Jackalope wrote:You have some things a little wrong Gam. Here let me help you out there. Clinton enjoyed the results of Regans trickle down economics that everyone poo pooed when he enacted it. As a result Clinton was able to raise taxes thru the roof on the the middle class that he claimed he was protecting. This coupled with him and his friends ccloseing more military bases and putting thru more military cut backs then ever before in history. He basicly desimated the armed forces all you need do is look at troop numbers during his 8 years and you'd see that. All Clinton did in office was inherit what Regan had started and keep the chair warm. Which is all Bush is doing in my opinion too.
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How many times have I said I know Bush is not a good president? More then I can recall. But when you look at the U.S. pesidency the last GOOD one was Regan. Now I realize that because he was a republican you can't admit it and I understand that realy I do. But I hope you can at least admit it to yourself.
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I realy do hope that either party can put forth some decent people this time around. This country despritly needs good leadership. And its sad to think we've gone so long without any at all.
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The Bush administration had barely started to make its mark on defense policy before hostilities in Afghanistan began. In the spring of 2001, it requested and received a $5 billion supplemental appropriation for the 2001 defense budget, but that constituted less than 2 percent of defense spending for the year -- mostly for pay raises -- and went largely unnoticed before the war began. The most recent defense budget submitted to Congress by the Bush administration would increase defense spending significantly, but it fails once again to make tough choices and provide a necessary vision of leadership. While U.S. forces in Iraq were a model of what a transformed U.S. military should be, the Pentagon continues to invest in Cold War military hardware -- fighter aircraft, destroyers, and other weapons designed to fight advanced Soviet military capabilities.
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Gam He couldn't do "squat" as you put it cause the democrates didn't see the need for a big military.
Quote:Before you start talking about thieves, lok a dubya in 2000. Nuff said.
Hell there comander and theif Clinton said they didn't need a strong military so why should they give up there hard earned tax money that they sucked from everyones wallets the past 8 years when slick Willie was in office?
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The military that Bush recalled from the middle east was because those generals who later complained about it SAID they weren't needed. Bush got this country OUT of a resesion that Clinton started from taxing us to death!
Quote:Read the snopes link. He did all that could be done given the climate politcally. Mind you, Clinton knew enough to not piss off friends.
But let me ask you
What did Clinton do after those attacks? NOTHING that anyone can remember without finding a link to re-fresh everyones memory.
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Bush for all his faults #1 has pulled us out of resesion in less then a year.
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#2 did that while dealing with the dot com businesses going bust at the end of Clintons term.
Quote:Which his adminsitration had prior knowledge to, and did nothing about, don't forget.
#3 Delt with the worst attack on the U.S. EVER !!
Quote:And yet, where's Bin Laden?
#4 Sent those responcible for the attacks scurring into caves.
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#5 liberated a country from a murdorous dictator and is helping said country re-build its govt.
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#6 has delt with the worst natural disastors this country can remember and has pleged to re-build this country
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Those are just off the top of my head Gam no reseach needed.
Quote:It's not because he's Repbulican, it's because he's not a good President. Look, his performance aside, he's at least as shady as Clinton was, and the bigger problem is that he's been supported heavily by interested parties (read big business energy firms) that have been having their hands shook back (or washed in the case of Worldcom and Enron).
Any other president would be praised for his handleing of these but because hes republican hes demonized and everything hes done is tryed to be made to look bad.
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Look Gam I know you don't agree with me and thats just fine I realize that you see things a little differently then I do, Fine again. But you MUST admit that what Bush has had to endure dureing his time in office is W A Y more then anyone else has had to endure during there time in office. Has he made mistakes? Sure has but thats just cause hes a human we all make mistakes.
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When history looks back at Bush I bet they'll agree that he did a good job under extraordinary hardships and kept this country from falling apart.
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We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a [-] service in 1998 saying that Bin Ladin wanted to hijack a US aircraft to gain the release of "Blind Shaykh" 'Umar 'Abd al-Rahman and other US-held extremists.