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Was George W Bush a good president?[W:439:621]

Was George W Bush a good president?

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Re: Was George W Bush a good president?

Gipper said:
I can think of something that happened in 2001 that was more than "a small crisis". It also had a GREAT deal to do with the economic downturn.
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SERIOUSLY? 7 YEARS LATER? lol

The "turmoil in financial markets clearly was triggered by a dramatic weakening of underwriting standards for U.S. subprime mortgages, beginning in late 2004 and extending into 2007," the President's Working Group on Financial Markets OCT 2008
 
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Yeah, prosecuting the terrorists would have stopped Bush from ignoring 40+ CIA warnings from the CIA/PDB's *shaking head*
 
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tres borrachos said:
Clinton and his administration said Iraq had WMDs. So did many high ranking Democrats.
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AND none DECIDED to invade Iraq on false premises. Go figure
 
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Sorry, Clinton WASN'T the decider AND 60% of Dems voted against Bush's war of choice in Congress!
 
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Rush is that you?
 
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shrubnose said:
About 100,000 Iraqis died in Bush's war in Iraq.

Right now the relatives and fellow tribesmen of those people are looking for some payback.

Think about it.
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Iraq has about the same population as California, 100,000+ deaths and right wingers can't put in perspective what would happen after Bush invaded on false premises *shaking head*
 
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dad2three2001 said:
Yeah, prosecuting the terrorists would have stopped Bush from ignoring 40+ CIA warnings from the CIA/PDB's *shaking head*
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again.. Clinton didnt prosecute as a war.. Clinton did nothing..

are you aware the WTC was attacked prior to 9/11?
 
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dad2three2001 said:
Iraq has about the same population as California, 100,000+ deaths and right wingers can't put in perspective what would happen after Bush invaded on false premises *shaking head*
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the war was legal.. Clintons carpet bombing was not..
 
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CLINTON CUTS?

Cheney was Secretary of Defense from 1988 to 1992, he cut the army troop levels by a whopping 25% and cut the military budget annually as much as Congress is doing this year:

“Over Cheney’s four years as secretary of defense, encompassing budgets for fiscal years 1990-93, DoD’s total obligational authority in current dollars declined from $291.3 billion to $269.9 billion. Except for FY 1991, when the TOA budget increased by 1.7 percent, the Cheney budgets showed negative real growth: -2.9 percent in 1990, -9.8 percent in 1992, and -8.1 percent in 1993. During this same period total military personnel declined by 19.4 percent, from 2.202 million in FY 1989 to 1.776 million in FY 1993. The Army took the largest cut, from 770,000 to 572,000–25.8 percent of its strength.”

Those cuts came because of the end of the Cold War with the Soviet Union. When wars wind up, Mr. Cheney, military budgets wind down, as you yourself demonstrated.

Dick Cheney Broke US Military, now blames Obama for Cuts | Informed Comment
 
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dad2three2001 said:
AND none DECIDED to invade Iraq on false premises. Go figure
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Clinton carpet bombed and killed thoussands.. of inocent people
 
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Travis007 said:
the war was legal.. Clintons carpet bombing was not..
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Legal? So when did the GOP prosecute Clinton for 'carpet bombing'?
 
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dad2three2001 said:
Iraq has about the same population as California, 100,000+ deaths and right wingers can't put in perspective what would happen after Bush invaded on false premises *shaking head*
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GWB gave Iraq FREEDOM.. OBama gave Iraq ISIS
 
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Travis007 said:
again.. Clinton didnt prosecute as a war.. Clinton did nothing..

are you aware the WTC was attacked prior to 9/11?
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White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security
The DOT Status Report
White House Fact Sheet on Counter-terrorism Measures
Don't blame it on Bill Clinton
Clinton's Compartments
The Usual Suspect
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1996 Anti-terrorism Act
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"Clinton's advisors met nearly weekly on how to stop bin Laden ...I didn't detect that kind of focus from the Bush adminsitration."
Two Star General Donald Kerrick

