ANN COULTER: BUSH'S AMERICA: 100 PERCENT AL-QAIDA FREE SINCE 2001 (Chicago Trumps Iraq)

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[Syncro]

BUSH'S AMERICA: 100 PERCENT AL-QAIDA FREE SINCE 2001
June 11, 2008


In a conversation recently, I mentioned as an aside what a great president George Bush has been and my friend was surprised. I was surprised that he was surprised.

I generally don't write columns about the manifestly obvious, but, yes, the man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents.

Produce one person who believed, on Sept. 12, 2001, that there would not be another attack for seven years, and I'll consider downgrading Bush from "Great" to "Really Good."

Merely taking out Saddam Hussein and his winsome sons Uday and Qusay (Hussein family slogan: "We're the Rape Room People!") constitutes a greater humanitarian accomplishment than anything Bill Clinton ever did -- and I'm including remembering Monica's name on the sixth sexual encounter.

But unlike liberals, who are so anxious to send American troops to Rwanda or Darfur, Republicans oppose deploying U.S. troops for purely humanitarian purposes. We invaded Iraq to protect America.

It is unquestionable that Bush has made this country safe by keeping Islamic lunatics pinned down fighting our troops in Iraq. In the past few years, our brave troops have killed more than 20,000 al-Qaida and other Islamic militants in Iraq alone. That's 20,000 terrorists who will never board a plane headed for JFK -- or a landmark building, for that matter

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[Wolfstar]

Regarding your list of issues (and similar lists from others), you confuse disappointment with disagreement on public policy. There are a number of things I disagree with this or any president on. But President Bush has not disappointed me. This is due to the following reasons:

1. I do not think any president is the be all and end all of government and public policy.

2. I believe way, way too much is expected of the modern presidency.

3. I know that GWB, like all presidents before him (and those to follow) are human beings subject to the same failings as the rest of us.

4. I do not expect to agree with any president (or politician) 100% of the time.

5. On September 11, 2001 and its immediate aftermath, to include the anthrax attacks, President Bush faced one of the four worst crises this nation ever faced (the War of 1812, the Civil War, and Pearl Harbor being the others). He handled himself with immense dignity, humanity, class and sure-footedness. He prevented the country from spiraling out of control economically, socially, and in other ways. He took the fight to our enemies and has never wavered. He inspired us in one of this nation's darkest times. Everything else pales in comparison, so I can never be disappointed in this man. I am not a sunshine patriot nor a fair-weather friend. Too bad the same cannot be said for those on the Right who vilify him just as much, and with equal venom, as those on the Left. They are who have disappointed me, not GWB.

[Wolfstar]

But, hey, if you've never been disappointed by the anything that the guy has done (or hasn't done) and consider him as close to Presidential perfection as we're ever going to get, more power to you.

As I said to another poster a moment ago, there is a difference between disappointment and disagreement. I disagree with this or any president on a range of issues. I am not disappointed in GWB even when I disagree with him. Perhaps that's outside your capacity to understand, but whatever.

[ladyinred]

Wow, finally someone says what needed to be said! A keeper! Thanks.

[Wolfstar]

It appears that Ann had three major concerns Bush Administration policies. In seven years.

Perhaps that wee little key word "major" went over your head. She's had others. But that's OK. She's as free as the rest of us to disagree with our elected officials. However, Coulter (and others of her ilk) does more than disagree, and nothing she can ever say or do in the future will erase what she did since 2005. Her excusers and enablers might be fooled by her attempts to backtrack now, but I never will.

[Kaslin]

Indeed there are and if, God forbid Obama gets elected you can be 99.99999 percent sure that we will have at least one more terrorist attack which will make 9/11 look like child play

[x]

Presidents have chances to prove themselves really worthy and competent -- to shut up their critics with masterful action.

Of course, the critics don't actually keep quiet, but Ronald Reagan had a way of making them irrelevant.

That's just what Bush hasn't done and that's why there's so much debate and disdain and disappointment.

It's possible that history will vindicate Bush in the big picture sense, but it's not just what a President does that counts, but also the way a President does things.

The mistakes and sloppiness and annoyances along the way count for something too.

[irishjuggler]

Perhaps that's outside your capacity to understand, but whatever.

Yep, it's beyond my capacity to understand, but luckily there's no shortage of condescending folks around to set me straight.

[bill1952]

Domestically, he may be too moderate and accommodating for my tastes...

Excuse me? Moderate?? LOL!!

The man is two steps from a barking moonbat.

