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  •  In a word, Bush is incompetent, n/t (4.00 / 2)

    Today, 8/19/08, 4144 Americans, and untold Iraqis are dead, tens of thousands more maimed. Bush lied, how soon before your family pays the price for that?

    by boilerman10 on Mon Oct 03, 2005 at 05:52:21 PM PDT

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    •  And If Competent, Then What Would He Be? (4.00 / 15)

      AOK? Acceptable? One of the guys? A fine specimen of the "distinguished opposition?"

      I beg to differ. I happen to believe Bush's competence is underrated and that this disaster (all of it, that is) is largely part of his intent, but that he hoped to be able to manufacture greater popularity for himself.

      But the point is, competence or no, he is an bad, bad man. Don't want to call him evil? Let's put it this way, he has put a lot of innocent people to death in Texas, he has sent a lot of innocent American soldiers to death over lies he approved of in Iraq. He is financially extorting prize contracts for his cronies from American taxpayers by playing on their fear. He is pushing a morally bankrupt conservatism, which competent or not is corrupt as hell.

      There is no competence that can redeem a person who would let a child die of disease so that his buddies can have a little extra cash to light their stogies with on the golf course.

      by NewDirection on Mon Oct 03, 2005 at 05:58:36 PM PDT

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      •  I haven't thought of this much before now (4.00 / 6)

        but if you look at Bush ifrom the point of view of Hannah Arendt when she talked about the banality of evil, it kind of puts things in perspective.  No, he doesn't have horns nor does he foam at the mouth---but that doesn't mean the man's not evil.

        by mimi9 on Mon Oct 03, 2005 at 07:46:33 PM PDT

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        •  By their fruits (none / 0)

          You judge a person good or evil by their actions and the results of their actions.

          Biblical quote: "By their fruits you shall know them. Does a good tree bear bad fruit? Does a bad tree bear good fruit?"

          by psyched on Tue Oct 04, 2005 at 01:29:34 AM PDT

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      •  calls for speculation..... (none / 0)

        Bush is incompetent, and that is fairly undeniable in light of the persistant failures in the ONE SINGLE AREA A NORQUISTIAN CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT MUST EXCEL AT  and that is in military affairs.

        Afghanistan is a failure, and is becoming the new "forgotten war," which is ironis as Afghanistan was the war the public could agree on as being the one worth fighting for.

        Iraq is a national catastrophe both here and in Iraq.

        Saber-rattling set back progressive cjhange in Iran decades and reinstalled hard line mullah-crats that had been easing slowly out of public favor, leading to a hardening of the Iranian position.

        Bush has failed in the one arena he was supposed to succeed at.  I call that incompetence.  

        Today, 8/19/08, 4144 Americans, and untold Iraqis are dead, tens of thousands more maimed. Bush lied, how soon before your family pays the price for that?

        by boilerman10 on Tue Oct 04, 2005 at 08:21:43 PM PDT

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