"I don't believe any longer that it's a matter of connecting the dots. I think they had a veritable blueprint and we want to know why they didn't act on it."
Senator Arlen Specter (R-pa) (ON THE BUSH ADMIN)

"Of course Bush knew about the impending attacks on America . He did nothing to warn the American people, because he needed this war on terrorism. His daddy had Saddam and he needed Osama. His presidency was going nowhere. He wasn't elected by the American people, but placed in the Oval Office by the conservative Supreme Court; the economy was sliding into the usual Republican pits and he needed something to hang his presidency on. This guy is a joke. His silence was sleazy and contemptible."
Lt.Colonel Steve Butler
 
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The U.S.-led coalition in Iraq dropped far more bombs during the sunset of Bill Clinton�s presidency than under President George W. Bush in the run-up to war in Iraq, RAW STORY has found.

Between 1999 and 2001, the U.S. and British-led air forces in Iraq dropped 1.3 million pounds of bombs in response to purported violations of the no-fly zones and anti-aircraft fire from Saddam Hussein.

The details of the bombings, provided by the British ministry of defense to parliament in February 2002, markedly revise a picture painted by critics of Bush�s airstrikes and that of a piece RAW STORY carried last week.

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The nature of the strikes differed; Clinton�s bombings were part of what some dubbed a �war of attrition,� an attempt to degrade Hussein�s hold on power without resorting to full-scale war, whereas Bush�s bombings appear to have been part of a concerted effort to clear the way for a ground invasion.

A sweeping attack, conducted in January of 1999, rained down 25 missiles on Iraqi soil, killing civilians. Clinton said the attack was in response to four planes violating the no-fly zones.

Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair authorized air strikes on more than 100 days in 1999, sometimes several times per day. The bombings were ostensibly in response to Hussein�s refusal to allow UN weapons inspectors into the country, though critics alleged the move was aimed at deflecting attention from impeachment

The Raw Story | Clinton bombing of Iraq far exceeded Bush's in run-up to war; Bush 'spikes of activity' questioned
 
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thanks for proving my point.. Clinton did not proescute as a WAR and did nothing.. facts show this and prove my point... thanks for your help to prove my point..
 
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Yep.

Clinton probably created the vile hatred towards the USA that produced the current terrorists.
 
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Travis007 said:
thansk for proving my point.. Clinton did not pproescute as WAR and did nothing.. facts show this and prove my point
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Right, because GOP fought EVERYTHING he wanted to do. Weird you don't understand that...
 
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dad2three2001 said:
Right, because GOP fought EVERYTHING he wanted to do. Weird you don't understand that...
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no that was Barry Obama Soetero that fought everything that GWB put in place with the HSA.. now Obama takes credit for it..
 
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See that dip between 1990 and 2000?
 
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Lord of Planar said:
Yep.

Clinton probably created the vile hatred towards the USA that produced the current terrorists.
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exactly.. Clinton like Obama do not have the guts to try to sway hearts and minds on the ground.. wars are about their popularity here .. and Obama is only worred about how to LOSE our Gains
 
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BUSH'S RUN UP TO WAR? LOL Then what happened?

"The nature of the strikes differed; Clinton's bombings were part of what some dubbed a war of attrition, an attempt to degrade Hussein's hold on power without resorting to full-scale war, whereas Bush's bombings appear to have been part of a concerted effort to clear the way for a ground invasion."

Oh that explains it
 
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American said:


See that dip between 1990 and 2000?
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Yes, the one Cheney gave US as the cold war ended, like today's military is supposed to cost US less BECAUSE we aren't in a 'war'? You do know there was supposed to be benefits to winning the cold war right?
 
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dad2three2001 said:
Right, because GOP fought EVERYTHING he wanted to do. Weird you don't understand that...
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It makes no sense and is not fact based.. how can I understand it?
 
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