this man is a mumbling stuttering drooling imbecile who could screw up a cup of slice of toast.

And by the way, I voted for his father (once) and Clinton (twice) so I'm NOT biased against President Fredo. I wish his brother Jeb would run.

I'm calling dibbs NOW ...

If I decide to run for President in 2024, YOU are my VP!

 “In researching the book, Draper interviewed President Bush six times.”

- What a great president. One of the bravest and strongest we've had in a long time. God bless him.
I also wish him well in his career post-presidency, and I bet he's got some great stories and lectures to tell once he's free from the responsibility (and burden) of being leader of the free world.
Posted By Will, Norfolk Virginia : September 3, 2007 7:48 pm

Some thoughts:
1 – Are you of sound mind; above the age of twelve; have an I.Q. above say, 60 ? You’re not a little old lady are you ? Should I even say anything – I feel bad even thinking about criticizing your statement – as if I’m considering telling a child there’s no Santa Claus .
2 – I want to hear back from you after you attend the “lecture”. If you still say he’s a great man, and you are of age, and not mentally handicapped in any way, I would like to punch you – maybe just on the arm, but really hard .
3 – Two questions: When you say “… strongest we’ve had in a long time .” 1) How old are you – what’s a long time to you ? … and … 2) What do you mean by strong ? If you mean: reckless, blind, arrogant, ignorant, clumsy, simple-minded, morally bankrupt, superior, disdainful, openly greedy, manipulative, unable to recognize truth when it bites one on the ass, and subject to outright dirt-baggery, then I’m with you .

PROBABLY THE WHOLE BOOK IS A PACK OF LIES,
Posted By HAWK,TEXAS : September 3, 2007 8:10 pm
YES ! He’s really a GENIUS !!! He’s cleverly and wonderfully disguised himself as a complete moron in order to disarm the liberals . Genius ! GENIUS, I SAY !!! muahahahaha !

George W. Bush is a hero and a great man. We are very blessed as a nation to have such humility, steadfastness, principle, and courage in a President.
I don't know if this book is any good because it is new, but I hope many books are written and read about one of America's greatest hero's.
ThirstyJon
freedomthirst.com
Posted By ThirstyJon, Freedomville, IL : September 3, 2007 8:13 pm

I don’t know how people have confused humility with what I have seen, since the campaign running up to Election 2000, as a combination of: Karl Rove’s careful distancing of Bush from the free press; nothing substantive to say (but rather conservative or religious buzz words and fear-mongering); a penchant for mis-speaking, rambling on about nothing, and/or saying just, plain, stupid things .

As for principle, I would like you to explain yourself there .

Just curious – the town you live in isn’t really called “Frenchville, IL” is it ?

It's very easy for people to assume the worst and be negative. Your hatred blinds you from the facts. The President has done what he has thought best and the fact that he cries often just shows he has put his heart and soul into all of his decisions. Wait 20 years and this President will be judged completely differently.
Posted By D., philadelphia, PA : September 3, 2007 9:47 pm

Ahhhh – the historical legacy . I will bet you every dollar I ever make from now till I’m dead, that as time marches forward we will learn of more acts of a morally, ethically and legally questionable nature surrounding the W presidency . It won’t take twenty years, but the picture will only continue to get worse by the time one score of years has passed . With passage of time come memoirs, comes historical research . The passage of time adds perspective to things – makes small mistakes look like obvious supidity . I predict time will not be kind to the W era . We will not escape the critique of history’s cold gaze either . How will you and I answer our children’s questions as to how We the People allowed so many mistakes, so many bad decisions to be made, as to how the scoundrels got were put in office twice ?

I'm asking bush: who's your God? after what you did so terrible and destroyed millions of lifes,you are monster in human body,may God forgive you.

You're partly right, yet mostly wrong. Yes, I was (and remain) deeply proud of our men and women in uniform. And, yes, I also wave the flag. But, as with so many others, I gave this President the benefit of the doubt over his stated reasons for going to war. That so many of those reasons were manufactured out of whole cloth provides all of the justification I or anyone else needs to condemn this President.

And, finally, it's disingenuous in the extreme to imply that that one cannot support the troops without blindly supporting the President's disastrous policies. As they say down in Crawford, "That dog won't hunt".

