In less than 23 hours, President George W. Bush will have finished his two terms in office as President of the United States.
As he leaves, the media pundits who hated him even when he announced his candidacy for President (and those whom I remember in Texas who mocked him when he first ran for Governor against Ann "Ma" Richards) will take every opportunity to kick him on the way out the door, citing the "low approval ratings" Bush holds in the MSM polls. Democrat & far-Left activists, who've spent the last eight years in a perpetual temper-tantrum over the 2000 Election, will continue their Bush Derangement Syndrome into the Obama Administration by calling for Soviet style show trials and indictments against him and his administration.
Despite the vitriol and hate of the liberals and liberal press, who tout Bush as the "worst President ever," history will be far kinder to him and look back on Bush as a good and decisive President who took the right actions in defending America after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
There is plenty of room for legitimate criticism of Bush in many areas. The stealth amnesty proposals masqueraded as "comprehensive immigration reform." The massive federal spending at the domestic level. The so-called "new tone" which did not end the partisan discourse. In fact, it ignited it, as Democrats took advantage of Bush's good will and divided this nation over national security and national disasters for the sole purpose of their own political gain.
Despite the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, Khobar Towers in 1996, the embassy bombings in 1998 and the USS Cole attack in 2000, no one imagined the horrors of September 11, 2001. We were not prepared, because those previous attacks were viewed as a criminal matter. Bush saw 9/11 exactly for what it was....an act of war on this nation, not a criminal matter. His actions in invading Iraq, rooting out the Taliban and pursuing al-Queda terrorists world wide was the right action to follow.
Likewise (and you liberals, ACLU members, celebrity idiots of conscience who really don't have a conscience--read this and be offended), the program of tracking transfers of money from terrorists, as well as the terrorist surveillance program (warrantless wiretapping of calls from suspected terrorists to people within America), military tribunals, the detention of al-Queda members without rights at Gitmo and use of harsh interrogation methods (like waterboarding) were all the
RIGHT actions to be taken. Personally,
I think we should have done more of them. People forget (since history is no longer taught in schools) that much worse has happened in previous wars. Abraham Lincoln, for instance, suspended habeaus corpus during the Civil War and had pro-Confederacy Democrats (Copperheads) arrested.
Just as all these methods were used to fight al-Queda terrorists and prevent future attacks, we were right to invade Iraq and liberate that nation from Saddam Hussein, who had given aid to terrorists and harbored the desire to build weapons of mass destruction.
"But Bush lied," you libs will tell me. "There were no WMDs." First of all, President Bush didn't lie. He acted on the intelligence given to him at the time. It is interesting to note that these same partisan critics of Bush will not admit how Bill Clinton made the same arguments in 1998, and how the Iraq Liberation Act passed with wide bipartisan support that same year.
The results speak for themselves. We have not been attacked on our own soil since 9/11.
After the dot-con bust of 2000, the 9/11 attacks and corporate scandals drove down Wall Street and the American economy, President Bush and the Republican Congress revived it miraculously with across the board tax cuts. The 52 weeks of economic growth showed (as Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy did previously) that cutting taxes led to economic recovery. Jobs were created, adding more taxpayers which increased tax revenues. It's interesting to note that the downturn in today's economy
began during 2007, after the Worst Congress Ever under Nine Percent Nancy Pelosi had come into power.
No one said the hard decisions would meet with popularity or that all the nations would come together and sing "We Are The World" in approval. Sometimes in life, doing what is right isn't always popular. Nevertheless, that is no reason not to do what is in the best interest of the nation.
So let the liberals deride Bush on the way out while they have their Obasms. Somehow, I have a feeling that it won't be long before the nation wishes George W. Bush was still President of the United States.
Thank you, President Bush, for keeping America safe and for doing what is right!
While the rest of us are supposed to "eat cake."
