George W Bush --- Opinions!

[totalmotorcycle]

Ok, we need a popular topic, try this one...

George W Bush...

--- Love him or Hate him?


We want your opinions!!

Mike.

P.S. Please no flaming each other, everyone has an opinion, right or wrong.

[totalmotorcycle]

Why not, I'll start it off...

Well, I don't always agree with what Bush Jr. does in the world... wait a second... I have yet to agree with his foreign policy! But there could be a first, you never know!

It seems that 51% of people loved him in the election though...

Mike.

[JJ]

let me see

WMD - Wepons of Mass Desdruction found - 0

got WDM info from 'Inteligence' - Can you spell O-X-Y- M-O-R-O-N (can I emphasize the "MORON" part?)

Lives lost - Iraqi - countless
American - 1500+
(God rest their souls)

Iraqi homes destroyed 1000's

children injured in war 1000's
children orphaned 1000's
property damage - billions
US war deficit - trillions

# of Osama Bin Ladens caught - 0

Haliburton profits - soaring
New friends of the US Gov't - O

I truly feel very sorry for my American friends.
- Got screwed by Alqiada on 9/11.
- Continue to get screwed by Bush's vendetta against Iraq

Whew I feel better getting that off my chest.

JJ

PS If Bush was a corporate president and brought that status report to the board of directors he'd be out on his a-s-s before the end of the meeting

[9000white]

his picture should be placed beside the word "incompetent" in every dictionary.

[houk]

He is just a corporate puppet, but an idiot as well :!:

[Toyuzu]

And the other end of the spectrum....He's the finest leader this country has had in my lifetime.

Flame away, I'm impervious. I should also mention I tired long ago of defending Mr. Bush. That practice just fans the flames I've noticed.

[9000white]

only people i know that think bush is the best leader in their lifetime have yet to celebrate their 6th birthday.

[sv-wolf]

Well our Tony seems to like your Mr Bush - so that's all right then.

I haven't voted because, much as I dislike the man's media persona, I honestly don't think the U.S.A's Mr Bush is any worse or better than its Mr Clinton or Regan or Nixon or...

All were war criminals; men who committed crimes against humanity on an inconceiveable scale. Any arguments suggesting one of them was any better than the other fade into insignificance against that, IMHO.

The funny thing is that I have to tear myself almost in half to say so. The pumped up media images I have of Bush or Clinton etc just don't seem to fit beside images of Stalin or Ceaucescu, or Bin Laden et al. It's just knowing what they did that lumps them together for me.

Still dealing with that one.

[oldnslo]

You forgot to list pity.

[sv-wolf]

You forgot to list pity.

???

Rudolf Hess loved his children, but nevertheless gassed 6,000,000 with industrial efficiency.

Compassion is the one thing that has been largely absent from the debate on all sides.

The media assumption is always that human suffering just doesn't figure when discussing power politics. And when it does open a window on the horrors perpetrated by our governments (rarely and very briefly), it treats them as a subject for vague, academic moralising that is separate from the 'real' business at hand, (or that version of 'the real business' it that it thinks is fit for our consumption).

I don't suppose Bush is any more inherently evil than anyone else: like many people in positions of great power he is probably either self-deluded or just cold. Many of the greatest butchers were unable to comprehend the significance of what they were doing.