G.W. Bush; Just a stupid, incompetent, crappy version of CLINTON.

[LynnTheDem]

"Let me tell you what else I'm worried about: I'm worried about an opponent who uses nation building and the military in the same sentence. See, our view of the military is for our military to be properly prepared to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place."

-bush
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/klein/article/0,9565,543748,00.html

"And so I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building."

-bush
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/10/11/politics/main240442.shtml

"I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation-building. . . . I think what we need to do is convince people who live in the lands they live in to build the nations. Maybe I'm missing something here. I mean, we're going to have a kind of nation-building corps from America? Absolutely not."

-bush
http://www.usatoday.com/educate/election04/article30.htm

"If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, then we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road."

-bush
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/debates/transcripts/u221003.html

"We're not into nation building. We're focused on justice."

-bush
http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:adC-_UCOZbMJ:www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/cRosett/%3Fid%3D95001222+bush+against+nation-building&hl=en

"I wouldn't have sent troops to Haiti. I didn't think it was a mission worthwhile. It was a nation-building mission."

-bush
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/03/02/once_against_nation_building_bush_now_involved/

And HOW the rightwingnuts PRAISED BUSH for his being AGAINST nation-building! FINALLY, they trumpeted, a coherent post-Cold War foreign policy!

The rightwing Wall Street Journal REJOICED!

Against Nation-Building; Finally, a coherent post-Cold War foreign policy

Nation building entails America trying to construct an entire way of life for others. And though building a free and democratic world would be a wondrous thing, experience suggests that for any nation it is a vastly complex project that must come mainly from within. America can serve as an example and an ally. But we cannot reliably reengineer other societies, and we risk enormous resentment when we try.

That's a big departure from most of the past decade, shaped by Bill Clinton's presumption that he was gifted with the powers and privileges of some higher deity. In the priorities of his administration, his own vast concern for himself simply dwarfed the need to chart a clear course for our country. Instead, the U.S. developed a foreign policy so looped around grandiose Clinton projects and photo-ops that it neglected large chunks of reality, including some of America's most immediate and vital interests.

Bill zoomed around the world, glad-handing, nation-building and peace-processing. By the time he left office, we were left with such stuff for all our pains as continuing havoc in (remember this one?) Haiti, rekindled conflict in the Middle East, and no credibility to U.S. threats against terrorists.

Mr. Bush, by contrast, had a pretty good grip on the problem way back during last year's presidential campaign, in which he was already articulating the ideas now shaping this war on terrorism. In the second campaign debate, we heard a lot about amorphous nation building and world saving from Al Gore, who was preparing to inherit the Clinton mantle. Mr. Bush sharply disagreed, saying the job of the president was specifically to protect U.S. interests and to preside over a military prepared "to fight and win a war."

This difference is no accident. It is a basic difference in worldview. The liberal mindset Mr. Clinton exemplified turns on the idea that those in power can somehow reengineer the nature of mankind.

http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:adC-_UCOZbMJ:www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/cRosett/%3Fid%3D95001222+bush+against+nation-building&hl=en

Afghanistan; Iraq; Haiti; ROTFLMAO!!! Rightwingnuts; TOO STUPID for words; all they can do is come up with a stupid, incompetent, CRAPPY version of Bill Clinton!

[unblock]

1. you might want to reconsider your spelling of "incompetant"

[LynnTheDem]

2. Ta

I do that all the time. However, *I'M* not the president of the United States. My spelling errors don't kill anyone. ;)

[xchrom]

3. you do have a way with words.

makes me smile.

[LynnTheDem]

4. Thanks...but it's kinda easy

with the constant stream of total utter hypocritical bullshit the rightwingnuts hand out on a daily basis, so gotta give them credit for their absolute stupidity. :D

[Gold Metal Flake]

5. 9/11 changed everything.

911 + whatever the admin is saying = shut up.



Edited to change "we are" to "the admin is"

[LynnTheDem]

6. So they try to tell us.

I'm not buying it. 3000 American deaths? Didn't change a damn thing until bush saw a way to stand on the corpses and get his dictatorship he so wanted.

EVERY YEAR 3000 or so American kids are murdered by their American parents; that doesn't change fuck-all.

Hitler had his bullshit excuse; bush has his.

Who woulda thunk half the people in this country would be stupid enough to fall for bush's bullshit.

[Blue_In_AK]

7. Crappy version of Bill Clinton?

I think this was brought out very, very clearly in the lead-in to Saturday Night Live this week. I was rolling on the floor.

[Lisa]

8. don't forget "ill-tempered"

Bush pretends to be a "people person" with "legendary charm" like Clinton, but he spends so much time handing out putdowns and demeaning comments that this clearly isn't the case.

He's like a shabby department store Santa who hates kids, compared to the real Kris Kringle.