Bush's Place in History.

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Here is a more comprehensive list, but no complete of Bush's failure as President both Domestic And Foreign Policy Failures this is only through as indicted Feb 20, 2006, this will all be part of his legacy

Who's Counting Bush's Mistakes and Failures?
By Stephen Pizzo, News for Real. Posted February 20, 2006.


Given how ambitious and wide-ranging the incompetence of this administration has been, it's high time we started keeping track of its many failures.

Ralph Waldo Emerson said it best, "The louder he spoke of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." And no administration in U.S. history has spoken louder, or as often, of its honor.
So let us count our spoons.
Emergency Management: They completely failed to manage the first large-scale emergency since 9/11. Despite all their big talk and hundreds of billions of dollars spent on homeland security over the past four years, this administration proved itself stunningly incompetent when faced with an actual emergency. (Katrina Relief Funds Squandered)
Fiscal Management: America is broke. No wait, we're worse than broke. In less than five years these borrow and spend-thrifts have nearly doubled our national debt, to a stunning $8.2 trillion. These are not your father's Republicans who treated public dollars as though they were an endangered species. These Republicans waste money in ways and in quantities that make those old tax and spend liberals of yore look like tight-fisted Scots.
This administration is so incompetent that you can just throw a dart at the front page of your morning paper and whatever story of importance it hits will prove my point.
Katrina relief: Eleven thousand spanking new mobile homes sinking into the Arkansas mud. Seems no one in the administration knew there were federal and state laws prohibiting trailers in flood zones. Oops. That little mistake cost you $850 million -- and counting.
Medicare Drug Program: This $50 billion white elephant debuted by trampling many of those it was supposed to save. The mess forced states to step in and try to save its own citizens from being killed by the administration's poorly planned and executed attempt to privatize huge hunks of the federal health safety net.
Afghanistan: Good managers know that in order to pocket the gains of a project, you have to finish it. This administration started out fine in Afghanistan. They had the Taliban and al Queda on the run and Osama bin Laden trapped in a box canyon. Then they were distracted by a nearby shiney object -- Iraq. We are now $75 billion out of pocket in Afghanistan and its sitting president still rules only within the confines of the nation's capital. Tribal warlords, the growing remnants of the Taliban and al Qaeda call the shots in the rest of the county.
Iraq: This ill-begotten war was supposed to only cost us $65 billion. It has now cost us over $300 billion and continues to suck $6 billion a month out of our children's futures. Meanwhile the three warring tribes Bush "liberated" are using our money and soldiers' lives to partition the country. The Shiites and Kurds are carving out the prime cuts while treating the once-dominant Sunnis the same way the Israelis treat the Palestinians, forcing them onto Iraq's version of Death Valley. Meanwhile Iran is increasingly calling the shots in the Shiite region as mullahs loyal to Iran take charge. (More)
Iran: The administration not only jinxed its Afghanistan operations by attacking Iraq, but also provided Iran both the rationale for and time to move toward nuclear weapons. The Bush administration's neocons' threats to attack Syria next only provided more support for religious conservatives within Iran who argued U.S. intentions in the Middle East were clear, and that only the deterrent that comes with nuclear weapons could protect them.
North Korea: Ditto. Also add to all the above the example North Korea set for Iran. Clearly once a country possesses nukes, the U.S. drops the veiled threats and wants to talk.
Social Programs: It's easier to get affordable -- even free -- American-style medical care, paid for with American dollars, if you are injured in Iraq, Afghanistan or are victims of a Pakistani earthquake, than if you live and pay taxes in the good old U.S.A. Nearly 50 million Americans can't afford medical insurance. Nevertheless the administration has proposed a budget that will cut $40 billion from domestic social programs, including health care for the working poor. The administration is quick to say that those services will be replaced by its "faith-based" programs. Not so fast...
"Despite the Bush administration's rhetorical support for religious charities, the amount of direct federal grants to faith-based organizations declined from 2002 to 2004, according to a major new study released yesterday....The study released yesterday "is confirmation of the suspicion I've had all along, that what the faith-based initiative is really all about is de-funding social programs and dumping responsibility for the poor on the charitable sector," said Kay Guinane, director of the nonprofit advocacy program at OMB Watch.." (More)
The Military: Overused and over-deployed.
Former Defense Secretary William Perry and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright warned in a 15-page report that the Army and Marine Corps cannot sustain the current operational tempo without "doing real damage to their forces." ... Speaking at a news conference to release the study, Albright said she is "very troubled" the military will not be able to meet demands abroad. Perry warned that the strain, "if not relieved, can have highly corrosive and long-term effects on the military. (More)
With military budgets gutted by the spiraling costs of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the administration has requested funding for fewer National Guard troops in fiscal 2007 -- 17,000 fewer. Which boggles the sane mind since, if it weren't for reserve/National Guard, the administration would not have had enough troops to rotate forces in and out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Nearly 40 percent of the troops sent to those two countries were from the reserve and National Guard.
The Environment: Here's a little pop quiz: What happens if all the coral in the world's oceans dies? Answer: Coral is the first rung on the food-chain ladder; so when it goes, everything else in the ocean dies. And if the oceans die, we die.
The coral in the world's oceans are dying (called "bleaching") at an alarming and accelerating rate. Global warming is the culprit. Nevertheless, this administration continues as the world's leading global warming denier. Why? Because they seem to feel it's more cost effective to be dead than to force reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. How stupid is that? And time is running out.
Trade: We are approaching a $1 trillion annual trade deficit, most of it with Asia, $220 billion with just China -- just last year.
Energy: Record high energy prices. Record energy company profits. Dick Cheney's energy task force meetings remain secret. Need I say more?
Consumers: Americans finally did it last year -- they achieved a negative savings rate. (Folks in China save 10 percent, for contrast.) If the government can spend more than it makes and just say "charge it" when it runs out, so can we. The average American now owes $9,000 to credit card companies. Imagine that.
Human Rights: America now runs secret prisons and a secret judicial system that would give Kafka fits. And the U.S. has joined the list of nations that tortures prisioners of war. (Shut up George! We have pictures!)
I could go on for another 1,000 words listing the stunning incompetence of the Bush administration and its GOP sycophants in Congress. But what's the use? No seems to give a fig. The sun continues to shine in this fool's paradise. House starts were up in January. The stock market is finally back over 11,000.
But don't bother George W. Bush with any of this. While seldom right, he is never in doubt. Doubt is Bush's enemy. Worry? How can he worry when he has no doubts?

