Longball714 wrote: What???!!! Not even considering how he handled 9/11 so smoothly??? When Bush invaded Iran after 9/11, Bush's approval rating went through the roof at 96%. Later, when he invaded Iraq, his rating nosedived, and that's the reason he's hated today. He had an awesome half of a term, and ruined it with his other one and a half.
Smoothly? For one day. Actually, for the first week or so, he did exellent. We did a fantastic job attacking Alkida in Afghanistan right away. Then we had him. And then we went to Iraq and left him there. I mean seriously, it's not enough to go into the most expensive war in American history, but why not cut off half our income and lower taxes at the same time? And you wonder why the economy is so screwed up.
Now, their are three things that make a president's aproval raiting soar up (it was never 96!). Be attacked by another country (well, not another country here, but still), be shot at, or die. He did the first. He holds the record the highest and lowest aproval rating in American history. I don't think he deserves either, but he definetly deserves one much more on the lower half.
I thought of another good thing he did. He did set up wild-life preservations in the oceans, which was very good.
Edit after seeings Mario's post:
What could have happened in Iraq if we didn't invade it? There were zero terrorist there. They were all in Afghanistan, which we already knew but we still attacked Iraq anyway (and which Bush lied about). We should have gone to a place even worse off, like Darfur, or maybe, Afghanistan!!! Afghanistan is where Alkida is and was.
My frustration is not targeted at either of you, but more at Bush. I get myself riled up easily when I think about it haha.
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