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.
That reply is just plain silly!!!!!!
"States rights usurped. Creeping big brother. Out of control entitlement programs. Crazy constitutional gymnastics. Obliterated fiscal restraint....the list goes on. "
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And NONE of this happened BEFORE Bush, President Bush personally created all that in the last few years by executive orders, right? Everything is BUsh's fault, including the Great Flood, right?
And who would they have been exactly?
OK, I am sure Al Qaeda is just this benevolent organization, and they would never hurt us. I guess you think 9-11 never happened, Bush just made it up to get his approvaL ratings up. (/sarcasm)
"If the WOT fails, every other issue will me moot."
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PRECISELY.
I agree with this too!!!!
Excellent article.
I have said repeatedly that I am a Bush supporter.
I just don't support the RINOS and what they have done to the Republican party.
May God Bless George Bush.
Don't do that. Where did I even imply any of that?
Thank you!!! We both greatly appreciate your support!!!
If it's any consolation, neither of us watch, read, or listen to MSM. (That's torture!!) :)
I think what I am trying to say is that we're both rather far to the right, and both of us have very high standards for our president (any president, now and in the future). That's all.
Well, if the Dems get into power in Congress, you can look forward to this:
Democrats signal oversight of Bush would increase.
If they regain a majority, probes by Congress may be in the cards
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3876343.html
Michigan Democrat Rep. John Conyers Jr.'s Web site features his call for investigations of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and President Bush's authorization of wiretapping without court warrants.
Conyers says either could justify Bush's impeachment or censure.
It is one of numerous demands by frustrated Democrats, out of power in Congress for several years, for investigations of the Bush administration.
But with the growing prospect that they could regain control of at least the House in the November elections, Democratic leaders are signaling that they intend to increase oversight of the White House if they win a majority — and use their subpoena power to put the administration on the griddle.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California has indicated that high energy prices, faulty intelligence used to justify the Iraq war and the National Security Agency's surveillance program would be investigated.
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The Dems would hamstring President Bush's ability to protect us.
No, it's the truth.
What is silly is for anybody to suggest that Bush is the world's best hope, that is silly, very silly.
As one military wife to another, if you don't support your husband's mission, you are not supporting your husband. I appreciate your husband's service (I am also a veteran) and your sacrifice but you stand in Pres Bush's shoes for ONE hour.
Well, do you think Kim Yung Il, Chavez, or Ahmadinejad is?
Or perhaps the new communist leader of Italy, Prodi?
I honestly wish she could, because I have no doubt that she would do a better job.
How does one become part of the solution?
I hardly think so. Our 'friend' Maxie is a human being just like the rest of us dwellers on planet Earth.
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