About Iraq, Bush says he's trying to hang in until ... the Republican presidential candidates can feel comfortable with a continuing commitment. At the same time, he's over in Iraq hinting that maybe troop withdrawal can begin soon.
While Americans are dying at near record numbers, and Iraqi deaths are escalating, bush is stalling. Unbelievable.
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Facilitators are asked, appointed, and/or hired to assist others.

Who asked, appointed, or hired George Bush as a facilitator for democracy in Iraq? I believe it's a bit far fetched to suggest George Bush facilitated with anything concerning Iraq. Unless, you consider a facilitator as someone who bombs a nation into submission.

If that statement wasn't so ridiculous it might even make me smile!

Bush is dead certain and our causalities in his war are just as dead.

Doing a heck of a job, Bushie. ~

Katrina was Darwin's theory of removing some of the idiots. If you build BELOW sea level and ignore ALL the warnings of a Cat-5 Hurricane – your house will be flooded and you will be risking your own life! No amount of government, money, or warning can save ignorance.

Here's a WILD idea... if you don't like the recovery effort (of rebuilding a town BELOW sea level)... MOVE!

"You are a bad Christian, if you have a problem with President Bush" – WHAT!!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME

"He is the BEST President, because he sticks to his guns" – That's also known as a FOOL, one who refuses to change direction when they know they are lost

I knew that Mr. Bush was going to start this war before he was ever elected. He was on the campagin trail and said "He (Saddam) tried to kill my Daddy..." I knew then we would be going to war with Iraq, and if people paid attention they would have known that too. 9/11 was his excuse.

Mr. Bush may be crying, and he should be. This is a sad time in American History. We are divided as a country, we've alienated many of our friends, and we are in a war where there are no winners.

As a former Marine, we know that people can be for the troops and against the war. Only small-minded people think otherwise. While we have lost many soldiers to this war, and many many more have been wounded, the Iraqi's lives have been turned upside down, with no HOPE, water, food, jobs, security or anything close to normalcy coming in the very near future.

Please don't forget that Mr. Bush was GIVEN the presidency in 2000, and 2004 was questionable. Personally, I really fear what lies ahead with these electronic voting machines, with no paper back up. Who in there RIGHT MIND would purchase that type of equipment or think it is a good idea? I know... Republicans, so they can steal more elections.

How would anyone who agrees with paperless voting feel if their banks went paperless? Where is the accountability? But why do I ask these question, accountability has not taken place for quite some time...

I love all you patriotic, "chest thumping" Americans. Too bad it's all just a really poor act reeking with hypocrisy – especially since it uses (your incredibly RECENT newfound) patriotism as a basis.

"What were we told after all these attacks? Don’t worry about it. Everyone’s happy…enjoy the pseudo-dot com economy. And then absolutely nothing was done about these attacks.

Bush took over and he addressed our problems. He didn’t ignore them. He became the leader that this country needed. He cannot speak very well, but he is a leader."

Dubya addressed our problems by: giving 43 million to the Taliban (you know, the guys who harbored Al Queada?) then going on vacation before 911, attacking the WRONG country who didn't attack us (at a cost of over 3000 troop lives and hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars), for weapons he was told that he didn't have (by the very people looking for those weapons), and thus has yet to find Osama (the guy who DID attack us) after promising he would?

Then again, its hard to find a guy when you're "truly not that concerned about him", call off U.S. troops who had him pinned down in Tora Bora and then dismantled the spy agency in charge of finding him!

Yep .. he's s true leader! LOL!

Oh, and speaking of chest thumping patriotism, what did you other (big, bad, chest-thumping) republicans who had control of Congress from 1995 to 2001 do about terrorism BEFORE 911?

Answer: You complained about Clinton’s proposed anti-terrorism measures before passing watered down versions of them in ’96. Even though Clinton believed they were “too weak”, you guys didn’t want your freedoms curtailed and “didn’t want a police state”. Then you screamed “Wag the Dog” and “No WAR for Monica” when Clinton sent missiles over to at least TRY to take out Osama on 8/20/98. And NOW you guys are the very same ones crying like babies since 911 “Why didn’t Clinton do anything?”

And what were some of the repub senators’ responses the VERY DAY Clinton bombed Osama’s camps in Afghanistan and Sudan on August 20, 1998?

Answer: Rod Grams of Minn. invoked the movie “Wag the Dog”, Dan Coates of Ind. and (former attorney general) John Ashcroft of Missouri both questioned Clinton’s judgment, and Arlen Spector also questioned the timing of the attack on Osama! Other republicans like Peter King (N.Y.) moaned and groaned about not being “consulted” before the attack.

