Bush Avoids the Spotlight on Vacation, Despite International Conflict

George W. Bush has not resolved a single problem during his eight years as president.
Unfortunately for the nation, George W. Bush has created many problems that will be left to Obama and other future leaders to resolve.

Bush’s lack of understanding of the root causes of the problems of the middle east makes his lying low not a bad thing. He should fade away. Occupation in the territories is the real problem.

In 1917 after the defeat of the Ottoman empire by Britain and France. 78% of Palestine was Muslim. 11% were Christian and only 11% were Jews. The Muslims had ruled that land for 500 years.
In the 1890???s Herzl proposed a ???homeland??? for the Jews. The movement was called Zionism. Jews were scattered around the world. The concept of developing a Jewish State ???for the Jews??? to bring them together was commendable. Except, if you want to create such a State, you have to take the land from somebody else!
In WW1, during the fighting in that area (Palestine), Britain promised control to the Arabs for their support in defeating the Turks. (Remember Lawrence of Arabia?) However, at the end of the war, Jewish lobbyists (Weisman and Balfour) convinced the British to declare Palestine a ???Homeland for the Jews???. This of course did not sit well with the Arabs.
Then, in Palestine, with the Jewish methods of takeover, similar to the way we in the US took over from the American Indians, resentment exploded. It has then spread to the whole of the he Mideast and can be argued to be the main cause of the situation there today.
The resentment lead to terrorism as a Palestinian defense because apparently, the Palestinians along with the rest of the Muslim world, have no will or capability to organize politically or otherwise to influence the Palestinian situation from a broader perspective.
On top of that , we the US, have never been perceived as treating the parties fairly. Why we sided with the Jews is a puzzle because from the beginning our interest have been oil and had we played the game more fairly we may not be having all the problems (global terrorism) we have today.
What a pity!

Israel citizens living in illegal settlements.
1966 0
1972 10,608
1983 106,595
1993 281,800
2004 441,165
2006 484,562
I encourage everyone to go to wilkipedia and look at the settlement locations. It is no wonder why the Palestinians have lost hope and resorted to violence.

Our Greatest, Smartest Leader also froze since GWB cares no more, knowing little what to do about international conflicts. A gentle way of describing his status is that Pres.-Ele. B. 0bama (Pebo) is closely monitoring the situation.

the man has what, less than 4 weeks left on the job, and he needs a vacation? there’s his ‘legacy’ in a nutshell…

jamin: “A gentle way of describing his status is that Pres.-Ele. B. 0bama (Pebo) is closely monitoring the situation.”
As a senator, Obama does not have access to the Executive branch briefings and resources to even properly monitor the situation, never mind implement any policy. Obama can’t even get permission to move into the president elect’s housing a couple weeks early. You are profoundly ignorant if you think Obama could do anything more than hold a press conference – a foolish move since it would undercut the American government and be done without full knowledge (8 minute call not withstanding).

Like I said. Hurray up Jan 20th so Obama and team can show us what they are going to do and stoop deffering to a president who is dertermined to sit out making decisions for the next few weeks.

This entire situation is extremely sad. Especially seeing the pictures of innocent children with blood streaming down their faces. As always seems the case in the Middle East, both sides share the blame. Hamas had to have known what the result would be when they began launching missiles into Israel. To say that Israel is engaging in war crimes by responding is a bit disingenuous. If Mexico or Canada began launching missiles into the U.S. the response would be the same. Israel has a right to defend itself. On the other hand the retaliation is leaving hundreds of innocent Palestinian women and children dead and injured and that indicates that Israel is being reckless in the manner of its response. Both sides have once again contributed to this disaster.

Can anyone out there explain to me why Bush and his staff are being paid for?
It is hard to believe people just get their salaries for doing nothing! The nation is in trouble for the remaining 5 weeks until Jan 20th. That day can’t come sooner!

Bush is an international conflict.

