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* Pushed ahead with reconstruction in Iraq when popular opinion was against occupation after the first few weeks ''(This was originally stated as a positive point, using Vietnam as an example of a disastrous early pullout from reconstruction due to public demand. The US was in Vietnam for many years before pulling out; wouldn't this be an example of the disastrousness of staying too long?)'' | * Pushed ahead with reconstruction in Iraq when popular opinion was against occupation after the first few weeks ''(This was originally stated as a positive point, using Vietnam as an example of a disastrous early pullout from reconstruction due to public demand. The US was in Vietnam for many years before pulling out; wouldn't this be an example of the disastrousness of staying too long?)'' | ||
==Opinions== | ==Opinions== | ||
| + | * '''2006-04-30''': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4959380.stm 'Double-You' Bush delights media]: the guy clearly has a sense of humor about himself... | ||
* '''2005-10-22''': [http://www.counterpunch.org/landau10222005.html Death Up; Taxes Down: Bush, an Assessment] | * '''2005-10-22''': [http://www.counterpunch.org/landau10222005.html Death Up; Taxes Down: Bush, an Assessment] | ||
* '''2005-10-21''': reader comment on [http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2005/10/best-books-blogs.html]: "I have just spent the last four years watching conservatives throw away any and every principle they have ever claimed to have in support of GW Bush. * Balanced Budgets - out the window. * Peace - out the window. * Prosperity - out of the window. * Geneva Convention - out of the window. * 6<sup>th</sup> Amendment - out the window. * Small Goverment - out the window." | * '''2005-10-21''': reader comment on [http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2005/10/best-books-blogs.html]: "I have just spent the last four years watching conservatives throw away any and every principle they have ever claimed to have in support of GW Bush. * Balanced Budgets - out the window. * Peace - out the window. * Prosperity - out of the window. * Geneva Convention - out of the window. * 6<sup>th</sup> Amendment - out the window. * Small Goverment - out the window." | ||
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* '''2004-09-10''': [http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/09/10/conservatives/print.html Why conservatives must not vote for Bush] | * '''2004-09-10''': [http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/09/10/conservatives/print.html Why conservatives must not vote for Bush] | ||
* '''2004''': "We invaded a country that did not threaten us, did not attack us, and did not want war with us, to disarm it of weapons we have since discovered it did not have. We may have ignited a war of civilizations it was in our vital interest to avoid. Never has America been more resented and reviled in an Islamic world of a billion people. As custodian of the national economy and decisive actor in the management of the Budget of the United States, George W. Bush has compiled a fiscal record of startling recklessness." — conservative pundit [[wikipedia:Pat Buchanan|Pat Buchanan]] in ''Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency'' (ISBN 0312341156) | * '''2004''': "We invaded a country that did not threaten us, did not attack us, and did not want war with us, to disarm it of weapons we have since discovered it did not have. We may have ignited a war of civilizations it was in our vital interest to avoid. Never has America been more resented and reviled in an Islamic world of a billion people. As custodian of the national economy and decisive actor in the management of the Budget of the United States, George W. Bush has compiled a fiscal record of startling recklessness." — conservative pundit [[wikipedia:Pat Buchanan|Pat Buchanan]] in ''Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency'' (ISBN 0312341156) | ||
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==Rumors== | ==Rumors== | ||
* Bush was talked out of bombing Al-Jazeera by Tony Blair: apparently false, unless further evidence surfaces. The White House at least seems to realize how crazy the idea would be: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4459296.stm BBC News] See also [[Wikipedia:Al Jazeera bombing memo|Al Jazeera bombing memo]] at Wikipedia and more details at the [http://www.agrnews.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1613&Itemid=49 Asheville Global Report] and [http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=16570250%26method=full%26siteid=50061%26page=1%26headline=kilfoyle%2dmay%2dface%2djail%2dover%2dbush%2dbomb%2dthreat%2dleak-name_page.html here]. | * Bush was talked out of bombing Al-Jazeera by Tony Blair: apparently false, unless further evidence surfaces. The White House at least seems to realize how crazy the idea would be: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4459296.stm BBC News] See also [[Wikipedia:Al Jazeera bombing memo|Al Jazeera bombing memo]] at Wikipedia and more details at the [http://www.agrnews.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1613&Itemid=49 Asheville Global Report] and [http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=16570250%26method=full%26siteid=50061%26page=1%26headline=kilfoyle%2dmay%2dface%2djail%2dover%2dbush%2dbomb%2dthreat%2dleak-name_page.html here]. | ||