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I could go on for another 1,000 words listing the stunning incompetence of the Bush administration and its GOP sycophants in Congress. But what's the use? No seems to give a fig. The sun continues to shine in this fool's paradise. House starts were up in January. The stock market is finally back over 11,000.
But don't bother George W. Bush with any of this. While seldom right, he is never in doubt. Doubt is Bush's enemy. Worry? How can he worry when he has no doubts?

You need to be more original with your criticisms and less influenced by miss represented facts. Lost in the many facts you present is the application of respect that is due every president. Bush has done his best and does receive credit for many successes from fair minded people. My opinion is that the liberal minded people who blame Bush for all the evils in the world, including the bleaching of the oceans (how trait), think that the American people do not know that the Democrats have been equally responsible for things that have gone wrong in the world as the Republicans.

Most of American failures in the world have been world wide failures. The USA has not failed alone but other countries have too. when it comes down to the facts, it will not make any difference who is president if Iran decides to nuclear bomb Israel. Any wise person must be against Iraq having WMD. We can not alone in our opposition to WMD in Iran, although you say we have no allies standing with us in foreign affairs.

It is a myth that our allies have turned against us. Our friends are still our friends. The fact is that most counties in the world are opposed to democracies and have allied with the liberals to exert their power. What we see is the liberals in foreign countries ranting their failed political philosophies in the press. Bush did not turn the world against America. The liberal world has always been against our freedom. American liberals are too engrossed with taking their country back that they can not get their heads out of the sand.

Exp., did France change from liberal philosophies to conservative philosophies in one day? No, the conservative people tired of the liberal criticism of the USA while thugs were burning their country down under the name of tolerance of liberal views. Soon, I believe the complete world will tire of political correctness of the liberal philosophies and for the sake of survival will cast the "holier than thous" out.

It scares me that the liberals think they are going to accomplish all that is on their agenda. Ironically, if they do, it will cost Americans their freedoms and the middle class will perish in a classless society offered by Obama and his liberal, communistic and social co-hearts. I for one am not willing to give up the capitalistic philosophy for the complete exchange to socialism.
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You need to be more original with your criticisms and less influenced by miss represented facts. Lost in the many facts you present is the application of respect that is due every president. Bush has done his best and does receive credit for many successes from fair minded people. My opinion is that the liberal minded people who blame Bush for all the evils in the world, including the bleaching of the oceans (how trait), think that the American people do not know that the Democrats have been equally responsible for things that have gone wrong in the world as the Republicans.

Most of American failures in the world have been world wide failures. The USA has not failed alone but other countries have too. when it comes down to the facts, it will not make any difference who is president if Iran decides to nuclear bomb Israel. Any wise person must be against Iraq having WMD. We can not alone in our opposition to WMD in Iran, although you say we have no allies standing with us in foreign affairs.