Bush is a joke. I sure hope the new people in office decide to take a look at him and his administration and finally put him and other people in jail. I am sick of GW being able to just fade off into the wind with not so much as a slap on the wrist for all the horrendous things he and his cronies have done to our U.S. He is a disgrace to our country and I want that stupid, dumb look (like he has not done nothing and don’t know why people do not like him) wiped off his face and make him realize he has done nothing but hurt this country. I want him to feel the pain he has caused. And it is time for our Congress to do something about it now and quit putting on a 2 min show in front of the cameras like they are realling doing something and give some decisions as far as putting Bush and his dummies in jail. GW and all the people under him are just laughing all the way to the bank because they feel none of them can be touched legally and sent to jail. I want to see some justice

Yes, there is brush to be cut, trails to be biked and fish to be caught, but more probably there is whisky to be drunk and cocaine to be snorted. “Cutting Brush” has always been a bush euphanism for getting high and going on a bender. Duh, people!

Our beloved President W could have been spared all this pesky
irreconcilable conflict if, instead of stealing and gifting the biblical lands of Palestine to the Jews to have, occupy, and dominate, the imperial Brits had cleaverly palmed Northern Ireland off on the Jews to deal with. Voila, two thorny problems solved with one ingenius stroke.. and history could then surely record that W twas the greatest Amurkan president of the twenty-first century.
sob

WH can do no right according to the Demos who caused the Housing crisis by intimidating banks and mortgage companoes to give loans to people who did not meet regular loan standards. They also erred in 750billion wih no accountability in the “Fanancial Bailout” that has now 350 billion that only GOD knows where it went. Good Congressional 11% rating !!!! Go Demos!

What few Americans seem to realize is that the Democratic and Republican parties are not part of the government? These are private organizations. They are not under the Constitution, so they can do pretty much whatever they please.
If the Democratic Party chooses to run Daffy Duck, and the Republican Party Goofy, they are fully entitled to do so. Indeed, many would argue they already have, many times.
Again, the parties are not art of the government, they are private organizations and they own the government. Washington isn’t ours, it’s theirs.
One of the few things you can be sure about is party honchos will do whatever they think is best for this private organization, regardless of how much damage they do to America.
As long as voters insist on seeing politics in terms of democratic vs. republican, or left vs. right, liberals vs. conservatives, there is little hope for this country.
When we switch back to seeing politics in terms of liberty vs. power as the early Americans did, then we will have regained the road to peace, freedom and abundance.
Every mainstream candidate is always on the side of power and will do whatever it takes to get it and keep it. They will not give up their government, their power and their riches that they took from you, the taxpayers.

Israel didnt start this situation , if Canada started shooting rockets into NY would America stand by and watch

“The redeemer with his everlasting knowledge and power of persuasion shall be the “one” to save the world”. Just a few more days for salvation!!!
Let Obama tell us what to do, he’ll know the way to peace.

I just can’t believe what I am reading from all of you. Did you forget 9/11? Did you forget who has run the congress for the last two years, Polosi and Reid! The most liberal of socialists in the congress. Not much Bush can do! He is trying to please the public, after all they elected these clowns. Maybe it is the (R) after his name that you just don’t like. Approval of congress lowest ever! Great job Dems, and now we have a youngster at the helm who voted present in the congress in Illinois, and won the senate seat to simply begin campaigning for the presidency. Oh yes indeed, I am so comfortable with this new administration. We had better take Biden’s advise and take cover. God help us all. This was a great nation and free nation, not with the DEMS at the helm, hello SOCIALISM!

If Bush does speak, the next thing we will hear from the crazy libs and Obama loving media is that Bush caused this war so he could stay in power longer somehow and “steal” another election from the Dems. ROFL

Hamas is constantly attacking Israel. Hamas refuses Israel’s right to exist. Hamas is killing Israeli women and children intentionally.
I believe Israel is showing very considerable restraint and care for the people of Gaza by only attacking security targets.
The old arguement of the muslims were there before the jews is slightly crazy. To take such an absurd arguement you would then just go back a few thousand years and say that the jews were there before the muslims even existed. We have to look at the current situation and both sides need to recognize each other and live peacfully. Hamas has to give up it’s obsession with destroying Israel.

one day, 70 years or less, probably in our childrens lifetime, oil will become irrelevant and so will the middle east…then they can kill whoever they want over there…who will really care when oil is no longer king?

I think BO has had more vacations already than W. JBTY&M, if you can’t see what W has done to keep us from being attacked then shame on you. I agree with the other posters here, you may as well go ahead and blame W. now, shortly your turn in the barrel will be here. I just pray every day that nothing happens to president elect OB, we could get stuck with that goffy clown Biden. Think about it. What would he do when his drugs wear off.

