George Bush is a good president.

As on my profile, I say that I generally support Bush. Not all of his policies are good ones. Anyways, here's the argument 1. The No Child Left Behind act is a gross overextension of federal power, and I'm against it because it makes teachers conform their instruction to teaching the test and not really teaching what needs to be taught. 2. Soooo...are you against the Iraq War? As a matter of fact, we did find weapons of mass destruction buried in sand dunes all over Iraq. And strangely, Syria all of a sudden had these weapons right after we invaded... I wonder if Saddam had anything to do with it? He had twice tried to build a nuclear weapoms program. The Israelis stopped him the first time, in 1983, and we destroyed the facility again in 1991. The British intelligence agency, MI5, had passed us information that Saddam was trying to aquire yellowcake, a needed component for building nuclear weapons, long before we invaded. He had used poison gas on his own people in the past, and while fighting the Iranians. He launched Scud missiles against Israel and Saudi Arabia in the Gulf War, and they could have been tipped with chemical ot biological warheads. Thankfully, they were not. But you're right, terrorism can't be stopped, but only because we haven't noticed the cause. Terrorism is the limbs that we're hacking at. Islam is the roots. 3. Lowered our economy more than some African nations? Where did you get that? A cereal box? Our combined economy is 13.13 TRILLION dollars. The entire COMBINED GDP of Africa is only 2.5 trillion. I don't even need to speak on this. 4. Actually, Bush has no control over gas prices. He's a president, not a Saudi oilman, or a refinery owner. Prices are being manipulated by OPEC, making us think there's less oil than there really is. Bush's friends in the oil industry may be partially to blame, however. Bush's involvement is slim to none. 5. The Constitution is still in effect. If you live in a red state, you may notice this, but if you live in a blue state, it may seem so. The PATRIOT Act expanded government powers to better counteract terrorism. Only people who are suspect have to fear of it. You are only targeted if you match a specific profile of behavior. (not racial, but maybe we should) For instance, e-mials can be searched if they have a specific word composition of select words targeted for scrutiny by Homeland Security. Financial records can be traced if you make donations to suspect organizations. Any law abiding citizen should have no reason to fear this or hide from it. If you do, it only makes you seem suspect. And freedom of religion is a foundation of this country. There can be no backsliding of that without abandoning America. And exactly why would the government want to convert us to Islam? That's surrender. That's the terrorist's goal. Destroy America and bring the world under an Islamic caliphate. Why, exactly, do you believe they'd do that? 6. Failed to do one good thing for America, huh? That's simply a matter of opinion, but I'd be inclined to say that taking the fight to the terrorists and funneling them to Iraq, instead of fighting them here is more than a good thing. Bush's tax cuts have stimulated the economy, largely responsible for the record breaking stock market growth. Though recession is about to hit, that was a good thing. The border fence was a good thing, even if his calls to legalize the existing criminal aliens wasn't. You're projecting on what you think, not what really is.