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LMAO Bush was the President while 9/11 happened. The signs were there, he ignored them.

northernlights

St. Cloud, MN Times

[Let's hope PEBO doesn't do the same thing.  He has been given a huge head start that the current administration has built for him from scratch. -ED]

I too dispute your title designation of "all-time champion of our nation's homeland security" for Bush2.  For example, FDR did far more to protect our homeland from foreign invaders during our 4-year involvement in WW2 than Bush2 has done in the 7 years since 9/11.

FAR more...and the same could be said about Kennedy's leadership during the Cuban Missle Crisis.

Don't get me wrong, homeland security following 9/11 IS Bush2's positive legacy... but I wouldn't be throwing around the "all-time champion" title so loosely.

FriendsElectric

St. Cloud, MN Times

[FDR penned up Japanese-Americans who were not even legitimate terrorism suspects, let alone self-avowed enemy combatants. Kennedy's Cuban Missile Crisis leadership was counterbalanced by his botched Bay of Pigs action. You can find fault with every president but it seems that most liberals today live to bash the one president who has kept THEM safe in a war in which only one side wears uniforms. - ED]

How you equate homeland security (which was formed based on another Bush lie) with the bravery of all the people who helped save those folks from the water after the plane crash is beyond me ... but I wouldn't mind having some of whatever you're drinking.

rlwalker

Pensacola, FL NewsJournal

[I "equated" the enablement of massive, rapid response to a near-disaster in the vicinity of a terror target to the good work that the current administration has done. -ED]

"Bush-bashers... will never be able to discredit his singular status as all-time champion of our nation's homeland security."  Totally delusional.

SecondFocus

Palm Springs, CA Desert Sun

I really like how people talk about GW as being able to prevent any additional terrorist attacks on the country after 9/11. If that were to hold true, were not all but one other president able to prevent a terrorist attack from happening at all while on their watch?
While some hold this fact as an accomplishment, I still look at what else the man has done, and think this guy is a serious crack pot. His legacy will always be getting us into a war with not exit strategy and reading about a goat while American's died in planes and in buildings hit by those planes. I, for one, will be glad to see a change in leadership even though I see nothing that makes me happy about the next man in line. I hope he proves me wrong.

sirquack

Des Moines, IA Register

I fail to follow your reasoning.

felixthecat

Lansing, MI State Journal

While Bush has repeated over and over that there has not been a SINGLE foreign terrorism attack on American soil SINCE 9/11 and his "Homeland Security" initiative, it should be noted that there had not been a SINGLE foreign terrorism attack on American soil BEFORE 9/11 either.  Nobody wants to bash the President of the United States - the office should be worthy of some respect to say the least - but George W. Bush has made a mockery of everything the office stands for, and has lowered America's prestige in the eyes of the rest of the world.  We - all of us - should be ashamed we allowed this to happen for this long. Democrat or Republican, all of us need to work together to effect change in the country, and regain not only our dignity but our reputation.

ronoliver

Palm Springs, CA Desert Sun

[An attempt on the life of Pres.Truman by Puerto Rican separatists, FALN bombings (pardoned by the Clinton Administration in conjunction with AG-designate Holder) and the first World Trade Center bombing are examples of pre-9/11 domestic terrorism.  Depending on your political stance and level of fairness, PEBO's announcement party host and his wife might be included, as well.  Post 9/11 there have been numerous busted plots -- many we may never know about for security reasons -- including the Fort Dix conspiracy and the Buffalo/Lackawanna Six. The terrorist anthrax mail murders that followed the 9/11 attack might prove to be of Islamo-fascist origin, as well. -ED]

If you cannot keep the illegals from coming across the borders 'Homeland Security' is worthless.

WillythePimp

Lansing, MI State Journal

Ed, The delusional left will keep worrying about what the other liberals in the world think of us. I can care less what they think because I don't like them...so its an even deal. We were attacked prior to 9/11 as you have noted along with the Embassy bombings and the USS Cole. All United States property.

I for one am not nor will I be ashamed of the policies of President George W Bush. We are safe, we are still free until Jan 20 and beyond and lots of bad guys are dead. Nothing to be ashamed of...rather things to cheer.

deserttrek

Palm Springs, CA Desert Sun

[OohRah! - ED]

I feel proud to have voted for President Bush. To me he showed Great Courage to make decisions other presidents would not have had the courage to do. President Bush did what he felt was right to do. I felt very secure knowing he was Commander-in-Chief to us but also to our heroes fighting the war on terror. Soon, I will feel less secure. I hope I'm wrong. I have faith in our yroops but [am] not so confident in Congress or our future president. What a wonderful rescue and awesome pilot and crew of the plane that landed in the Hudson River. Ed great post take care.

Linux1

Pensacola, FL NewsJournal

well written, and so true.

jimestyle

Mansfield, OH

George W Bush is not a conservative...prove to me he is [not] a right wing socialist...

joeyandt

St. George, UT Spectrum

[Which makes it that more ridiculous for liberals to hate him so much and to be so unfair in acknowledging the good things that he has done -- or that a Democrat would also have done. They can't get over the loss of his first close election over Gore, failing to recall that Bill Clinton never even "won" by a majority. BTW, Clinton was successful because he co-opted most of Newt Gingrich's truly conservative proposals but they never bashed him for caving in, let alone for the scandals and corruption of his administrations before and during his presidency. -ED]