Fine, sure. The USSR didn't fare well in Afganastan. However, I'd like to point out that, unless I'm mistaken, they weren't losing the war all at once. They set up a pro-Soviet government. They lasted ten years in there, even with the CIA giving Afgan fighters the latest in millitary hardware. We've been there one and a half, with no world power aiding the resitance, and we're already getting tired of it. They're not kicking us out, but we haven't been there long enough. Lets check back in a few more years.
The tax cut? How much political muscle does it take for a popular president to force his will? And on the other hand, how is a hundred billion dollars a year supposed to jump start a five trillion dollar economy
On Iraq: how are the WMD a "known quantity"? And I don't mean a container that held anthrax in 1995. Until I see ton upon ton of VX and Sarin, I'm not buying it.
I do agree, though, that it would have been different with Gore or Clinton. I think that we'd have Osama by now.
I, for one, think he has performed very well, even if not perfectly.
I'm sorry, but I don't quite see what you're refering to. What exactly has Bush done that makes you feel he's done well: He won a war in Afganastan? (Is there any nation that couldn't beat the Afgan army?) He passed a tax cut? He defeated Iraq with merely the use of the world's most powerful army?
I really can't think of a real good call on his part. The only thing he has going for him is that he's the September Eleventh President; he didn't rise to the ocasion, it fell to him. And if the rest of the nation realises that, then he can go back to Texas.
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The tax cut? How much political muscle does it take for a popular president to force his will? And on the other hand, how is a hundred billion dollars a year supposed to jump start a five trillion dollar economy
On Iraq: how are the WMD a "known quantity"? And I don't mean a container that held anthrax in 1995. Until I see ton upon ton of VX and Sarin, I'm not buying it.
I do agree, though, that it would have been different with Gore or Clinton.
I think that we'd have Osama by now.
I'm sorry, but I don't quite see what you're refering to. What exactly has Bush done that makes you feel he's done well:
He won a war in Afganastan? (Is there any nation that couldn't beat the Afgan army?)
He passed a tax cut?
He defeated Iraq with merely the use of the world's most powerful army?
I really can't think of a real good call on his part. The only thing he has going for him is that he's the September Eleventh President; he didn't rise to the ocasion, it fell to him. And if the rest of the nation realises that, then he can go back to Texas.