George W. Bush Achievements

all i have to say is that you can make a list like this for pretty much every president. and in lists like these it is awefuly convenient to leave out the good actions of an administration.

You're right, I replied off of the top of my head because I was pressed for time. Probably a bad move.

You wouldn't be invading/rebuilding a country if it didnt have potential economic value for the US. Why aren't you invading Egypt? Cuba? Burma? Of course you attacked Afghanistan as a statement, but haven't you turned your back on Afghanistan once already? Could that have been after you trained Bin Laden to help kill Russians? What happened there?

America's military is overflowing with a general respect and decency for other people. The Marshall Plan helped rebuild Europe after World War II. Nazis invaded Poland, this was a global threat and needed to be stopped. So the U.S. sent soldiers to the European theater. Terrorism has been a global threat. Getting rid of a destructive government and not doing anything to help the people afterwards is almost as bad as letting the government kill their own people. We took out two global threats and because America's army has a mentality of respect and caring, we're reinstituting those countries to become global economic competitors. America will probably benefit from new stronger ties with Afghanistan and Iraq, but so will the U.K, and every other country in the world.

“Do you realize if this were World War II, the press and everybody would be demanded FDR be impeached, that we have failed to find Hitler, that we had failed to root out all these problem sources that are causing us grief. And they would have pronounced FDR a dismal failure and all this.”

If you want numbers, why don't you look for them before knocking a post.

Your link was to the New Democrats Online website. It was very biased.

I spent the U.S. surplus and bankrupted the US Treasury.

Bankrupted means completley spent. This administration has spent money. So has every other administration. That quote makes it sound like America is homeless and the people are starving under the Bush administration. The thing to take into consideration is that actions of one administration start making visible changes by the time the next rolls around. The next president is left to clean up the mess of, or keep improving, or take credit for whatever the last did.

So? It's just a fact. Is there any need to shoot it down? Do you condone Capital punishment? That's where you should have went with your rant.

A fact in the context of trying to take shots at the president. It's not just a simple statement, its an attack. I think capital punishment fits capital crimes.

It's not a crime if you don't get caught

Ummm yeah it is. Whether you get away with it or not, a crime is a crime. It's that much worse if you get away with it.

In response to your Common Dreams Newscenter link:
Taxpayers have always "picked up the bill" for Air Force One fuel and presidential stops.

"The accounting guidelines used by the White House were set in 1982, and Democrats benefited mightily from them during President Bill Clinton's marathon fundraising swings" - From the same site. It even admits that Clinton made 33 stops in 16 months on his second time around. Bush is making a lot of money from fundraising. But how is this his fault? He's campaigning just like every candidate. Why should he be targeted as greedy when people are giving that much? Note that not all of Bush's funds raised benefit him personally. It goes to the RNC which helps every republican gubernatorial, local, and presidential candidate.

I'm having trouble finding the specific government reports that I'd like to use here, but if I can get ahold of them I'll post them.

Keep in mind that I'm not dinging you personally, I just use the term "you" to refer to whoever started that list.

what the **** kind of thread is this america hater

More food for thought...


CLINTON BODY COUNT

By: Ether Zone Staff

Here is the latest body count that we have. All of these people have been connected with the Clintons in some form or another. We have not included any deaths that could not be verified or connected to the Clinton scandals. All deaths are listed chronologically by date. This list is current and accurate to the best of our knowledge as of January 13, 1999 August 1, 2000.

Susan Coleman: Rumors were circulating in Arkansas of an affair with Bill Clinton. She was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head at 7 1/2 months pregnant. Death was an apparent suicide.

Larry Guerrin: Was killed in February 1987 while investigating the INSLAW case.

Kevin Ives & Don Henry: Initial cause of death was reported to be the result of falling asleep on a railroad track in Arkansas on August 23, 1987. This ruling was reported by the State medical examiner Fahmy Malak. Later it was determined that Kevin died from a crushed skull prior to being placed on the tracks. Don had been stabbed in the back. Rumors indicate that they might have stumbled upon a Mena drug operation.

Keith Coney: Keith had information on the Ives/Henry deaths. Died in a motorcycle accident in July 1988 with unconfirmed reports of a high speed car chase.

Keith McKaskle: McKaskle has information on the Ives/Henry deaths. He was stabbed to death in November 1988.

Gregory Collins: Greg had information on the Ives/Henry deaths. He died from a gunshot wound to the face in January 1989.

Jeff Rhodes: He had information on the deaths of Ives, Henry & McKaskle. His burned body was found in a trash dump in April 1989. He died of a gunshot wound to the head and there was some body mutilation, leading to the probably speculation that he was tortured prior to being killed.

James Milam: Milam had information on the Ives & Henry deaths. He was decapitated. The state Medical examiner, Fahmy Malak, initially ruled death due to natural causes.

Richard Winters: Winters was a suspect in the deaths of Ives & Henry. He was killed in a "robbery" in July 1989 which was subsequently proven to be a setup.

Jordan Kettleson: Kettleson had information on the Ives & Henry deaths. He was found shot to death in the front seat of his pickup in June 1990.

