Newsview: Bush Legacy a Work in Progress (read and post your fave parts)

[underpants]

I can only post 4 paragraphs so add your favorite parts of this strange analysis.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/bush_s_evolving_legacy



WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) is raising the bar on expectations, with a second-term agenda to transform the United States and the world. But early reviews on his evolving legacy are as mixed as the nation is divided politically.


Bush's self-styled legacy is to win the war on terrorism, be remembered as the leader who brought democracy to Afghanistan (news - web sites) and Iraq (news - web sites) and helped spread it through the Middle East. Domestically, he wants to reshape Social Security (news - web sites) with private investment accounts, simplify the tax system and create what he calls "an ownership society."


They assert he squandered international good will after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, waged an ill-advised war in Iraq based on faulty intelligence, alarmed the world community with a doctrine of pre-emptive warfare and flouted international agreements on prisoner treatment.

Asked what he wished his legacy to be, Bush told ABC: "I hope that 50 years from now, people will look back and say, `Thank goodness old George W. stuck to his beliefs that freedom is...an agent for change, to make the world more peaceful, and that all people deserve to be free."

[frankrizzo]

1. FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS

I recently read this article on
www.thecatholicchallenge.com/768articles.htm
Any comments or opinions?





FOR THE WRONG REASONS

by Thomas W. Rezanka, Esq.



Some people voted for George Bush because he was anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage. Some voted for him because they refused to believe that he lied America into the war with Iraq. Some voted for him because they couldnít quite warm-up to John Kerry. Some voted for George Bush because their prejudice would not let them vote for a Catholic. Some voted for George Bush even though they donít agree with a great many of his decisions. Some voted for George Bush because he is a Republican, and if the Republican Party ran a monkey, this voter would still vote Republican. Some voted for George Bush because we are at war, and they believe that we should not change Presidents in mid-stream. Some voted for George Bush because they believe the big lie advanced by the U.S. Catholic Bishops that voting for John Kerry, a pro-choice candidate, was a sin. Some voted for George Bush because he is more like them. Some voted for George Bush because he is adamant about his positions. Some voted for George Bush even though they recognized that a man who never admits that he is wrong can be a dangerous leader. Some voted for George Bush because the responsibilities of their jobs and family keep them from reading a daily paper or from watching the news each night. Some voted for George Bush because they are inherently selfish and would never consider what is best for their community or their nation as a whole. Some voted for George Bush because they refuse to believe that his administrative rule changes or lack of enforcement of laws or rules (which were put into place to protect all of us) is now actually endangering our health and general welfare. Some voted for George Bush because they are not concerned that 44 million Americans are without health insurance or that over the last 3.5 years between 3 to 5 million more Americans are now classified as living in poverty. Some voted for George Bush because they never heard he wanted to re-classify mercury as a non-toxic or less toxic substance. Some voted for George Bush because of pride; the pride that tells you we are Americans, we donít have to consider the views of people outside of our country who disagree with us or who despise our leader. Some voted for George Bush because he ran the most deceptive political advertising in our history, which deflected attention from his own dismal record. Some voted for George Bush because they believe he is right. Some people voted for George Bush because they are unaware of the number of political appointments that he made of people from industry who are now regulating those same industries. Unfortunately for all of us as Americans, this means that George W. Bush was re-elected mostly for all of the wrong reasons. The question now is: Are we going to actively participate in what our President and other elected representatives are doing?

[sam sarrha]

2. I am afraid that if Bu$h took a shit on stage after the ceremony,the Media

would go into great detail about how smooth it came out and how its odor had a delicate bouquet of roses.. and the turd would be broken down into 1/4 grams and sold on Ebay the next day, with a signed photo of the wet brain alcoholic Moron himself...framed of course.

[underpants]

4. Never before have so many received so much credit for being so wrong

There is the legacy.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Bush's Legacy will be a chapter in foreign diplomacy and titled:

"The Insanity of Pre-Emptive Strike"