How will history truly judge Bush?

Question

9/11 gave President Bush a rare opportunity to be a great President. Most Presidents don't get that opportunity. I feel that history will not judge him as a great President but it will not judge him as one of the worse like liberals think he is. The idea that he lied about WMD's is ridiculous. He has made a lot of mistakes about the Iraqi War but lying was not one of them. His true reason for removing Saddam was correct. Saddam was a threat to national security that was only going to get worse.

Answer 1

They will judge him pretty well.  

Answer 2

I think history will judge Bush as a great President because he stood by his convictions. His administration went about correcting 8 years of appeasement by the Clinton administration and inept cabinet members who did not have a clue about foreign affairs i.e. Madeline Albright...etc. etc. etc.   With criticism from Dems and Republicans, he stood his ground because he believed that he was doing the right thing getting rid of Saddam and bringing democracy to the Middle East.  .  I think that he was given misinformation about WMD's by the CIA and he believed it.  I personally think Saddam did have WMD's at one time, listen he gassed the Kurds by the thousands.  Say what you may about G.W. Bush, but he stood by his convictins and wasn't wishy washy and a flip flopper like Obama and Carey.  

Answer 3

"Ineffective", and having the lowest ever popularity among his own party, yet termed out.

Answer 4

i think you are correct. what i cant believe is that the media spews lies just to ruin someones reputation to get someone of their own agenda elected.

Answer 5

Saddam was a threat, he controlled WMD's not in the quantity or quality that the CIA told President Bush, remember people, President Bush doesn't put on the black jumpsuit and mask and go investigating in Iraq and then tell his finds to the world. CIA does it, CIA messed up, remember that. But Yahoo! even reported a scene for hundreds of tons of "dirty bomb" material was shipped out of Iraq to somewhere safe.

Gulf War too? Ever hear of that? Shooting rockets at Israel and taking over Kuwait? Yeah that happened lmao.

President Bush will be judged as a good president, maybe not on the level of Reagan or FDR or Lincoln, but up there. He took the greatest tragedy to happen to the U.S. ( short of the Civil War, a little worse then Pearl Harbor due to the fact that it killed innocent civilians.)

All of the liberal talk about Iraq being a failure went down the drain just this year too, and that was their main point of arguement of him being the worst president ever! Iraq was a success.

The Economy is the congress and partly Bush's fault, but more congress for not denying him funding. 2000-2006 gas prices went up 50 cents 2006-2008 raised 2 dollars or more in areas. The Democrats don't even allow off shore drilling when the average American has trouble paying mortgages much less paying for gas. Bush will go down as a good president.

2006-2008 democratic congress will go down as worst ever?

Answer 6

Saddam did not threaten the US in any way leading up to our invasion.

Regardless, I think you might have forgotten that numerous reputable orgs have all reported and investigated the Bush plan for Iraq. This wwas 'in the works' before 9/11 and there is evidence that information was purposely withheld from the Congressional breifings that stated that Iraq wasn't a threat and that they had no WMD's.  

Answer 7

As an incompetent.  Saddam was NOT a threat to this country, never was, and never would have been.  He was the local bully no more, no less.  little georgie bush has been proven to be a much greater threat to this country.

Answer 8

I think he will be judged as the president who squandered the greatest opportunity ever to bring the world together, and instead chose to tear it apart.  Following 9/11 the entire world came together and was willing to support the US in our invasion of Afghanistan.  Bush took that opportunity and opportunistically pushed for an invasion of Iraq.  I hope that the squandering of that international goodwill is his legacy.  I doubt it will be, but we shall see.

Keep in mind that if removing Saddam was a worthwhile enough reason for invading, then he would not have had to pretend there were WMD's there and try to make the USA afraid of Iraq.

History is a strange thing, even recently people have forgotten that Iraq was not behind 9/11, that the USA supported Saddam AFTER he gassed the Kurds, and that the initial reason we claimed to need to invade Iraq was because they have WMD and we know where they are.