Hmmm…. I wonder if all you ‘Bush’ bashers will be any happier in 4 years? I seriously doubt it. Someone had asked earlier who were the 25% that approved of President Bush? I am one and am proud to have voted for him twice. So put that in your pipe and smoke it. I do believe we need to give Obama a chance and do think that he will do his very best to lead our country. It’s very easy to sit back and spout negative statements about the politicians who we ask to lead us. How would you handle the entire nation evaluating your job performance on a daily basis? Think about it.

Whatever goes wrong, remember bush did it!!!

The RNC ransacked the Treasury, now it’s the DNCs’ turn. These parties are in it for themselves, and so am I! that’s why I don’t pay taxes. LOL

george bush likes money, and making his friends richer. Its all about who you know not what you know, un important credit slaves can claim all the things they want but at the end of the day are no where near connected to the circles that really rule our country and there for have no real idea of what is happening at the top. It is to me a systematic plundering of treasure , tax payer money.
Bush has done his deeds and so far has gotten away with it, we are so weak and afraid of saying things, its a shame true power and force exist because they will keep mouths shut at all costs. If this were a democracy that functioned the way it does on paper i feel our great leader would have been impeached, for being dishonest and going into war on false pretexts. We have dumped the american dollar in iraq for what reason? our government needs to secure the oil it needs in order to maintain its force and power using the technology. Devices that only work with constant supplies of power .
I always feel sorrow when i wonder what america would have been like if our leaders at the top decided to just re invest in america, spend 700 million on the inside let us all feel a little wealthy, make the average american a little better educated, a little healthier, and maybe happier. But as i write it becomes clear, us as a people can not handle wealth, we need to spend it on horrible strange things too.
gwb was planned and carried out by very smart influential men who have just become more powerful then anything conceived in any book or film. the government was ripe for a plunder and def got it self robbed silly. Last stage a financial crisis resulting from a mix of greed and over spending. when one expects too much money to grow way to fast things will fall and burn. growth is slow and steady, and the fact is some one has too lose. It has turned out that the biggest losers are those who stand line, wait for their turn, drive under the laws. those who are afraid or opposed to stealing or taking advantage or breaking the law. The people who have what you dont are not the type described.
We have been taken advantage of by the opportunists, the people who noticed that because of their circles of friends pretty much run everything. George Bush represents a lame son in a powerful family who was forced to do the worst job, be the pres,

President Bush has at least kept you guys safe from terrorist attacks for the past 8 years, so that you can continue your “Bush Bashing” tirade unabated.
We will see what the “Community Organizer” is going to do.

Bush kept us safe for 8 years.
You wanted Obama to take over as soon as he was elected, now you got him and you got what you asked for.

And this idiot (W) wants “pay for performance” instilled in to the government employees pay–WOW!

And this idiot (BHO) wants to create a cradle to grave social system that our country can’t affod because none of his constituents pay taxes–WOW!

Once again, it is all Bush’s fault. Yep, he did nothing in eight years. Well, he did keep terror freaks from attacking the US… Hmm, what about liberating Iraq and freeing up millions to lead their lives the way they choose; be it quibling and killing each other or even coexisting… Took the Taliban off the world stage… Put ObL in a cave… In the meantime, all of us have had the privelege of calling the man a war criminal, big business boot licker, etc. Yet, he made sure we had that freedom to do so without loosing faith in our country and her populace. In the end, he had the guts to stick to his guns, something no liberal ostrich would possess. Hail to the President! (Bush that is).

Amen Jeff. Here’s a quote for you libs:
If you love wealth more than liberty; the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom; depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
– Samuel Adams

How many of you responders have a life-size poster of Keith Olbermann on your bedroom ceiling?

I read about the speculation that our president has fallen off the wagon and is hitting the bottle again, and I really don’t have a feel for how likely that is. But his absence from the public eye increases the speculation at the very least.

