Posted on 05/21/2006 12:53:53 AM PDT by FairOpinion
President George W. Bush strides across the world stage as much as the U.S. dominates the world's stage.
This is very good news for those of us who still believe in decency and democracy.
So forget what some slanted opinion polls say about the leadership of the 43rd president and his patriot countrymen.
Recall, Sir Winston Churchill was once one of the most detested men in Britain, then went on to save the free world.
That's Churchill's undisputed legacy.
In another era it may be Bush's legacy, too.
This past week, Australian Prime Minister John Howard, one of America's strongest allies, was in Washington on a state visit.
He was hailed by one and all in the nation's capital.
Later, Howard was in Ottawa to visit America's latest allies, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the newly elected Conservative government of Canada.
And we all know British Prime Minister Tony Blair is also one of Bush's -- and America's -- strongest allies.
Bush and America have many other allies throughout the world, too, although to read the nauseating Lib-Left news media, one would get the impression Bush is a pariah and America a rogue state.
Well, would you rather have the likes of Communist China, Communist North Korea, or Communist Cuba soldiering the world?
How about Middle East sheikdoms such as Iran, Libya, or Yemen running the show.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has already let it be known when his nation gets its hands on nuclear weapons he will use them against the Western democracies.
North Korea's president Kim Jong-il boasts he already has nuclear weapons and is building intercontinental ballistic missiles to carry them to western countries.
Back in the 1960s, Castro tried to install Soviet missiles on his island nation aimed at Canada and the U.S.
Do you honestly believe Bush, Blair, Howard and the like do not have a duty to safeguard us against these types.
Or would you rather have a stack of African dictatorships in charge -- nations ravaged by tribal warfare with their hands constantly out for billions of dollars in western aid that invariably is used to build luxurious palaces and deposited in secretive Swiss banks.
Vladimir Putin's Russia is a mess -- democracy there is in danger -- and old Soviet-style hawks want to take it back to the days of Stalinism.
Many of its non-Eastern European vassal states are in a mess, too, governed by local chieftains.
In Latin America bullies such as Venezuela's Hugo Chavez are on the rise.
Their hero, Fidel Castro, lives in luxury while his people continue to live under decades of food rationing.
India and Pakistan -- always at each other's throats, and courtesy of past Canadian Liberal regimes loaded with nuclear missiles -- pose a constant threat to that part of the world.
In Italy, we just lost Silvio Berlusconi, one of Bush's and America's best friends, in favour of left-winger Romano Ponti, and we don't know where he stands on preserving the international rule of law.
In Spain, when the Conservative government of Jose Maria Aznar fell, and Socialist Jose Zapatero came into power, the Spanish quickly capitulated to Islamic terrorist blackmail.
Thankfully, NATO and Norad are still holding together, and some perceptive Europeans leaders are even talking about a missile shield against rogue nations similar to the one proposed by Bush and rejected by weak-kneed types such as the Jean Chretien/Paul Martin Liberals.
Gutless, every one of them.
Talk about 21st century Neville Chamberlains!
So we're left basically with Bush, Blair and Howard and whatever smaller nations such as freed Soviet slave states in the European Union can pull together.
Yes, we've all read in the midst of this international war on terror that Bush has slipped this month to an all-time low in opinion polls at just 29%.
But recall that back in 1951 during another war on terror -- the attempt to prevent Josef Stalin's hordes from advancing into Western Europe and the all-out effort to save South Korea from advancing Communist North Korean forces, backed by Red China -- Democratic President Harry Truman fell to 23% in the polls.
The anti-America mobs can howl all they like, but I'm sticking with Bush, Blair, Howard and other true leaders of the western democracies.
I hope you are, too.
