Quote of the day

There are probably more,but these two books do a great job of detailing the corruption and bloodshed that this useless group of international crooks is responsible for:

The UN Exposed
by: Eric Shawn

Tower of Babble
by Dore Gold

Is is a disgrace that we fund up to 24% this useless body’s
yearly take from it’s members.

It is past time to pull out and leave there trail of failures to the likes of France,Russia,and there anti-semitic terrorist loving friends.

Baxter Greene on January 12, 2009 at 1:02 AM

Seven Percent Solution on January 12, 2009 at 1:26 AM

I remember reading that article a week or so ago and felt it was one of the best written about Bush and his Presidency.
It is a shame it took a foreign paper to do it.

Here are a few other articles you might be interested in:

Myths & Facts About the Real Bush Record
By Ed Gillespie
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/12/myths_and_facts_about_the_real.html

As the year draws to an end and President Bush enters his final month in office, there is much commentary about the Administration’s record over the past eight years. Unsurprisingly, many of these stories assail and distort the President’s record and recycle myths and unfounded allegations that have been leveled for the better part of his two terms. Historical accuracy requires a response to the litany of attacks leveled against President Bush, and while there’s not enough space to respond to all of them, here are five of the most egregious

History will say that we misunderestimated George W Bush

By Andrew Roberts
Last Updated: 11:01pm BST 21/06/2008
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/06/22/do2201.xml

If the West wins the modern counterpart of that struggle, the War Against Terror, historians will look back in amazement at the present unpopularity of George W Bush, and marvel at it quite as much as we now marvel at the 67 per cent disapproval rates for Truman throughout 1952.

Holy Cows: George W Bush – buffoon or great leader?
By Sameh El-Shahat
Last updated: 1:40 AM BST 09/07/2008
Sameh El-Shahat argues that George W Bush has been the most under-rated president… ever.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/holycows/2270920/Holy-Cows-George-W-Bush—buffoon-or-great-leader.html
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hatever happened to leadership and honesty as presidential traits? I happen to believe that the only leader in the West to have these two admirable qualities in droves is the leader of the free world: George W Bush.

I still think that it will not take decades for the world to see how great a leader Bush was.
Obama will do it in 4 years by his maintaining many of Bush’s policies and also his wishy-washy lawyer style will wear thin with the public very soon,and lead to very little success that will pale in comparison to what Bush has accomplished.

Baxter Greene on January 12, 2009 at 2:03 AM

As far as the “keep us safe” deal, President Clinton kept us just as safe as W. Bush is number of terrorist attacks on home soil is the measuring stick. And none of the Clinton attacks were as damaging as 9/11/01.

The Dean on January 12, 2009 at 8:40 AM

This is a joke right?

President Clinton’s total failure in eliminating Osama with
the over eight opportunities he had (including having him handed to us on a silver platter from the Sudan) combined with his inept attempts in addressing an ever increasing threat from Saddam
and Al-qaeda emboldened the terrorist to view America as a paper tiger which led to increased attacks(like 9/11).
Clinton and his friend Jamie Gorelick’s failed policies creating the wall between our security and intelligence services kept 9/11 from being discovered and allowed a terrorist cell to plan with impunity in America for over 2 years.
The real fight against terrorism did not start until Bush
became president:

Are We Safer?
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/05/020600.php

On the stump, Barack Obama usually concludes his comments on Iraq by saying, “and it hasn’t made us safer.” It is an article of faith on the left that nothing the Bush administration has done has enhanced our security, and, on the contrary, its various alleged blunders have only contributed to the number of jihadists who want to attack us.

Empirically, however, it seems beyond dispute that something has made us safer since 2001. Over the course of the Bush administration, successful attacks on the United States and its interests overseas have dwindled to virtually nothing.
Some perspective here is required. While most Americans may not have been paying attention, a considerable number of terrorist attacks on America and American interests abroad were launched from the 1980s forward, too many of which were successful. What follows is a partial history:

1988
February: Marine Corps Lt. Colonel Higgens, Chief of the U.N. Truce Force, was kidnapped and murdered by Hezbollah.
December: Pan Am flight 103 from London to New York was blown up over Scotland, killing 270 people, including 35 from Syracuse University and a number of American military personnel.

1991
November: American University in Beirut bombed.

1993
January: A Pakistani terrorist opened fire outside CIA headquarters, killing two agents and wounding three.
February: World Trade Center bombed, killing six and injuring more than 1,000.

1995
January: Operation Bojinka, Osama bin Laden’s plan to blow up 12 airliners over the Pacific Ocean, discovered.
November: Five Americans killed in attack on a U.S. Army office in Saudi Arabia.

1996
June: Truck bomb at Khobar Towers kills 19 American servicemen and injures 240.
June: Terrorist opens fire at top of Empire State Building, killing one.

1997
February: Palestinian opens fire at top of Empire State Building, killing one and wounding more than a dozen.
November: Terrorists murder four American oil company employees in Pakistan.

