What successes has Bush had so far in the war on terror?
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none. he has only succeeded in getting thousands of our troops and innocent civilians killed with no end to the escalating violence or civil instability in sight.
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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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Yes where is Bin Laden, at Bush's house having cocktails, and barbecue with Cheney, Rumsfeld and all the GOP boys. I am still waiting for WMD's and they don't seem to be coming. This whole thing has been lie after lie. Congress changes this fall, and I hope to see several investigations going on.
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Not at all.\n\nIn Afghanistan, the Taliban is actually making a bit of a comeback this month.  Most of the country is under the control of warlords with just a small portion around Kabul that is actually controlled by the American forces and the Afghani government that they installed.  The rest of the country is pure chaos.  (Kabul isn't much better).\n\nIn Iraq, the "coaltion" forces have done a pretty good job of securing the single square mile in central Bagdad known as the Green Zone, and now most of the road to the airport is reasonable secure as well.  Unfortunately, they have "secured" the Green Zone by shooting anybody who tries to enter, so that's maybe not a great example of "controlling the situation".\n\nSadly, neither country is even close to being secure, despite the lies that come out of Washington.  Does the term "lipstick on a pig" mean anything to you?  This particular pig has been run over, disembowled, set on fire and sexually assaulted.  But my! doesn't that lipstick look pretty!
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One of the BEST\nI salute you President Bush!\nFight on, and kill them dirty terrorists.
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Bush has done better than average with the hand he has been dealt while he has been President. While he is in no way the greatest President of all time. It usually takes an uber-lib to come out with the adjectives such as "pathetic".... especially when stating the "failure" without specific evidence as to how he has failed. (And NO, being in a war is not "failure")
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Please. And Bush was not a chickenhawk? Gimme a break. 9/11 happened on bush's watch. Even the 9/11 comission said so. And he STILL hasn't got bin Laden. In fact, i heard Bin Laden is chillin' in New orleans. Cuz we ALL know that no republicans will go THERE! HA!
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I'm going to have to politely disagree on the grounds that the mainstream media, in Bush's corner, has deceived most everyone, in the US at least. Which isn't going to last forever, might I add.\n\nMountains of evidence supports that the "war on terror" is just a big farce!\n\nIf you have time, you may want to listen to some alternative views on what's actually going on:
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Has Bush actually done anything wonderful? (Besides almost choking and croaking on a popcorn kernel)
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I'm unaware that Bush has ever attacked a country without a reason. The only countries America has ever fought with during the Bush administration were Iraq and Afhganistan, in which we had many reasons to be there. What are you talking about? Are you stoned?
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It already has. \n\nBush keeps talking about achieving victory, but the sad fact of life is that there is no way to win in this situation. The best we can hope for is containment of the sectarian violence.\n\nI certainly hope this country treats the Iraq vets better than they did the Vietnam vets....
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President Bush is unlikely to declare victory outright: it would be an open invitation for extremists to perpetrate some outrage to prove him wrong. What he may well do is make a Treaty with the government he has set up in Iraq so that the United States and allied troops become "advisors" (or some such status), and he is also likely to make a show of reducing troop numbers. Rather than saying he has won Bush will then point to his successes, as he will claim them, in Iraq.
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I believe the figure you were given upstairs (2743) is correct. BTW, that does not include the Iraqi casualties, who knows how many. And I see that these Bush supporters upstairs did not answer the question "has ANYTHING been accomplished.....more terrorism". I can answer that. NO.
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There's a list about a mile long of things he's done...\n\nStarted two wars with sovereign nations without explicit approval from congress.\n\nComplicit in the Twin Towers collapse.\n\nVoter fraud in two elections.\n\nGerrymandering by negligence in helping Katrina victims.\n\nSuspended not less than 5 amendments in the Bill of Rights.\n\nAppointed ex-Enron officials to high government positions.\n\nAdministration policy has put us in the deepest national debt ever.\n\nSeveral shady no-bid contract deals with former and current business partners.\n\nAllowing the sale of a few of our port operations to a private firm from a country which the CIA classifies as "possible state terrorism funding".\n\nI could keep going, I know I missed a few things...
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Ousted the Taliban from Afghanistan, ousted Saddam from Iraq, after putting together large coalitions of dozens of countries.\n\nCreated the Proliferation Security Initiative, a cooperative effort between the US and 10 other countries, to use whatever power at their means to prevent and interdict shipments of WMD and related materials.\n\nTax cuts that helped boost the economy after the 2000 dot.com recession and the economic hit from 9/11.\n\nAppointment of 2 Supreme Court Justices who believe in following the Constitution.\n\nHas made the US more prepared to deal with terrorists. \n\nHe's done a lot of good things, and a lot of not-so-good things, too. But you have to have an open mind to see these things.
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What you stated is something that I have repeated on this forum countless times, and yet these plain facts seem to bounce off the heads of Bush supporters the way bullets bounce off of Superman. They are oblivious to the fact Bush’s so called “War on Terror” does not truly address the progenitors of terror; namely Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Saudi Arabia provides much of the financing and ideological foundation for Islamic terror groups like Al Qaeda, and Pakistan offers the theological and military training grounds (think Madrassas) and it was in that country that the Taliban was born, and it is in Pakistan’s Western border region where many top Al Qaeda and Taliban officials are being harbored. \n\nBush’s closest action to ending Islamic terror was attacking the Taliban in Afghanistan, and rooting out some Al Qaeda terror cells that existed in that region. But this was a futile effort, since he has diverted most of our military resources to Iraq, thus leaving Al Qaeda and the Taliban free to regroup and rebuild their infrastructures. \n\nThe truth of the matter is George Bush’s war isn’t a “War on Terror” as much as it is a war to divert your attention from the failure of their “War on Terror”.
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"CUT AND RUN" is a lot better than "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" (those were the words of bush in 2003 on a navy ship) has anything been accomplished in iraq so far?