LOL ... the truth still stinging?

Tell us, where was all your patriotic "chest thumping" when you and other republicans were MORE concerned with playing politics via the authenticity of DNA stains on a blue dress than protecting this country from terrorism?

Any answers for us?

I think we'd ALL like to know David!

WE KNOW. You've been crying, belly-aching, screeching, and basically having a tempor-tantrum.

When you're finished, you may join the rest of the grown up in a sensible dialogue about issues. Otherwise – continue with your proverbial timeout. We'll continue electing LEADERS as opposed to Bush-bashers like Hillary, Edwards, or Jr State Legislators like Obama.

To your objection "abuse of power".

US and President George Bush made an error in judgement by sending US Defence Forces inside Iraq based on faulty intelligence.

The above erro was immediately rectified by
1) Declaring end to War on Iraq four years ago
2) Restore land of Iraq to people of Iraq though democratic process

Coming back to "abuse of power (by USA)".

Under current circumstances in Iraq (chaos, death and destruction inside Iraq by segments of Iraqis, al-qaida, jihadis to hash out territorial issues) US can abuse its power by "Withdrawing its defence forces from Iraq".

US is not abusing its power by staying in Iraq. US would actually abuse its power by "Withdrawing its defence forces from Iraq".

No other country in the world has the monetary budget to support stablization effort in Iraq. US has on various occassion asked for all United Nations countries to come forward collectively and contribute to stablization effort in Iraq.

In fact US Congress and People of United States would be more than happy to let the world shell out the cash for Iraq. US economy as of now is under tremendous pressure to support its troops in Iraq.

Time to wake up, Errol.

-All our servicemen and women who have died and for the 30,000 who have come home wounded and maimed.

- The iraqui children and other civilians who continue to die by the hundreds.

-Our allies who have been bombed thanks to our interference in Iraq.

-The dozens of reporters who lost their lives or were wounded covering this war.

-And for all of those who will perish before this foolish war is finally over.

As for Bush et al. I don't shed a single tear!!!

To answer your "Oh, and "freedom is not cheap"? I like a clever bumpersticker as much as the next person, but not when its an empty slogan being used to justify the deaths of tens of thousands."

Come to think of it, let us go by how a Capitalist evaluates "value of freedom".

Is it OK to pay tax 33% and be alive and have a growing business?

Even though people in Iraq are dying, on a closer look it seems people in Iraq are hashing out territorial issues inside Iraq.

And when territorial issues are hashed (without recourse to lawful process of courts) using the law of fist and might, death and destruction is bound to take place. And this situation in Iraq is not different from a similar situation in developed nation (Death and destruction happens even in developed nations when territorial issues are hashed using fist and might).

Eventually, Iraq situation will stablize. The issue before USA and President George Bush is "Are we involved in territorial issues inside Iraq?".

The simple answer is "No".

Honestly I have no words to explain your ignorance. Now your analogy of comparing once situation to another is ridiculos. Look at the gravity of each situation and then pass comments. I am not comparing democracy practiced in different countries but rather abuse of power.

Why did he make the statement publicly to a reporter before the Iraq Invasion that, If somebody had put a price on your Dad's head (referencing Saddam Hussein) wouldn't you want to do him justice?

If the WMD's were the purpose of the war in Iraq and they still haven't been found, why put Saddam to death?
That helped the situation how?

Why did Bush begin the hunt for Osama and then move into Iraq when it was reported by many that Osama was in Pakistan?

And what was the purpose of bombing Iraq near out of existence and killing innocent Iraq Civilians? WMD'S? (Still currently at Large)

And why are American and Nato troops in Iraq now?

I can answer that one for you. They are there to clean up the mess that Bush made. The mess meaning the devastation and unrule his War brought to Iraq and it's people. Iraq had more stability and more peace before Bush.

And just as a footnote. Terrorism is still alive and well!

So the purpose of the current War in Iraq (which is really not a war but a clean up project and oh yes, a Peace Keeping Mission) is?

And for all the blind people that are talking about all the "great" things this man has done for the country. PLEASE I beg you name JUST ONE. Say it, don't generalize. People will say "freedom" The revolution gave us freedom, Civil War for the rest of us and but wiped out most of those freedoms with the patriot act.

