Why do people BASH President Bush over Iraq???
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Trust me on this. If We had a Democrat for President and we went to War with Iraq..The outcome would be much different today and it would be accepted. The Liberal Media is what has caused all this drama and lies why we went to War and unfortunatly a lot of people believe what they hear.\nAlso, Sadam was not alowing Inspectors into his Country..That's why we assumed he had WMD's. Sadam broke the peace treaty laws he agreed to. It's all common sense, I guess most ppl in America just dont have it. Sad.\nAnd we didnt invade to get their Oil...how gay is that? If that had been the case why would Gas be so expensive 5 years later?? Again, no common sense.
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hey, if other people at other concerts can bash bush, why can't someone praise him? freedom of speech be-yotch! get that through your thick cranium!
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Sadly, most of the people critical of the US don't understand that very few of us are as liberal or conservative as the extremeists they see on T.V.  And they also look at their country's reporting of the President, and assume what he things completely and absolutely reflects what the American people believe.\n\nNatually, this is 100% false.  First off, only 1/2 of the country votes for the President who wins, and then he can lose popularity over time.  Right now, only 32% (roughly) support the President, and also everybody disagrees with the President on at least one issue, and a slew of people don't argee with him on Iraq.\n\nUnfortunately, that's what almost everybody else is judging us on.  They look at the failures of Iraq, look at the President, then assume we're all JUST like him, when we're not.  In fact, most of the people who voted for him aren't even like him.  There are all different types of people in the U.S., but those critical can only go by what their eyes and ears recieve.\n\nI wish all these people would go to some of our news sites, as well as many of the political blogs found in this country, then come here and read the questions, beforew finally coming here and spending a week in the U.S., just to see how much we all differ from each other.\n\nI, nor anyone else, like to be stereotyped.  It's never a good thing, and can often hurt a country in it's world standing.\n\nSimple fact: those who aren't here, just don't know.
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President Bush served in the Air National Guard, from which people WERE sent to Viet Nam. He did not gin up being hit in the butt with the rice he blew up with a grenade into a purple heart ! He also did not come home and bash the troops in front of Congress to base his political career upon like some politicians did!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou are bashing President Bush, Yahoo will not take this question down. It will be up long enough to be covered in dust.
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First, I don't ever completely agree with any president and doubt that anyone does. But I do respect the Office of the President of the United States. To answer your question, I think it is because most people are against war and I can empathize. With the world being as it is today war seems to be the only language that our enemies respond to. I read posts here about Bush this, Bush that, when will he get blamed for someones hangover? It's absolutely astonishing to see how people think that he has to make perfect decisions like it is a perfect world. Too many think that he is to blame for things that are out of his control. I don't care about his family history, or what our alliance was to the Afghans in the 80's, I care about what he is doing TODAY with things as they are TODAY, with what he has TODAY. I'd rather be fighting the war on terrorism on some other country's turf instead of here. The people that accuse Mr. Bush are malcontented liberal idiots who won't be happy until our country gets ruined.
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Hey I love Jesus 2!! People don't like Bush because their ignorant, arragonat fools with attetnion spans like a two year old. Basically, there just big fools.
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"Hate" is such a despicable word. However, one  look at the Bush track record, and it's easy to see why George W. Bush was recently voted the "least admirable" man in America!\n\nIn collusion with his brother Jeb, Bush stole the first election, then did it again in the second election. He dumped America into an illegal, unconstitutional war for two reasons: to 'get even' with Saddam Hussein for humiliating George H.W. Bush during Desert Storm in the early 1990's - and to get all or Iraq's oil (actually, that's on Big Dick Cheney's wish list so he can make all his oil-drenched buddies even more obscenely wealthy than they already are). \nBush lied to the American people about weapons of mass destruction. He showed no remorse for all the thousands of Iraq people he's killed, nor has he shown any remorse for the 2,500 U.S. soldiers that his dirty little war has killed. Bush is a spoiled rich kid whose daddy got him out of harm's way while making it appear that he was serving time in a military unit. Macho man that he is, he was still allowed to fly fighter jets because he thought that would be 'cool'. \nHe's snuggled up to big business, special interest groups, the wealthiest individuals in this country, and lobbyists, all of whom can pour millions of dollars into the Republican party. But he's totally neglected the environment; the state of our fragile ecology; the poor, disabled, sick, hungry, and underprivileged in this country; and he's pretty much sold the middle class down the tubes. Because of his reckless policies, the next generation of Americans will live in a two-class society, just like they do in Haiti and the Dominican Republic: the very, very rich and the rest of us, the very, very poor. Americans are now trillions of dollars in debt, which will take generations to pay off. Bush has allowed credit card companies and pharmaceutical companies to cheat people with usurious interest rates and service charges and drugs that might actually shorten their lives!\nBush is a cowboy capitalist who should be impeached...or at least tried for high treason, and - if convicted - he should stand before a firing squad. He has turned America into an "evil empire" that mistrusts its own citizenry, lies to protect its own greedy interests, and spies on anyone that's not liked.\nIt's hard NOT to hate an impotent, stupid, selfish man like Bush.\n\nWatch www.blogger.com for a new 'blog' called BUSHWACKER!\n\nDick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld are just as evil (if you could life their scalps, you'd find "666" underneath their receding hairlines). Surely there's a special oil-saturated corner of Hell reserved for these three demons, where they can spend their eternal damnation.
