I'm sticking with Bush. Bush remains world's best hope

Calgary Sun ^ | May 21, 2006 | Paul Jackson

[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.

[LucyJo]

"I'm sticking with Bush, Blair, Howard and other true leaders of the western democracies."

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BTTT!!!

[ChadGore]

Viva Bush !

[LucyJo]

Amen! God bless him.

[raybbr]

You make me angry, ray. You make me angry because of your irrational hate for one of the finest men to ever occupy the Oval Office. You make me angry because you take a single issue and hate him for it, and deny the reams of evidence that he has been, and still is a moral, honorable, strong and capable leader during one of America's darkest hours.

I would be a lot more open for discussion with you if you didn't charactarize what I write as hate. It really is very un-Christian and insulting. As I have posted before, it is impossible for you to know what is in my heart.

I do not hate George Bush. I am critical of him and some of his policies.

I have never seen anyone post here that they hate George Bush. So, for you and many others, to continually post that we hate George Bush for criticizing some of his policies is incredibly cheap and small. It reduces any discussion to the exchanges you and I have had.

You are the one that first claimed that I hate George Bush. Again, I do not. But, don't let that get in the way of your hate.

You once told me that "Hatred will do that to even a good mind." I can see by your constant attacks against me that has proven to be true.

Let me say also, for the most part I have been playing you. When you first accused me of hate we had a little bit of fun posting to each other. But, you couldn't let it go. You had to keep up the attacks and since you made it clear that you despise me for posting facts mixed with opinion, it put me on the defensive. And, I admit, I chose to push your buttons. For that I apologize. But, I will not apologize for my opinions on Bush. If you don't like them try to sway me with a reasoned argument - not name calling and assuming something about me that is not true.

[snugs]

Law and Berlusconi cannot said in the same sentence LOL

[ohioWfan]

I would not characterize it as hate if you didn't if you didn't make such vile accusations, ray. I deal with many people who are 'critical' of the President, and very few come across with the bile that you have exhibited.

I don't hate you. Not at all. I hate the evil things you have said about a man I know to be honorable, but I don't hate you. I do feel very sorry for you, and others like you who waste your emotional energy attacking him, and those of us who have a deep and fundamental respect for him.

As I said.........it is best if I try as hard as I can to ignore you, because what you say is so offensive to anyone who respects this President and Commander in Chief, that it isn't worth what it does to us to try to defend him from the unfair attacks you level on him.

You don't have to apologize for the vile things you have said.........but you do have to live with what you have done. And if you can do that, so be it. Only you and the Lord know what's going on in your soul, ray. It's not my place to do any more than pray for you and hope that you find peace.

[prairiebreeze]

Rationality has been a slim commodity on FR lately....

[Gondring]

I would be interested in knowing whether the persecution of reservists you are describing is system wide, cofined to your base/post, or is simply something you have perceived individually.

Now maybe you can see my point. If one were to point out (publicly) such a situation is widespread, one would come under attack for "demoralizing" actions.

[raybbr]

I would not characterize it as hate if you didn't if you didn't make such vile accusations, ray.

What accusations? Be specific.

[ohioWfan]

Once again, I apologize for any thing I have said that went over the top here ('chicken' fits in that category). If I did, it was sin, and I regret it.

I do not regret the respect, support and admiration I have for a President who has led us through dark and dangerous times, and who loves this country to the point of putting his life on the line for it.

I will never apologize for being able to admire a man that I don't always agree with because of his character and commitment to doing what is right.

We are at war..........not you against the President and his supporters, but ALL of us against an evil enemy trying to destroy us.

I just happen to believe that we should be working together, and those of you who are tearing us apart are fighting the wrong war. The enemy is NOT President Bush.

Best wishes, ray. I WILL leave you alone now.

[Lakeshark]

You are the one that first claimed that I hate George Bush.

I just read a few of your posts. Derision, bitterness, and what I would call a good dose of what looks like plain old hatred just ooze from what you say towards Bush.

And you are calling her irrational?

Time for a cold shower friend............

[Miss Marple]

No, I don't think one would. No one considers pointing out the infighting in the Pentagon "demoralizing", and this would be the same sort of thing.

Now if one said this was the policy of the administration, that would be a whole different kettle of fish.

Some of this probably does go on, but I think it is probably the result of cliques on certain bases.

[Lakeshark]

Good rant.

I remember well those 8 years.

These folks think the Dems will fix the border?

And they say we are irrational.................

[ohioWfan]

Off the top of my head...........on my thread trying to discuss illegal immigration with respect and decency, you came on it to attack the President, posting a misleading picture and an accusation that he loved Mexico more than the USA (preposterous and ugly), and then when I posted this picture to show the truth.....

.......of him weeping at a service for those lost at the Pentagon on 9/11, you reposted it with a horrible comment that he looked like it 'hurt him to hold the flag.'

Now maybe, in your angry frame of mind you thought that was acceptable, but for any of us who remember 9/11, the loss of life, and the leadership that he showed in the face of great danger, and the great love of country that he displayed, the comment was nothing short of vile.

The fact that you found it acceptable reveals your level of hate. Yes, ray. Hate. And for me, it was the end of any respect I ever had for you.

[bray]

How in the world does a Pro-Bush article get posted on Free Republic?? Hope you're wearing asbestos underwear.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[raybbr]

You made accusations of hate before I responed to that pic. You have made accusations of hate every time you have responded to my posts about Bush's "new America" speech. Where is the hate in that or any other post. Where are the "vile accusations, ray."?

[Gondring]

It's far more widespread than one might think. That you don't hear much of it is both a testament to the endurance of these people, as well as a disservice to getting the problem solved.

[raybbr]

I just read a few of your posts. Derision, bitterness, and what I would call a good dose of what looks like plain old hatred just ooze from what you say towards Bush.

Another deity heard from? Do you claim to know what is in my heart or is that only for God to know?

[ansel12]

"Or maybe with 75 million quasi educated poor immigrants and riots in the streets, at that point we won't have enough time to remember Bush at all. Sorry to point out that the stakes on the immigration issue are show stoppers, but I live in a destination for illegals and we are already being swamped. "




I agree with you in a way.

The 1965 immigration law started the end days of the U.S.

We are in a probably irreversible process of being colonized by the third world, and we will be picked apart like a turkey carcass over the next century, after that, we will be different nation, with little connection to the United States of America.

[ohioWfan]

One cannot be healed unless one recognizes his problem and seeks the cure.

No more conversation, ray. The facts are there for everyone to see. I don't need to say more, and I choose not to.