Quote from kut2k2:
OTOH, GWB gaffes and scandals:
- failing to stop 9/11 after being warned a month in advance.
What do you mean by "stop"? Was Bush supposed to GROUND all U.S. Airliners based on incomplete scant evidence? The CIA's report regarding Al Queda perhaps using airplanes was issued in 1999. Did Clinton take appropriate steps? I bet you oppose the Patriot Act but you think magically the administration knows all. You're clueless.
- failing to find the Anthrax Attacker(s), or to even discover who they are. The Bush Administration probably wouldn't know who did 9/11 if OSL hadn't jumped up and took credit immediately.
How many years did the una-bomber go undetected? If not for his published manifesto being read by his brother he'd still be ticking. Yea, those types of crimes are a BITCH to solve. The same way with ANY crime where victim and perp don't have a prior relationship. That's why America now has a 50% uncleared homicide case rate.
- letting an entire major American city get destroyed by a hurricane after being warned of the coming danger, and doing almost nothing about it afterwards. Putting horse-show "Brownie" in charge of FEMA with NO emergency experience.
I agree Bush definitely could have stopped Katrina but failed. Why he allowed Mother Nature to produce a Cat3 hurricane is unknown. I do know that the number of fatalitities from Katrina was under 2000 which compared to other recent global disasters is a pittance. And despite the poor public relations the federal government has spent over a 150bil on Katrina victims, cleanup and levees or about 1/4 what Iraq has cost.
- issuing illegal "signing statements" to every bill he signed, claiming some unwritten "presidential perogative" to ignore any part of the bill he chooses to.
- literally giving the finger to the WH press corps more than once like some inbred high school drop-out instead of a person of character and discipline.
I don't condone Bush doing that (and he has) BUT I find it far less distasteful than this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DygBj4Zw6No&feature=related
- taking more vacation days than any other TWO presidents combined.
The government that governs least......
- turning the formerly politically free Attorney General's office into a haven for third-rate political hacks who are barely qualified to practice the law.
Yea Zoe Baird and Janet Reno were titans. Did Gonzalez kill 100 Americans at Waco?
- joining his father and Ronald reagan in ballooning our national and trade debts.
Bush is guilty of expanding the budget def. But the trade def? Huh? This admin has done everything possible to get the doillar down to export friendly levels.
- being a national embarrassment almost every time he interacts with foreign dignitaries.
That's just for starters.
Deal with this:
The war ended back in 2003 with that "Mission Accomplished" banner. That's what that dog-and-pony show was all about. What is NOT succeeding is the
occupation. Successful occupations don't have occupiers getting killed routinely. Go read about post-war Germany and Japan. Those were successful occupations. What's happening in Iraq is not success, surge or no surge.
Maybe if we killed 5,000,000 civilians in Iraq like we did in Germany we'd have a smoother occupation. Bottom line:800 deaths a year at a cost of 100bil. is pretty cheap bear bait. I'd be pretty happy if that's the WORST we ever see war again. How many died in Dem wars? Nam? Korea? WWll? I'm too bored to continue.
Iraq invasion: successful and done with.
Iraq occupation: ongoing and failing.
Afghanistan has slipped back into the hands of the Taliban. What drug are you smoking to think we "succeeded" there as well as Iraq?
Yeah the economy is just great for most Americans. NOT!
The Congressional Dems can't do anything as long as Republicans can block them in the Senate, which they do at every opportunity.
And Karl Rove's election-cheating campaigns are at an end.
Not that many of the Dems don't bear a lot of blame for being wimps who go along to get along. But this criminal GOP administration is coming to an end, and there will be a reckoning ahead. [/B]
