in D.C.   He has complimented Clinton, minimized the attention placed on the Clinton destruction and plundering of the White House when they left, made real outreach to include Kennedy, Hillary, and other opponents.  All of which has been reciprocated by nastiness.   As you point out, he is a stellar role model for fitness.  And if you admire his wife Laura, as I do, you have to consider that she chose him for her husband: a pretty powerful endorsement.
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Because they hate Bush. Most liberals are Bush haters.
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I don't despise him - that's a little harsh.\n\nI do hate his guts and wish that he would go hunting with Dick Cheney sometime just to blow off a little steam.
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I don't hate the man, but I do understand why many people do not like him.  Mostly it is an honest issue.  He's a horribly untrustable person.  Almost everything he said he would do he didn't, and almost everything he said he wouldn't do he did.  Just look at the funding for church based initiatives. He promised lots of money and has yet to give a single penny to any of their causes.  Clinton gave about 15 million to church based initiatives, Bush Sr. about 10 million.  And it's not like he wouldn't have had support for it - the whole House and Senate is majority Republican.\n\nThen there is the war built on bad intelligence, the fact that he stayed on vacation for 3 extra days during a hurricane, hasn't caught Osama Bin Laden, has spent more money the a drunk Ted Kennnedy in Vegas with a fist full of government bonds, said he wasn't doing domestic wiretaps....\n\nThere is quite a lot of reasons to really dislike this president and I'm afraid that history will not be kind to him.  Bush is my president, but he is not a good president.
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How much I hate the president of the united states