“Not atypically, we have yet to learn anything more about what is keeping the commander in chief busy, though one can assume there is brush to be cleared, trails to be biked, and perhaps even fish to be caught.”
So much for unbiased reporting. The modern day media is nothing more than a bunch of immature twits creating scandal to win the next Pulitzer.

once again the sheeps follow the media. is it surprising that the media writes anything negative about Bush?
and is it any surprise that liberal bush haters etal criticize him for not speaking? oh yeah..hes not talking..LOL
liberals..a mental disease

The rules of war have changed as they always and inevitably do, imposed by the most recent winner. As a correllary, the loser is the last one clinging to the old rules. That’s the way it works.
If you’re sane and like the Geneva Convention, you should be praying that Israel wins this war and utterly crushes Hamas. Hamas believes in abusing and ritual execution of prisoners, targeting civilians, terrorism, using civilian shields. The whole world should rise up against all of Hamas and punish it severely for these violations, or the current rules mean nothing.
GWB is doing exactly the right thing, here. It is in noone’s interest to stop the fighting before Israel has achieved a clear and decisive victory, eliminating Hamas entirely.
Oh, and would someone please sink Cynthia McKinney’s stupid little boat?

Obama has not commented on the mideast because he is waiting for his central committee to tell him what to say. The central committee, in turn, is waiting to see which way the wind will blow.

His neck is probably sore from constantly twisting around to look out of the window and then say “Honey, are you sure you ordered the movers. I don’t see any truck.
She: “Now George its not over til January 20th so just try to be a little more patient, and yes for the 150th time I ordered the movers”.

The tough kids, Bush and Cheney, kept the bullies off the playground for seven years. The tough kids established two democracies in the middle east and liberated 50 million people. The new kid in the neighborhood is about to walk onto the playground and….

Hurry, only 3 more weeks to blame all the problems in the world on GWB. After all there were no problems until he was elected. Everything is his fault and we all know it. But don’t worry PEBO will fix it all on the 21st.
He will just promise Hope & Change and all will be well. Dream on sheeple.

When Obama ass-umes control
of the Presidency, HE will
immediately ORDER Israel to
“cease and desist” and
ASK Hamas to Stand-Down.
He will then negotiate a
7 year Peace Accord with
guarantees that the United Nations
will place an ARMY in the region
if it is broken by either party.
Russia and China will also be involved
in this diplomacy~~

I will send in
The United Nations Troops
for 7 years !!!

Islam equals Evil. Don’t ever forget that.

Don’t worry, Mr. President, your legacy is written in stone.

I hope when Oprah marries Barrack they live happily ever after…I am guessing that will be “W’s” fault…

“I am fairly out and you fairly in! See which of Us will be happiest.”
-John Adams’ impression of George Washington on assuming the Presidency.

You’re funny Bill. I’m no Atheist. And I don’t care if you say nice things.
But you should realize the consequence of your slanderous repeating of presumptuous stories for the sake of…I don’t know what you were trying to accomplish really. Anyway, you don’t see it, so forget it.
Get it?

Mark Twain’s visit to Lebanon, Syria, and the Holy Land in 1867 was published in “The Innocents Abroad”, where he described Palestine as follows:
“….. A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds… a silent mournful expanse…. a desolation…. we never saw a human being on the whole route…. hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country.” (The Innocents Abroad, p. 361-362)
http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Articles/Story845.html

They aren’t “Palestinian” anyway. They are Egyptian, Jordanian, Lebanese, and Syrian. They just want to make life hard on Israeli/Jewish People, so they occupy the Gaza Strip and West Bank and will not leave.
“Palestine”…hmph…may as well be The Lost City of Atlantis.

This article and ABC is so biased. The People spoke and Bush won two elections. History will tell a tale of courageous president who protected everyone one of us from terrorism and liberated 40 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Thank you President Bush!!

This is amazing to me that everyone here believes that we see one tenth of what is going on. Obama stated he would turn things around immediately and after actually sitting in a meeting with the current President he emerged and stated that things will get worse with the economy. Everyone here thinks that Bush is on vacation but his vacation means he is working remotely from Texas not hanging on a beach somewhere…he is in constant meetings, paperwork, and briefings…this is why each President ages by multiple years in four…Obama is only now seeing the depth of hte job in which he has been elected…if things change in four years it will be a miracle as each President is in it for themselves and their friends.

I get the argument about “what would you do if someone shot rockets into your town”, but I think it comes up as a huge double standard if you compare what is going on to the Georgia/Russia conflict from earlier in the year. The Administration was all over that (as was the RNC candidate) to denounce the unbalanced use of force. Does Israel have a right to protect itself? Sure, but I think most people see what is going on as a huge overstepping of their self-preservation mandate.

