What has Bush done for America?
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He has failed to secure the nation's energy interests in Africa, South America, Iran or Russia (or Iraq or the Gulf Coast for that matter), or protected our purchasing power from an aggressive expansionist China resulting in gas prices which continue to rise, despite the administration's known background in oil and Bush's 2000 campaign claim -- made while debating Gore -- that lowering gas prices is as easy as jawboning OPEC until they relent.\n\nHe has allowed our known enemy of North Korea to acquire nuclear weapons and expended the public trust (and $300B plus a lot of lives) "disarming" a nation that had no significant weaponry.  If the people of the United States aren't afraid of Iran acquiring nukes, it's because they're more afraid of the buckaroo president than they are afraid of the quasi-totalitarian regime.\n\nThe president has "soiled" our environmental protections from Kyoto on down while astroturfing his own record with half-hearted (and half-legislated) works like the "clear skies act."  Not that he views this as a problem since his crony scientists are of the ilk that say that massive climate change resulting in ecosystem upheaval and massive flooding followed by a lack of desalinized water would be a nifty tropical kind of thing -- to such an extent that they delete entries into their departmental writings that would say otherwise.\n\nBut mostly, this president has failed to move this nation forward or to allow this nation to move forward.  We got in on WWII and helped to end it in less time than we've spent hunting Bin Laden since 9/11/01.  The Enron boys are still on trial.  We still haven't signed back on to Kyoto.  AIDS has continued to rampage over Africa and the avian flu will soon have worldwide exposure (without anybody checking their passports, mind you).  National wages continue to be stagnant against inflation for the overall duration of the president's double-term (due in no small part to his lack of oil policy).  Social security was a non-starter.  Children are being left behind, only this time its the smart kids who are too bored to deal with average quality classes targeting federally mandated tests.  His re-invigoration of his administration involves dropping any cronies that the media has hated and replacing them with cronies that the media doesn't hate (yet, maybe).  The "Decider" president says that he's proud of everybody and that they're doing a good job in the face of all evidence to the contrary -- Brownie, Rummy, Goss(y?).\n\nEvery president wants to leave a legacy; something that will be in the schoolbooks in 15 years.  History will judge, and all that -- but as Nixon demonstrates, history does not judge kindly.  Everybody remembers him as the paranoid Watergate crook that helped screw up Vietnam, not the president that normalized our relations with China.  The fact that you have to ask what Bush has done for America while he's even still in office really says more for our current President's future legacy than any answer ever will be able to.
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I read your answers.  You don't know grammer and you can't spell.  You don't know anything about George Bush, except you've heard morons on tv trash him.  He's a great president.  We haven't been attacked since 9/11, he lowered taxes, he passed the no child left behind act, and he's doing all he can for America.  I don't agree with everything he does, but I know he cares about America, he has character, and he has courage.  He flew into Iraq twice during the war, once to have thanksgiving dinner with the troops.
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Bush, it would appear, has "his" politics and religion twisted in his twisted way of "governing".  For me, he's made it clear, it's not about making America safer and a better place, yet trying to dominate the World at large.  He's not a god, although he proclaims "God has spoken to him", still, he carries on in his narrow, blinding polictical/religious mission - all his motives are to better the lives of Americans and others in countries where their polictics and religions differ from ours.\nBush is reaching for an unattainable greatness, to be up on a pedastal, no matter the costs to others.  Americans have been led in to warring countries, who have warred for centuries over ideals and their own reasons.  We are not meant to be there, our being there will not bring a halt to their warring (sadly), and mistreatment of their own.\nBut, in sending our own away from our borders, leaves us vulnerable, even more than before.  It's like going out the front door when the neighbor comes into our yard to do harmful, evil doings, to confront them, but leaving the back door open for anyone else who would like to take advantage of the situation.  I realize how simple an anology this is to such a horrendous issue, but the more American blood spilled on foregin soil has not (at lease by any accounts I am aware of)made life safer/better in America.  \nThose fallen, in my humble opinion, would be better honored if their comrades were brought home to shore up our defenses here, to work to keep out others who would try to harm us. A live soldier has so much more to offer for his family & country, than any of those who have met their Maker long before their time was due.  I grieve for the lose of their young life, and futures they once held bright. Although, they and/or their families may feel their lives were not given in vain, they were led to slaughter under the most evil of pretenses - for another human's attempt to be a legend and others to follow in believing his actions are for the good of all free peoples.
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What have the Republicans done to deserve any credit?\n\nMade our Surplus into a deficit?\n\nStarted a War on lies for his own personal gain?\n\nGave tax cuts to the rich?\n\nMurdered innocent Americans?\n\nMade Americans even more hated across the globe?\n\ntell me what he has done that was any good?
