George W. Bush was not one of the top 5 worst president.

to start this round I will show that will bush made some errors in judgment they do not compare to the ineptitude of some of our other leaders. 1 I will concede that he is responsible for an unpopular war but still hold out hope that history may vindicate him this. 2 for his administration allowing torture I am assuming your talking about waterboarding something that to my knowledge was only ever used on 3 people. but besides the point it is not something they perceived to by torture 3 how can you blame bush for the financial collapse when it came as a surprise to most the world. 4 so to hurricane Katrina what exactly should he have done in that situation. I think the blame should fall mainly on the governor, and the mayor 5 first of this act was not for American citizens it was for captured terrorist. secondly do you really want to go down the list of presidents that suspended habeas Corpus 6 those wire tapes were supposed to be for foreign nationals. some people over reached but this not on the level of Nixon who wire taped people he didn't like 7 not negotiating with people who express deep hatred for your country does not mean your foreign policy is disastrous James Buchanan was not a worse president just because he was a slavery advocate. he tried to pressure a supreme court justices to change his decision, he also bribed congress men to vote a certain way. he also did nothing in one of our nations most trying times. Andrew Johnson seeing as the Congress was able to override his veto saying that most people hated black people at the time really isn't valid. and the main point I was trying to make was that at a time when our nation was so bitterly divided he did nothing to try to remedy the situation in fact by trying to keep blacks as second class citizens he wound up dividing them even more. Richard Nixon I would say Bushes war wile dissonant is better than Nixon's secret wars like in Cambodia and his meddling in India, Pakistan, and Iran all had a detrimental effect I thing Nixon is at least one we can both agree is worse rather than going into every detail of his presidency. my next president is warren g. Harding whose presidency was part of several scandals including the teapot dome scandal where "The scandal involved Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, who was convicted of accepting bribes and illegal no-interest personal loans in exchange for the leasing of public oil fields to business associates". next I will highlight some of the other scandals during his presidency "Thomas W. Miller, head of the Office of Alien Property, was convicted of accepting bribes. Jess Smith, personal aide to the Attorney General, destroyed papers and then committed suicide. Charles R. Forbes, Director of the Veterans Bureau, skimmed profits, earned large amounts of kickbacks, and directed underground alcohol and drug distribution. He was convicted of fraud and bribery and drew a two-year sentence" before you say that these actions were done by his cabinet and not himself I would like to point out that Bush was not always aware of the actions of rumsfeld and Cheney. for the sake of time I will hold my last president for my next round I do apologise for taking so much time but I am trying to have as good an argument as possible