Name One Good Thing Bush Has Done for us.

Seriously. Not "make himself look like an ass." or anything like that. I want you to think and see if you can name one good thing Bush has done for the country.

I can't think of one!!

Really scary, actually. I can think of good things that Nixon did. I can (if I strain real hard) think of a couple nice things about Reagan.

Not Chimpy. A total zero, really.

other than that, his entire existence is a catastrophe.

Like I haven't seen in my lifetime.

I never gave a damn, at least for the last 8 years prior to Bush

...it looks like Bush is about to end the Shiite/Sunni conflict. He's brought them closer together than they have been in a long time.

He also manage to unite Russia, China AND India last year. That's quite a feat!

:shrug:

to Najaf and Fallujah with food to help?

But there were also some reports that the US had brought in Kurdish peshmergas to act as snipers along with the Marines in Fallujah. Whose peshmergas they allegedly were (which faction), I don't know.

Unfortunately, while this is just the sort of bonehead manuever I could see Rumsfeld pulling, it's also just the sort of rumor that someone who wanted a civil war in Iraq would spread. I don't have enough information to guess which one it is.

It looks like the story might have started because they were sent there, but they were apparently part of the Iraqi brigade that mutinieed and refused to attack Fallujah:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x491297

From the article:

Soldiers from the Baghdad-based 36th Security Brigade, part of the Iraqi Civil Defence Corps (ICDC), told Reuters on Friday that
last week U.S. commanders took them at night to Falluja, west of the capital, where U.S. forces were massing to crush a growing
insurgency.

"They told us to attack the city and we were astonished. How could an Iraqi fight an Iraqi like this? This meant that nothing had
changed from the Saddam Hussein days. We refused en masse," said Ali al-Shamari.

(snip)

The 36th brigade, according to four of its members, comprises 340 soldiers from the former Iraqi army and the Peshmerga, the Kurdish militia that once fought Saddam's forces.

So I guess they were told to go there by the US, but refused to attack fellow Iraqis.

Fell off my chair!

and recognize how truly evil an evangelical born again mental-midget can be as CINC. That asshole gave life to the Democratic party such that we will hopefully never ever let the repugs dominate all branches of government again, including the SCOTUS.

Look at Zell Miller who has publically supported Bush for re-selection.

Dems are still soft or reluctant in their criticism of Bush.

Except for being against the Bush Leaguer, the Dems have no backbone at all.
I believe the word I want is Cartilage. Sharks have no bones in their bodies; they have soft Cartilage instead.

How many Hammerheads or Makos or Great Whites are there in the Democratic Party? Kennedy is a Sand Shark. Kerry is a Whale Shark. Any other suggestions?

wont seriously fund enforcement. Other than that he has reminded us what having a really awful president feels like. That has to be worth something.

Based upon G.W. Bush's presidency, the only legacy he will leave us is the No Call List.

a jewel in his crown

He united the Shiites and the Sunnis into a strong coalition of Iraqis! ... shouting "Death to America."

Or SmirkingChimp.com

for his cronies, the rich and corporations...so if you are one of those...he did something good for you. But not for me or my country.

that stopped most of the telemarketers. This is one thing I will give him also the only thing I know of that was worthwhile and not geared toward lining corporate whores pockets.

...and Bush's 'CAN-CALL' legislation overruled state laws. I used to get NO unsolicited calls, now I get a half dozen a day...

That old saw might be applicable here. IF, and it's not at all certain, we survive, * has united and energized the left to a degree not seen for many decades. That's a good thing.

I'm a college professor, so I deal with slackers all day long. :evilgrin:

Now they have a ray of hope in this pitiful dog eat dog world. They think maybe they, too, can slack around, cheat on exams, binge drink, pay someone to take their GRE, and still come out on top some fine day. That's Dubya's gift to America. He's united the slackers into more slacking, as if they needed uniting.

He Pissed off alot of Democrats..Made them Caucus, vote!Bush by being such a far right Neocon idiot freak..United the Democrats...Something hard to do since Democrats have a bigger tent!

n/t

He made us understand the necessity of destroying and OUTLAWING the Republican Party.

Gotta give him that much.

Sure, some of them may not be up to the job, but niether is bush. Anyway, he does display a knack for tokenism.

But then again, I thought that his father had done that.

Aside:

Americans seem to have a bad case of attention deficit disorder. It may be due to all the prozac/? they're taking - and even giving to their children. When parents are working long hours or holding two or three jobs to pay the bills, medicating the kids is apparently very tempting. Listening to the program Washington Journal recently, i heard a woman calling in to say that she would give her kids whatever whatever medication required to keep them off illegal drugs. Go figure..

I suspect prozac is implicated in a lot of the unusual murder cases involving mothers killing their children and such grotesqueries. i also suspect that the fact is deliberately withheld during trial at the behest of drug companies. Seems doubly tragic if true. Prozac supposedly has clinical value. It's definitely a big money-stream.

I read this and he seems to be Joe Lieberman reincarnated....

http://www.forward.com/issues/2004/04.01.09/oped1.html

Is this true? Say it ain't so Ed....

He wants to sterilize welfare recipients - and don't give him no Hotler arguments - cuz Hitler also loved his mother and that doesn't mean we shouldn't live our mothers. he's been a fascist years before W got sober enough to be pushed into politics. Zel Miller is a fiery progressiveactivist compared to Koch.

2) Improved Democratic Fundraising beyond belief
3) Inspired the best slate of candidates we've had in years
4) Filled the bookshelves with #1 best sellers that

(((( SHINES THE LIGHT ON THE TRUTH ))))



That's right off the top of my head !

violent, screaming, hateful maniacs! :)

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Or at least he will.

Can anyone honestly say they wouldn't wish Bill was still making the speeches? I cringe and squirm every time I hear GW speak!

I'm sure GW didn't intend to make Bill look good, but the few times I have heard Bill speak at a rally or even in a debate like the one he just had with Dole he was great. He spoke in actual sentances and made sense.

Sad to say, but I'd rather have an adulterer in the WH than the incompentent, warmonging, incapable, puppet we have now!

Unintentionally, of course.

I know alot of people who now see Fox News and the like for the propaganda outlets they are. Actually, I think there's more skepticism of even the "legitimate" outlets, like the New York Times and network news.