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Yea, but I love the rest of America, aside from George W. Bush.
He needs to be shot.
Like, now.

Not all people are as stupid as him.
You must understand, it is easy to brainwash our American neighbours. So, if they think their freedom is being threatened, they're going to vote for the guy who can stop it.

Not everyone can be as smart as us.
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...then again, Canada's freedom is rarely threatened...

Tell me something; do you really think you could do his job better?

Don't answer that right away. Think about it. Think about it really hard.

Think about the pressure of being the most powerful person in the world.
Think about the pressure to keep the people who voted for you happy while still acting on behalf of the country.
Think about the enormous pressure from other countries, allied, enemies, and neutrals alike.

Think about all that, and ask yourself, can you really do a better job?

The man may not be the best one for the job, but I think that he is acting to the best of his ability.

I agree with Shaz, and I don't completely support this idea, but I think Bush is a very brilliant man.

As for the whole Deimos, captain and Ihabia thing...

1] As I was going through the last pages posts, when I first read the Deimo's post, I was sure it was Ihabia that was writting it because I simply glanced at the avatar without looking at the gaian name. xDDDDD

2] This all funny and I won't be logging much on either until the 25th of may, which is my friggin last final exam, and it had to be calculus...TT----TT

Thank you. You forgot, "think about the pressure of over half the world hating you for your mistakes."

Ok, not only did Bush's congressmen admit that their efforts in Iraq are failing, but he just vetoed a request to pull the troops out.

It took him a week to get aid down to New Orleans. Canada was there before Bush was.

He is not smart, he is not trustworthy, the only thing Bush wants is power.
There is a problem with that. A very big problem when a man like him is in charge of the most powerful country on the planet.

Errors in judgment; do you make them?

You make it sound like you expect him to be the perfect leader. Sure, sitting at the helm of a ship like the States takes no small amount of skill, but being the president does not automatically make you a god.

He's a mortal, like you and I. He has flaws and makes mistakes, like you and I. Cut him some slack.

The thing about president Bush is that he's frequently made the scapegoat for international plight. Though this may be partly deserved, I think the situation has been exacerbated by liberals and the media.

He's an easy target, as leader of the most powerful nation in the world (not just militarily, either).

First and foremost, it would be futile to deny that the man has made some brash, stupid decisions. Namely going into Iraq without consent from the United Nations, an international community of support. On the other side of the coin, the UN is a rather convoluted agency where action is taken at a snail's pace. The decision the president made, to invade before ascertaining said support, was a calcuated on a cost / benefit paradigm.

Certainly if Iraq had been concealing weapons of mass destruction, people would be praising his palpable results. But as it turned out, he was wrong.

The intelligence was wrong.

That doesn't mean he should be hung by his genitals.

Kennedy nearly made a decision that could've costed the world on a scale that dwarfs anything we have ever seen. But as it turned out, thanks to some shred of appropriate intelligence (from key advisors), crisis was averted. No one remembers Kennedy as the man who almost wrought mankind's destruction. Who has his finger on the trigger of nuclear holocaust.

And in many, many years, people won't remember Bush as the man who invaded Iraq under erroneous pretenses. They'll remember him as the man who liberated a Middle Eastern country from the despotism of a tyrant. Who created the possibility for democracy, who fostered the eventual self-sustaining, humanitarian, allied economy that Iraq will someday become. It ensures a future of security, at least in regards to one nation. No one said the road was going to be an easy one.

Still, I think Iraq was in large a mistake, and that of course translates onto the executive.

Not that Hussein shouldn't have been toppled from power. But because now US troops are bogged down in an error of calculation, while Iran gloats about amounting nuclear capability. Keep an eye on Iran.

But I am not saying troops in Iraq should just up and leave. I am aware it is unstable and I am also aware of the tight spot the US is in right now.

However, there is really no point in helping a people who doesn't want the help. Not to say no one in Iraq wants the aid and protection the US provides, but enough people in Iraq also want the US to get the hell out of there.

George Bush gives American People a really bad name. I doubt his intentions for going into Iraq were valid, I think he was trying to finish what his father started as well as protect the wealth of oil in that region. There were no weapons of mass destruction. What sort of Person of Power goes through with a war because of a floating idea?
That's like someone saying "I think so and so is going to kill you tomorrow," so, you kill them first instead. Except in this case, thousands of people have died.