Comments on: Bush And Democracy: Talk But Little Action

Weekly Standard: President's Words About Promoting Democracy Haven't Been Backed By Deeds

[tbweb]

Its hard to look at Iraq these days and believe whats going on there. The human carnage makes Saddam look tame by comparison. What price democracy?

[pugster]

All those fear driven Republicans said what if Kerry is President? what if Hilliary is president? Maybe they should ask themselves, what if another Republican is president, 4 more years of no-action.

[pugster]

Bush is an idealist. After threatening, errr convincing 1/2 of the Americans to vote for him in 2004, he thinks that he can bring freedom everywhere from Syberia to Sudan. Instead, his 'vision' of toppling Saddam will bring peace to the Middleeast is laughable.

What happened to the optimism when Clinton left the office? Now most people wish that the terror that Bush have brought for the past 6 years would go away like a bad dream.

[donnie900]

Political analysis should back off. If you ask me, they're just as responsible for this nation's woes as these presidents are.

Let us think for ourselves for a change. A good example is Howard Dean whose scream was completely taken out of context intentionally by the liberal media who didn't want him.

Just .. back off, ok?

[r9119111]

Correction:

"The Assault On Reason'

[donnie900]

Based on the rhetoric, it got worse. But I'm not sure I can believe the rhetoric. Shirley, I'm so put off by the media today, I don't know what to believe any more. The only ammunition I got left is my Scorcesee judge of character.

[beanerman4]

"Where is tyranny now on the run as a result of new U.S. pressure?"

It ran to the US under the the regime of tyrant King George, the Decider.

[r9119111]

Duggested Reading:

"An Assault On Reason"

[Razzl]

It would be a lot easier for the Weekly Standard to be taken seriously on issues like this if you would stop pretending that Bushes' predation on civil liberties at home had nothing to do with this problem. Pretty much every American who reads this is going to see immediately the irony of a president who sets up a constitutional authoritarian regime at home and then preaches democracy abroad. Are you going to deal with this all-too obvious intellectual embarassment, declaring where you really stand on neo-fascism? To ignore it is to be party to the hypocrisy of the Bush regime and a legitimate target for mockery...

[sparks224]

Bush And Democracy: Some Things Just Don't Go Together

[sparks224]

%u201CThe bloke was voted twice into the WH! %u201C
Posted by klifton2

Keep in mind; he didn%u2019t actually win the election either time. But he did get close enough for the neo-cons to steal it. This of course makes the idea of Bush promoting democracy so ironic.

[klifton2-2009]

What does it take for the American public to realize that they have a monumental failure in their hands in the person of George W. Bush. Democracy! Bush believes in democracy? Laughable and a downright insult to every right thinking individual, but then how many right thinking individuals are there in the America? The bloke was voted twice into the WH!

[sparks224]

I disagree with the premise that Bush believes in democracy. After all of the work that the neo-cons have done, and are still doing, to undermine democracy here in the US, the idea that they believe in democracy is laughable.

[sparks224]

I disagree with the premise that Bush believes in democracy. Afar all of the work that the neo-cons have done, and are still doing, to undermine democracy here in the US, the idea that they believe in democracy is laughable.

[guysdigdirt]

This is a slanted article as is the norm from the media outlet. Be open and fair. You will not find it all here is this article, by this author or in this publication.

Hillary Clinton advised us to go to war in Iraq. She has now turned her back on the troops there and she is a coward to tell the truth.

Someone recently asked Hillary "If you won the election and were now the President of the US, what would you do first?" She answered that she "would pull the troops out of Iraq". If any of you saw this you would have seen that the Democrats in attendance went wild with clapping and merry making. No one seemed to wonder why she would do as her husband did, and lie to the American People.

She said she would pull the troops out and you and I might think she meant all of them. But she deliberatly did not say she would pull them all out. Recently she told another, smaller, group of VIPs that she sees a need to have US troops in Iraq. In fact her words were "if I am elected President for two consecutive terms, I see a need to have US troops in Iraq even after I am no longer President".

She sees a need to have US troops in Iraq for another 10 years and still she lead the US people to believe she would pull them all out as her first act as President.

She is just like her husband. A liar who will do anything to get the power and then once she has it will do anything she wants with it and the American people be darned!!

[clestes-2009]

Well, who would of thought it?????? A weekly standard article that I mostly agree with!!!!!

Tod Lindgerb is right on the money about Bush's lofty promises and **** poor follow through.

The only part I disagree with is his statement about Bush's personal vist beginning all that powerful. He just does not have the respect that is needed to sway someone.