OnYrMrk wrote:What president was ever viewed as good that sent our troops to war.
Ronald Reagan was the most recent. He was a great president, lots of accomplishments, prosperity... granted, our national debt never grew higher, but you can't have it all I suppose.
Interestingly, Ronald Reagan also declared "war on terrorism", sending bombers into Libya on a pro-active mission...
...the difference? Ronald Reagan is an honest man. He wasn't partly motivated to send those bombers to defend "family honor", he didn't lie about our reason for sending them there... and he didn't change his story as to why we sent them there when the original reason was exposed as a sham.
He also sent them on a mission that was both well planned, and fairly well executed, with a distinct start, and a distinct finish. And that included having a goal.
Common sense stuff... you would think.
Aside from the War in Iraq, what other negative thing can you say about Bush?
Holy crap... surely you can't be serious.
And "...aside from the war"?
Like that's not enough?
How about the way the war was managed, even if you overlook the scandal surrounding the entire "reason" we invaded (and the lack of a goal for being there, which wouldn't be the case if there were a reason ]something[/i]", without worrying whether that "something" is appropriate or effective, then you should have a wonderful warm and fuzzy feeling looking around you all day long.
But I'd bet you wouldn't try to take your mind off a papercut by taking out your pocket knife and sawing through one of your other fingers, right?
I'd propose the ultimate challenge - something that really shouldn't be difficult, something that really proves the complete ineptitude of our current President... name something significant that Bush
has accomplished?
It's shameful, considering that many years ago - not even that many years ago (but less and less frequently as time goes on, it seems
), we had some truly great men as Presidents...
How sad is it to even ASK the question "Well, I mean BESIDES the war, what else has he done BAD?"
You must realize how ludicrous that question even is, conceptually.