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George W. Bush's leadership as president these past five years have been a one huge disaster after another. We now have huge budget deficits that appear to be growing out of control. We have a very costly war on Iraq that is going on way too long. We have spiraling trade deficits and American corporations moving their factories and personal off shore. We have wealthy individuals paying a smaller percentage of their incomes in taxes then middle class workers, and who are using off shore tax havens to avoid paying taxes. We have a new Medicare bill that is full of corporate welfare and is costing much more than we were originally told. We had a energy deregulation scandal in California that Bush refused to stop. We had huge corporate scams that robbed shareholders, employees, and creditors of billions of dollars. And this list could go on and on. All these facts show that the American people should fear George W. Bush for who he is (a liar and a thief), and what he really stands for (fascism). And the Republicans in Congress have been in lock-step with him every step of the way. We must never again allow these type of people back into our government.
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President George H. W. Bush
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I'd have to agree with the person that said George W. Bush and Osama Bin Laden, although with me it's clearly George W. Bush.  What Bush has done over the last 5 years is no better that what Bin Laden has done.  In a land of democracy, he has decided to invade other countries for his own benefit and not the benefit of the American people.  Basically, the phrase "for the people, by the people" does not exist in W's world, more like "for W (and Cheney, Rice, etc.), by W (and Cheney, etc.).
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No.  His presidency has been all about PR, marketing, and spin rather than trying to solve the problems of the American people.
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George W Bush has been the great divider.
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What has he done in all reality to protect Americans .We began many years back to tighten up security at our Embassy's and those efforts have paid off .We also have become more alert to boats that approach our Naval Ships and have established a 24 hour watch and a 100 yard kill zone . We also have increased security at our air ports which we would of done after 9-11 regardless of who was president . We have taken a closer look at securing possible targets for terrorists which we would have done regardless of who was in the White house .\nSo I must ask what has Bush Done .\nFinding Bin laden would be nice if he is still alive but really the terrorists react to our policy not our military .\nWe could have 10 million troops in Iraq and nothing would change  whats going on .\nUnless we handcuff each Iraqi to one of our soldiers nothing will change for the better for 50 years there .\nThese people do not change a religion overnight or in ten years it will take several generations to change how these people look at the world and what they believe God wants them to do .\nIt was not long ago we had witch trials and in the 50's we had a communist hunt that ruined hundreds of lives for no reason at all .\nIraq and terrorists are more of a threat now then the day before 9-11 .\nThey now know that 9-11 did nothing to prevent us from destroying what was a religion and way of life for millions of people .\nWe are forcing these people to let their women educate themselves, work in the community ,and earn money . Choose what kind of life they want .\nThis goes against everything these people have been taught .It is part of the teaching they follow out of the religious book they have .\nIt requires women to be the subjects of the husbands and to do as they are told without question .\nYou can not change this way of thinking in 10 years .\nIt is going to take a long time .\nHad Bush understood these people and not the Americanized version ,he would of known better then to invade Iraq and try to attempt the impossible .\nI wish it had worked out the way Bush had it planned in his head .1) we move in and secure the area \n2) we remove Saddam and the evil people running Iraq .\n3) We install a new government that is open to change and democracy for all .Restoring women's rights and peoples freedom to live free and not under a dictator who has killed tens of thousands of his own people .\nI do not deny that Saddam is or was a BAD leader .It is just not up to America to fix the worlds problems .\nWe need to have the commitment of every major nation on earth to achieve a change such as this .\nWe do not have it .\nagain I say what has Bush Accomplished .\nHe has eroded our civil rights and what we thought was freedom from intrusion into our personal lives is now common.\nTapping phones is not going to end .The genie is out of the bottle .\nPeople who are charged with crimes now will soon face torture because we let that out of the bottle also .\nOur bank accounts are no longer as private as we would like .\nI am concerned that writing a check to habbebes' dry cleaning will get the once over .\nWe have under Bush had the Supreme Court rule Against his plans and actions on numerous occasions .\nBush As far as I am concerned has done little to protect us from terrorists and opened the door to increase the surveillance of people and soon we will be like England and a guy will announce over a loud speaker to walk that bike across the street or pick up that Taco bell rapper you dropped .\nDo we want big brother looking at us all the time .\nThey read our post here all the time , Screen the mail and open suspicious  packages ,and have created a society that turns people into the government for a cookie .\nAs far as i am concerned Bush In his Attempt to protect America has overlooked the inherent problems that we will have as a result  of his Presidency and the regulations and laws he has requested to be in-acted for our good .\nThey are goin