Other people will say he brought "God" back to the country. I believe in GOD but god and religion does not belong in the goverment.

People keep seeing that this country was founded by and on faith and religion. This is PARTLY true, the Mayflower LEFT Britain BECAUSE they were OPPRESSED by the churches interferance and involvement with the state. The founding father MADE IT A POINT TO SEPARATE THE CHURCH FROM THE STATE PRECISELY FOR THIS REASON.

NO-ONE is telling you not to believe as you choose. The point of the founding fathers is that I should not have to believe OR FOLLOW YOUR INTEREPRATIONS of what you THINK God wants.

We should not have to live by the rule of the "Moral Majority" not only because the moral majority is neither, but also because there is no such thing, and to do so would make this country no different than Iran.

When you said, "I, George W Bush...so help me God" the first time, we ALL did a lot of crying!!!!

Sincerely,
U.S. America

No real American weeps for this man.

"Rick, refering to "feat" you have to put President George Bush's situation in context."

I already put his situation in context in my above post. Feel free to re-read it if you need to. And, while you're at it, read the other posts as well. There's a reason that a vast majority of the posts disagree with your assessment of your wonderful leader.

"I am sure that Mullahs of this world have issued thousands of Fatwas against President George Bush and his team and Defence Force's officers and soldiers who are operating in field.
Now if you only knew what a Mullah's Fatwa is? Not many people can sleep after one is issued against them.
Clearly President George Bush made some error of judgement (could have been prevented if transparency to review decisions was in place, but Presidents do have to make decisions on their own – that is why we elect them as President)."

Transparency? All this could have been prevented if Dubya decided to listen to the people he ignored and ignored the people he kept listening to.

He DESERVES those Fatwas since he decided to attack a country that didn't attack us based on WMDs he was told Saddam didn't have – at a cost of hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars, 3800 troop lives and roughly 75,000 Iraqi civilian deaths in the process. When you go out of your way to put yourself in a bad situation, then REPEATEDLY go out of your way to make it WORSE, you don't get to blame other people when bad things (like Fatwas) happen.

Why WOULDN'T the historically tribal Iraqis freely support a secular, American-made, puppet government, that they never asked for, aligned with Israel of all things, when it’s forced on them at gunpoint, to be America's new proxy in the region while it's trying to privatize their oil ... and all this by the same foreign government that bombed their entire infrastructure (sewage, water systems etc) to bits, let their anti-Saddam uprising get slaughtered by Saddam after it abandoned them in 1991, and levied sanctions that killed a million Iraqi children?

"As to winning war in Iraq, price to achieve democracy has always been high (from days of French revolution to this war in Iraq). I am sure when Iraq returns to normalcy, maybe thirty years from now (hopefully sooner), people will look back upon this time as nothing more than "turbulent times"."

And I am sure maybe thirty years from now (hopefully sooner) that ALL people will look back on Dubya as the WORST president in this country's history.

"The critics on this page have blamed Bush for failing to nab UBL and for the deaths of the soldiers sent to nab UBL. Can't have it both ways, boys. Yes, lives have been lost, but our country is safer now than it was on September 10. Freedom is not cheap."

These statements are the epitome of jingoistic ignorance. Nobody is complaining about the "deaths of the soldiers sent to nab UBL". The deaths they're worried about are the deaths of the soldiers sent to Iraq, a country with no connection whatsoever to 9/11 or UBL. A pursuit, by the way, which has diverted resources from Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the real "War on Terror", if such a thing exists in any meaningful sense, should be fought.

"Our country is safer now than it was on September 10." What is that statement based on? Anything? By my count, its almost 6 years since 9/11, but there were 8 years between the first Trade Center bombing and the 9/11 attacks. So where do people come up with these proclamations of safety?

Oh, and "freedom is not cheap"? I like a clever bumpersticker as much as the next person, but not when its an empty slogan being used to justify the deaths of tens of thousands.

You are the reason this fool of a president got re-elected. What utter nonsense on your part! Where do you get off lecturing the rest of us on how to behave or whether or not we have a right to disagree with our president invading a sovereign nation that did not attack us on 9/11. Your pomposity is obvious and insulting. Freedom is not free – oh really? And we need someone like you to tell us that? Yes, we have to fight for freedom, but let's be sure to fight the right war in the right country against the REAL enemy. Iraq was not and never has been our enemy. The people who attacked us on 9/11 are in Afghanistan and Pakistan. That would be Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. You remember him, don't you? That's the guy that this genius president famously said was "Wanted – Dead or Alive". Nice, huh? Well, he is still out there, probably laughing his head off at us for abandoning the war in Afghanistan to go off on this folly of invading Iraq. The Taliban has emerged stronger than ever and Al Qaeda now has a base of power in Iraq, courtesy of George W. Bush. Only a total moron could have devised such an insane strategy.

