Thanks for your considerate reply.
Me? I think Bush has violated every precept of good government. Domestically, he's done nothing good and has done considerable damage to gains made in areas of labor, health, environment, education and other important issues.
America's highways are no longer enjoyed by a family traveling in the American Dream; today, they're corporate highways. The collective farm we used to complain about in the old Soviet Union has been replaced today in America by corporate farms, this at the demise of the small family farmer.
Folks today are buying prescription drugs from Canada and Venezeula is now providing fuel assistance to US citizens. Illegal immigrants are now cheaply working trades jobs once prized by many in our nation: fishing, carpentry, painting, floor sanding, masonry, landscaping etc. Bush loves the cheap labor but not the responsibilities that go with it. This, while most good jobs head offshore.
Think Katrina, and then some.
Internationally, Bush failed to ask the primary question in the aftermath of 9/11: Why did this happen? And what international education and self-critiqing plan did he put in place to counteract this terrorist behavior, to try and influence or minimize anyone who would want to commit such acts.
The day following 9/11 the French introduced a resolution into the United Nations calling for a worldwide campaign to stop terrorism. The day following 9/11 Bush had the whole world behind him--never before had America share such prestige on a world stage: the whole world wanted to help.
He correctly identified the Taliban as a threat and got the whole world behind him to deal with that. Indeed, he could have nailed Osama bin Ladin. But he didn't. For domestic polical reasons he had to shape himself into a 'war president' as American history had shown that an American war president was always reelected. And we've all suffered so he could do this!
To the contrary, Bush has been extremely ineffective in combating terrorism. Instead his policies have increased terrorism. Most of the Muslim world is young and very impressionable. Very young. Very impressionable. Their influences are not subjugated to a 'glorified' America. Quite the contrary. Historically, to them, America (and the British) is viewed as a 'bully,' always against common Muslim interests, unless it becomes a matter of extracting oil (Middle East) or precious metals (Asia/Africa).
I suppose the clearest example of how Bush has failed is the election of Hamas among the Palestinians; the strong showing, literally out of nowhere, of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the realization that the new regime in Iraq will become a radical theocratic brand of Shite government closely aligned with Iran, supposedly one of Bush's prime three evildoer nations.
Moreover, Bush made a mockery of the UN (ridiculing even the French who originally introduced the UN resolution to combat terrorism worldwide--and even spying on the UN Security Council members. To become the 'war president' Bush bribed his way into a false coalition, losing the original one he had when going against the Taliban. Most have now left this coalition, and his failures in diplomacy, at best, gained only wayback backbench support from the UN for Iraqi initiatives.
I've written much above and haven't even yet broached the subject of Bush-Cheney lies. I suspect you know what they are.
Indeed, America--the world--will be much to the better the sooner Bush and Cheney are out of office. Any known shortcuts to impeachment would be more than welcome not only by most people in this country, certainly by most people in the world. |
