I assume you mean "Good For You, Sam....."
I don't worship Bush. But I don't worship myself as a know-it-all, either.
I see clearly that the President had choices between bad and worse, given to him by a corrupt, broken government bureaucratic intelligence structure and state dept infrastructure that is completely unreformable, IMO.
I am not ashamed to say that I don't think I could do a better job of making the decisions he has made about what to do vis-a-vis the "axis of evil."
Unlike you, I don't even think there was a set of decisions that could be made back then, now with 100% hindsight that would put us in a better position today.
That's not worship, that's being smart enough to know I'm not omniscient.
You can make excuses for yourself, and you can make excuses for George W. Bush, but what you’re overlooking Sam is that it doesn’t take an intellect or an IQ the size of Mt. Everest to understand and comprehend the threat(s) that are facing our Nation. The average American most certainly *can* comprehend it.
Even the most simple minded oaf understands that if you leave your back door (i.e., our southern border) undefended, unprotected and unlocked, that you might as well post a sign inviting thieves, killers, rapists, terrorists, every kind of human scum to waltz right in and have their way with whoever is in the house, and take whatever there is of value.
Here we are in year 6 of GWB’s second term, and there have been all kinds of alleged security enhancements made when it comes to air travel, but our southern border remains as undefended as the aforementioned back door. And the increasing amount of crime, be it murder, DUI/uninsured wrecks caused by illegal immigrants, rape, child molestation, dope dealing, all of that constitutes a solid body of evidence that our President is not doing his job when it comes to securing the borders of our Nation. He can put any spin on it he wants to and so can you, but the fact remains that even when it comes to the authorized border fence legislation that Bush signed, only a token amount of that fence has been built, and the illegals continue to flood in from Mexico.
You don’t have to be a political science major, or even a college graduate to understand that this is a fundemental failure on the part of the Administration to defend the citizens of the United States. Why bother with more stringent passport requirements (which are beginning to look more and more like one more cash grab by the Feds), when there is no sense of urgency to shut down the countless illegals coming across the southern border 24 hours a day?
Now if you want to talk about Iraq, our President allowed himself to be dragged through that insane U.N. song and dance which bought Saddam Hussein enough time to get his WMD out of Iraq, and into Syria. It also gave the Baathists more time to prepare for the low level ‘asymetrical’ sort of warfare we are now seeing employed against our troops in Iraq, with a big ol’ assist from al Qaeda, Iran, and others.
And guess what? One reason we’ve got terrorists pouring into Iraq is because once again, there has been a failure to *secure the borders* of IRAQ, I detect a pattern here, how about you?
One does not have to be ‘omniscient’ to see that when it comes to prosecuting the War on Terror, that for all the hoo-hah and the initial successes that we have witnessed, the President has fumbled the ball and now it’s late in the 4th quarter and the enemy is threatening to blitz, get it? (the enemy being terrorists on the outside, combined with the Democrat fifth column, operating on the INside)
Now in addition to our military response(s), the United States could have already put a major squeeze on the likes of Syria, Iran, AND North Korea by informing each and every nation that has diplomatic relations with us, that IF they have any economic or diplomatic relations with those rogue states, that the United States will break OFF all diplomatic relations with THEM. If the global community had been forced to choose between standing with despots like Asshat in Syria, Ahmadinejerk in Iran, and Comrade Chia Pet in North Korea, or staying in the good graces of Uncle Sam, the majority of those nations are going to cut ties with those rogue nations, and the ones who go the other way?
They make it easier for us to determine who is ‘with us, and who is with the terrorists’ (that was a great policy that President Bush enunciated, a shame he didn’t follow through with it).
Don’t underestimate yourself Sam, I’m willing to bet that you most likely could have done a better job as President than George W. Bush.