When the emotions of hate against the Bush administration cool down and people will be able to make an objective analysis of his war policies in the context of the great danger fanatical Islam posed and continues to do so to Western civilization, they will fully justify his Administration for its determination to confront this menacing danger with the force of arms. And history’s judgment about Bush will be more generous and SWEET than the liberal intelligentsia’s condemnation and BITTERNESS for being irretrievably wrong about the outcome of the war in Iraq.

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Themistocles

Well said and spot on .

Big Mal and Themistocles...

I totally agree..

Just the other day some elections went nice smoothly in Iraq with bearly any boycotts in voting this time.. they were council elections al over Iraq I think.

He did good.

Bush's legacy
1. War in Iraq
Did you see the Al-Qaeda in Iraq, cooperating with Santam? Bush had the proofs!
did you see the weapons of mass distruction, nuclear, chemical, biological etc? Bush had the proofs!
Did you see the imports of uranioun raw material from Nigira, from Santam? Bush had the proofs!
Bush used lies to invate into Iraq, he violated the international law and he is responsible for hundrends thousands of lifes of innocent Iraqis.
He must be in prison for crimes against humanity.
2. Human Rights
Do you know how many innocent people abduct from CIA worldwide and tortured hard?
You know the infamous Guandamo, a shame for our civilization, you know the terture of prisoners in Abu Grab,etc Bush violated the Human Rights with one milion ways, He had to be in prison for crimes against humanity.
3. Democracy
With his laws, patriot acts he spied American people and violated their basics rights. Anyone who was against his extreme, crazy policy could considered as terorist threat and have big problems.
He terorized American people!
4. Economic-Social policy.
He is responsible for the financial crisis in USA and world wide. His wars costs trillion of dollars, which borrowed from overseas, about 50% of tax payers money went for his wars or for former wars. He did not spend enouph money for social programs and converted his country in a huge prison!. The USA is number one in prisoners and beyont from any competision with any country in the world.
5. He left free the big corporations to do everything they wanted and limited their taxes. The financial system did not colapse for no reason nor the white people voted Obama for no reason.
6. Kyoto Protocol, International Criminal court.
He was totaly irresponsible and provoced the international community, he did not care for the environment, did not care for the future of our planet, he did not care for an international justice system. He was an international buller, an international cowboy.

david f, YOU ARE A GOOD, PROGRESSIVE AMERICAN.

Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaid

He was a failed oilman.
Couldn't even make money in the family business.
He lied repeatedly.
He spied on his own people.
He oversaw kidnapping and torture world wide.
He knowingly consumed his own propaganda and called it evidence. (Howard too)
He was directly responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths.
God told him to do this. (Yes really!)
He took the world's leading economy and in 10 years allowed it to be "restructured" to third world status. (Wait for it.)

...and from all this you conclude that his legacy was basically good because he stoked the flames of a religious war that has been going on for centuries?
If Saddam was *really* a threat the CIA could have taken him out easily. Ever heard of "Project for the new American Century"? or "School of America"? You cannot understand the Bush era without understanding his peer group masters. Like Howard he is a dweeb who became a figurehead.
Runner. You are murderous enough now. Imagine if your family had been bombed and empoverished for 50 years or so. You too would distrust and want to kill them. I can forgive blood lust if brought on by multiple deliberate family deaths. To stop this you need to stop bombing wedding parties, not bomb more! (Shouldn't this be common sense?)
Let a generation grow up educated and free and they will depose the fanatics themselves, as they probably would have by now if the US and England didn't play terrorist themselves in the region. (School of America stuff again.)
The only good legacy of Bush is the lesson (hopefully) learned.

Runner writes: ‘The reality is that Islam has kept most Muslims so backward that most can't even read or write.’

Here's an overview of literacy rates in a cross-section of Islamic nations:

Kazakhstan 99.6%, Tajikistan 99.6%, Turkmenistan 99.6%, Azerbajan 99.3%, Kuwait 93%, Malaysia 91%, Indonesia 91%, Bahrain 88%, Turkey 88%, Saudi Arabia 84%. [Wikipedia]

As for the controversial Islamic nations – the ones we are trying hard to save from themselves:

Iraq’s literacy rate was 95% in 1991, but fell to 45% by 2004 and is now at 74%. Prior to 1991, Iraq had the highest literacy rate in the Middle East and won the UNESCO prize for literacy three years in a row (1987-9). [New Internationalist, #316] The dramatic drop between 1991 and 2004 was almost certainly due to crippling economic sanctions, followed by the US-led invasion in 2003.

Iran’s literacy rate rose from 72% in 1980 to 88% in 1990, and is now at 85%, with a projected goal of 92% in 2015. [UNESCO]

Unsurprisingly, Afghanistan’s literacy level is 28% (down from 35% in 1999) [Wikipedia] - which is almost certainly the product of 30 years of war and invasion (and before that, a history of education being available only for the rich), rather than Islam per se.