History Will Say That We Misunderestimated George W Bush
The man in the above picture bites his bottom lip …
Not out of self-preservation of favorable polls or historical legacy … or fortification of using just the right words to put forth his lie in an acceptable used-car salesman pitch.
No, the man in the above picture bites his bottom lip in careful reflection of the precipice this nation … the world … stands at against an enemy most of the world refuses to acknowledge or address in proper manner or seriousness.
The man in the above picture bites his bottom lip to hold back his heart and soul against the dreadful duty of Commander In Chief of a nation and its military … of the over 4000 brave, loyal, and dutiful souls that have fallen along the terrible road of war. He bites his bottom lip in hope and prayers for the thousands of men and women who are returning home to this nation … their lives changed forever with very little recognizable of the lives they had before they left. He bites his bottom lip in prayer and fear for those who are in the war theaters … and those who will join them.
The man in the above picture has stepped forward in the thankless position of hopefully heading off a caliphate that those who plan to see all of us dead before it is over set into motion on 9-11-01.
The man in the above picture will bite his bottom lip, leave the White House in January 2009, wave fondly to the nation through the lenses of the MSM cameras that not only were unkind to him for eight years, but disgraceful to him … He will take his beloved wife’s arm and corral their two feisty Scotties, and board Marine One for the very last time … giving the man in uniform standing straight and tall guard at the bottom of the steps one final very strong and meaningful salute, perhaps holding back a tear as he offers him an unPresidential wink of thanks … to return to the quiet ponderings of a man who once commanded the greatest and strongest country in the history of the world as he drenches his brow with the sweat and dirt of a Texas ranch, come in on time for ’supper’, and perhaps enjoy a casual telephone conversation with an old friend he lost touch with for eight long years …
The man biting his bottom lip in the above picture … well, his wife will not seek to become POTUS … or even Senator. She will, instead, nag him about his muddy cowboy boots on the living room carpet, and tell him how silly he is for trying to make her laugh at his latest bad joke. Perhaps the man biting his bottom lip in the above picture, and his lovely wife, will shortly after leaving the White House enjoy cuddling a newborn grandchild who will be pure of media crafted thoughts, and filled with a glowing soul … looking up into the watery eyes of a man who had greyed over eight years with the weight of a nation and the free world on his shoulders … and not judge him … just coo and bubble with a non-judgmental smile.
The man in the above picture biting his bottom lip is a good man … and I believe even if history is not kind to him … God will be.
God Bless, Sir.
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History will say that we misunderestimated George W Bush
By Andrew Roberts - TelegraphUK
As he leaves the White House at the end of his second term, the President has a poll rating of only 23 per cent, and is widely disliked and even despised. His foreign policy has been judged a failure, especially in view of the long, painful, costly war that he declared, which is still not over.
He doesn’t get on with his own party’s presidential candidate, who is clearly distancing himself, and had lost many of his closest friends and staff to scandals and forced resignations. The New Republic, a hugely influential political magazine, writes that his historical reputation will be as bad as that of President Harding, the disastrous president of the Great Depression.
I am writing, of course, about Harry S Truman, generally regarded today as one of the greatest of all the 43 presidents, and the man who set the United States on the course that ended decades later in the defeat of Communism.
If the West wins the modern counterpart of that struggle, the War Against Terror, historians will look back in amazement at the present unpopularity of George W Bush, and marvel at it quite as much as we now marvel at the 67 per cent disapproval rates for Truman throughout 1952.
Presidents are seldom remembered for more than one or two things; the rest slip away into a haze of historical amnesia. With Kennedy it was the Bay of Pigs and his own assassination, with Johnson the Great Society and Vietnam, with Nixon it was opening up China and the Watergate scandal, and so on.
George W Bush will be remembered for his responses to 9/11 in Afghanistan and Iraq, but since neither of those conflicts has yet ended in victory or defeat, it is far too early categorically to assume - as left-wingers, anti-war campaigners and almost all media commentators already do -that his historical reputation will be permanently down in the doldrums next to poor old Warren Harding’s.
I suspect that historians of the future will instead see Bush’s decision to insist upon a “surge” of reinforcements being sent into Iraq, combined with a complete change of anti-insurgency tactics as configured by General Petraeus, as the moment when the conflict was turned around there, in the West’s favour.
No one - least of all Bush himself - denies that mistakes were made in the early days after the (unexpectedly early) fall of Baghdad, and historians will quite rightly examine them. But once the decades have put the stirring events of those years into their proper historical context, four great facts will emerge that will place Bush in a far better light than he currently enjoys.