The Holy land belongs to the Jewish people FOREVER!!. People, read the bible, we are coming to a point in history when the events written about in the book of Revelation are going to come to pass. Look up, lift up your head, for your redemption draws near.

Many say Obama will inherit Bush’s problems. HMM, what about the problems Bush was left with from Clinton?

Geez, is it irony that the people who are “granted” a land in perpetuity via prophecy a.) don’t believe most of the prophecy (i.e. Revelation) and b.) realize that Christianity-based nations who do believe in the prophecy won’t raise a whisper in protest regardless of what Israel does for fear of ending up on the wrong side of a foretold Armageddon. I think religious scholars would have my back in saying that, even in the Bible, the nation of Israel has been wrong every now and again. Again, I think Israel has the right to defend itself as a country, but in this instance, I feel that they are simply making an example of Gaza and in the future are making more problems for themselves. Every event in the Middle East doesn’t have to be the unveiling of the End of the World. For quite a few millenia now its simply been a very convenient place for people to hate and kill each other, regardless of religion.

You have to be taught how to hate.

Mike, all I can say is WOW! Our education system apparently does need an overhaul.

Sigh…
I love how the debate has gone from should our current COMMANDER AND CHIEF respond to the current WAR involving a region that he stated previously that he would make establishing peace a priority TO hey, you liberal pansies, you elected a guy a month ago and even though he isn’t in office yet and thereby doesn’t actually hold authority, why doesn’t he do something? And to the guy who said that GWB is the second best prez since Reagan: Dear Lord, I hope that Nancy doesn’t hear you say that. From the “Great Communicator” to …”W”. One of these two won against a frightening nuclear superpower by using both hard and soft power, the other…well…I guess history will show that he tried his best. If there is anything that history loves its those that gave it their best shot anyway… :-P

Just another reason why I won’t watch ABC News.
Hamas broke the cease fire and now it’s Israel’s fault?
I’m tired of the Bush-bashing. There are lots of people that are on vacation this week. I don’t think it matters where the President is. He can handle things in Crawford as well as Washington DC.
Hope the Messiah doesn’t ever leave Washington DC for the next 4 years.

Since when do Americans have a “Western Whitehouse”. I’ve never heard of it before. It probably won’t even be there when GW goes back to Texas, permanently!!
Because he won’t be in THE WHITEHOUSE anymore. HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Hope Obama can clean up the mess! But also pray to God Obama doesn’t do the same old thing….protect the rich & screw the poor.

Bush is doing exactly what he should be doing – staying out of this little war. Israel is doing just fine without our help. Every time he comes to the aid of another country, the liberals whine that he is getting us into wars. When he doesn’t they whine about what is he doing. No matter what — liberals whine.

The next four years the liberals will not whine but think…great…all is well…stick their heads in the sand again as they did during Clinton and think man he is doing a great job blowing up aspirin factories stretching out the economic cycle to unpresidented levels so there would not be an adjustment dureing his tenure and screwing the military out of being able to defend us.
If you do not learn from history you are doomed to repeat it.

Well Richard..Neither will the luny left go away nor will they get a life… unfortunately.

Leftist Media: Why oh why won’t President Bush do something about the madness?
Bush: If I have something to add, I will, but Israel is doing a pretty good job at the moment.

Mike@work, you may give the President a little too much credit. He does not control the economic cycle into a Deprtessive state alone, he does not take the country to War alone, he does not push other countries into war with each other alone…his biggest capability is to launch nuclear war unchecked but Bush has not done that…everything takes the next cycle to see the benefits so we shall see how Obama benefits from the past eight years.

Also, I didn’t notice the O-man cutting his expensive vacay short to get back to work. The poor woman lamenting her cut back from 19.00 to 8.00 might take that up with him since he is spending more on that trip than I make in a year.

Thanks President Bush for your courage to kept America safe.
If they like so much to complaint about President Bush they could go to Mexico, Iran, Irak or Palestine to live with their families down there.
May be they can get some respect.
Bravo President Bush.

PRESIDENT GWBUSH
WE LOVE YOU!
THANK YOU FOR PROTECTING US while you were in office. Laura BUSH is absolutely correct. History will judge that your Presidency was a huge success.
You are doing the right think. Get out of the stinking ungrateful heat. The Iraqi who threw shoes at you ought to end up in Hades where he belongs.
GOD BLESS YOU , GEORGE W. BUSH!
THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE TO THE NATION!
WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU! Please enjoy your retirement.