Please spare me from your condescending blather. We have an obligation and a duty to speak out when we disagree with our government's actions. It's in the Constitution. Why don't you pick up a copy and actually read it sometime. It might prove quite enlightening. Until then, lay off the rants about freedom. You don't have a clue what it's really all about.

Yes, those list attacks did occured under Clinton's watch. However relatively few Americans died. There wasn't a worldwide mandate to take out the Taliban, Bin Laden and his network by force like there was after 9/11. They are are still around and by the way, they are getting stronger.

Clinton was his effort did stopped a lot of attacks. The 2000 New Year Eve attack could had killed thousands. However it was discovered and stopped. People only seems to remember the attacks that occured and not the many that were stopped under Clinton's watch.

Oh yeah, and your list? I don't see one that occured on AMERICAN SOIL. If you want to list the one on foreign soils, Bush's list would be larger by many folds. Heck, there's at least one every single day.

Courage? This is the man who deserted from the National Guard.
Humility? This is the idiot that marched around ship's deck in crotch-framing flight pants while declaring "Mission Accomplished."
Principle? This man has turned off portions of the Constitution because 3100 Americans died on one day. Turning off the same Constitution you swore to "protect and defend" is the cowardly action of a fascist.
Humility? HAhahahahahaha.

Whew. Good one.

1) Longest Econmic Expansion
Highest budget deficit ever, 9 trillion in debt. Highest trade deficit.

2) 9/11 Stewardship,
Used the high emotions to mislead the country. Main culprit still missing.

3) Afganastan Democracy
Where is Osama ?

4) Iraq Democracy
At what cost ?

He is talking about spreading democracy but impeaching on human rights, allowing torture, denying heabus corpus, constitution is just another inconvenience for him.

He is letting terrorists win. He is doing what they want, destroy the american way of life.

5) Largest Tax Cuts
To his buddies in oil companies, corporates.

6) Shortest Recession.
Not his doing, can he even spell recession.

7) No Child Left Behind
Will give this to him, a decent idea

Most Diverse Administration
Group think, full of bushies, no one has any credibility or character, think Rowe, think Ashcroft, Gonzeles, miers, cheney.

9) Largest Home Ownership *all races
Americans workers are most productive in world.

10) Highest Rated *look it up
And lowest rated too.
The world hates US because of what bush has done. After 9-11 the we had solidarity, people felt for us, but today they despise us.

Evil begets evil. We ought to hold ourselves to a higher standard.

George bush wants to bring good with doing evil. He deserves to do more than cry

You cannot compare Bush-Iraq situation to Hilter-WWII situation.

There are notable diffrence between Bush-Iraq situation vs Hilter-WWII situation:
1) Bush never intended to occupy Iraq
2) Bush's decision was processed thorugh democratic process before it was implemented
3) Bush has never professed genocide or dictatorship.

US led by President George Bush made an error in judgement to allow defense forces into Iraq based on faulty intelligence.

However US has returned the land back to its rightful citizens through democratic process.

Maliki is head of a democartic state of Iraq – though flawed democacry (you cannot wish for perfect democracy in Iraq after three years when countries like USA, UK, France, Russia, Spain etc are still trying to fix flaws in their democracy after hundreds of years).

There is no use bashing President George Bush, beacuse his current role is not to run Iraq. His role in Iraq in conjuction with coalition partners, is to provide support to Iraq Government.

How about he acknowledged and addressed the problems that faced us? Instead of ignoring them and hoping they would go away.

Bombing 1993 World Trade Center
Bombing of USS Cole
Bombing in Tanzania
Bombing in Kenya
Bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudia Arabia
Bombing of our Israeli allies by Saddam

What were we told after all these attacks? Don’t worry about it. Everyone’s happy…enjoy the pseudo-dot com economy. And then absolutely nothing was done about these attacks.

Bush took over and he addressed our problems. He didn’t ignore them. He became the leader that this country needed. He cannot speak very well, but he is a leader.