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I believe that Bush has done and continues to do more damage to this country than any other president in the history of the United States.  He managed to turn unprecedented international support into unprecedented international disdain.  He has invaded a sovereign nation for no apparent reason, overextending the military and diverting resources form the legitimate military campaign (the one aimed at actually finding the people who attacked us).  He sent military forces into Iraq with no viable exit plan (which was obvious to many of us from the start and has since become obvious to most).  He has turned an record fiscal surplus into a record fiscal deficit.  He has trampled, and continues to trample, on the bill of rights.  He has forced congress to approve the appointments of radically conservative judges, who will continue to errode our civil rights for years to come.  He has spent billions of dollars on an unnecessary war while schools accross the country are discontinuing art, PE, music, even science and history classes due to lack of funding; entire schools are closing resulting in larger class sizes; special ed programs are being closing.\n\nOK guys, I don't think the asker meant he *literally* wanted to replace Bush with Nixon, but rather that Nixon did less damage as president than Bush is doing.  I expect he knows he's dead...  Although, I must agree that a dead Nixon would be better than Bush in that at least he couldn't actively harm or nation.  For that matter a grapefruit would make a better president than Bush.\n\n_____________\n>>>Do any of you liberals have an original thought in your head \n>>>that DIDN'T come from moveon.org or Micheal Moore?\n\nFrom what I can tell the ONLY thoughts in your head are "Bush good" and "liberals bad."  My political opinions are based on my personal morals, my own observations, and my interpretation of what I read in the news.  Yours appear to be based on a misguided believe that anyone who did not vote for Bush is a terrorist.  Perhaps there is a reason you feel the need to attack anyone who questions your idiomatic ideology?\n\n___________\n>>>There was a very good reason - Iraq lost a war in 1991 and \n>>>didn't submit to UN inspections for WMD. Even Clinton was \n>>>ready to invade in 1998, where was your outrage then?\n\nYou may note that Clinton did NOT invade in 1998.  If he had, I probably would have been outraged, although as he DIDN'T I can't comment on the exact circumstances that would have surrounded this decision.  You may also note that old Bush chose to withdraw from Iraq rather than overthrow Saddam.  Again, there's a reason.  Besides which, failing to submit to UN inspections may or may not be cause for UN action, but it is not a justification for unilateral US action.  Even Bush has stopped talking about UN inspections and WMDs.\n\nAlso note that this is only ONE of the many atrocious policy decisions for which Bush is responsible.  Apparently you can find no argument with the rest of them.\n\n____________\n>>>No you wouldn't have\n\nYou have no basis on which to determine what I would and would not do.  I would not and do not support the unprovoked invasion of a sovereign nation no matter who happens to be president.  And the fact remains that CLINTON DIDN'T DO IT.\n\n>>>AND SEVERAL OTHER NATIONS\n\nOh, sorry, I forgot Poland.  Seriously, though, we had the UK on our side, and a couple of tiny countries who are dependent upon our financial support, but that's about it.  It was unilateral primarily in that we did not consult with other nations in making the decision to invade, not in that there weren't a handful of other countries fighting along side us.\n\n>>>Don't give me the tired WMD crap either - you know DAMN \n>>>well he had them, just ask the Kurds, "Where are they now?"\n>>>would be
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I can't think of a thing he has done for the little people but he sure has done a lot for the rich and for other countrys. Like giving away our ports. sending jobs south of the border. That is about all I can think of at this time.
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To try to fix what Bush has done to harm the country.
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I think he has done a heck of a great job defending us against terrorism. He could work a little harder against immigration, but he has done a lot for humanity. He might not be the most well spoken president but the man has done what he thought was right for us. God says that he puts kings in power and he takes them out of power. So whether it's George Bush or Bill Clinton, they have a purpose to be there.
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No President can satisfy each and every individual.  In the given circumstance, his is the best. Even the best President of US will do the same thing what Bush has done. His actions are the best.  Take it from me, the next president of US will make the present one the best - his worst critics will only say these words.  His actions were all by and large good ones. No doubt.
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Bush has already done a lot of good things to US and to the world.  If he controls Mafia and terrorist activities in US definitely he can be remembered by Americans for ever.  Surely next President's actions will make Mr. Bush as the better one.  Sure his party will win back power in this election.
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The best thing bush did for America was establish why we should remove the electoral system that is un democratic and puts emphasis on smaller rural uneducated states. Also should be noted for giving a generous amount of material to comedians.