Bush - The Biggest Presidential Mess Since Jimmy Carter!!!
Every President has the right to a few fuck ups. Every President can absorbe one Somalia, one lie, one fumbled hostage rescue operation etc. But is there any doubt about the fact that we have not moved in on Osama in over 5 years? Is there any doubt that the situation in Afghanistan is a mess? Is there any doubt that the situation in Iraq is a mess? Is there any doubt that the Katharina handling was a mess and the situation in New Orleans is still a mess? Boarder control, immigration, Medicare, warrant-less eavesdropping, secret CIA jails abroad, questionable interrogation practice and a jockful of locked up terrorist in Guantanamo with no concept of what to do with them! On and on and on. Mess and more mess everywhere you look. I do understand that a Party needs to protect its President and its elected Representatives, but for God's sake, there has to be a sublime understanding that this Presidency is a full blown mess. The old ranting that a Republican President, no matter how bad, is still better than a Democratic President can no longer hold. The price of Republican power at this point is too high, even for people that are in favor of Republican views. The Republican party has simply missed on reining in this President and keep his mess's at bay!
Bush never had the abilities for this job, never had a vision, never worked on strategies, never chose the right team and never was ahead of any possible outcomes. His Presidency is and was riddled with reactive behavior and lame patching up. The latest story with the CIA program is another of his leadership failures. First we deny to the world and to America that there are secret CIA jails abroad. We deny that there is and was torture. We state that these terrorist do not fall within the Geneva Convention because they are not enemy combatants. Now that the Federal Courts start to catch up with all these events: oops, there are secret CIA jails and yes they used methods that are not in line with the Geneva Convention! Now we need to quickly (before the November elections because after that it may be too late!)create new law to be able to protect the American people. If that new law is not passed the CIA program cannot go forward and the American people loses their protection! Wait a minute, something tells me that if that law is not passed immediately some people, including Bush might be in hot water for what they have done in the passed 5 year with total disregard for the existing law. The CIA has nothing to do with the Geneva Convention. The CIA is a secret service that operates clandestine and for the most part is outside of any jurisdiction when operating abroad. The Geneva Convention regulates behavior and procedures between legitiment Armies at war. In this case neither the CIA nor the lawless terrorists, that they are chasing around fall under the rules and regulation of the Geneva Convention. And lets not forget that the Geneva Convention happens to be the result of the world and its nations sitting down and agreeing with each other. It is not there for any nation to go ahead and unilaterally change articles of the Geneva Connvetion to their own likings. Bush will tell you that he does not care about the rest of the world when it comes down to what he deems necessary to protect the American people! Well that is exactly the position of people like Ahmedinajad, Kim Chong-Il, Chavez and a few million extremist Muslims. They also don't care about the rest of the world when it comes down to what they deem necessary to protect the interest of their own people. I don't expect the Democratic party to be able to recognize these things and come up with valuable answers. To just withdraw from Iraq and Afganistan and apologize to the whole world is not going to cut it! What truly frightens me is that the Republican party has not yet mustered to comprehend the size of the mess that this President is creating, let alone do something intelligent about it. Lets see whether this week will be the turning point!
Bush never had the abilities for this job, never had a vision, never worked on strategies, never chose the right team and never was ahead of any possible outcomes. His Presidency is and was riddled with reactive behavior and lame patching up. The latest story with the CIA program is another of his leadership failures. First we deny to the world and to America that there are secret CIA jails abroad. We deny that there is and was torture. We state that these terrorist do not fall within the Geneva Convention because they are not enemy combatants. Now that the Federal Courts start to catch up with all these events: oops, there are secret CIA jails and yes they used methods that are not in line with the Geneva Convention! Now we need to quickly (before the November elections because after that it may be too late!)create new law to be able to protect the American people. If that new law is not passed the CIA program cannot go forward and the American people loses their protection! Wait a minute, something tells me that if that law is not passed immediately some people, including Bush might be in hot water for what they have done in the passed 5 year with total disregard for the existing law. The CIA has nothing to do with the Geneva Convention. The CIA is a secret service that operates clandestine and for the most part is outside of any jurisdiction when operating abroad. The Geneva Convention regulates behavior and procedures between legitiment Armies at war. In this case neither the CIA nor the lawless terrorists, that they are chasing around fall under the rules and regulation of the Geneva Convention. And lets not forget that the Geneva Convention happens to be the result of the world and its nations sitting down and agreeing with each other. It is not there for any nation to go ahead and unilaterally change articles of the Geneva Connvetion to their own likings. Bush will tell you that he does not care about the rest of the world when it comes down to what he deems necessary to protect the American people! Well that is exactly the position of people like Ahmedinajad, Kim Chong-Il, Chavez and a few million extremist Muslims. They also don't care about the rest of the world when it comes down to what they deem necessary to protect the interest of their own people. I don't expect the Democratic party to be able to recognize these things and come up with valuable answers. To just withdraw from Iraq and Afganistan and apologize to the whole world is not going to cut it! What truly frightens me is that the Republican party has not yet mustered to comprehend the size of the mess that this President is creating, let alone do something intelligent about it. Lets see whether this week will be the turning point!
posted by ddb at 5:33 PM
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