So, how many supported GW Bush after 9/11 but now think he was way off?

Question

I know several people who cheered our current President on with vigor and enthusiasm for the first few months after the heinous attacks on American soil.

I know those same people are saying he is wrong, now, when he is still doing what they believed was right in the first place.

Why do people support the hypocrytical view instead of either sticking to their guns, or admitting they were wrong?

I prefer to stick to my "guns" and support that which I chose to support in the first place, and not flop from right to left because someone thinks it is more popular.

Answer 1

I had the same job before Bush and still have the same job now.Bush has had no impact on my life at all. I still get up every day and go to work.And no matter who the next president is I'll still get up and go to work.Just like all you people will do.

Answer 2

i hope its beacuse people did some research and realized he made his decisions based on false information-h here's to being nievely hopefull that he knew it was false. People don't just change their minds because it is popular, because the information changed or because they disagree with views now.  It is more manly and valuable to be able to admit when you are wrong than it is to stick to something just because you supported it in the past.

if that is the way people thought then interracial marriage or inter religion marriage would be wrong. OR the pope should never have come out and said sorry for their comments and positions on the holocaust.  Just because you believed something once doesn't mean you have to always stick to that position, its called growing up and learning to think for yourself.

Answer 3

President Bush is actually a good president---he has made some mistakes but they all will make them just as we do----yet he has kept us safe from more attacks---and it is NOT because they are not still trying because they are---have to remember he did have a 70% approval rating going into the Iraqi war---yes----that's right-----70%-----this clearly shows the point you make-----our family still supports him---I would not have that job for anything this world has to offer---I  hope he and his precious family can live in peace after he finishes his term.

Answer 4

I did,  and I totally agree with you 100%. I think most of the Bush hater are jumping on the "bandwagon"

I also agree with dennis, my life has not changed, and those checks sure came in handy:)

Answer 5

to answer your question, cause i didn't read all of it, is support for the war and then getting mad later is how all wars are, lmao

"it's the same ole' song and dance"

p.s.

the most extreme example is,  All for Vietnam, then oops, Draft, then the Hippies were born. Lmao

Answer 6

Americans are like sheep, they are easily led by the nose.

Answer 7

Based on the approval rating, President Bush has lost much of his support for his actions.

The obvious guess would be that people supported the action against Afghanistan, which was involved in the 9/11 attacks. Later, the Bush Administration tied to tie Iraq in with terrorism and other actions as a pretext for invasion. Well, most of those reasons were shot down, such as weapons of mass destruction and terrorist ties.

Different actions require different responses. As time went on, we saw more instances of judgment by the Bush Administration, and responded accordingly. I can't fault people for that.

Answer 8

six yrs passed already 9/11(  i was there then)

As he is  about to hAnd over ? Even then he is at last legs.

Answer 9

I think Bush did a reasonable job of dealing with the problems.

Just contrast the actions taken by Bush to wet willy Clinton's response to the bombing of USS Cole:

I shot a missle in the air

Whence it landed I knew not where.

Till the man it fell on came around.

Now I do not greatly care to shoot more missles in the air.

Clinton had 100 cruise missles fired off at randomly selected villages suspected of harbouring terrorist training cells. If it were my village, I'd be pissed enough to learn to fly an airplane into a building. Wouldn't you be?

I'd call Bush's response more responsible. Wouldn't you?

Answer 10

A lot of people in this country supported him.

Even everybody in the senate except one supported him on the war in Iraq.

Answer 11

sorry , never supported him.  he's untrustworthy, and no the brightest.

i felt better when i saw clinton at ground zero than i did bush.