Simply remarkable Bush bashing here -
Thought that this thread was about illegal immigration occurring on the other side of the Atlantic.
I did not know Dubya could be so potent as latently disrupt Africa and create an illegal immigration crisis 7 years after he left office.
For some people, it’s always Bush’s fault.
Truth be told, Bill Clinton was the one who really opened illegal immigrant flood gates in a last term effort to create massive amounts of new Democrat voters.
Don’t like today’s corruption?
Clinton and the democrats were it’s demon seed.
Not Dubya.
Clintons and Bushes are two sides of the same coin.
No doubt about that. But George Bush had eight years - eight full years! - to correct the situation. And what did he do about it? Well, nothing.
Now let's move on to the international scene. Bush set the Middle East on fire. He had the best of intentions, but look what happened. Had Bush not invaded Iraq, Iraq, Syria, and Libya will most probably all be peaceful places. Under brutal dictatorships, to be sure, but peaceful places. No civil wars, no streams of refugees to the West, etc.
I can't give Bush a pass just because he's a nice guy. IMHO, we absolutely must acknowledge, and learn, from his mistakes.
...and for some people he isn’t even responsible for the things he actually said and did.
“Islam is a religion of peace”
“Jobs Americans won’t do”
“Family values don’t stop at the Rio Grande”
and of course:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2004/01/08/bush-amnesty-plan-raises-immigration-concerns.html
Bush Amnesty Plan Raises Immigration Concerns
Published January 08, 2004 FoxNews.com
The massive new immigration initiative unveiled by the White House has Democrats and ethnic identity organizations accusing Republicans of election-year pandering, and has the Republican base wondering whether George W. Bush and the Republican Party has sold them out.
The initiative, which draws heavily on legislation already introduced in Congress by three Arizona Republicans, Sen. John McCain and Rep. Jeff Flake and Rep. Jim Kolbe, has two central components. It would provide a mechanism by which some U.S. businesses would be able to import an unlimited number of low-wage foreign workers, and it would allow most of the roughly 10 million illegal aliens already in the United States a means by which they (and their extended families) would be able to remain legally — and permanently — in the United States.