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Thursday, May 21, 2009 | 2:04 a.m.
In his Tuesday letter to the Las Vegas Sun, Bob Lewicki called for an end to the trashing of George W. Bush and his administration. Mr. Lewicki wants the “nonsense” to cease. But the trashing of former President Bush will go on because he’s just too easy a target, and I’ll tell you why.
Regardless of the failures, the shortcomings and the criminal acts of any former president, George W. Bush remains the only U.S. president in history to start an unprovoked war of aggression. He played on the anger and the pain of all Americans that came as the result of Sept. 11, 2001, to invade a sovereign nation. In doing so he sent thousands of young men and women to their deaths. Many more soldiers left their arms, legs and their innocence in the blood-soaked sand of a desert thousands of miles from home based on the lies told by the Bush administration.
George W. Bush’s ineptitude and incompetence were made painfully obvious in virtually every policy decision he ever made. When Bill Clinton left office, the U.S. budget was written in black ink. It is now written in Day-Glo red because of the billions of dollars spent every month to finance the war.
The Bush administration has dragged the United States into bankruptcy by using the horror of 9/11 as an excuse to invade Iraq in an attempt to clean up the mess his father started nearly 20 years ago.
Silverman's letter is the rant of a peacenik left leaning loon. More and more of George Ws policies will be revealed as being sensible as time proceeds..they already are,we see it everyday.The author even sweeps in Bush I, with his comment about the Gulf War--a case in which the entire free world joined the US to polish off the criminal regime of Saddam Hussein after his invasion of Kuwait. Hussein revealed every evidence of not only possession of WMDs but the murdering instincts to use them in previous years against the Iranians, and the Kurds. WMDs in Iraq was not some far fetched fantasy,but based on reality. This letter is just another liberal goon's sweep at George W. Get on with your life Mr. Silverman.
"When Bill Clinton left office, the U.S. budget was written in black ink. It is now written in Day-Glo red because of the billions of dollars spent every month to finance the war."
Perhaps you should pay attention to present spending instead of obsessing about the past.
Well Jeff: After that little manifesto letter of yours about how much you hate Presidents Bush 41 and 43 I guess we can all agree that 9/11 was a horror. Freedom is not free it is paid for in blood when will you bleeding heart liberals finely understand that. Also we were attack by Japan in World War II but we also went after Germany and Italy, Why because we had too they were just as bad. And now all three of those countrys are great friends of are's and many Americans love to vacation there maybe someday Iraq too. Also we did not pay off those World War II bonds for 25 years finely settling those notes in 1970.
What is reality? Angry Republicans venting on blogs and nothing else. Cry me a river, build a bridge and get over it. Or go out and do something about it.
POWERPLAY;
Vacation in Iraq! LOL, maybe in 1,500 years. Iraq will be poison to Americans forever because of Bush's little "misjudgment".
Houstonjac:
Gulf War 1, good. Iraq invasion, not so good. Admitting it should not be a 12 step program. America is moving forward again. I hope you'll join us.
It's amazing just how fast the drones of Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter will accuse someone of being a "left leaning loon" when they hear something they don't like. I pledge my loyalty to no political party - there is nothing but criminal incompetence on both sides of the aisle. The U.S. is broke because of the Bush administration. Teen-agers are dead because of the Bush administraion. Get that part right, Houstonjac.
"Silverman's letter is the rant of a peacenik left leaning loon."
Houstonjac -- then call me a loon, too.
Hiding your head where the sun don't shine does not make your opinion any more valid than Silverman's. But getting personal with names and insults just shows you to be far more immature.
Bush ruined this country and shredded the Constitution, the very document he swore a presidential oath twice to support and defend. He left it up to the rest of us to pick up the pieces he left this country in. If we don't fix this mess our children and theirs, and so on, will still be paying the present debts. Placing the blame where it belongs is righteous, particularly when the culprit has retreated to his new Dallas mansion expecting to be left alone -- a fundamental right he deprived us of.
Bush and his cronies can not be crucified enough.
In the end Bush has done the right thing and that is to go to Crawford and be quiet, I just wish the mentally ill Cheney would do the same and go to Wyoming and shut up.
politics suck , doesnt matter what side you are on. we as people lose.
Clinton left Bush a recession. Bush didn't go around saying he "inherited" the recession. He put in place policies to promote growth. Thats why we recovered so quickly after 9/11 hit, the policies were in place. Lets see how long it takes socialism to get us out of this recession. And lets see if we ever get an exit strategy for Afghanistan.
rusty, what bizarro world do you live in? bush inherited a surplus and a relativly healthy economy which he then proceeded to destroy.
We as a people and as a nation have more than enough to worry about with this 'recession' and all its accoutrements without obsessing about the past. We cannot change it. Obama and company are doing more than enough damage to this country NOW, and more of us should worry about THAT.
All I see and hear and read on an almost daily basis is more jobs lost and more debt piled on us. I want to know where the thousands of jobs are we have been promised and where the changes are that will make us stronger and better as a nation. Where is the transparency O promised? It seems to be all focused on the past and none of it on the present, where O promised it would be. We're being slowly taxed to death and our government seems poised to take over public sectors they should not be involved in, and we are not informed of it until AFTER it happens. Scary stuff!
Today Obama tried to explain his Gitmo and torture issues and spend a large part of his speech just attacking Bush again.
Obama expressed his irritation with having to deal with the Bush war on terror and wasting his administration's resources.
Obama said ""the decisions that were made over the last eight years established an ad hoc legal approach for fighting terrorism that was neither effective nor sustainable - a [Bush]framework that failed""
""the problem of what to do with Guantanamo detainees was not caused by my decision to close the facility; the problem exists because of the [Bush] decision to open Guantanamo in the first place."
