George Bush's Memoirs

[immense]

My personal political beliefs and disagreement with most of his actions.

From what I've seen on this forum he's quite in line with you.

[Conservative,]

From what I've seen on this forum he's quite in line with you.

Yes that's true and I admit I stand on roughly the same place in politics in general, but some of the decisions he made I would disagree with.

[immense]

I doubt there are many people who would endorse all his decisions... well not now with hindsight anyway.

[Conservative,]

Yeah lol.

[Mrs.McCall]

I'm gonna be controversial and say I like George Bush. I've pre-ordered his book and I'm excited to read it. Did he make mistakes? Of course but hindsight is a real ***** and he learnt the hard way. I think he did a lot of good stuff and his reaction to 9/11 and such I think was really great. He got criticised for not reacting when he was told that America was under attack but the way he stayed cool, calm and collected as to not frighten anyone was professional and I think quite stately.

[MrPinkPanther]

and his reaction to 9/11 and such I think was really great.

What? War without UN approval? The UN is there for a reason.

[-:Undertaker:-]

I'm gonna be controversial and say I like George Bush. I've pre-ordered his book and I'm excited to read it. Did he make mistakes? Of course but hindsight is a real ***** and he learnt the hard way. I think he did a lot of good stuff and his reaction to 9/11 and such I think was really great. He got criticised for not reacting when he was told that America was under attack but the way he stayed cool, calm and collected as to not frighten anyone was professional and I think quite stately.

Stayed cool? you mean by attacking one of the most free and stable countries in the Middle East (Iraq) who had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks?

What? War without UN approval? The UN is there for a reason.

The UN is nothing more than a talking shop where the big boys tell the little boys to keep in line.

As much as I disagree with the wars Bush started, the elected United States government does not require permission to do something from an unelected organisation in order to defend its national interests (again, thats very debatable concerning US interests by starting these wars).

[Tintinnabulate]

• Accepts he took "too long" to make decisions over the disaster that engulfed New Orleans after it was struck by hurricane Katrina five years ago, killing more than 1,800 people, but says the blame lies with other people.

Yeah lol blame it on someone else.

And Americans just wanted to see other countries getting bombed after 9/11 and no way was Bush going to get UN approval. If they said no and he didn't invade Iraw, he wouldn't have been re-elected.

[HotelUser]

Yeah lol blame it on someone else.

And Americans just wanted to see other countries getting bombed after 9/11 and no way was Bush going to get UN approval. If they said no and he didn't invade Iraw, he wouldn't have been re-elected.

I hate how unfair it is that America is, in a large sense, above the authority of the United Nations, where other countries would have ben subject to international court for such an offense.

[Jordy]

Yeah lol blame it on someone else.

And Americans just wanted to see other countries getting bombed after 9/11 and no way was Bush going to get UN approval. If they said no and he didn't invade Iraw, he wouldn't have been re-elected.

What are you on about with Americans wanting to see other countries get bombed? Completely disagree there, not a very big fan of President Bush at all, especially how in his latter years he was very quiet on any issues such as the American economy and Foreign Policy, waiting for a new president to get elected. I also disagree with the war in Iraq and possible Afghanistan and his handling of the Hurricane Katrina situation. BUT anyway, I thought his handling over the 9/11 issue was perfect. He kept America together and restored everyone's faith in the government by taking suitable action and reassuring the people, this was reflected by his rocketing approval rating, the high morale of people and the fact there's been no major terrorist attacks in the US since.