Posted on 02/10/2010 11:14:31 AM PST by Chuckmorse
Yes George W. Bush was a great president. Not because of his domestic policy, which was only slightly less liberal than previous modern administrations in terms of growing the size and scope of the government, but because of his far sighted and revolutionary foreign policy. By liberating Iraq from Saddam Hussein and by striking a deadly blow against the Taliban in Afghanistan, George Bush set off a chain reaction in the Arab and Islamic countries, one that will inexorably propel those oppressed societies forward on a path toward democracy and modernity. Genuine progress may not become apparent this year, or even by the end of the decade, but the job that Bush started will eventually come to fruition because he was right.
If there is one positive thing that could be said at this point about President Barack Obama it is that he is continuing, at least in deed, the Bush policies in the Middle East and for this he should be commended.
George Bush will eventually go down in history as the liberator of millions of people from the brutal jackboot of Islamic dictatorship and jihadist theocracy. The peoples of the Arab and Islamic countries deserve to be free. Franklin D. Roosevelt provided the leadership that led to the liberation of Europe from Nazism and Ronald Reagan led the way in the liberation of Russia and Eastern Europe from Communism. Likewise the Bush policy was to establish human rights in a part of the world that has few. Bush was carrying out an American tradition that harkens back to the founding of the American Republic and the revolution against the British tyrant.
General Ulysses S. Grant called for "unconditional surrender" in the war against the southern insurrection and by doing so Grant set the terms of that war, contrasted the political and moral cause of the Union with that of the Confederacy, and turned the tide toward victory for the Union and the emancipation of the slaves. FDR also called for the "unconditional surrender" of the Nazis while attending a conference in Casablanca in 1942. By doing so he galvanized the moral force of the allies and sealed the fate of Hitler. Reagan led in the collapse of communism by calling the Soviet Union the "evil empire" and exhorting Mr. Gorbechev to "tear down that wall."
On the 5th anniversary of the jihadist attack on September 11, 2001, Bush addressed the nation stating "we've learned a great deal about the enemy. We have learned that they are evil and kill without mercy but not without purpose. We have learned that they form a global network of extremists who are driven by a perverted vision of Islam...a totalitarian ideology that hates freedom, rejects tolerance, and desposes all dissent."
Bush defined the enemy when he stated that " The war against this enemy is more than a military conflict. It is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century, and the calling of our generation...We face an enemy determined to bring death and suffering into our homes...If we do not defeat these enemies now, we will leave our children to face a Middle East overrun by terrorist states and radical dictators armed with nuclear weapons...If we yield Iraq to men like bin Laden, our enemies will be emboldened."
"The terrorists fear freedom as much as they do our firepower. They are thrown into panic at the sight of an old man pulling the election lever, girls enrolling in schools, or families worshipping God in their own traditions. They know that given a choice, people will choose freedom over their extremist ideology. So their answer is to deny people this choice by raging against the forces of freedom and moderation. This struggle has been called a clash of civilizations. In truth, it is a struggle for civilization.
Chuck Morse is co-host, along with patrick O'Heffernan, of the radio program "The Fairness Doctrine" heard on WDIS and WNSH-Boston and is the author of "The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism" soon to be published by World Net Daily Books.
Yeah, really love the way he defended our southern border against the millions of invaders and colonists streaming across it./sarcasm
Regards,
Ever hear of the media? The Dems had a steady drumbeat of everything Bush does is wrong - even when it was far from wrong. The media was a willing accomplice and have contributed more to your attitude towards him than you probably care to admit. He accomplished some very good things and was until the end a strong President. He had some bad policies but many good ones. He was a great President. Not nearly as great as Ronaldus Maximus, but great.
How can you leave Lyndon Baines Johnson off this list? He's easily the worst President of the 20th century.
His "Great Society" programs destroyed the black nuclear family, replacing the black father with a welfare check, leading to an explosion in single-parent families and an inner-city crime wave the likes of which this country had never seen before but now accepts as part of everyday life.