The overthrow and execution of a foul tyrant, Saddam Hussein; the liberation of the Afghan people from the Taliban; the smashing of the terrorist networks of al-Qa’eda in that country and elsewhere and, finally, the protection of the American people from any further atrocities on US soil since 9/11, is a legacy of which to be proud.
While of course every individual death is a tragedy to the bereaved families, these great achievements have been won at a cost in human life a fraction the size of any past world-historical struggle of this magnitude.
The number of American troops killed and wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan is equivalent to the losses they endured - for a nation only a little over half the size in the mid-Forties - capturing a single island from the Japanese in the Pacific War.
British losses of 103 killed over seven years in Afghanistan bears comparison to a quiet weekend on the Western Front in the Great War, or the numbers the Army loses in traffic accidents in peacetime. History can lend a wider overall perspective to what are nonetheless, of course, immeasurably sad events.
History will also shine an unforgiving light on those ludicrous conspiracy theories that claim that the Iraq War was fought for any other reason than to implement the 14 UN resolutions that Saddam that had been flouting for 13 years.
The CIA and MI6 believed, like almost every other intelligence agency in the world, that Saddam had WMD, and the “Harmony” documents seized and translated since the fall of his regime make it abundantly clear that he was also supporting almost every anti-Western terrorist organisation imaginable.
Historians will appreciate how any War Against Terror that allowed Saddam to remain in place would have been an absurd travesty.
When the rise of al-Qa’eda is considered by historians like Philip Bobbitt and William Shawcross, it will be President Clinton’s repeated refusal to act effectively in the 1990s, rather than President Bush’s tough response after 9/11, that will be held up as culpable.
Judging by the rise in the value of the Iraqi dinar, the huge drop in the number of Iraqi deaths in the insurgency, the number of provinces now cleansed of al-Qa’eda, and the level of arms confiscations by the Iraqi Army in Sadr City, the new American “clear and hold” tactics have succeeded far better than the cynics ever thought possible even 12 months ago.
Give Iraq five, ten or twenty years, and Bush’s decision to undertake the surge - courageously taken in the face of all bien pensant and “expert” opinion on both sides of the Atlantic - will rank alongside some of Harry Truman’s great decisions of 1945-53.
If that happens, the time will come when George W Bush will be able to say what Lord Salisbury called the four cruellest yet sweetest words in the English language: “I told you so.”
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God Bless George W. Bush!
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:06 pmI was pleased to serve under President Bush, when all is said and done he will be the only president to win two conflicts. The US and the world is safer.
At the end of the day if his policies all fail in some unforeseen horrible way, the world will be not too different from if he wasnt elected. If his policies succeed, like it now appears they will, the US and the World will be changed for the better, the dems and bush haters need to take a breather and remember that.
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:11 pmDamn, Drill that put tears in my eyes.
I could not agree more; God bless George W. Bush! And his family, friends, and America!
History will be kind to Dubya; and it will fill the dark hole of the liberal left with bright light.
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:22 pmIt’s war time,… right?
FDR was president for four terms in wartime,… right?
Do you see where I’m going wit this?
Ohhh, fuck it, … McCain in ‘08
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:29 pmThis is only a revelation to idiots.
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:43 pmUnfortunately, it seems like it’ll be leftists who’ll write the history the next generations will be taught.
But I know that President Bush is a good, honorable man, who took the fight to the enemy. We haven’t had one major terrorist attack on our home soil, need anymore be said about his legacy?
June 22nd, 2008 at 8:05 pmBush has been a great President and never, not even once was i ashamed to admit i support him. I voted for him twice and would vote for him a third time if it was possible. I would willingly admit i support GW and hope it brought out an argument.
June 22nd, 2008 at 8:13 pmI stick up for him every day, God Bless him and his Family.
June 22nd, 2008 at 8:26 pmKurt, I am with you brother, I love telling jackals that I would vote for him again. I love it when they want to argue it.
I suspect I will look back on this time in history many years from now and say a quiet prayer, thanking the Lord above for gracing us with such a man at such a critical time.
It is a shame that he can only keep the office for 8 years.
June 22nd, 2008 at 8:45 pmFor any man to face the trials and tribulations of 911, Katrina and ultimately the War on terror and still hold on to his beliefs even when so called “public opinion” waned, will always have my vote. He’s the true measure of a man. A man who stands up for what he believes and sticks with it.
Mr. President, I salute you. Thank you for your service to this great country. God Bless you, your family and God Bless America!
