The Anti Bush Thread

[Intbel]

In the same way I am pro Europe and anti EU I am pro-American and anti-Bush.

I don't like the man - politically or personally.

He and Blair claim to share "Common values " .. . it seems arrogance is one of them:

BUSH: CLAP ME - OR NO EU SPEECH

GEORGE Bush pulled out of a speech to the European Parliament when MEPs wouldn't guarantee a standing ovation.

Senior White House officials said the President would only go to Strasbourg to talk about Iraq if he had a stage-managed welcome.

A source close to negotiations said last night: "President Bush agreed to a speech but insisted he get a standing ovation like at the State of the Union address.

"His people also insisted there were no protests, or heckling.

"I believe it would be a crucial speech for Mr Bush to make in light of the opposition here to war. But unless he only gets adulation and praise, then it will never happen."

Mr Bush's every appearance in the US is stage-managed, with audiences full of supporters.
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Compliance is futile - resist!

[extra ordinary]

I am not sure why bush junior is president
uncle sams politics are faintly odd in this respect, I mean tony blair before 1997 was marketable -he was new and a reformer, we as a nation gave him a huge mandate at the ballot box, now the wheels have come off and we know that we want him out of number 10. most English in fact have thought that since, well 1998 !
in the US however they have some sound republican policies on the home front, but by any standards g w bush is not an obvious leader and you kind of feel there must be someone else 10 times better, strainning at leash and good to go, or have all the greats of world politics gone and gone for good :?:

[Intbel]

Originally Posted by extra ordinary

I am not sure why bush junior is president.

He is a Patsy. He is a proxy preznit. In return for gain and fame he does as he is told and says what he is told to say. He is the narrator, not the author. He is also a most despicable, obnoxious and objectionable example of homo sapiens.
He is an oxygen thief.

Originally Posted by extra ordinary

Have all the greats of world politics gone and gone for good :?:

The best are yet to come ...

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[Intbel]

Army specialist Tyson Johnson of Mobile, Ala., had just been promoted in a field ceremony in Iraq when a mortar round exploded outside his tent, almost killing him.

"It took my kidney, my left kidney, shrapnel came in through my head, back of my head," he recounted.

His injuries forced him out of the military, and the Army demanded he repay an enlistment bonus of $2,700 because he'd only served two-thirds of his three-year tour.

When he couldn't pay, Johnson's account was turned over to bill collectors. He ended up living out of his car when the Army reported him to credit agencies as having bad debts, making it impossible for him to rent an apartment.

"Oh, man, I felt betrayed," Johnson said. "I felt like, oh, my heart dropped."

[mkpdavies]

[Britannist]

The fashion in the UK and many other nations is to Bush-bash. I would rather have George W. Bush as President of the USA than the man he defeated at the last American Election (Kerry).

I'm not a supporter of British troops actually being in Iraq and believe the UK should have sent soldiers to Kuwait (a British ally) to defend its borders - but that the UK should not have 'intervened' inside Iraq.

Nevertheless, although I might disagree with George W. Bush over Iraq I regard him as a fairly straightforward man who is far from stupid. His opponents try to mock him (implying he is of limited intelligence) but what's behind these attacks on Mr. Bush (apart from the international left) is snobbishness because he speaks with a southern American 'country' dialect/accent.

His clever tactic of appealing to Evangelical Protestant America AND to staunchly Roman Catholic (RC) America AT THE SAME TIME led to many people who OPPOSED the Iraq 'war' actually voting for him in the last Presidential election - it was his support for the Protestant church and his opposition to abortion (pleasing RC voters) which was the deciding factor that gave him a deserved victory in the last Presidential Election.

President Bush has cut into the traditionally pro-Democrat RC vote in the USA more skilfully than even Ronald Reagan did (God Rest His Soul). This is thanks to the tactic of Mr. Bush's strategist Karl Gove. President Bush has partly 'bought into' RC American, brilliantly taking a slice of the huge RC bloc of votes that the leftist Democrats took for granted as their own since the days of John F. Kennedy. President Bush has also become the FIRST EVER American President to win WITHOUT taking any of the big three cities (NY, LA, Chicago). His is a victory for suburban and rural America against the Democrat leftist out-of-touch 'metro-political elite'. The same 'elite' that in the UK is rabidly pro-euro.

Any man who follows the advice of Karl Gove (as George W. Bush did) is far from a fool. George W. Bush is an astute man. Many may disagree with him over Iraq. But to mock him or to dismiss his ability to win TWO Presidential races with all the political odds stacked against him is a mistake.

If I were an American, I would definitely have voted for George W. Bush.

[mkpdavies]

I disagree. I think he is stupid, but is just a glove puppet anyway, so it makes no odds.

I hate his rhetoric more than anything.

You're with us or your against us, bollox.
They hate our freedom, bollox.
etc, etc.

He is the same as Bliar in his attack on the American peoples liberties too. Scare the **** out of them, then remove their freedoms in the name of fighting terror.

Don't like him never will. Just glad more and more Americans are feeling the same, even hardcore Republicans.

[Britannist]

Originally Posted by mkpdavies

He is the same as Bliar...

I agree that the Bliar connection does President Bush no favours. Most people say that the Bush connection does Bliar no favours - but I couldn't care less about Bliar.

George W. Bush is a winner. I bet he doesn't bother too much about what people think of him or say about him. He got a second term and as the RC section of the American population grows - so will support for the President Bush's Republican Party.

If the Conservatives wanted to get more votes over here - they might start taking notice of what churchgoers of all faiths want. My impression (from my own place of worship and by talking to other religious people) is that it isn't the EU, euro, icebergs or overfilled kettles.

People can say what they like. By listening to religious America - George W. Bush secured a fantastic victory twice in a row. And that doesn't mean I agree with everything he stood for. The alternative was Kerry, Edward Kennedy and the usual 'liberal' rabble.

[mkpdavies]

I'll give him that. He sure knows who to "win" and election. Or rather his party does.

[John Carter]

Bush is a very intelligent man.

Have all y'all who're knocking him been actually checking out his works or have you been hearing about them on the grapevine? Peer pressure is more subtle than you'd think.