Did Bush do anything right?
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only to allow their power to rise in Pakistan, and then reemerge in Afghanistan, he only solved the problem short term, the Taliban are nowhere near defeated.hopeneverdies said:
Ooh, let me think, helped with the collapse of the global economy, and I think there was something else... oh yeah, the fucking war!vivaldiscool said:
You know, a lot of people criticize his invasion of Iraq (obviously). He had a lot of potentially good reasons, but they all ended up not being true. But think about it. If Saddam didn't have WMDs, he would have soon. If he wasn't harboring terrorists, he would have been soon enough. Besides, Saddam was a terrible dictator and torturing/massacring huge amounts of innocent civilians, which we as the United States are supposed to stop if we are truly the "world police."
So, if we didn't go into Iraq then we would have had to soon enough. In fact, it's better that we did when we did before Saddam could build up his military, help launch terrorist attacks, or develop more chemical weapons or WMDs to use against us when we did go in.
So, we might have gone in for the wrong reasons, but it ended up being the right thing to do. Besides, did you ever consider that the Bush Administration knew all this, and purposely told the people Iraq had WMDs, whether they did or not, so that they could go in at the best possible time?
Sometimes the government is a lot smarter than you think. It may have been wrong to mislead the populace in order to be able to declare war on Iraq, but it was the right thing to do. Sometimes the government needs to do things like this for the greater good.
And note that I'm saying that it was right to just invade Iraq and depose Saddam, not the entire Iraq War. After we defeated Saddam's military we needed to have a smarter occupation than sit on our asses in the desert and let insurgents take their anger out on us.
So, if we didn't go into Iraq then we would have had to soon enough. In fact, it's better that we did when we did before Saddam could build up his military, help launch terrorist attacks, or develop more chemical weapons or WMDs to use against us when we did go in.
So, we might have gone in for the wrong reasons, but it ended up being the right thing to do. Besides, did you ever consider that the Bush Administration knew all this, and purposely told the people Iraq had WMDs, whether they did or not, so that they could go in at the best possible time?
Sometimes the government is a lot smarter than you think. It may have been wrong to mislead the populace in order to be able to declare war on Iraq, but it was the right thing to do. Sometimes the government needs to do things like this for the greater good.
And note that I'm saying that it was right to just invade Iraq and depose Saddam, not the entire Iraq War. After we defeated Saddam's military we needed to have a smarter occupation than sit on our asses in the desert and let insurgents take their anger out on us.
His stirring 9/11 speech is what got him re-elected. His swift policy to attack someone also helped. To bad later we found that the swift action he took was based on false info and overreaction. If there had been WMDs then he would have been at least an average president even with the huge deficit.
Edit: for those that put anything about not child left behind i here that many of my teachers hate it. I'm not completely informed about why and what specifics but many don't like it and you should probably appease the people that will be teaching those children they might know more than you do being a poltician not a teacher.
Edit: for those that put anything about not child left behind i here that many of my teachers hate it. I'm not completely informed about why and what specifics but many don't like it and you should probably appease the people that will be teaching those children they might know more than you do being a poltician not a teacher.
Getting rid of the Taliban would've gone a whole lot better if enough troops had stayed in Afghanistan to make it stick, rather than going off to Iraq.
I do admire him for helping Africa though I imagine he got a relatively easy ride from the sections of the press who would normally be up in arms about such things.
To anyone who says he did nothing wrong... I take it you didn't live anywhere near New Orleans while he was in power. That for me will stick in my mind as the one thing that made me unequivocally angry and physically sick to my stomach.
I do admire him for helping Africa though I imagine he got a relatively easy ride from the sections of the press who would normally be up in arms about such things.
To anyone who says he did nothing wrong... I take it you didn't live anywhere near New Orleans while he was in power. That for me will stick in my mind as the one thing that made me unequivocally angry and physically sick to my stomach.
During his administration..
No Child Left Behind.
Texas' Standardized Testing System. (Partly in No Child Left Behind)
Patriot Act.
Edit: Those are some of the screw ups to those who asked.
No Child Left Behind.
Texas' Standardized Testing System. (Partly in No Child Left Behind)
Patriot Act.
Edit: Those are some of the screw ups to those who asked.
*Starts to remember the Bush sent American troops to Iraq (without an exit plan) and thus searched for oil, took down its government, replaced it with our form of democracy that not many people wanted at the time..*BudZer said:
Naaw, nothin at all =3
You know...the people that armed Saddam were the...USA...Clearly we can see how smart these goverments are. Arm them years later, open war to see if they learned to use the guns.ElephantGuts said:
And no the Iraq War was all wrong, no matter how good you make it seem.