I hope attacks never happen….even though we gut the military,dismantle the CIA, and Gitmo.
And open our boarders wider than they are now.

These to guys were excellent in my book. I just wished
they had stayed more firm as far as tax cuts and bailouts.

But they were good for the US in the long run.

I’ll make a prediction. If there is a terrorist attack in the next year under the Obama administration, that you’ll be one of the first people to say that Bush didn’t do enough to keep us safe.

I’ll make a prediction – your prediction will not come true.

If there’s another attack, I will be pointing at all you muppets that believe that gubmint can keep us safe and asking you “has the penny dropped yet?”

I’m reminded of an episode of the Simpsons where Lisa picks up a rock and claims that it has kept them safe from tigers.

I’ll make a prediction. If there is a terrorist attack in the next year under the Obama administration, that you’ll be one of the first people to say that Bush didn’t do enough to keep us safe.

You can argue about style and substance, politics and belief systems, but one thing that cannot be argued with is that we have not been hit by terrorists since September 11, 2001. Despite a war on two fronts, despite crap approval ratings, despite intense anger by people of many different political backgrounds and citzenship in other countries…

Not one attack.

They’ve been attempted and there are facts on the ground that can prove it.

But not one has been successful.

You can argue endlessly about Bush 43. You can say a lot of things about him that are negatively true. But that one he’s got in the bag, regardless of how personally annoying this could be.

Time will tell if “Bush kept us safe.”

Rae on January 12, 2009 at 9:55 AM

I’m reminded of an episode of the Simpsons where Lisa picks up a rock and claims that it has kept them safe from tigers.

I thank God each day for men like the Bushs. I thank God that my child is safe, for now. That 9/11 has, so far, not been repeated.

Considering our borders remain easily passable, I disagree.

Or are people under the impression that Latinos who “want to take our jobs” are the only people on the planet with maps of the American SW and access to coyote travel agents?

If you think Islamicists are not in this country and lying in wait, then you are kidding yourself.

Time will tell if “Bush kept us safe.”

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.

Has he made some horrible decisions, YES! Immigration, added power and support for the UN and NOT fighting the Liberals on his reforms for the Fannie/Freddie mess that could have prevented some of the turmoil. He’s just a man, throw into a horrible situation after 9/11… How would it have been otherwise, with no 9/11, with no war? How would he be judged… In Gods eyes and mine, I say he’s done an honorable job in the hardest possible position in the world.

Those of you that hate Bush will be hard pressed in one year to say BHO is anything close to the honorable American that GWB is… Obama will forever alter for the worst the America of our Founders. No longer a Super Power America will be no longer the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, but instead a “green” Socilist State comprised of more PC garbage, losses of Free Speech and nanny state for all the “downtrodden”… Taxes and Crime and Moral Decay are our future… Oppression and a weakend Military will destroy any hopes of safety. Protection of America will be won in our neighborhoods, street to street as true Americans have to fight to regain control.

Mr.Bush, thank you and God save us now…

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.

No bailout.

I wish.

GWB = Epic. Fail.

His complicity in runaway spending was worse than anything Jimmah ever did. This bailout will be his crowing achievement far eclipsing the puny Jimmah.

His nation building adventure in Iraq will inevitably fail and Jimmy was too inept to attempt so something so stoopid.

Trust me, Jimmy couldn’t hold Bush’s jockstrap when it come to fundamentally changing for the worse our country. And I LIKE George Bush as a man. He is a good man. Just a hopelessly bad president. I voted for him twice.

For the record, I voted for McCain which will be my last establishment conservative. I’m done.

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

1, The first World Trade Center bombing
2. Oklahoma City

All in all, and I hate to say this, the worst president in American history and that would include the hapless and hopelessly inept Jimmy Carter.

Charles Martel on January 12, 2009 at 8:41 AM

Jimmy Carter will always be the worst president in American history, make no mistake about that.

61 million+ people liberated. A nation kept safe for seven years. More aid to fight diseases in Africa than any other president. History will judge him much more positively than current public opinion polls.

amerpundit on January 11, 2009 at 9:36 PM

Agreed. However there is no denying it that neither Bush was much of a conservative and W.’s second term was unimpressive.

Lemme guess, there’s not one President you’ve liked in the past 50 years?

Skywise on January 11, 2009 at 10:43 PM

RONALDUS MAXIMUS!!

The Iraqi adventure will ultimately fail because Islam can not be changed – only destroyed.

Bush is a good, but hopelessly naive man who fiddled while his nation burned. He was wrong on immigration, wrong on the fundamental role of government, wrong on spending, wrong on education. His thinking was not informed by a coherent governinig philosophy and we are all the worse off for it.

Yep, he did keep us “safe” but the next attach will be because he refused to secure the borders.

All in all, and I hate to say this, the worst president in American history and that would include the hapless and hopelessly inept Jimmy Carter.

http://sarah-palin-2012.blogspot.com/2009/01/please-vote-for-hot-air.html

Open borders.

Ramos and Compean.

Disgraceful, wasteful spending. TARP.

Harriet Meiers.

“Brownie.”

The “Department of Homeland Security” boondoggle.

Alberto Gonzales.

Foolish, half-hearted attempts to “spread democracy” in unlikely places using our money and American lives.

While I dread what comes next, I’m glad to see him go. Yes, Gore and Kerry might well have been worse — probably would have — but that doesn’t mean Dubya wasn’t a four-alarm disaster in many ways.

MrScribbler on January 11, 2009 at 10:38 PM

Ramos and Compean deserve to be pardoned, and he may fall short there, as for the rest, the opinions of an overachieving third rate mind are uniquely grotesque, thank you for the illustration, Huffpo would be proud of you.

If the only nail he has on which to hang his presidential hat is having kept this nation safe, then I wasted two votes for him.

He was president, not war chief. He forgot about this nation, then screwed us in the end. He’s delusional if he thinks he did right by us as a nation.

I still won’t miss him.

madmonkphotog on January 12, 2009 at 5:26 AM

And if he had responded to 9/11 by lobbing missles into the desert like Clinton, and had sent troops into Louisiana to evacuate idiots from New Orleans because the state didn’t know what to do, and didn’t pass a senior drug bill so Dems in Congress could paint him as cold hearted and pass a national health care system of their own, and had followed the Dems advice on picking liberal Supreme Court judges, you would be fine with all that when your phone rang at 3:00am to tell you that your teenager had been blown to bits at the rock concert by jihadis?

Sorry, I must live in a parallel universe where no economy can survive without national security as the foundation. Capital does not flow to unstable regimes to create new jobs.

I saw the interview and share the impressions of others–two class acts who made it clear that when the new guy comes to town, American democracy dictates that the departing POTUS fade away and get off the stage. Nicely turned jabs at Clinton and Carter without mentioning names.

He was president, not war chief. He forgot about this nation, then screwed us in the end. He’s delusional if he thinks he did right by us as a nation.

I still won’t miss him.

Baxter Greene on January 12, 2009 at 1:43 AM

Thanks, Baxter. That means a lot to me.

The UN is an unmitigated disaster that has a history of failure that rivals that of the liberals in this country.
You would be hard pressed to find any real good or significant change they have produced for the better of the world.

Yes. One of my favorite challenges to people is to name one UN success of import.

And pretty soon we’re going to have to deal with the nutty Outer Space Treaty, which would really give the UN a huge amount of power. Maybe will start to get serious at that point? It would all be scary, except that I think there’s a good chance that neither the US, nor any of these institutions, will suvive the few years that the idiot messiah is allowed to guide this country. It’s going to be ugly, though. That’s for sure.