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This is an easy one.  \n\nA) Most Bush bashers are typically fairly liberal.  These type of people generally have a disdain for any republicans or even conservative democrats as it is.  \n\nB) To top it off there has been a MASSIVE investment by extremely rich liberal socialists to start grass roots movements amoung young (and typically very ignorant) Americans.  From 2000 and on young people have been involved in politics at unprecedented levels. \n\nC) Media involvement.  The media outlets all make their money off news for which most Americans agree that news in todays age is primarily negative.  Plain and simple... why would the media (who is typically democratic) report or support positive outlooks of a president who they didn't vote for and don't agree with?  This can be easily identified by the growth of American economy over the past few years.  There was a largely negative outlook from the media outlets on record jobs created and growth in the economy.  While facts were obvious the media still continued to propegate negative impressions.\n\nD) Last but not least - the Iraq war.  While now it is easy to go back and see we probably should not have gone the route of invading Iraq it has recently become a situation that has slapped reality in Americans faces that this is not going to be an easy problem to fix.  Most Americans view the Iraq was as Bush's war even though the majority of high level politicians (democrat and republican) supported the invasion.  Most left wing liberals will say this is because of false information all the while they were privy to the same info as the president.\n\nEither way... I really don't have a problem with Bush bashing or criticizing any other politician however when the rhetoric sounds more like Hugo Chavez comments you start to lose credit with most reasonable Americans.  The other problem with Bush bashing is that GW will soon be out of office for which the exterme liberal left will have to refocus their hatred on someone else.  My guess is they WILL do this to the next prominent republican which will no doubt be premature and expose the obvious.  The OBVIOUS is media bias for negative information (regardless of who it is about) and large finance by extremely left socialist liberals.
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Nevermind the brainwashed masses waving their plastic flags and feeling so proud every time another American soldier gets killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq.  Shudder.\n\nBush is the worst President.  Yes, there have been other corrupt, foolish and stupid Presidents, but Bush is the worst because he does all this with the best intentions.  \n\nI voted for him and I'm in the military, so I get what I deserved.  I say this all off the record, of course.  I'm not allowed to bad mouth my commander in chief.   This whole movement to trade freedom for so-called security is dangerous and unexcusable.  I believe Bush (or whoever his puppet master is) is at the heart of it.
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what a stupid question\nget real!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\n\nAll of you Bush haters are immature hypocrites who know nothing. GROW UP!\n\nAt least Bush had enough moral and courage to actively do something for this country, in comparison with Clinton, who did nothing much but try to get America to be his best friend by all of his "pimping" in the white house with whatever her name was.\n\nOf course Bush isn't "cool" like that, because he is an actual president who has duties of honor to stand by, and a country to defend while millions of americans talk crap about him everyday...\n\nA million against "one", that sounds fair, especially since that "one" is who volunteered for the job to help defend this country and all of us.\n\nAmericans are pathetic if they talk about our president with all of this hatred, pathetic doesn't even cover it.
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So many people try to slander the Preident and deny the good he has done.  The big things that are obvious are where he brought in Democrats to co-author 'No Child Left Behind' and there is the 'Medicaid Perscription Program' and many others.\nThe pieces that are missed or ignored by the left have to deal with his appointees.  My biggest is the Securities Exchange Commission.  The run-up in the stock market, called the 'dot-com boom' was fueled by companies which had no earnings.  In order to compete for investors dollars, regular companies engaged in questionable book keeping practices.  Under Clinton's Administration companies were left to their devices and stole billions of dollars.  Bush's S.E.C. has investigated, exposed, and jailed these criminals.  The Left wants you to belive they broke the law because they were Republicans or because they supported Bush, but Bush put them in jail!  So much for special favors!\nAlso many people do not, to this day, realize the gathering threat that existed with Iraq.  Although Iraq may not have been immediately capable of attacking the U.S. or U.K., He was immediately capable of attacking Israel, the only stable democracy in the Middle East.  The threat was from ever eroding sanctions on a country who, according to Hans Blix in February 2003- "(Saddam Hussein) has not come to terms with the meaning or intent of disarmorment".  If we and coalition members had not removed Sadman Hussein when we did, we today would have an even more defiant Iraq coupled with the actions of Iran and North Korea.  These coutries comprise the 'axis of evil', and inaction would have awful concequences for all free Nations.  Bush has brought this Nation out of it's ignorance as to who the enemy is, and how serious they are in wanting to do us harm.  I wish things were better in Iraq, but this is better than Sadman Hussein.\nThere are many more, but I want to keep this reasonable.  Bush has protected us from the corporate criminals here at home and the radical zealots abroad.  For this I am Thankful!
