<p>If nothing good comes out of Bush's actions, he will likely get chastised for the results. If something good does come out in the end, Bush won't be accredited with the success; the American people will.</p>
<p>No, I did not put a lot of thought into this, and personally, I don't think I ever will. I have to utter a laugh every time I'm driving down the highway and see the sign announcing "George Bush Center of Intelligence, Exit [#]."</p>
<p>Oh, and I move to add "halusanegetic mushrooms" as an official phrase in the English language!</p>
<p>The only people who actually LIKE W. anymore are people who have no idea what's going on in politics and just follow whatever their parents/religion says.</p>
<p>Mozilla- Excuse me, maybe you haven't been reading the news or something? Or maybe you just live under a rock.
Over 100 Shiite Muslims are killed everyday in Iraq. Baghdad is pretty much just chaos right now. Americans are getting killed left and right, you don't hear as much as this becasue the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict is taking up so much space (and rightfully so) but if you were to count all the deaths each day in the MidEast, you would find it IS worse than Vietnam. At least with Vietnam we had a few semi-competent presidents (okay, not Nixon, but Kennedy and a few others) and Americans were much more active in pushing for a withdrawal of troops. It seems like so many people (urself included) do not comprehend the intensity of the war right now. This might just turn into WW3 if we Americans don't make some good choice with the next presidential election. It's up to our generation to decide to make changes. </p>
<p>I cannot even believe you are acting like the Iraq war is nothign compared to Vietnam. I totally understand that no two wars can be compared without doing an injustice to one, and I also understand that comparing Iraq and Vietnam would be like comparing apples and oranges, but in terms of intensity, Iraq is definitely up there.</p>
<p>It isnt anything compared to Nam....MILLIONS of vietnamese died in that war...compared to thousands of Iraqis. Turn to US casualties....the itty bitty number we have now was nothing compared to the 60,000 in Vietnam. Although, I find it funny how people forget Korea in most cases, Korea had close to 50,000 US deaths in 3 YEARS...how long did Vietnam last? Around 10 years...and only 10,000 more casualties. </p>
<p>HAHA, and you say Nixon wasnt a semi-competent prez? what are you smoking, he was the one that pulled us out...did LBJ do that during his term? no. And Kennedy was the one who got us into that debacle. There is a perfect example of how presidents are remembered...Nixon is thought to be one of the worse, when in fact he took us out of Vietnam for all you hippie sympathisers and opened the US to the foreign exchange for all you hardcore capitalists...he also took us off the gold standard.</p>
<p>How long have we been in Iraq? ...three or four years how many deaths? around a couple thousand US. How many years were we in Korea? Three. How many deaths? 50,000...you cannot say the Iraq war matches intensity. As far as civilian casualties go...there is no arguing that Vietnam takes the cake with approx 2 million dead as a result. And dont even go into atrocities, NO ONE remembers Korean war atrocities by either side...so until you start *<strong><em>ing about them...dont *</em></strong> about Iraqi war crimes.</p>
<p>^werd...atleast around here. they say they hate bush because of his vernacular and how he's an idiot or how they hate the war in the middle east when four years ago they supported such a resolution (granted info was bad...but every nations central security agencie's info was the same)...I'm sorry but he is one damned good businessman, ill give him that. And I would rather have him running the country than Kerry. Doesnt mean I agree with his failed port deal, or that *<strong><em>ing amnesty *</em></strong>....I personally think he focuses too much on foreign issues and not much of his own.</p>
<p>I d think people would remember Bush cause in his term alota stuff did happen. I mean 9/11 nd even tho the Iraq and that other one we fought against the taliban are relatively small, America really hasn't had that many wars, compared to say...england or china. Also in his term, nuclear proliferation among smaller nations became an issue. First time economy slowed in a decade. Lota stuff so yea why wouldnt he be remembered? O yea, on top of that he had one of the closest elections ever over al gore. A close one against kerry. Man, controversy follows this guy.</p>
<p>Jonathan K., you are in middle school and are complaining that teenagers don't know anything about politics. How are you any different? Even worse, what makes you think you know any better?</p>
<p>I can guarantee that your small town is unlike the CC community, in that many people here do watch the news, and it most likely isn't Fox. Please save your arrogance for other people. It's not going to take you far.</p>
<p>Regarding Iraq versus Vietnam, I do think that it will be remembered as a major event a hundred years from now not because of the sheer number of casualties and the like, but because our culture and society has been defined in the past few years so much by Iraq. Don't forget: people act based on what they think happened.</p>
<p>What the HELL are you talking about? Are you sure you're talking about the same Bush here? The one that sent every indicator of the economy heading straight downwards in his first two years in office? The one that can't tell a negative number from a positive one? The one that closes down schools to support this war in Iraq?</p>
<p>I don't know about you, but if you ask me, he's a TERRIBLE businessman.</p>
<p>futurenyu student... your last post was so devoid of anything that could be called a logical argument that I just had to post and tell you so. If you are going to argue a point you need to come up with something more to say than some obscure reference to Bush closing schools down to fund the war. Please tell us what schools? How many much money did this free up to support the war? I would love to know details. You don't know how retarded that sounds. </p>
<p>If you are going to bash our president, will you please come up with something better than he doesn't know a positive number from a negative number. </p>
<p>You sound like one of those many people who get so passionate and emotional about a controversial issue and fail to ever see the other side's view. </p>
<p>Please do us all a favor and grow up. The last thing we need is another college educated idealogue</p>
<p>business is a private sector futurenyustudent....like what he did with oil, he bought the rangers, etc...he is rich and successful and it aint from his war hero father......well, successful can be argued</p>