It is a myth that our allies have turned against us. Our friends are still our friends. The fact is that most counties in the world are opposed to democracies and have allied with the liberals to exert their power. What we see is the liberals in foreign countries ranting their failed political philosophies in the press. Bush did not turn the world against America. The liberal world has always been against our freedom. American liberals are too engrossed with taking their country back that they can not get their heads out of the sand.

Exp., did France change from liberal philosophies to conservative philosophies in one day? No, the conservative people tired of the liberal criticism of the USA while thugs were burning their country down under the name of tolerance of liberal views. Soon, I believe the complete world will tire of political correctness of the liberal philosophies and for the sake of survival will cast the "holier than thous" out.

It scares me that the liberals think they are going to accomplish all that is on their agenda. Ironically, if they do, it will cost Americans their freedoms and the middle class will perish in a classless society offered by Obama and his liberal, communistic and social co-hearts. I for one am not willing to give up the capitalistic philosophy for the complete exchange to socialism.

That was supposed to be a quote from somesome else, and by th time i got back to try and edit it the edit option was gone
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Obama s a Communist, weel wold you rasther see changed or have our ecoomy keep sliding way, 1 of the 3 Republcans that voted for the Stimuls Bill said "I do not like it at all, but somethingdone is better then nothing done"

Our Freedoms will not be lost, if they were we would have most likely lost them during the psas 8 years, warrant less wiretaps, ect ect
We are not going Socialist, he already said Banks for example under his term in office WILL NOT be Nationlized
And interingly enough there was a buiness in Chicago called Nation Glass" they mde windows dorrs ,ect, they shut down 4 weeks ago went bankkrumpt, but a seatle company said with the stimuls package he was able to buy them out and rehire all the emplyess thsat lost their jobs only 250 byt that is 250 less that live off the government. Obama could very well be a complete failure, but keep in mind he has only been in offce 4 weeks as oppsed tohis predessor who was for 8 years you can't compare the 2 and the house andsenate want to pass another bill, both are controlled by DEMOCRATS. Obama hasalready said if the bill cometyo his desk he will veto it
I believe in giving people achance andwith only 1 monthunder his belt ina 4 year term is is entiled to sometime 6-12 months to realy show not only what he can do but how it will effect everyones everyday life, some people may be suprised, but I bet those 250 are glad to be back at work, it is a very tiny begining but that i also a starting point and Ialso do not believe for 1 second ANYONE in Congress is a Communist

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You need to be more original with your criticisms and less influenced by miss represented facts. Lost in the many facts you present is the application of respect that is due every president. Bush has done his best and does receive credit for many successes from fair minded people. My opinion is that the liberal minded people who blame Bush for all the evils in the world, including the bleaching of the oceans (how trait), think that the American people do not know that the Democrats have been equally responsible for things that have gone wrong in the world as the Republicans.

Most of American failures in the world have been world wide failures. The USA has not failed alone but other countries have too. when it comes down to the facts, it will not make any difference who is president if Iran decides to nuclear bomb Israel. Any wise person must be against Iraq having WMD. We can not alone in our opposition to WMD in Iran, although you say we have no allies standing with us in foreign affairs.

It is a myth that our allies have turned against us. Our friends are still our friends. The fact is that most counties in the world are opposed to democracies and have allied with the liberals to exert their power. What we see is the liberals in foreign countries ranting their failed political philosophies in the press. Bush did not turn the world against America. The liberal world has always been against our freedom. American liberals are too engrossed with taking their country back that they can not get their heads out of the sand.

Exp., did France change from liberal philosophies to conservative philosophies in one day? No, the conservative people tired of the liberal criticism of the USA while thugs were burning their country down under the name of tolerance of liberal views. Soon, I believe the complete world will tire of political correctness of the liberal philosophies and for the sake of survival will cast the "holier than thous" out.

It scares me that the liberals think they are going to accomplish all that is on their agenda. Ironically, if they do, it will cost Americans their freedoms and the middle class will perish in a classless society offered by Obama and his liberal, communistic and social co-hearts. I for one am not willing to give up the capitalistic philosophy for the complete exchange to socialism.
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The quote I posted was pushlished by a Right Wing Oranization called the RightWing Way is it NOT a Democratic publication and i simply postd what they had posted, no necessarily my views but view none the less

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The quote I posted was pushlished by a Right Wing Oranization called the RightWing Way is it NOT a Democratic publication and i simply postd what they had posted, no necessarily my views but view none the less

What I said was:"You need to be more original with your criticisms and less influenced by miss represented facts." The rebuttal you offer proves my point but, like I said, you confuse the facts looking thru liberal eyes. You are preaching socialism (communism) whether you know this or not. Liberals need to go ahead and admit this fact. It is not against the law to do so and it is your right of freedom of speech. What is difficult to understand is your reluctance to admit that you hold a left wing philosophy in spite of any facts to the contrary that the world is not totally liberal.