Global Warming
Cap and trade.
Amnesty for all illegals.
Close GITMO.
Grant terrorists access to our legal system.
End waterboarding
Voted NO to both Bush tax cuts - he has now changed that position.

Granted, he is better on defense and foreign affairs, but don't call him a moderate. - That pig won't fly.

[kellynla]

well if you think I am a “one trick pony” then you reeeeeeeeely haven’t been paying attention...as far as the recall goes, if you “butted heads” with me then you must have been one of the RINOld supporters...and what a grand Liberal ass he’s turned out to be.

[Wolfstar]

The man is two steps from a barking moonbat.

While I don't share your more strident characterization, I'm no fan of McCain and don't need to be sold on the problems with his candidacy. I didn't vote for him in the California primary.

All of that being said, however, we're stuck with him as the only realistic anti-Obama choice this November. Should he win, I firmly believe Obama will be a disaster from which this nation will never recover. Carter almost did us in, because his policies almost single-handedly sparked the anti-American jihadist movement. Obama is a thousand times worse that Carter.

[Wolfstar]

...but luckily there's no shortage of condescending folks around to set me straight.

I wouldn't throw around complaints that someone is being condescending to you, when you do a pretty good job of being condescending yourself.

Now that we've finished this little kabuki dance, where has it gotten us but nowhere.

[Wolfstar]

as far as the recall goes, if you “butted heads” with me then you must have been one of the RINOld supporters

Actually, no, Kelly. I was opposed to the recall, itself. I thought -- and still think -- it was a huge mistake. Just one more case of the Right shooting itself in the foot by taking the heat and focus off the Democrats in our Marxist legislature. You and too many others would not listen to someone like me who said the recall was a mistake. Y'all raced pell mell to get it on the ballot thinking you'd pull an end-run around the election process and would get an arch-conservative elected, and then -- surprise, surprise -- Schwarzenegger stepped in. Now what? Hmmmm???

[silent_jonny]

On September 11, 2001 and its immediate aftermath, to include the anthrax attacks, President Bush faced one of the four worst crises this nation ever faced (the War of 1812, the Civil War, and Pearl Harbor being the others). He handled himself with immense dignity, humanity, class and sure-footedness. He prevented the country from spiraling out of control economically, socially, and in other ways. He took the fight to our enemies and has never wavered. He inspired us in one of this nation's darkest times. Everything else pales in comparison, so I can never be disappointed in this man. I am not a sunshine patriot nor a fair-weather friend. Too bad the same cannot be said for those on the Right who vilify him just as much, and with equal venom, as those on the Left. They are who have disappointed me, not GWB.

I didn't even bother reading what Ann Coulter wrote. Your post above says it all :)

[RonDog]

However, Coulter (and others of her ilk) does more than disagree, and nothing she can ever say or do in the future will erase what she did since 2005.

Check out her archives:

www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/archives.cgi

Ann blasts EVERYBODY. (Almost.) That's her job!

Sooner or later, when you write DOZENS of weekly columns as Ann does, you find SOMETHING that you don't like -- even about your friends.

She attacked President Bush FAR less -- and far less aggressively -- that she attacked his opponents.

And, for the record, there are NO other's of Ann's "ilk." :o)

[saminfl]

There are traitors among us.

But they haven't been able to do anything to us yet.

[Wolfstar]

I didn't even bother reading what Ann Coulter wrote. Your post above says it all.

Hi Jonny. You didn't miss anything. Coulter is busy whitewashing what she did to help trash GWB these last several years since his reeelection. Many on the Right have done an enormous amount to demoralize Republican voters, demonize GWB, and help bring about a likely Obama presidency. To forgive is divine, but I am not divine.

[driftdiver]

My apologies weegee, I misread your post and thought you were saying President Bush had a duck and cover strategy. Guess the term bubba wasn’t clear enough for me.

[Wolfstar]

Check out her archives

No thanks. Although I largely agree with the woman politically, I despise her beyond measure. There is more to life than politics, after all.

And, for the record, there are NO other's of Ann's "ilk." :o)

I know you said that accompanied by a smiley. However, there are plenty of her ilk, starting with Pat and Bay Buchanan, that dip-squat Peggy Noonan, and too many others to list here. Coulter's only distinguishing characteristic is that she uses the lowest scarcasm and over-the-top schoolyard cat-fight rhetoric to make her points and stand out from the crowd.

[pissant]

Bush deserved to be hammered hard for amnesty and Harriet Myers. That does not mean you can’t appreciate his character and CIC duties, especially in comparison to most of the idiots in DC.

[bill1952]

Thank you for your post. - I understand your position.
- bill