I feel a rant coming on, well, more of a question really as well as an observation.
My observation being that (and this is just my opinion of what I’ve seen and heard) Whenever I find someone, be they a politician, actor/actress or just about anyone else, that I admire and think highly of, it seems I am in the minority in my opinion of that person. I speak of Former President George W. Bush. now, I may be somewhat naïve about a lot of things, but I really had and still have good vibes about him and think he was, while not the greatest president we ever had, but he wasn’t the worst one either. he did his best, no better or worst than anyone else who’ve occupied the White House. Yet he’s looked upon as being the vilest and most evil thing since Satan! I don’t get it? I mean, here is an American citizen who did his duty fro eight years, for better or worst, for his country and when faced with bullies, thugs and terrorists and the like, he didn’t back down, yet I get folks still saying he did nothing after 9/11/2001.
I don’t get it. I think he was fantastic, I had this naïve notion that he was more popular than I find he really is. Reality really sucks!
I get the notion also that this little rant is going to be so flamed, LOL! well, I needed to vent my frustration about this and this tagline I have now will stay up longer than the others did. I may be an anglophile, and Part Canadian but I know what I think and it’s never stupid.
Well, I guess I put my foot in my mouth ONCE AGANI!!!
A lot of people go with what’s popular and don’t think beyond the moment. I’m not a fan of Bush’s “compassionate conservatism” or his profligate spending. But I don’t understand ANY attacks on his invasion of Afghanistan or Iraq. If anyone remembers, when his father stopped at the Iraqi border during the Gulf War the Democrats screamed at him for not finishing the job. The Democrats were screeming for Saddam Hussein to be removed because he was such a monster. He had violated sanctions, UN restrictions, a no-fly zone, and several other nasty things.
But the minute people from the U.S. started getting hurt Bush was the bad guy. It’s as if we thought we could just waltz in and tell them to behave and waltz out again. We lost fewer people in the entire Iraq war than we did in some training missions during WWII. But we tired of it too quickly and we didn’t like wounded warriors coming home.
I agree with you 100% about Bush’s soul and motives. I think he was doing what he thought was best for the country and the world at the time. And I think if he read your rant he’d say, “That’s OK, Pippin. The people need a scape goat and I’m available. They’re not hurting anyone but themselves. Save your upset for things that really matter.”
But I’ve never met him. It’s just my opinion.
This is the Undead Thread. We stay away from politics, as there are so many other threads to cover it all, but we do allow people to vent, here, and we don’t judge.
You will not be flamed. We don’t do that, here. This is probably the safest place to be on FR, and we do care what our denizens think and feel.
While we discuss politics and religion, we try very hard to keep it at discussions, and not let it escalate. Which is why we seldom discuss those two subjects here. This is the place to come when you need to get away from the craziness of other threads.
Well, now we have our government doing everything it can to ensure we have a “Beslan” happen here.
*sigh*
How long until the Kenyan man-child is out of office?
I liked President Bush, too.