I like to see a few Bush supporters stepping up. And it amazes me how someone complains about going from 18.00 an hour to 9.00 as if it isn’t their fault. It boggles me why everyone has to point the finger. Our President has never put the blame on anyone else and has abandoned his own base to try and do what he thinks is the best situation. And shame on the person earning a 9.00 an hour wage for acting like he/she can even comprehend the kind of struggles and decisions our president has to deal with. At no point of his last four years has he been worry free. Not only worry free for his family and those he has to provide for, but for our nation as a whole. And instead of complaining that you job wage has been reduced, why not be thankful of having a safe homeland and taking advantage of the freedom we are provided. Our government does it’s part in protecting us and giving us the opportunity to succeed. It still sickens me how a country of such pride as we once were can produce citizens with some of the views I hear on this Blog.

This is funny…like you would have anything good to say abut Bush if he had made a statement. I think the press is even testier than normal because BO isn’t giving them much…except for those shirtless photos.

You can’t change the narrow minds of most libs. I have lived in Colo. for over 25 years and I’ve watched it grow. Mostly people from the Northeast, Cali, Minn. etc. moving here because it sucked where they were living. Colo. used to be a nice red state but these people brought there screwed up voting habits and it’s starting to suck just like the the places they left. When will they get it. Thanks for trying GW.

Why doesnt everyone just be thankfull that you live in a country where you can say these things about your president. If you dont like it, shut up, or leave. We don’t want you here.

Not that I want the Colts to face the Giants in the Superbowl…. Go Chargers!

Those liberals who constantly complaine about President Bush and his accomplishments, always forget that the democraps for eight years have been doing everything possible that they can to thwart everything that President Bush has proposed including solutions to the ongoing financial crises. Bush didn’t cause it, the liberal democraps did. Senileator Reid and Reprehensible whats her name from Califmexico have faught everything Bush has proposed to solve problems and then go on blaming Bush for the failures of whatever. President Truman had as low of a poll rating after firing that arrogant General McArther for overstepping his bounds in administering the Japanese nation after the end of WW-II and attempting to get us into another nuclear war with the Soviets. Truman was a good President who came from a more or less common background. President Bush will go down in history as a good president who led the nation during very difficult times. His failures, if any, has to do with all the political garbage the democraps have hurled at him over the last eight years and not because of his own decisions. What will the liberal media do when they discover that Obama can’t really walk on water and feed the multitudes with a few dead fish? You know it will always be Bush’s fault in the liberal’s minds no matter what. Thank you President Bush for your good service to the nation for eight years.

There is nothing for President Bush to do. Israel is taking care of business putting the terrorists out of business.
President bush is the greatest leader in the history of the world and america is in for a wake up call once we lose this great man. but I’m sure the muslim guy with no experience who is from the corrupt Illinois political machine will fix all the problems…..lmfao!

Kirit Radia:
You are one sick puppy if a vacationing Barack Obama with “his perspiration glistening off his manly pectorals” is a more substantive behavior than all the things Bush has done over the last 8 years to keep us safe and prosperous.
Bush bargained and accommodated the Democrats who were stuck in gridlock mode to try to prevent him from being successful and from keeping our nation competitive and prosperous. But GWB did the best he could even with that.
No one is perfect, not even Obama, as you will see and have seen already.
You know nothing about what makes the world go around, beyond your radical low road attempt to smear GWBush for what will go down in history as one of the more difficult yet also successful presidencies up until the time the Democrats gained control again due to the Republicans’ error in not keeping a lid on all the Democrats’ spending.
All the efforts of GWB to protect us just went into the sewer with these Democrats now guiding the nation, just like when the Clintons took the nation into the sewer when they were floated into the White House for 8 years on a FAIRYTALE message of CHANGE and HOPE.
Then the Clinton Regime did everything possible to tie the hands of the CIA and FBI and they gutted our Military instead just so they could fund their targeted domestic handout programs for votes, instead of funding the military and the intelligence people needed to protect us from 9-11 terrorist attacks.
Thanks GWBush for all your efforts and may you get the applause and the proper vindication in the history books that you deserve. It was a tough 8 years and you did the best anyone could do.

