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GWB, Worst President?

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Get the facts straight.

The Facts

The following appeared in a local paper as a letter to the editor. This will put things in perspective:

Some claim President Bush shouldn't have started this war. They complain about his prosecution of it. One person recently claimed Bush was the worst president in U.S. history.

Let's clear up one point: We didn't start the war on terror. Try to remember. It was started by terrorists on 9/11. Let's look at the "worst" president and mismanagement claims.

FDR led us into World War II. Germany never attacked us: Japan did. From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost, an average of 112,500 per year.



Truman finished that war and started one in Korea. North Korea never attacked us. From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost, an average of 18,333 per year.
John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never attacked us.

Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire. From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost, an average of 5,800 per year.

Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent. Bosnia never attacked us. He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions.

In the two years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida. He put nuclear inspectors in Lybia, Iran and North Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000+ of his own people.

We lost 600 soldiers, an average of 300 a year. Bush did all this abroad while not allowing another terrorist attack at home.

Worst president in history? Come on!












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Instead of posting this thread, couldn't we have just added on to the 5 billion existing ones out there? Better yet, let's just sign up on a list on here stating your political preference. Afterall, that's the purpose of these threads...to let everyone know your personal interests and such. These threads surly aren't here for any other reason. You can't possibly change someone's mind about something like politics and religeon.

Only other reason could be to start a heated debate and sit back and smile at the chaos you've started.

Either way, pretty sad.



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Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent. Bosnia never attacked us. He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions.



Please do not forget Somolia, Haiti, and Kosovo.

In Somolia one of our soldiers was drug through the streets and we did nothing about it.

Only the second President in History to be Impeached!


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Clinton attacked Bosnia as well? Funny, I think I'd hear about it since I live in the neighbourhood. Better update my facts book.:P

I can't shake the feeling that the consequences of 9/11 are exceeding the attackers' wildest expectations.:| But I guess noone will ever be able to tell for sure how much of it is due to that guy you got sitting in the White House.

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Let's clear up one point: We didn't start the war on terror. Try to remember. It was started by terrorists on 9/11.


I thought Bush admitted that Iraq had nothing to do with the terrorist attacks (maybe I'm wrong.)
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"Get the facts straight."


Ok lets
As Val just also said. We did not attack Iraq because of the events of 9-11.
We attacked Iraq because of WMD right?
We now have the people who told us and the world that they were SURE Iraq had WMD and would soon have nuclear capabilities that ooops they made a mistake.

I don’t think pointing out all the other times we have attacked people in past is really doing us any good.
That essentially is the main problem that we do what we want because we can. That’s what is pissing people off.
So yes I do think Bush is a bad president I don’t know about the worst I don’t know every thing about every past president. If my Tax dollars are going to war that we have no frikin clue why we started, and more importently then any amount of money I don’t want ANY ONE to die for NO Reason.
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not." - Kurt Cobain

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>3000+ jumps, somewhere in florida? Now that's a lot of credibility
>pretty sad.

Do you decide how much credibility to give someone on a political thread based on their number of jumps?



No, just speaking of credibility in general. Most public forums don't offer a credibility profile option like DZ.com. Apparently some people feel much more comfortable commenting behind the mask but that is their prerogative.[:/]












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I just can't believe the paper published such drivel, where do you live anyway? It's in my profile Do they have nothing better to do than print this man's rather limited understanding of world affairs?



Oh, that explains it;) Seriously though, was this a large paper that published this? I mean, for or against you'd think they could find a letter with a little more thought put into it.

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The Green Sheet



Boy, that's digging deep.

The Greensheet is a local advertising/exchange paper; they do garage sales, cars for sale, merchandise, the like. It's free, and the commentary is what they can get given their obviously extravagant budget.

I like the Weekly World News myself :). I found out about them in Men In Black:D

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The Green Sheet



Boy, that's digging deep.

The Greensheet is a local advertising/exchange paper; they do garage sales, cars for sale, merchandise, the like. It's free, and the commentary is what they can get given their obviously extravagant budget.

I like the Weekly World News myself :). I found out about them in Men In Black:D

Wendy W.



Thanks for the info Wendy, I was wondering if I should feel dumb for not having a clue what "The Green Sheet" was.

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Also, one more point:
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This will put things in perspective:


That maybe we shouldn't have given voting rights to everybody because we're always picking crappy presidents???? That, sure, GWB is a bad president, but there have been much worse? Really, what's the point of that letter? If you want to prove that someone isn't "bad," shouldn't you focus on what they've done that's "good"?
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Coke and Pepsi are the same thing!!!



Nuh-uh, pepsi never had cocaine in it! :P

[I'm that tired of political threads and wanted to try a hijack]

As for the worst president, Woody Wilson ranks high on my list. Did his damnedest to get us into the Great War and failed, then campaigned on keeping us out, then finally managed to drag the country in based on a completely bullshit reasons. Yeah, I don't like him much.

Bush: he's not the worst but I don't rank him all that high either. I think he did well post 9/11 and in Afghanistan originally, now he seems to have forgotten it and is moving on to fleecing people just like every other politician. My big gripe with him is his opening national refuges/reserves/park just this side of the Rockies. That I don't like. I don't think his plan for the ANWR was all that bad though.
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Instead of posting this thread, couldn't we have just added on to the 5 billion existing ones out there?



This, from the guy who posts 20 threads in a day like "Tuna's Amazing Puzzle #5"?

Give me a break! :o;)



Holy hell, the world's coming to an end, if you take away that ANWR thing Kennedy said, I completely agree with the last two posts. Rapture, Armaggedon, what have you!!:o:D

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