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does george bush scare you?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.What is this democracy thing he`s forever ranting on about? Is it the belief that the majority must always be right.......let`s forget law and order and get back to the lynch mob?
A recent comment on national radio was that countries with MacDonalds restaurants don`t wage war on each other. Ye Gods.......what`s next on the agenda? Answers please to A. Bliar, Westminster.
What i find sacry is his ability to tap into the climate of fear that has been engendered and actively encouraged by his administration, with the willing assistance of the media. This 'We must hit them before they hit us ...' philosophy is not based on any credible evidence. Surely American must have learned from the Viet Nam war - they fought, the lost, and the dreaded Comunist 'threat' was found to be meaningless, but not before millions of military and civillian. deaths.
Bush must realse that not everyone's concept of 'freedom' is the same, and democracy doesn't suit everyone, so he should concentrate on far more diplomacy, and a lot less on sabre rattling, and try and avoid tying his country up in another unwinable conflict - I wasn't meaning Viet Nam, I was referring to Iraq!
Yes he does worry me.
Clanad, I just hope that all the non-US and some US (eg Paul Krugman) economists are wrong about the trade deficit and the Medicare bill, otherwise we will all be in trouble.
To dispell any concerns of bias, I am not anti-American. I regularly visit the US and enjoy both the place and spending time in the company of Americans. Nor am I anti-Republican merely because of the GOP ticket.
Pointing to Bush's MBA proves little. I regularly interview MBA grads, some are very clever, some are anything but. Flying a plane is complex and to be admired. It does not, however, point to any intellectual prowess at running a country, particularly not when the external affairs of other countries are affected. I would not say that the Iraqi's are free yet, and Afghanstan is becoming increasingly lawless.
Clanad states that Bush was 'an accomplished pilot of one of the more difficult fighter aircraft'.
The most supurlatives you'll find on the matter from his peers is 'competant'. Moreover, having had special pressure leveraged by his father's political friends to keep him away from an active service unit in the first place, and having been trained at considerable expense to the US tax payer, Bush was banned from flying duties in 1972 after refusing to take a medical examination. The reasons for this refusal are openly believed by many to be related to Bush's well documented drink and drug issues. Bush himself is particularly vague on matters regarding his own substance abuse and the matter of whether his father's political influence was again leveraged to help him avoid a jail term, despite being rabidly pro-jail for other people who do the same thing.
Furthermore, there is considerable evidence to suggest that Bush then went awol from a position in Alabama. His commanding officer and personnel officer deny that he ever reported for duty. Bush claims he did.
You say, Clanad, that you "don't expect anyone to agree" with you, but here's one Brit who does...completely. If for no other reason than the fact that - with Tony Blair's support - he finally decided to ignore that useless talking-shop, the United Nations and actually do something about Iraq.
"Give the weapons inspectors more time," the anti-war brigade bleated. What? Another decade? A century, perhaps? And after the runaround Saddam had given them for so long.
Let's never lose sight of the fact that the dossier that Blair supposedly duped us all with - thus, to the satisfaction of people such as Ianess deserving the title 'Bliar' - was published in September 2002. That's a clear two months earlier than UN Security Council Resolution 1441, which categorically stated that Saddam had WMD and was proliferating them and their means of delivery. This was signed-up-to by all 15 member states, including France, Russia and China as well as Iraq's next-door neighbour, Syria. It wasn't just Blair who believed in the WMD...the entire world did, in effect.
The latter four decided not to do anything about their belief...guess which three nations had most to gain from continued trade with Iraq at the time...unlike the USA, Britain, Spain, Australia, Italy etc.
Bush is an excellent man and we might have much more to fear without him, Bob.
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