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. He conceeds my point on No Child Left Behind. No Child Left Behiond overcrowds good schools, making the good schools medicore schools and the bad schools stay the same. The NCLB Act could be done differemtly simply by regulating funding different or some other method. Point Blank: He conceeds NCLB. 2. Opponent- As a matter of fact, we did find weapons of mass destruction buried in sand dunes all over Iraq. + Can you show some proof? Heres proof saying we found no WMDs. http://www.cnn.com... (2005) Opponent - And strangely, Syria all of a sudden had these weapons right after we invaded... I wonder if Saddam had anything to do with it? + So...a good leader invades a nation and kils thousands of Americans from speculation. If they did/do have WMDs, I don't see what the Iraq War could have done to help. Opponent - 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. + This was 16 years ago. If they had WMDs 16 years ago, then why didn't they use them? This is more speculation proven wrong. In debate we call this non unique. If they've had nukes for 16 years what has been stopping them from using them? Opponent-He had used poison gas on his own people in the past, and while fighting the Iranians. + Why is it American responsibility to fight back? We did not help in Darfur or Rwanda. I don't see why invading Iraq is suddenly so important. Opponent- 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. + That is so incredibly racist. We can't invade countries because of what the people there (not the govt.) have done. That solution can never work. You literaly said that we need to hack at Islam, the roots. You are promoting ethnic cleansing. You are saying that decades ago they could have possibly bombed somebody. Why should we attack them for that? That makes NO sense! 3. Opponent- 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. + Use any currency converter (http://www.xe.com...) to find that our dollar is low. Besides, during Bush's 8 years the dollar dropped signofocantly. We used to be greater than the Euro and the ONLY reason we are not a poor nation is because the USD is the premier currency. Even if you won't conceed that were lower than most African nations, you have to admit the USDdropped in 8 years. Maybe, this was an exaggeration, but the economy is still lowered. 4. Opponent- Actually, Bush has no control over gas prices. He's a president, not a Saudi oilman, or a refinery owner. Bush's friends in the oil industry may be partially to blame, however. Bush's involvement is slim to none. + I did not say that Bush is purposely raising oil prices. [More speculation] During Bush's 8 years, the gas prices went up significantly. Clinton took sveral measures to stop the raisng of oil prices. Bush did not even make ONE initiative. He just sat there and let them rise. Opponent- Prices are being manipulated by OPEC, making us think there's less oil than there really is. + Proof or speculation? I guess the latter. 5. Opponent- 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... + How ridiculous! Any patriot would see that our constitution is being destroyed. When will it stop? What is they repeal freedom of speech, or religion due to the terrorists? You can't just allow terrorists to destroy our constitution. I'm not a terrorist but I am a patriot who can tell that our constitution was deliberately altered. They are allowed to search property and person without warrants, monitor our technology without warrants, and put us in prison iundefinitely without a trial. And you say that we have nothing to fear. Bush, who signed this into law, is more of a threat to America that the terrorists. Opponent- You are only targeted if you match a specific profile of behavior. (not racial, but maybe we should) + More racism! Opponent- If you do, it only makes you seem suspect. And freedom of religion is a foundation of this country. + Yes. Because warrants and a jury are not? Opponent- 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? + They repealed warrants and trials for certain individuals. Who knows what they'll do next to "stop" the terrorists. 6. Opponent- 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. + A few websites stating that there is no link between Al - Qaeda, or other terrorist organizations, and Iraq (there wer 26,100,000 results: http://www.washingtonpost.com... http://www.msnbc.msn.com... Opponent- 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. + Show me one positive increase in the economy that Bush caused (not inflation induced). Opponent- The border fence was a good thing, even if his calls to legalize the existing criminal aliens wasn't... + The border fence was never put up in the first place. The amnesty law from Senator McCain was never passed. If you're going to argue don't make up fake events. And if you count the picket fence as the border fence we have now, you obviously dont understand that illegal immigration is still hapening. + Since the Great Depression, no other president who served at least 52 months has overseen a net loss in private sector jobs through this point. In addition to lack of job growth, real weekly and hourly wages have declined since the start of the recession. At a time when middle-class Americans are experiencing stagnant wages and vanishing benefits, CEO pay continues to rise. Source: Center for American Progress, Economic Policy Weekly, Jenna Churchman, June 6, 2005 +The Bush administration's budget for the 2006 fiscal year cut non-defense discretionary spending, including education, veteran's health care, law enforcement, and environmental protections. Funding for the Iraq war, however, was recently increased. Source: Washington Post +In the 2005 State of the Union address, Bush said that more Americans are going back to work and that the economy is growing and healthy. The numbers don't necessarily support this assumption. Job growth over the last 18 months has fallen short of administration predictions by 1,703,000 Present employment levels show only 119,000 more individuals working than when Bush took office in 2001, which is effectively a decrease in employment rates, as the total civilian labor force grew by more than two million workers in 2004 alone, according to the Department of Labor. Source : USA Today Sorry about the length. Most of it is his.