George Bush Was a Good President

A) I do not understand what Bush did wrong in the 9/11 situation. The United States was attacked by a foreign group and 2,000 lives were lost in the process. What was he supposed to do? Also the President did not "forge evidence" as you have pointed out. Hussein used chemical weapons to gas his own people. Nerve gas and other chemical weapons fall under the category of weapons of mass destruction, so there was evidence supporting that theory. Iraq had also openly declared a hatred of America and other western nations. This made them a suspect to the 9/11 terror attacks. So Bush responded on proved evidence based on past events and attacked the most country most responsible for the attacks. B) He was always honest and had the country's best interest at heart. He openly declared himself an avid Christian and he loved this country so I, like many other people, trusted that he had the best interest of the country at heart. He did not do anything morally wrong like you have compared my argument to. And if you looked up our government we have a REPBULIC not a democracy. While a republic is a form of democracy the president and other elected officials do not have to listen to the people. We elect them to make decisions for us, they do not have to take our full consent on every decision they make. As we have seen lately the American people have been stupid and greedy regarding the war and the economy. I wouldn't listen to them all the time either. C) I agree Bush did nothing to stop or change Clinton's mistakes and he does deserve partial blame but just barely. I do not think that the government has any business regulating any business at all. The government is there to make sure companies are not selling illegal or dangerous products. After that is done they have no right to regulate companies, functional companies or not. If a bank is making bad loans and collecting toxic assets that's their own fault and if people continue to do business with a company like that then the bank deserves to go bad. Regulating banks in a free market economy goes against many of the economic freedoms Americans are entitled to. Bush respected these freedoms and let the economy go its own course as it should be. I will now respond to your last few points made. 1) How can you blame the President for not catching Bin Laden? and how does that make him a bad president. Try catching the most powerful man in al-Quida in a region where he has lots of friends and many places to hide. While Bush did not catch Bin Laden he caught many other high ranking terror figures. 2) As for creating the largest deficit in US history I think that is about to change with Obama's spending. (Give him a few more months and Bush's spending will look like nothing.) 3) You say "4263 American soldiers tragically lost for lie". 4263 soldiers is a tragedy but it could have been a lot worse. In Vietnam we lost 58,209 soldiers and 153,303 more were wounded. This war doesn't even compare to other conflicts we've been in. Also we have made a lot of progress for so few deaths. Iraq is almost a stable democratic nation. The terrorist networks have been pushed all the way to Pakistan and no more attacks on US soil have happened in almost 8 years. I say we are doing a great job over in the Middle East and we are lucky that it has only been 4263 lives lost, not 40,000.