here comes the Bush haters club in 3, 2, 1. They make the Ted Cruz haters club look like fags..
“Shock and Awe”
In late 2001, or early 2002, I was talking to a former Lt. Col. in the Special Forces when he surprised me by asking me my opinion as to what the Taliban might be thinking. I told him that I thought they were in shock. He asked why. I said because they had bragged that we (the United States) should send 100,000 troops into Afghanistan like the U.S.S.R. did. The Taliban were making the mistake of thinking we would fight like the Soviets did. They did not realize they were dealing with a pissed off America. We shellacked them in a way they did not expect because we had better intelligence, greater air superiority, and greater ingenuity than the Soviets. The Lt. Col. nodded his head and told me he thought I was correct. I actually felt proud of myself. At least for a few seconds.
He did well in the first year or two, I think.
But he DIDN’T FOLLOW THROUGH.
Bush was one of the greatest presidents from after 911 until the Iraq war
This sounds like 100% BS to me. The US didn’t do — and still doesn’t do — anything to stop either the planning or the execution of terrorist acts. Planning can take place anywhere in the world and can be done on the back of a paper towel with a sharpie. Not much of an exxageration. And how possibly could US forces chasing people in the Afghan wilderness disrupt execution of a terror attack in the US? It is an absurd premise.
This is 100% propaganda. A dirty neocon warmonger lie.
Truth is that no operation can disrupt the planning and execution of acts of terror. Anyone with the brains of an average high school sophomore who could get a few thousand in funding and recruit a dozen or so volunteers could shut the US down. Literally. Shooting up malls full of Christmas shoppers in the Midwest and high school gyms in basketball season in the winter and starting forest fires all summer woujd get ‘er done. And no, you could easily avoid being arrested beforehand. Just avoid texting and emailing. Terrorists did just fine planning and executing attacks before electronic communications became all that.
Either this Sheik is too retarded to see this or this is neocon propaganda. Seems obvious to me which one it is.
I think I’m the only person in the country, save the Bush family themselves, to still like W. it saddened me to see him become so parochial this election, but he’s still a great man.
Now lookee: he first prevented a Gore presidency, then he prevented a Kerry presidency, and he turned Rumsfeld on the Toolleeebon. That has to be good for something.
Al Gore would have had Bin-laden sit in the time-out chair.
Al Qaeda and the Taliban underestimated him as badly as the press had.
Didn't it take close to one year for Congress to authorize action?
If Bush had acted with “ferocity and swiftness” he would have obliterated the grand Islamic council in Kandahar, Afghanistan led by Mullah Mohammed Omar while they were “deliberating” on surrendering over Osama bin Laden while at the same time green-glassing Mecca and hunting down the top members of the Saudi royal family and the top level Wahhabi clerics.
Like goats in lightning.
It was the American people who reacted. Not one man. Who reacted against his own citizens as rapidly as he may have against Al-Quaeda.
Seventy-five years ago this week the Japanese learned a terrible lesson: they should not have awakened a sleeping giant. It was not President Roosevelt or even the United States government as an entity. Yamamoto realized both all too late and all too soon that he was meddling with something far, far more dangerous.
Bush and his cronies did not defeat Al-Quaeda. If anything they stifled us from destroying them sooner, by pouring precious resources and personnel into another war: one we didn't need and could not afford. And in the process they diminished or outright destroyed a LOT of our rights and liberties.
Bush gets no respect or appreciation from me. He had a chance to go down as one of the truly greats and he blew it magnificently.
Winston Churchill observed that the American people can always be counted upon to do the right thing, after everything else has been tried and found to fail. Last month, the people of this country got sick and tired of doing it the Clinton way, the Obama way, the Bush way. It took them long enough but they began at last to do the right thing.
One can only imagine how much better America would have been in the aftermath of 9/11, had it leadership of the caliber Trump is already shaping up to possess.
“wrap themselves in America’s rights and laws” ....Read Valerie Jarrett and ask to have her executed.
And obama stunned through weakness and childishness.
Ref Pearl Harbor. If you didnt notice our reaction there, you dont know history and were doomed to repeat it. Fool.
Fun fact: The War in Afghanistan featured the first US Army mounted horse cavalry atttack since the Spanish-American War.
I read a book by Bob Woodward, about the 9/11 response by Bush, Rumsfeld.
My take was they took long time to act.
And then looking back, they failed to act with enough devastation, to teach the muslims to quit.
We need to level a city or two, of hundreds of thousands population.
Like Dresden, Berlin, Hiroshima, Nagasake.
I dislike both Bushes but I remember in the first few weeks or months we were really kicking their ass.
Where it all started to go wrong was when we depended on Afghanistan allies or who we thought were. When they let Bin Laden slip away it was clear we weren’t doing things right.
“I hear you, the country hears you, and soon, the people who did this will hear ALL of us.”
~ George W. Bush standing atop the rubble Sept. 15, 20001