Originally posted by StinkyFeet
1. He signifiganlty increased aid to the African continent.
It's not altruism when you help people who think just like you, ignore others, and start wars on the side, and end up turning a profit. Sure US aid
to Africa tripled, mostly going through Christian groups fighting AIDS. But this was also preconditioned on policies of privitization and opening of
markets- US trade in Africa doubled at the same time. (for those of you who think that sounds like a good thing, consider the way the US trades-
Ethiopia grows and exports coffee while children starve).
2. He helped to rid the world of a huge number of terrorists.
He created a net increase in terrorism. Many of the young men who we killed in Iraq were minding their own business in Syrian and Jordanian colleges
until we sent a bunch of hopped up teenagers into their region brandishing automatic weapons.
When George Bush came into office, terrorists controlled virtually nothing in Iraq, posed substantially less threat of conquering Pakistan than they
do now, and in Afghanistan were primarily concerned with fighting amongst themselves.
3. He worked for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, well until they elected a bunch of terrorists in Hamas to be their
leaders.
That's right. George Bush stops working for peace the minute FREE DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS don't go his way.
4. He worked to concentrate terrorist fighting into Afghan and Iraq, so the rest of the world was more safe from Terrorism. In fact, he kept
our country safe from any major terrorist attack for 7 years and drove the numbers of attacks around the world down.
Tell that to the several members of our coalition who were beaten into submission by terrorist attacks on their home soil after they let us coerce
them into the war in Iraq. Also tell Pakistan, Sudan, Somalia, Indonesia, etc.
5. He rid the world of the evil dictator Sadaam Hussein.
Yes, now the people of Iraq don't have to worry about being tortured in secret prisons. Unless of course the CIA gets its hands on them.
6. He set the people in Afghanistan free from the hands of the Taliban and their restrictive and ridiculous laws that are harmful to
women.
The Taliban is still firmly in control of much of Afghanistan and has a "permanent presence" in 80% of the country. Even areas which used to be
relatively safe from the Taliban are now seeing violence on a weekly basis.
Don't get me wrong, I acknowledge the growing appearance that two unwinnable wars are going to make either a Carter or a Nixon out of Obama (in that
either he'll be hideously ineffective or that he'll eventually go out of his mind as inherited problems continue to steal his thunder- or both). The
award of the prize to Obama was an enticement and not a recognition of results in my opinion.
But give me a break, Bush? Do you really think that any politician is any better than any other just because he has a different letter after his name?
Virtually to the man, our leaders are a pack of maniancs, criminals, and dimwits- in many cases all of the above rolled into one.