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I promise to not call you any names. Nor will I rant against Bush.\nHere are some of the problems:\n1. Waging a pre-emptive war on a sovereign nation is against international law and against the world's self-interests. I hope you don't want any country to be able to justify attacking another because the other country might be a threat in the future.\n\n2. Too much evidence suggest that the administration created  the WMD threat to justify their decision. Shouldn't going to war be based on an honest consideration of facts???? Shouldn't the administration be open about its reasons?\n\n3. Yes Saddam was a bad guy, but are you seriously suggesting that we take out anyone we think is a bad guy??? And talk about destabilizing--by what criterion could you possibly judge Iraq to be more stable now than before?\n\n4. Who's talking about returning Saddam to power???\n\n5. WMDs is not an obsession--just one of many reasons to question the honesty and the competence of the administration.
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You know it always amazes me when people talk sh*t about the military. They only see the bad things that go on in Iraq and never the good things because they far outnumber the bad. many of the Iraqi people wanted us there and they supported us. Granted we should now pull our troops out  and let the people of Iraq finish getting their country back up and running. Bush did not go into Iraq for oil. I really have no idea where everybody gets that from. Oil was not even thought about when we went into Iraq. \n  for those people who are bashing the military are a bunch of cowards that do not have the guts to serve their own country. Anybody can sit at home and talk shit about how the country is going and about the miltary. So if you really cared about waht is going on then get off you a** and do something otherwise just shut the f**k up. we serve our country becasue we have honor and courage. every man and women in the military know what our ultimate sacrifce can be by serving our country. Beleive me the men and women who have died serving did so doing what they wanted and did so in honor and courage. For some people to talk bad about the military and our country are just a bunch of cowards who have no balls to do something themself. All they know how to is just open their mouths. I think that Bush is overstepping his boundaries but he is doing what he feels is right for us and the iraqi people. If you think that you can do better then get up off your sorry a** and run for president
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Wow, its incredible how ignorant, and biased some of you answerer's are. Do you know how Bush is like in person? How can you attack him personally when you don't have the slightest clue about what goes on in his life, his mind and how he is as a character?\n\nMost of you are being manipulated by the media. You are blindly following every word they say. Do you really know why there is a war with Iraq? Or are you just repeating the media. I bet most of you don't have a clue whats really going on and all the problems Bush has to deal with- including  judgmental people like you and the Media. \n\nI wonder ,could you do a better job at being the President of the United States? \nJust think. No.
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When did this world become sooo hateful???? How can ANYONE say Bush hasn't made any good decisions?! He's DEFENDED this country when people like you were to cowardly and afraid to defend themselves! People MAKE mistakes! Does that mean just because he's President he's not allowed to?!He freed a country from the hands of a dictator that KILLED THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of innocent lives--and you say he did NOTHING good?! I spit on people like you! Ignorance and hate is what's fueling this country nowadays, and its people like YOU who spread it that makes it worse. If you want to be taken seriously--say something IMPORTANT, and when you crack your whip, be sure of what your hitting, because the subject of Bush being inadequate has REALLY been beat to death!
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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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People may disagree but here goes, it cost far too much, too many lives have been lost and what really annoys me is that there are doubts surrounding the decision to go to war in the first place?\n\nWeapons of mass destruction we were told, where are they???\n\nSomeone else made a good comment which was, while I also hate saddam for what he has done and welcome his death sentence, there were fewer deaths under his regime than under our so called care?\n\nWe need to get out and let the Iraq people get on with their lives. Obviously we are not welcome there so why are all our troops still dying??\n\nFinally, this war has come down to one man who should he not have gained power we would never have hone to war.\n\nBUSH\n\nNot forgetting the sheep that followed his every move, good old Mr Blair!!\n\nShould never have happened and this topic will continue to be discussed far into the future.