Your Foreign relations policies helped continue to make us the most annoying country in the world and inspired those who attacked us on 9/11 to do so.
Then your inadequate intelligence put us in a war that was ill conceived from the beginning.
Then your inadequate leadership kept us in that war, even tho the intelligence had proven faulty, and we had no real reason to be in the war and to continue killing and being killed. At last count, the total death toll was 186,579. 4,546 U.S. and Coalition forces. 30,634 wounded. 151,000 violent iraqi deaths, roughly 90,000 of which were civilians. And lets not forget the 406 Iraqi children killed in 2008. And with a total cost of nearly 600 billion dollars.
Way to go!
Add to that the deregulation of the banking industry, which lead to poor loans being given to inadequate borrowers, and the resulting defaults and poor credit ratings of our companies, our states, and our country, and voila. You helped us go from a surplus in the budget, to the biggest deficits across the country.
And on top of that in an effort to further destroy our constitution, you managed to sign away some of our basic freedoms and liberties under the guise of protecting us from terrorism, all while relishing the ensuing fear after 9/11.
For all that you should be thanked.
But seriously, you did wonders by letting us hear all of those amazing quotes… Here are just a few…
1/12/09 - One of the very difficult parts of the decision I made on the financial crisis was to use hardworking people’s money to help prevent there to be a crisis…like such as.
12/16/08 - I’ve abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.
5/12/08 - I’ll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.
4/2/08 - Afghanistan is the most daring and ambition mission in the history of NATO.
11/13/07 - If you’ve got somebody in harm’s way, you want the president being—making advice, not—be given advice by the military, and not making decisions based upon the latest Gallup poll or focus group.
9/26/07 - As yesterday’s positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured.
9/20/07 - All of us in America want there to be fairness when it comes to justice.
9/20/07 - I heard somebody say, ‘Where’s (Nelson) Mandela?’ Well, Mandela’s dead. Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas.” (on the former South African president, who is still very much alive)
7/10/07 - I’m going to try to see if I can remember as much to make it sound like I’m smart on the subject.
I promise I didn’t hope to see a rocket heading towards your departing helicopter. Swear to jeezy creezy.
Paul Cox