The Treatment of Bush

[RipCity]

Earlier this year, 12,000 people in San Francisco signed a petition in support of a proposition on a local ballot to rename an Oceanside sewage plant after George W. Bush. The proposition is only one example of the classless disrespect many Americans have shown the president.

According to recent Gallup polls, the president's average approval rating is below 30% -- down from his 90% approval in the wake of 9/11. Mr. Bush has endured relentless attacks from the left while facing abandonment from the right.

This is the price Mr. Bush is paying for trying to work with both Democrats and Republicans. During his 2004 victory speech, the president reached out to voters who supported his opponent, John Kerry, and said, "Today, I want to speak to every person who voted for my opponent. To make this nation stronger and better, I will need your support, and I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust."

Those bipartisan efforts have been met with crushing resistance from both political parties.

The president's original Supreme Court choice of Harriet Miers alarmed Republicans, while his final nomination of Samuel Alito angered Democrats. His solutions to reform the immigration system alienated traditional conservatives, while his refusal to retreat in Iraq has enraged liberals who have unrealistic expectations about the challenges we face there.

It seems that no matter what Mr. Bush does, he is blamed for everything. He remains despised by the left while continuously disappointing the right.

Yet it should seem obvious that many of our country's current problems either existed long before Mr. Bush ever came to office, or are beyond his control. Perhaps if Americans stopped being so divisive, and congressional leaders came together to work with the president on some of these problems, he would actually have had a fighting chance of solving them.

Like the president said in his 2004 victory speech, "We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us. And when we come together and work together, there is no limit to the greatness of America."

To be sure, Mr. Bush is not completely alone. His low approval ratings put him in the good company of former Democratic President Harry S. Truman, whose own approval rating sank to 22% shortly before he left office. Despite Mr. Truman's low numbers, a 2005 Wall Street Journal poll found that he was ranked the seventh most popular president in history.

Just as Americans have gained perspective on how challenging Truman's presidency was in the wake of World War II, our country will recognize the hardship President Bush faced these past eight years -- and how extraordinary it was that he accomplished what he did in the wake of the September 11 attacks.

The treatment President Bush has received from this country is nothing less than a disgrace. The attacks launched against him have been cruel and slanderous, proving to the world what little character and resolve we have. The president is not to blame for all these problems. He never lost faith in America or her people, and has tried his hardest to continue leading our nation during a very difficult time.

Our failure to stand by the one person who continued to stand by us has not gone unnoticed by our enemies. It has shown to the world how disloyal we can be when our president needed loyalty -- a shameful display of arrogance and weakness that will haunt this nation long after Mr. Bush has left the White House.

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[Shapecity]

He belongs behind bars.

 

[RipCity]

He belongs behind bars.

Based on what?

 

[Shapecity]

Authorizing warrantless surveillance of Americans.

 

[porky88]

I don't think he belongs behind bars or anything like that, but it's not like the republicans treated Bill Clinton that well. Bush has been a bad president. I posted this on a different forum. Why are conservatives defending Bush? He's a bad President. Republicans have had bad presidents before as have Democrats. They've both have had good Presidents too. I'm hardly a republican, but I like to see their party go in the right direction. Two good parties are better than one or maybe none in my opinion and I think they should look forward for a new leader.

 

[Mamba]

Authorizing warrantless surveillance of Americans.

Nothing wrong with that. People want to be safe--they have to be willing to give up their freedoms.

 

[Shapecity]

Nothing wrong with that. People want to be safe--they have to be willing to give up their freedoms.

It violates the 4th Amendment.

How do equate being free when you're under constant surveillance? In other words I need to give up my freedoms in order to have freedom.

 

[Mamba]

In order to be completely safe, yes.

 

[#1_War_Poet_ForLife]

Nothing wrong with that. People want to be safe--they have to be willing to give up their freedoms.

Sounds a lot like the after effects of the 7 Years War.

 

[RipCity]

I understand your point of view Shape but in all reality if your not a terrorist you really don't have much to worry about.

 

[speeds]

A little early to start sugarcoating this turd, isn't it?

 

[Chutney]

I understand your point of view Shape but in all reality if your not a terrorist you really don't have much to worry about.

Its scary how much this reminds me of '1984.'

 

[DaRizzle]

I understand your point of view Shape but in all reality if your not a terrorist you really don't have much to worry about.

http://scatablog.blogspot.com/2007/12/innocent-man-detained-at-guantanamo-for.html

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031125.wxkhadr1125/BNStory/International/

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=db769857-49f3-4002-81b0-6a9c19a7e929

-- McClatchy Newspapers, whose 31 titles include the Miami Herald and the Kansas City Star, unveiled the timely results of an eight-month investigation into the stories of 66 of the 501 prisoners who have been released from Guantánamo since the prison first opened on January 11, 2002.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-worthington/report-on-ex-guantanamo-p_b_107728.html

Yeah, nothing to worry about here......and that was only with 2 min of research


You calling me an absolute idiot for correcting the definition of Jihad is making so much sense now. Ill be nice and just say I disagree with everything you posted within this thread....big time

Viva la Bush!

 

[DaRizzle]

Here is a Major General who was there in Kuwait during the Iraqi occupation...Just one of many stories

Preface to Broken Laws, Broken Lives

By Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, USA (Retired)

Maj. Gen. Taguba led the US Army's official investigation into the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal and testified before Congress on his findings in May 2004.

This report tells the largely untold human story of what happened to detainees in our custody when the Commander-in-Chief and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture. This story is not only written in words: It is scrawled for the rest of these individuals' lives on their bodies and minds. Our national honor is stained by the indignity and inhumane treatment these men received from their captors.

The profiles of these eleven former detainees, none of whom were ever charged with a crime or told why they were detained, are tragic and brutal rebuttals to those who claim that torture is ever justified. Through the experiences of these men in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, we can see the full scope of the damage this illegal and unsound policy has inflicted - both on America's institutions and our nation's founding values, which the military, intelligence services, and our justice system are duty-bound to defend.

In order for these individuals to suffer the wanton cruelty to which they were subjected, a government policy was promulgated to the field whereby the Geneva Conventions and the Uniform Code of Military Justice were disregarded. The UN Convention Against Torture was indiscriminately ignored. And the healing professions, including physicians and psychologists, became complicit in the willful infliction of harm against those the Hippocratic Oath demands they protect.

After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts, and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.

The former detainees in this report - each of whom is fighting a lonely and difficult battle to rebuild his life - require reparations for what they endured, comprehensive psycho-social and medical assistance, and even an official apology from our government.

But most of all, these men deserve justice as required under the tenets of international law and the United States Constitution.

And so do the American people.

...but what does he know...He was only there

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So yeah...Bush can choke to death on my schlong for all I care...but that would be getting off easily