Ann, it appears that you're posting more from a belief in Bush rather than from a reasonable analysis as to what Bush's actions have done not only to people in our country, but to people in all of the world. His presidency is and has been dangerous. Very, very dangerous.
Bush's is a propaganda-only presidency and one not spawned from of the people, for the people and by the people. He was initially elected by losing the popular vote, he was more selected than elected and his policies have enriched only the rich while making life extremely more difficult for middle and lower America. Maybe you don't see folks out there--I do!!!
The War on Iraq is not a War on Terror in Iraq. Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq made both terrorism and prospects for terrorism worse. He has improved nothing. Although you probably have great sympathy and empathy for the Gold Star Mothers of our sons and daughters who've died or been injured from Bush's actions, I don't believe you have any sense whatsoever the true hardships that are today experienced by the Iraqi people.
As I understand today, virtually every Iraqi will tell you today that they are worse under the arm of both the US and Iran than they were while under Saddam's, although harsh, but still secular society. Bush, in essence, has succeeded only in making Iran stronger and possibly to a point where a greater portion of Iraq might in the future actually become part of Iran.
How do I know this? I live in a house of musicians, one of whom is an Iraqi. His brother and father were killed by Saddam; his mother and one of his sisters killed by Bush's bombing. My friend was supposed to become executed the next day after his father and brother, but was saved when the Shiite uprising took place after the first Gulf War. He participated in the uprising against Saddam. When it ended he wound up in a refugee camp for several years, eventually being moved first to Australia and later America.
He survived. He works hard here in America and earned enough money to help get his remaining sister out of the country. She now lives in Europe. He is a graduate of the University of Basra, very intelligent and because of his deep experiences he probably enjoys the happiness of others more than anyone I've met. He has a sense and understanding of his birth nation far better than mine. And I submit it's a very sad and poignant testiment that he believes Iraq was better off under Saddam--and this is a statement coming from someone whose father and brother were killed by Saddam!
Frankly, I think Bush's War on Iraq had more to do with keeping Iraq's oil from flooding heavily US-invested oil markets and from preventing Iraq moving to a Euro economy and away from a Dollar economy; this, coupled with a belief that Israel would gain from a continued US presence in the MidEast and that, notwithstanding the deception to take our nation into the war, the victory would ultimately prove popular on the USA homefront. The War on Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with our genuine citizen concern over terrorism.
I further believe that Bush has used the issue of terrorism so as to viably maintain the lable of being a US war president, especially since war presidents have always been revered throughout US history and always reelected. And the War on Terror has indeed served as a hedge to the controversal manner in which he gained office.
Regarding immigration? Yes, it's an issue. But not one that has anything to do with the quality of the Bush presidency, and its effects on Bush's poll numbers are comparatively moot when the many other injustices he's heaped upon our citizenry are considered.
The Bush presidency, I think and hope, will be best described as the last of the stale US presidential administrations that cared not at all for the problems of little people throughout the wider world; and little, at best, for the problems of many of our own citizens.
For decades America has raped valuable resources from Third World nations while supporting dictators in the process of reaping those resource benefits. I'm hopeful that America's new president will be far different, and that the world will recognize this difference! If not, than be prepared and have your sons and daughters prepared for more war of the kind Bush has brought us.
There is indeed a reason why Bush led the recent poll as to who is the worst presidence in since World War II, and it has next to nothing to do with immigration.
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Indeed, Bush's low poll numbers are precisely because he is not of the people, by the people and for the people! |