June 22nd, 2008 at 9:07 pmIf someone’s hatred of Bush is based on the lack of WMDs in Iraq, they can relax. The Jerusalem Post recently confirmed that Saddam Hussein transported WMDs to Syria before the war.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1207486215610&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
If people refuse to read the Jerusalem Post because they’re anti-Semitic, then refer them to the New York Sun, January 26, 2006: “Iraq’s WMD Secreted in Syria, Sada Says.” Sada was the number two official in Saddam Hussein’s air force.
If they won’t research the New York Sun, then tell them to read a book: “Because They Hate,” by Brigitte Gabriel. She was born and raised in Lebanon and became an anchor woman. She writes, “General Georges Sada moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed.”
However, be warned that many of the Bush bashers are ideological pigs who don’t want the truth or honest debate. Like the Keith Olbermanns and Lou Dobbs of this world, they’re only capable of hate speech and personal attacks.
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:01 amBush is the man, though I may not agree with a few of his views he is our president and I will defend him to the death. God bless him.
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:56 amGreat article, thanks President Bush!
Thanks!
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:53 amThanks! Bush’s recent trip to Europe was proof that he is well-liked by leaders of state, but only USA Today reported honestly.
Why isn’t the MSM comparing Bush’s college grades to Obama’s? It’s a national past-time meant to embarrass conservatives. Could it be they found out that Bush’s grades (and military IQ) were higher than John Kerry’s, and comparable to Al Gore and John F. Kennedy? Gotta keep that quiet, don’t we?
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:39 amAgree with all of the above comments. I only hope and pray I hear GWB tell those in the press to “Ah, hey, GO FUCK YOURSELF, next question?” I know it won’t happen but I can dream…
June 23rd, 2008 at 3:34 amBush’s greatest accomplishmet, among many in the face of clueless and vile opposition, is the establishment of a democratic foothold in the middle east and the defeat and devastation of al Qaeda in Iraq not just at the hands of American forces but by Iraqi forces and Iraqi civiians who turned on al Qaeda when those savages slaughtered thousands of innocent Muslims in their vain attempt to derail the democracy Bush was helping to establish.
The fact that this development has yet to receive widespread coverage does not mean it hasn’t occurred.
June 23rd, 2008 at 3:48 amDaily Telegraph has spent the last few years being ever so
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:54 amsuperior and sarcastically dismissive of “neocons” and “Bush”.
They have preached endlessly about the superior intellect of
Europe and the gung-ho stupidity of Americans.
They cheered when things were going badly in Iraq.
Their political cartoons were amongst the worst - only equaled by
raving commie rag - The Guardian.
So all of a sudden they have something nice to say?
I am not impressed.
Go f yourselves.
Figure out what your brave new world will need to do to defend itself.
You’re about to have all your lefty dreams come true.
i’m an American. and i approve this message!
thanks drillanwr!
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:04 amI read quotes from Georges Sada a year or so ago but, as I recall, he didn’t say he moved the WMD out of Iraq. Rather, he had conversations with pilots who told him they had done so. In other words, hearsay.
Nevertheless, it may be true.
Will we ever know?
June 23rd, 2008 at 3:00 pmThere is a piling on. Biden says the name “George Bush” with such contempt, it’s like a four letter word. I flip through radio channels, and DJ’s bitterly mock the President like he’s lower than tramps like Britney Spears or Courtney Love. Really, what have we come to?
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:52 pmUnfortunately, what many have come to is a complete detachment from the reality that was soon after 9-11. Now they relax, oblivious, and have the time and comfort to throw shit at the man who was responsible for pulling the nation up by its bootstraps, and taking the battle to the jihadi scum. The nation stands, major cities unmolested, thanks to George Bush.
Scumbags like Biden and his Dhimmi brethren are a disgrace and traitors at best. Thank God that they were not at the wheel on or after 9-11. George Bush has more character in his little finger than all of these Dhimmi asshats combined could muster. I find it highly unlikely that if he was as evil as his enemies would like us all to think, that he would not have been caught out at something by now.
Whether historians treat him kindly or not, I lived through his two terms, saw what he did, and have formed my own conclusions. My only regret is that I am a Canadian and could not vote for him. God Bless ya, Dubya
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:44 pmYou know who else hates GWB ???? Enemies of the USA.
June 26th, 2008 at 6:24 amFunny how our enemies that want us dead love the Clintons, Kerry, Obama, Gore, Murtha, Kennedy,,,ect. Our enemies also love the present Congress, This says a whole lot about the enemy within, we are definatly in trouble. Civil unrest anf revolution may be sooner than expected !!
Jesse