1998
January: U.S. Embassy in Peru bombed.
August: Simultaneous bomb attacks on U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania killed more than 300 people and injured over 5,000.

1999
October: Egypt Air flight 990 crashed off the coast of Massachusetts, killing 100 Americans among the more than 200 on board; the pilot yelled “Allahu Akbar!” as he steered the airplane into the ocean.

2000
October: A suicide boat exploded next to the U.S.S. Cole, killing 17 American sailors and injuring 39.

2001
September: Terrorists with four hijacked airplanes kill around 3,000 Americans in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
December: Richard Reid, the “shoe bomber,” tries to blow up a transatlantic flight, but is stopped by passengers.
The September 11 attack was a propaganda triumph for al Qaeda, celebrated by a dismaying number of Muslims around the world. Everyone expected that it would draw more Muslims to bin Laden’s cause and that more such attacks would follow. In fact, though, what happened was quite different: the pace of successful jihadist attacks against the United States slowed, decelerated further after the onset of the Iraq war, and has now dwindled to essentially zero. Here is the record:

2002
October: Diplomat Laurence Foley murdered in Jordan, in an operation planned, directed and financed by Zarqawi in Iraq, perhaps with the complicity of Saddam’s government.

2003
May: Suicide bombers killed 10 Americans, and killed and wounded many others, at housing compounds for westerners in Saudi Arabia.
October: More bombings of United States housing compounds in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia killed 26 and injured 160.

2004
There were no successful attacks inside the United States or against American interests abroad.

2005
There were no successful attacks inside the United States or against American interests abroad.

2006
There were no successful attacks inside the United States or against American interests abroad.

2007
There were no successful attacks inside the United States or against American interests abroad.

2008
So far, there have been no successful attacks inside the United States or against American interests abroad.

It is more than obvious that Clinton’s weak policies against terrorism emboldened and strengthened the terrorist.
Al-qaeda grew in strength during Clinton’s Presidency and has been severely beaten and weakened during Bush’s.There humiliating defeat in the central front on the War on Terror in Iraq is a testament to this.

But if you want to go the route that Bush was president at the time so he is specifically to blame,that is fine.But that works both ways so after the 20th,every single thing that happens will be Obama’s fault.

If you want to go the route that number of deaths somehow prove failure in dealing with dictators or terrorist than by this logic FDR was a major failure since we lost hundreds of thousands on his watch.

Bush has not been perfect,but to say Clinton was more effective shows a total dis-connect with the facts.

Baxter Greene on January 12, 2009 at 9:33 AM

Not only is America safer due to the Bush Administration,the world is safer:

Iraq figures distort terrorism statistics: study
Wed May 21, 2008 1:57pm EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2139567720080521?feedType=nl&feedName=ustopnewsevening

For example, global terrorism fatalities declined by 40 percent between July and September 2007, driven by a 55 percent decline in the “terrorism” death toll in Iraq after the so-called surge of new U.S. troops and a cease-fire by the Shi’ite militant Mehdi Army, the brief said.

B.C. researchers find decline in global terrorism, question previous data
1 day ago
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iJciaxCBODpiOZKXuLS73Q0gpaBA

The university’s Human Security Report Project says fatalities from terrorist attacks around the world have, in fact, decreased by 40 per cent since 2001.

George W Bush: winning the war on terror
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3965454/George-W-Bush-winning-the-war-on-terror.html#postComment

Widely seen as his biggest foreign policy error, the decision to invade Iraq could ultimately prove to have been a masterstroke. Today the world is witnessing the birth of the first truly democratic state in the Middle East outside of Israel. Over eight million voted in Iraq’s parliamentary elections in 2005, and the region’s first free Muslim society may become a reality. Iraq might not be Turkey, but it is a powerful demonstration that freedom can flourish in the embers of the most brutal and barbaric of dictatorships.
The success of the surge in Iraq will go down in history as a turning point in the war against al-Qaeda. The stunning defeat of the insurgency was a major blow both militarily and psychologically for the terror network. The West’s most feared enemy suffered thousands of losses in Iraq, including many of their most senior commanders, such as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Abu Qaswarah. It was the most successful counter-insurgency operation anywhere in the world since the British victory in Malaya in 1960.

The broader war against Islamist terrorism has also been a success. There has not been a single terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11, and for all the global condemnation of pre-emptive strikes, Guantanamo and the use of rendition against terror suspects, the fact remains that Bush’s aggressive strategy actually worked.

Significantly, there have been no successful terrorist attacks in Europe since the July 2005 London bombings, in large part due to the cooperation between U.S., British and other Western intelligence agencies. American intelligence has proved vital in helping prevent an array of planned terror attacks in the UK, a striking demonstration of the value to Britain of its close ties to Washington.

Combine this with two excellent choices for the supreme court,record economic growth until Sept.08(That the blame for goes to every corner of congress)cutting taxes,record progress in fighting Malaria and Aids world wide shows that Bush was effective and successful in many areas,domestic and
internationally.

Baxter Greene on January 12, 2009 at 9:52 AM