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I see Quentin's posts getting a lot of heat. I thought, why not give him a little break and take some of that heat myself? So, upon thinking that, I decided to post some good things about good ol' President Bush. Yeah, most of you are probably wonder: This guy is Indian, why does he care about Bush and American politics?? Well, firstly, I could ask ( Read more... )
1) We're still at a net job loss of about 3 million jobs under Bush. Sure, we've gained a million jobs in the last few months, but there's still a net job LOSS under Bush despite the growing number of people needing to be employed every year (because of growing population). Job creation is still a loooong way from where it needs to be to be stable.
2) Saddam used WMD that the US gave him, not against "his own people" but against Kurdish rebels in the north who wanted to secede from Iraq. Yeah, gassing people is still helluv wrong, but if it's THAT bad how come we were selling those weapons to other people? The radical Kurds in Iraq were just like the radical Palestinians in Israel - all they want to do is split off a large part of the country to turn into their homeland and they'll violently oppose anyone who tries to stop them. As far as the tourture stuff, that's par for the course in the Middle East. Dictatorships we support, like the Saudis, regularly engage in state-sponsored beheadings and tourture.
3) Your argument #6 is just a blatant fucking lie. Al Quaida recruitment is up, more Americans are being targeted by terrorists every day now than were targeted before the war in Iraq, and 900+ Americans who would never have died if we hadn't attacked Iraq are now rotting in the ground thanks to suicide bombers in Iraq. There are terrorist bombings in Iraq EVERY SINGLE DAY. There may be fewer terrorist attacks outside of Iraq but terrorist attacks in the whole world including Iraq are way, way, WAY up.
I don't disagree with everything you're saying, and I don't think Bush is as bad as some people think he is, but I also don't think he deserves a second term in office. He's done a really bad job as President, especially in terms of foreign relations. People across the world hate America MORE now than they did when the 9/11 attacks happened.
Yeah, politics are stupid, but not as stupid as Bush.
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