George W. Bush - a mixed bag if there ever was one.
Morally conservative and tough on defensive issues. He put the Islamoterroists back on their heels and they still haven't recovered (Give Obama time...). He also nominated some good SCOTUS Justices. He also pushed for lower taxes.
However, paradoxically, he regularly dissed the Constitution with fair distain and grew government and spending to historic heights. Politically and economically, he was a liberal, thinking government was the answer.
His weaknesses will always be exploited by the leftist idiots who will ignore the fact that he set the terrorists back on their heels.
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Nonsense.
Everyone from Bill Clinton, to Algore to Harry Redid all swore that Saddam had WMD’s even before Bush took power. We have these people on tape declaring that Saddam had WMD’s.
Heck the CIA themselves assured Bush that Saddam had WMD’s.
The fact that no WMD’s were found, doesn't change those facts, nor is it due to any “fakery” by Bush.
Problem is, “W” did fake the WMD thing. He wanted at Iraq any way he could. The libs have him on that one. The truth was in some ways was a relative thing for Mr. Bush.
George W. Bush - a mixed bag if there ever was one.
Morally conservative and tough on defensive issues. He put the Islamoterroists back on their heels and they still haven’t recovered (Give Obama time...). He also nominated some good SCOTUS Justices. He also pushed for lower taxes.
However, paradoxically, he regularly dissed the Constitution with fair distain and grew government and spending to historic heights. Politically and economically, he was a liberal, thinking government was the answer.
His weaknesses will always be exploited by the leftist idiots who will ignore the fact that he set the terrorists back on their heels.
11 posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2010 9:31:35 PM by Jim 0216
The Clintons first perpetrated that Saddam had WMD....but nevermind facts...
For that statement alone, you are an idiot.
I guess you forgot about all the years between the Gulf War and 2001, when Saddam was at war with us, constantly trying to shoot down our planes (while Clinton was groping and getting serviced and generally ignoring Iraq). Financing Palestinian suicide bombers, not to mention his gassing of the Kurds.
Bush was operating under the assumption that every other countries intelligence were operating under...that is, Saddam had WMD's before, and since he wasn't big on following treaties he himself signed, he probably still had some.
Go tell your BS to people who are as equally gnatwitted as you.
BS.
Intel dating back to the mid 90s under Clinton and from countries all over the world indicated an active WND strategy. More importantly, Saddam refused to comply with the UN rules 19 or so times. He had benign guys like ‘chemical ali’ on staff.
Yes, Bush just made it up for no reason. Jeez.
No, the problem is, Jim0216 is so eaten up by Bush Derangement Syndrome that he believes what the liberals want him to believe.
Maybe but almost everyone in the Intelligence community was convinced that Saddam and Iraq had MSD’s at some point and very quietly after the invasion they found some.
The real truth may never be known fully.
But Saddam and that brood of wild dogs that were his sons needed to be put down.
George Bush did not fake the WMD thing, no matter what you think you know, what you read. There is no conclusive evidence that he faked anything. That sort of casual overstatemnt of fact, is all to common nowadays. Again, I am sure you have something that you call evidence, and there the argument would start, but fact is. There is no evidence that George Bush faked the WMD thing. None. Had there been he would have been impeached. Period. He would be prosecuted NOW, if that were true. So, please lets be real.
I try to be civil on this forum, but you are utterly ignorant.
BEFORE Bush was sworn in, Clinton, Gore, Hillary, Albright and Clinton-appointed CIA Director George Tenet ALL stated unequivivcally that Saddam had WMD including an active nuclear program. And no western intelligence agency disagreed with that.
STOP believing Matt Damon and the Hollywood Congress of Emoting Imbeciles. Do some research.
>> Problem is, “W” did fake the WMD thing.
Strange. I thought Bush warned of the imminent danger of Iraq “acquiring” WMD, not necessarily possessing.
The libs have him on that one.<<<<
BS!
Bill Clinton: Clear Evidence of Iraqi WMD Program
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0f5u_0ytUs
John Kerry saying he found WMD in Iraq
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH93UlGHBfk&feature=related
Gore To Bush: You Ignored Saddam’s Terrorist Ties!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h6gehCPvpk&feature=related
WMD Quotes from Democrats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnjcofMFHsA&feature=related
I think you give him too much credit. To me he appears an ultimate politician: it's all about victory. And, when victory came, he had no vision --- on any dimension, save privatization of social security --- to utilize that victory. Hit righ-hand man is an epitome of the same: Karl Rove can count votes by county but has absolutely no notion of strategy, let alone mission. Whereas for Dems Big Government is a notion, a vision and mission, for Bush and Rove it was a device for buying votes. Bush's utmost complacency on closing the borders stems from the same root: buying (Hispanic) votes.
Wrong.
You're a moron.
Of course Saddam had WMD.
He proved he had them.
He used them.
He was hanged for using them.
“Problem is, “W” did fake the WMD thing.”
I guess what you are saying is it does not matter that all of our intel agencies were convinced for years before the war that Iraq had WMD? It does not matter that politicians such as Gore and both Clintons were convinced Sadam had WMD and were saying the same things as Bush years before he became President? It does not matter that Sadam actually used chem weapons against his own people? All that matters is Bush lied, right?
Democrats on WMD's
"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line." President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program." President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
"Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face." Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998
"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983." Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998
[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs." Letter to President Clinton, signed by Sens. Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others Oct. 9, 1998
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998
"Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."; Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999
"There is no doubt that ... Saddam Hussein has reinvigorated his weapons programs. Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programs continue apace and may be back to pre-Gulf War status. In addition, Saddam continues to redefine delivery systems and is doubtless using the cover of a licit missile program to develop longer-range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies." Letter to President Bush, Signed by Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL,) and others, Dec, 5, 2001
We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction." Senator Kennedy, 9-27-2002
"We know that he has stord secret supplies of biological and chemcial weapons throughout his country." Al Gore, 9-23-2002
"He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do" Rep. Henry Waxman (D, CA), Oct. 10, 2002
"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members ... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons." Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002
"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction." Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL), Dec. 8, 2002
"[W]ithout question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his contin ued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ..." Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003