Great, realistic article for the whiners, though of course none of them will be able to get over their pique with whatever it is they're annoyed about, -Darkwolf377
You are really living up to your screen name. -FairOpinion to Maximus_Ridiculousness
Yes. I've been tempted a time or two to help them with their advocacy against our defense by hysterical over-emphases of other issues. - familyop in support of Danae's post (see above)
To a good article and the pseudo conservative moonbat replies -SoCalPol
My dear single issue conservative moonbat. -staytrue to Mojave
Let remind you of something that your kindergarten teacher somehow failed to get across: the world is not all about you. It's not even mainly about you. Your petty whines and single-issue prejudices are nothing but self-indulgent me, me, me. Stuck at five years old. Nobody stabbed you in the back. Your back doesn't even register. The collective back of this fine nation DOES matter, and the fine man in the White House HAS OUR BACK. Not yours, OURS. If you won't be part of the solution, at least shut up and quit trying to make matters worse. -Jedidah
His critics are toy poodles nipping at his ankles, -Darkwolf377
That reply is just plain silly!!!!!! -mariabush
People need to stop the anklebiting, -FairOpinion
Whether you realize it or not, your starting to sound like mother sheehan Your not the only one who's had someone under fire in Iraq. There's thousands of us out here and some haven't been as lucky as you and have their loved one return home to them. Please thank your husband for his service to a grateful nation, and you please quit your whining and grow up! -AmeriBrit
Whining wives who think it's all about them we don't need in the military. We're supposed to be the support so our troops can do their job without having to worry about what's happening at home. I've spent over half my life keeping the home fires burning as a military wife and mother so I know what I'm talking about, obviously you don't. -AmeriBrit
Persuasion by coercion is not effective rhetoric. If you folks think that these tactics of belittling and namecalling is somehow helping your cause, you are wrong.
But I suppose you people will keep this up until November. Then we'll have to read your posts griping that the conservatives didn't stay on the plantation after losses in the house and senate. You have no one to blame but yourselves.
I have tried to stay away from these threads (they get too vicious for my liking) but just the amount of venom dripping from you Bush supporters is beginning to wear thin.
APf
I will take your comments seriously if you can point me to the post you made cautioning the borders contingent that calling Bush supporters "open borders, globalist, traitors" was putting people off and not persuading them.
Now the policies of many of the RINOs in Congress are what I oppose.
Bravo! Well said. Lots of propaganda out there and some prefer to believe it.
"God Bless America, Our Troops and Our President."
Amen!
I don't know about 2008, but John Cornyn sounds really good.
What do you propose as an alternative?
If all of the perfect conservatives stay home, the message you send to the GOP is that you can't be counted on, and in the next election they will pay even less attention to you. That's how politicians work.
I don't much care whether you have anything to say to me or not. I am simply pointing out that the name calling on both sides is preventing people from moving towards a solution. Each side feels that moving from his position endangers his reelection. That sort of guarantees that nothing will get accomplished in Congress.
I would prefer border security before discussing guest workers, but I understand the reasoning behind the President's position.
At any rate, I have made my point. I'm going to be gone for a couple of hours, so if you reply I will be delayed in answering.
The people of Michigan would do us all a favor if they would recall John Conyers home to his just reward, and elect another to his seat in Congress.
he’s forgotten about the war on terror
I missed that.
I totally agree with you. President Bush has done great things for this country. There's a guy named Pukin Dog who has posted a bunch of threads. If you click the link next to his name, he has a HUGE list of Bush's accomplishments in office. They really help put the negative stuff in perspective.
Unfortunately, great leaders usually aren't appreciated until they're dead.
No, that's right at all. Bush never said it was his policy to give illegal aliens amnesty, if he did he wouldn’t have won. But that is exactly what he is trying to do now despite what he, you, or anyone else wants to call it. Bush is by far not even the USA's best hope, much less the world's best hope. Some people need to come to grip with reality.
It's also called TRUST .. a word no one will ever say about the Democrat Leadership
I trust President Bush with my life and the lives of my children
Well worth repeating.
Bush's actions in this war are like unto fighting WWII by disregarding the Germans while we went to war with the Japanese, well, not quite- the Germans were not flooding into our homeland at the time.
Thanks for the "ping".
Thanks for the ping, Howlin. Good article and thread to wake up to.
When we invaded Iraq, my wife asked me what would happen to Bush's then positive poll numbers. I told her that his numbers would drop, and if we were still in Iraq after two or three years, his numbers could drop very low. I knew that it would take at least five years to stabilize Iraq. It had to be done, and Bush was the man to do it. But it cost him his popularity. I'm sure he rather have a safe America than positive poll numbers.
I suppose cutting taxes and nominating conservative supreme court and federal court judges is something a liberal would do.
I still say that Bush's magnificent achievements will become more obvious over time, and he will go down in history as a great President.....while the accusations and rancor of his accusers will be all but forgotten.
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