The W Legacy?
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- ZOOP
From a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the Bush (43) Administration?*
Including reasons for your rating will be rewarded with cake.
*yeah, the guy with the $250 million library. :\
- ZOOP0
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- ZOOP0
Pootie-Poot, Ostrich Legs – Vladimir Putin, President and former Prime Minister of Russia
Altoid Boy – Special Assistant Israel Hernandez (for his role as provider of breath mints to the President on the campaign trail)
Flies on the Eyeballs Guy – Director of the CIA Counterterrorist Center Cofer Black
You can't make this stuff up!
- GeorgesIV0
Zoop,
I give him a solid 9, (10 in my heart and soul)
under his leadership of the Great Nation many americans were allowed to travel the world, even meet other cultures.that alone deserves a good 7,
I gave him another 2, for his humanitarian work in teaching the concept of democracy to poor countries.Great leader don't come from extremely wealthy families, they come from the working class, just like Pres. Bush.
lemmee hear an AMEN
- fredddddd0
Um
- fresnobob0
Can we try him for war crimes yet?
- Massive archives, who knows what will pop up, but yes if Clinton is impeached for a bj, Bush has to answer for Iraq.ZOOP
- which means Obama will have to answer for afghanistan, drones, etc.. You play with dirt, you're going to get dirty.identity
- Yes, Obama started the war in Afghanistan.CygnusZero4
- Ramanisky20
A Legacy of SUCK
- instrmntl0
It's far as being able to get policy passed, he gets a 9. Meanwhile, Obama gets a 4. In my eyes Bush was a terrible president, but he had no qualms with trying to get his shit passed. I wish Obama had the same fortitude.
- "Fortitude ?"
wth are you talking about.
Try to read some stuffs, k ?mikotondria3 - whats wrong with fortitude?instrmntl
- "Fortitude ?"
- bored2death0
- All the while Clinton set up the american worker for collapse. NAFTA, 3rd world capitalist expansion and vested foreign interests.74LEO
- bored2death0
- but, but, freedom...GeorgesIV
- good to know none of them were insurgents, taliban, enemies, etc. all were just civilians...identity
- civilians are the target .74LEO
- 100 years ago you'd have 10% civilian 90% military casualties. Modern warfare is just insanity multiplied.ZOOP
- @ZOOP, 74LEO summarized it right... We the civilians are the targetOBBTKN
- Llyod0
4
- srhadden0
Even worse than this one, if that's possible
- ZOOP0
I'm a uniter not a divider.
I'm the decider.
Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job.
Mission Accomplished.Flies on the eyeballs guy....
Flies on the eyeballs guy....
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- jumpers0
Jimmy Carter — who now runs the Carter Center, a non-profit organization whose mission is to fight for human rights, conflict resolution and global health in the world’s most impoverished countries — laid out Bush’s accomplishments, including increasing aid to the continent by more than 640% by the time he left office.
“Mr. President, let me say that I’m filled with admiration for you and deep gratitude for you about the great contributions you’ve made to the most needy people on Earth,” said Carter.
At more than $5 billion a year in humanitarian aid to Africa, President Bush has given more assistance to the continent than any other president. His administration’s aid was largely targeted to fight the major global health issues facing the continent, HIV/AIDS and malaria.
In 2003 Bush founded the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which guaranteed $15 million to be spent over the course of five years on prevention, treatment and research on HIV/AIDS. Under the Bush administration, the U.S. was also a leader in contributing to the Global Fund on AIDS.
Though there was controversy over some of the qualifications for PEPFAR funds –up to 20% was to be spent on abstinence-focused prevention programs, and the funds could not be used for needle-sharing programs — most HIV/AIDS activists credit the program for being instrumental in turning the tide on AIDS.
Before PEPFAR, an estimated 100,000 people were on anti-retroviral drugs in sub-Saharan Africa. By the time Bush left office in 2008 that number had increased to about 2 million.
In 2005 Bush started a $1.2 billion initiative to fight malaria. He defended the request for funding in 2007, saying, “There’s no reason for little babies to be dying of mosquito bites around the world.”
At Thursday’s ceremony, President Clinton said in his travels throughout Africa he had “personally seen the faces of some of the millions of people who are alive today” because of Bush’s policies.
Even some of Bush’s most ardent critics have admitted that his foreign policy legacy on Africa continues to have a lasting effect.
U2 front-man and activist Bono, who criticized Bush on the Iraq War, nonetheless expressed his admiration for the Republican president on an appearance on the Daily Show last year, telling Stewart that Bush did an “amazing” job in the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa.
“I know that’s hard for you to accept,” Bono said to a surprised crowd and host, “but George kind of knocked it out of the park. I can tell you, and I’m actually here to tell you that America now has 5 million people being kept alive by these drugs. That’s something that everyone should know.”