"The Bush Years In Perspective" (Part Five of Six)

IBD Editorials ^ | 8 June 2007 | IBD Editorials

[K-oneTexas]

In this exclusive, six-part series, we put the Bush presidency in perspective by taking a look at achievements in several key areas, including the economy, homeland security, Iraq, tax cuts and more.

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Part Five

A Gentleman In The White House

Leadership: George W. Bush has suffered more barbs than any president since Richard Nixon. His critics could never display the decency he has shown for more than seven years on the national political stage.

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Part Four The Singular Vision Of George W. Bush

The Presidency: Burdened by a Democratic Congress that can't see beyond the next election, at least the U.S. is blessed with a president with the ability to see a better future and the courage to take risks to achieve it.

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Part Three Bush's Exit Strategy In Iraq Is Victory

The Presidency: George W. Bush, obeying a U.N. mandate, set out to dethrone a mass murderer and an aggressive tyrant, expand democracy and take the war on terror to the enemy. He's done all that and more.

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Part Two Homeland Security: So Far, So Good

The Presidency: Addressing Congress just after 9/11, President Bush promised that "as long as the United States of America is determined and strong, this will not be an age of terror." Determination is what explains his perfect record protecting the homeland.

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Part One Bush's Real Record On The Economy

The Presidency: Years from now, pundits and academics will surely wonder why President Bush's greatest achievement — his stewardship of the economy — got so little notice during his time in office. Yet that's how it is.

[what's up]

The Rx giveaway even shut down the largest, most powerful lobby in DC, AARP

A major, major plus.

[Weeedley]

Why would Russia pick a fight with a battle hardened nation who just unleashed, say a bunker busting nuke that just turned the Iran underground bomb laboratory into glass to show that it means business?

[what's up]

Why would Russia pick a fight

I guess you haven't heard that Russia's economy is tightly bound up with Iran? You just destroyed a huge swath of Russia's income.

And all the other anti-US nations would prod her on.

[Weeedley]

Russia doesn't rely on Iran. They have more than half of the oil Iran has which is a lot-- 72 gigabarrels and uncounted reserves of natural gas which they are making lots of money selling at todays prices. Though Russia has done business with Iran; no way are the economies tightly bound up. Iran owes Russia millions that they cant pay, and this non payment is not bankrupting the Russians in any stretch of the imagination.
Where are you getting your wierd information?

[what's up]

Though Russia has done business with Iran

LOL. Of course they have. And lots of it. I guess you haven't the warnings Russia has already given regarding the "aggressive attitude" the US has toward Iran. Russia has a very heavy interest in developing Iran's nuclear energy program. Where have you been?

If you think Russia is just going to sit back and allow you to unleash your nuclear arsenal on her neighbor you are extremely uninformed.

That's the problem with the nuke-them-all crowd. They like to feel the testosterone rush. But they are extremely short on real strategy.