Immigration "reform" enacted during his administration opened the floodgates to third-world immigrants, transforming America from a "melting pot" of European cultures to a tossed salad of Balkanized enclaves of unassimilated immigrants and their offspring who eschew the Western traditions of the elightenment, freedom and democracy.
There's there's gun control, Vietnam, and the list goes on and on.
Obama has some pretty big shoes to fill if he ever aspires to be the worst President in my lifetime. Carter doesn't even come close. At least he gave us Reagan. I'd be hard-pressed to think of a man who screwed this country up more than LBJ.
Here’s the problem. By attacking Iraq, GWB helped to make Iran into a regional and soon-to-be world power. Iraq was the major counter-poise to Iran in the Middle East, and now Iraq is controlled by the Shia who were largely raised in Iran during the Sadaam era.
By mismanaging both the Iraq war and the American economy, Mr. Bush was largely responsible for the political backlash that gave us a Democratic Congress and leftist Barack Obama as President.
GWB may have put us into peril, because under no circumstance will Barack Obama attack Iran’s Weapons of Mass Destruction, which are very real in Iran but largely turned out to be a fantasy in Iraq.
We have our hands tied behind our back because of Barack Obama being in the White House. Let’s all pray that we can survive until the 2012 Presidential election when we will get a new Commander in Chief.
A great Commander in Chief, a great tax cutter, a great defender of the unborn and a good and decent man with several blind spots domestically. But a good man and I would have been elated had he been my CIC rather one I had for a couple of years, namely Jimmy Carter.
I disagreed with much of what Bush did and with lots of
what he didn’t get done.
I give him massive credit for prosecuting the war on terror at full throttle, full commitment, boots on the ground and sticking to it.
I give him massive credit for two excellent Supreme Court picks that will pay dividends for decades in overturning liberalism in law.
The one thing he had to get right, he did - protecting us at full throttle in a very challenging time.
ampu
20-30 years from now, George Bush will be remembered positively for his foriegn policy. Mark my words.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/291738-5
Tony Blair testimony in 3 parts...on the Iraq war and Saddam’s “fantasy” WMD.
I am happy with the supreme court justices that made it to the bench, and the liberation of so many people, these things may prove great later...only time will tell
Right, we should have simply sat pat while Hussein and Ahmanutjob both acquired nuke capability.
And in the mean time we could simply have allowed Hussein to continue to give sanctuary to the worst or the worst terrorists including Abu Abbas, Abu Nidal and Abu Zarqawi. Then we could wait for the next attack on America while Hussein paid bounty for the heads of American and Israeli citizens.
The Middle East was a boil that needed lancing and Bush had the balls to do it. No thanks of course to folks like you who just never could see the writing on the wall or gave a crap that the Abbas' of the world had already killed Americans like Leon Klinghoffer and were now basking in the horror that was Baghdad.
George W. Bush profligate spender who missed the opportunity to end the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden in Tora Bora, mishandler of the level of federal debt, in charge of a justice department that tried innocent fighting men for so called war crimes, lover of ear marks and illegals....you bet a great president. /s
I guess you have a point. Furthermore, LBJ didn't fail. On the contrary, he was quite successful at screwing up the country, a fact not lost on Johnson himself in his decision to spare us a second full term.
I would still put Jimmy “The Peanut IQ” Carter, Harding, Buchanan, and LBJ ahead Barry Obama in worst catagory.
It seems to me that Iran is a much more dangerous threat to America than Iraq, with the no-fly zone, ever was.
By attacking Iraq, we are now helpless against Iran, at least until 2012.
It’s not now either/or nor was it ever. Both were dangerous to American interests, only one was importing terrorists and paying bounty on American and Israeli heads out in the open. Not to mention invading their neighbors and exterminating Kurds.
Yeah I agree with you there. I wasn't considering illegal immigration defense, which was non existent.
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