You people believe the ignorance of news media. You have accepted the bias that is put in front of you on a daily basis, and you have absorbed it as the norm. Pityful to say the least.
Why don’t they report on Obama’s vacation, or “return home”, and conflict it with his plans for the Middle East? Mr. Obama lives basically a block away from my house here in disgusting Kailua, Hawaii. I see him at the Marine base gym when I go, even at the beach. Why isn’t the “oh mightiest one” sitting down and developing a plausible plan to at least dim down the conflict on the Gaza Strip now? He does not have to wait.
Bush has not done everything wrong(Missile defense systems that Clinton tried to destroy to appease Russia etc..), it’s just that you don’t hear anything from the mouths of reporters and journalists that convey the successful things he has done.

“W” was always only in it for name sake only–if he could not tie a decision to something he believed would give him a “piece of history” he wouldn’t act. The man was, is, and shall remain a total waste–give him another bottle and another ranch to play with, please!!

Why is it people assume the Prez has done nothing. I’m sorry he hasn’t sought each of you out to explain and describe his every effort. I know that makes you feel left out, but try to press on with pride. You (America)elected him twice, let him do his job!
No president, not even Mr. Obama, will be 100% transparent… Their days are 20 hours long and they work 7 days a week. How in the world will they find time to brief every person in America on their daily dealings.
And to those of you that say, George W. Bush has done nothing for this country… Open your freakin eyes. America has become a nation of individuals, not patriots. But that man brought us together after 9/11 and we stood behind him then. Your loyalty moves me… Oh it is easy to point your finger at him and say its his fault, but did you ever think that maybe it had something to do with the House and the Senate… 2007 to 2009 The House has been 53% Democratic… You telling me that these bills passed without Democratic support? Do some research before you spout off your opinions on the leader that YOUR representatives elected!
Stop letting the Media tell you what to think and think for yourselves. Your Americans, act like it!

What would you have Bush do?
It is a sad fact of life that wars do not end until one side defeats the other. Just look at history….
WWI; ended when both sides agreed to quit fighting basically and it took the sound defeat in WW2 to end that. Korea is still a problem after ending in a “tie”. Vietnam, while USA military were soundly victorious, politics lost the war. Gulf War in the 90s left the other side still breathing and we were back again to finish the job.
For the Isreal and Hamas to end their fighting one side has to finish off the other. Until then the conflict will continue….. No matter who is President a world away….

I would just as soon see the US stop getting involved in foreign country’s problems. Just read that Bush signed off on millions for Palestine. We are taxed too much, if we keep giving our hard earned money to foreign countries over and over…and it’s time we demand our money stay here! Foreign aid should only be given in a case of a natural disaster.
Just think how many bills could be paid off if we weren’t taxed to death?
Israel & Palestine have fought for eons, if they can’t work out their problems, we sure can’t.
Let them fight till the last man stands!

Look at all the above comments…my gosh American education is the worst ever. If you think it has been bad under Dubya just wait as you haven’t seen anything just yet.

Bonnie -Does that mean we can stop sending weapons and our tax dollars to Israel. Just curious?

But yet Obama can have female (and male?) reporters drool over his ‘glistening pecs’ while partying in Hawaii. I mean, the man has his little blue and white faux Presidential Seal and everything so shouldn’t he be working?

What people don’t understand is that Bush unlike allot of Americans has opened his eyes to the rout of the problem: extreme Arab fundamentalism. It is a global problem that the world needs to understand is not going away any time soon. You people are delusional if u think u can talk to these lunatics who believe a 16 year old boy who blows himself up is a martyr as long as he kills some infidels with him. We keep on giving them justifications for what their doing somebody needs to stand up to them and Bush is the only one with the ##### to do so.

Yoel – That is what you would like us to think. Actually terrorism is a direct result of the foreign policy that we are following. People don’t like you meddling in their affairs. They kind of get resentful. I think a mistake was made in 1948, but I am willing to say Israel is there so leave it be. However, as long as Israel continues to steal land for settlement construction, they should be resisted. Let’s not forget all of the checkpoints that restrict Palestinian movements within their own territories. Isreal is in the wrong, and they need to make some changes like ending the occupation. Until that time they should be resisted. If the US continues sending tax dollars to fund this cruelty, then my country the USA should be held to account.

t is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end of the triumphs of high achievement; and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither defeat nor victory.” TR
God Bless Bush !!