I never understand why Bush gets so much crap for every little thing he does; including speech problems, saying words wrong, and giving the finger on film before he was elected president. Bill Clinton got busted with Monica Lewinsky in the White House, was going to be impeached for his actions, and then lied to the courts and jury. Besides the fact that he didn't do much for this country as a president.
Everyone says Bush "screwed up the world." Bush screwing up the world is hardly a fact, merely just an opinion and in mine, each person to its own. WE screw ourselves up, not one man who's at the head of the government. I don't judge Clinton on his personal affairs in the White House -- I judge Clinton on the crappy president that he was. He had many opportunities to prevent this war from happening, and Bush gets all the blame for it because he happened to had just become president when 9/11 happened. Bush did the right thing at the time and handled the situation as best as any human being, president or not, could with the information he was given.
I don't think Saddam beheading, harassing, cutting off fingers, hands, toes, tongues, and using weapons to destroy neighbor's counts as peaceful living. To tack on the list of offenses, Mr. Hussein also went against the UN, who knew exactly what he was doing and participated in Oil for food scandals. This seems to me like a problem, one not created by Bush, but a power hungry-turned-into-hiding coward. The American forces pulled him out of power. I don't consider that screwing the world. I consider that a generous favor for those people put under oppression. Now there are other people that are there in the country that liked Saddam and want what he did to keep on going, because they liked their 'benefits' they received but the majority of the people wanted him out.
Another note, Bush presented the case the congress, who accepted the invasion into Iraq. The US was not blindly led into Iraq. Kerry, Kennedy, and plenty of other democratic politicians agreed with it, given the information at the time. Action was taken based on information received at the time, you can never be 100% sure of anything because you don't know till well after things have been done. And Clinton, if you really want to get down to the stupid things he did, besides his extraneous affairs - He let the prolonged suffering continue. He wanted to make peace with everyone, because he didn't want to get any crap for it himself. So thus there were more innocent people to be mutilated. Clinton saw what was going on, and his answer to it was to bomb some areas and call that good. You don't do anything by sending a couple of bombs over. You have to take complete action. BOTH sides (conservative and liberal) voted to go into war. He lied to the court, which is why he had his practicing license taken away.
What Clinton did is as much or more of an insult than anything Bush has done. He put his own selfishness above the countries reputation. Everyone gets mad at Bush, saying he's stupid and he's a load of crap and he screwed up America. Every person that tries to do something on a large scale is going to make mistakes, it's inevitable, and Bush is no exception, but again I say he went with information presented to him. Clinton's bombed more than once, and people are quick to forgive him. I just wish people would give Bush the same courtesy. Both sides do stupid things. However, people bring discussions up purely to take cheap shots; most is a cheap shot at Bush. I'm fine with people going against my opinion, but I also think its unfair people taking low blows out of a president because of other things. I never hear any such thing about Clinton. I was taught that the president that was elected should be respected. I thought that when Clinton was in office, and the same with Bush.
He also got all the blame for Katrina. And many people argue that we shouldn't even get into other countries business, yet the US is the leading country in the world. Plus the east, and the US, which is actually a major part of the UN - funding and such - I think has ever right to be involved in those things. Especially when people break treaties, are initiating a mass killing, and other actions that could affect the US. In other words he has to be nosy, it's his job. It's called being aware. Countries are always needing/wanting money, help, etc from the US yet when it's given to them everyone complains!
Can anyone tell me why the war was unnecessary? I'd sure like to know. Yes, I can say that this war is going on TOO long. But, on the other hand, you just can't pull out of a war when it's not finished. Then, all of the soldiers who have fallen will have died for NO reason. And their lives should not have lived in vein. The same thing that happened in Vietnam would happen. Those soldiers died for our country because they have pride, they knew the risks and they would gladly die for our country. Or else WHY on earth would you join the army? Knowing there's always a risk we could go to war. They were not forced. The war was a necessary action that needed to be taken into act and QUICK since our hot shot ex-president Clinton couldn't handle it on his own and dragged stuff out as long as he could, until he was no longer president and all of the problems get handed to the new president, who now gets the blame for it all. YES, things could've been handled differently. But can't they always? That's the beauty of hindsight.
3,000 innocent Americans died on Sept. 11th, 2001. I think we as a country had a right to defend ourselves since those lives were lost by terrorism which we are trying to prevent from ever happening again. On 9/11 Bush said that it was a war against terrorism, which included networks. And if people want to get into Iraq, let's check back to 1991, and a little before. When Saddam went into Kuwait and killed thousands. He asked the US what to do, and we said "figure it out on your own." Thousands of Kurds were killed, this problem with Saddam, who by the way was also offered to Clintontwice, if not three times, and he did nothing. If you want to talk about unjust politics, and stupid mistakes check there first. For years we've been trying to peacefully talk things out with no progress. After a very real attack of 9/11 the president was given information, again information gathered from both the CIA, British Intelligence agency and more, Saddam was both resistant to having UN people go in. They were redirected to other places and if you don't think there was evidence of weapons of mass destruction... well you should've seen Saddam's nice little underground paddock, it had small rooms with two bunk beds, rows upon rows of rooms, where gas masks, boots, and other protective equipment was held. This was not fake, it is very real, and it doesn't matter if the weapons were chemical, nuclear, or automatic there was something going on, and rather than have another 9/11 times 50, Bush had enough information to attack the situation from the start. Weapons of mass destruction can be moved very easily by the way.
WE as Americans elected Bush into office, that's our right as citizens, so we have nobody to get mad at except your own people. That was most likely initiated by more than just Bush. Which is what I've been saying. For some reason the world and America thinks that everything bad should be planted on the one man they can point a finger at. They forget that there are more people involved. All Clinton did during his run was raise taxes, drop a few bombs, and slept with women. I agree, we need to get out of Iraq, but we cannot do that until all the knots are tied.