""Now, over the last several weeks, we have seen a return of [Pelosi] the politicization of these issues that have characterized the last several years. I understand that these problems arouse passions and concerns.
"They should.
"We are confronting some of the most complicated questions that a democracy can face.
"But I have no interest in spending our time re-litigating the policies of the last eight years."
""As we do so, we are acutely aware that under the last [Bush] Administration, detainees were released only to return to the battlefield."
""I say that we need to focus on the future.
"I recognize that many still have a strong desire to focus on the past. When it comes to the actions of the last eight years, some Americans are angry; others want to re-fight debates that have been settled"The Congress can review abuses of our values, and there are ongoing inquiries by the Congress into matters like enhanced interrogation techniques. The Department of Justice and our courts can work through and punish any violations of our laws."
"We see that, above all, in how the recent debate has been obscured by two opposite and absolutist ends.
"On one side of the spectrum, there are those [Obama] who make little allowance for the unique challenges posed by terrorism, and who would almost never put national security over transparency.
"On the other end of the spectrum, there are those [Bush] who embrace a view that can be summarized in two words: "anything goes."
So why is it that Obama in actions has only made marginal changes to what Bush was doing on January 20th?
LV4Life: The recession hit in late 2000, the press didn't put it on the front page every day cause they were carrying Gore's water. You can google it if you know how to do that.
rusty57 re: "The recession hit in late 2000, the press didn't put it on the front page every day cause they were carrying Gore's water."
What "water" would that have been? The "Gore Lies" "water"? The "he's wearing earthtones" "water"? Or a multitude of OTHER "water"?
The FACT (something you apparently are loathed to accept) is that the SCLM (So-Called Liberal Media) not only carried Bush's water, they PURIFIED it for him. How many times did they ask him about his apparent lack of a driving record prior to age 40? Or the host of businesses he tanked? Or the insider trading that, despite the SEC claiming the contrary, was never really investigated? Or his "illustrious war record" (still missing over a year and NO ONE ever asked him about it)? Or his fake cowboy accent/act (he DID grow up in Kennebunkport which is in the GASP! liberal northeast)?
One last inconvenient fact for you: The ACTUAL recession (and NOT the one BushCheneyCo started talking up beginning December 13, 2000) began in March 2001. Ask any REAL economist.
Excellent post Justmy02!
PatriciaLV: Why do I think you still have a Gore-Liebermann bumper sticker?
Would a REAL economist only be ones with your point of view? I got Nov 2000 for a recession but i see you believe that the air got let out soon after Gore-Al lost the recount and launched the evangelical enviro movement. Hmmm.
Would the SCUM falsify W's military papers in 2004? (Hi Dan Rather!)
i like how people talk economics and then try and place the blame on the presiding president. You blame Bush for recking the economy back in 2001, so based on that, we should blame Obama for the current recession?
get real. just as you would blame Bush jr and not Obama for this recession, the recession in 2001 started in Clinton's time.
look at the facts, not some bogus economist of which anyone can just proclaim themselves to be to make their case stronger for themselves.
rusty: I don't believe in bumperstickers (this includes the silly made-in-China magnetic ones so many people seem to be fond of), so you'd be wrong yet again.
By "real economists" I meant NOT (e.g.) the Fox "news" crowd, not the AM radio crowd, etc. I meant what I said.
BTW, the only thing re Rather that was falsified was the actual memo. Notice how no one EVER questioned its contents?
Sorry you also seem to feel the Earth (and its denizens) are something to be used & tossed when done. I don't. I believe even people like you are worth saving.
Have a nice day.
Same old arguments; another day.
Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, Rice and a few select others should be arrested and tried for war crimes, crimes against humanity, breaking constitutional law, and for all of the other crimes they committed, just like any other citizen.
All defenders of them need not respond, just get psychiatric help as soon as possible.
Is it really one person's fault? Isn't this all just a culmination of misjudged leadership regardless of administration? You can kvetch and whine all you want. It's here: embrace it.... step into it....understand it....deal with it.
"only U.S. president in history to start an unprovoked war of aggression"
The left is full of ingorant people.
It is tiresome that the keep saying words like criminal, war criminal, breaker of US Constitution when so many of their own Democratic Presidents have done 1,000x worse than Bush.
The War of 1812 was purely a land grab attempt for the US to take Canada away from the British.
The Indian Wars of the late 1860's were also a attempt to grab land from the Indians.
The Spanish-American War of 1898 is were the US had very little national interest at stake.
The Philippine-American War was for the US to firmly establish its dominance over that occupied country.
FDR via an oil embargo put Japan into box of which it had to declare war or run out oil. FDR had tons of intelligence that Japan had no intention to negotigate peace but was totally on a war path. He is the father of the modern day Democratic Party. Funny, you none of these lame kool-aid drinkers call him a war criminal. Hypcorites? Yes, of course they are.
The great LBJ, generated the Gulf of Tonkin incident to used as excused to ramp up the Vietnam War (of which Kennedy starting the ball rolling). Any bad words about LBJ???? Nope....the kool-aid drinkers are PURE HYPOCRITES.
PatriciaLV: Okay, you seem a little older, how about a "Nuck Fixon" bumper sticker, magnets extra.
rusty: OMG LMAO. Please put a beverage warning on those things, 'K?
How about if we agree to disagree?
Have a safe weekend.
(Just as an FYI .... I first registered to vote in 1978 -- now you know how old I am LOL -- and I registered as an Independent. Hasn't changed in 30+ years.)
Ah, another blast of nance's patented nonsense, straight from the horse's arse.
I see you've added a little revisionist history there. What the heck else would we expect.
Your vocab is very, very limited, nance. For future reference, try to come up with something valid that does not include any of the following:
"Hypocrites, ignorant, lame, kool-aid drinkers".
If you can. I know learning new words is hard.