Alan Standorf: An employee of the National Security Agency in electronic intelligence. Standorf was a source of information for Danny Casalaro who was investigating INSLAW, BCCI, etc. Standorf's body was found in the backseat of a car at Washington National Airport on Jan 31, 1991.

Dennis Eisman: An attorney with information on INSLAW. Eisman was found shot to death on April 5, 1991.

Danny Casalaro: Danny was a free-lance reporter and writer who was investigating the "October Surprise", INSLAW and BCCI. Danny was found dead in a bathtub in a Sheraton Hotel room in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Danny was staying at the hotel while keeping appointments in the DC area pertinent to his investigation. He was found with his wrists slashed. At least one, and possibly both of his wrists were cut 10 times. All of his research materials were missing and have never been recovered.

Victor Raiser: The National Finance Co-Chair for "Clinton for President." He died in a airplane crash on July 30, 1992.

R. Montgomery Raiser: Also involved in the Clinton presidential campaign. He died in the same plane crash as Victor.

Paul Tully: Tulley was on the Democratic National Committee. He was found dead of unknown causes in his hotel room on September 24, 1992. No autopsy was ever allowed.

Ian Spiro: Spiro had supporting documentation for grand jury proceedings on the INSLAW case. His wife and 3 children were found murdered on November 1, 1992 in their home. They all died of gunshot wounds to the head. Ian's body was found several days later in a parked car in the Borego Desert. Cause of death? The ingestion of cyanide. FBI report indicated that Ian had murdered his family and then committed suicide.

Paula Gober: A Clinton speech writer. She died in a car accident on December 9, 1992 with no known witnesses.

Jim Wilhite: Wilhite was an associate of Mack McClarty's former firm. Wilhite died in a skiing accident on December 21, 1992. He also had extensive ties to Clinton with whom he visited by telephone just hours before his death.

Steve Willis, Robert Williams, Todd McKeahan & Conway LeBleu: Died Feburary 28, 1993 by gunfire at Waco. All four were examined by a pathologist and died from identical wounds to the left temple. All four had been body guards for Bill Clinton, three while campaigning for President and when he was Governor of Arkansas.They also were the ONLY 4 BATF agents killed at Waco.

Sgt. Brian Haney, Sgt. Tim Sabel, Maj. William Barkley, Capt. Scott Reynolds: Died: May 19, 1993 - All four men died when their helicopter crashed in the woods near Quantico, Va. - Reporters were barred from the site, and the head of the fire department responding to the crash described it by saying, "Security was tight," with "lots of Marines with guns." A videotape made by a firefighter was seized by the Marines. All four men had escorted Clinton on his flight to the carrier Roosevelt shortly before their deaths.

John Crawford: An attorney with information on INSLAW. He died from a heart attack in Tacoma in April of 1993.

John Wilson: Found dead from an apparent hanging suicide on May 18, 1993. He was a former Washington DC council member and claimed to have info on Whitewater.

Paul Wilcher: A lawyer who was investigating drug running out of Mena, Arkansas and who also sought to expose the "October Surprise", BCCI and INSLAW. He was found in his Washington DC apartment dead of unknown causes on June 22, 1993.

Vincent Foster: A White House deputy counsel and long-time personal friend of Bill and Hillary's. Found on July 20, 1993, dead of a gunshot wound to the mouth -- a death ruled suicide. Many different theories on this case! Readers are encouraged to read our report in Strange Deaths.

Jon Parnell Walker: An investigator for the RTC who was looking into the linkage between the Whitewater and Madison S&L bankruptcy. Walker "fell" from the top of the Lincoln Towers Building.

Stanley Heard & Steven Dickson: They were members of the Clinton health care advisory committee. They died in a plane crash on September 10, 1993.

Jerry Luther Parks: Parks was the Chief of Security for Clinton's national campaign headquarters in Little Rock. Gunned down in his car on September 26, 1993 near the intersection of Chenal Parkway and Highway 10 west of Little Rock. Parks was shot through the rear window of his car. The assailant then pulled around to the driver's side of Park's car and shot him three more times with a 9mm pistol. His family reported that shortly before his death, they were being followed by unknown persons, and their home had been broken into (despite a top quality alarm system). Parks had been compiling a dossier on Clinton's illicit activities. The dossier was stolen.

Ed Willey: A Clinton fundraiser. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on November 30, 1993. His death came the same day his wife, Kathleen, was sexually assaulted in the White House by Bill Clinton.

Gandy Baugh: Baugh was Lasater's attorney and committed suicide on January 8, 1994. Baugh's partner committed suicide exactly one month later on February 8, 1994.

Herschell Friday: A member of the presidential campaign finance committee. He died in an airplane explosion on March 1, 1994.

Ronald Rogers: Rogers died on March 3, 1994 just prior to releasing sensitive information to a London newspaper. Cause of death? Undetermined.

Kathy Furguson: A 38 year old hospital worker whose ex-husband is a co- defendant in the Paula Jones sexual harassment law suit. She had information supporting Paula Jone's allegations. She died of an apparent suicide on May 11, 1994 from a gunshot wound to the head.

Bill Shelton: Shelton was an Arkansas police officer and was found dead as an apparent suicide on kathy Ferguson's grave (Kathy was his girl friend), on June 12, 1994. This "suicide" was the result of a gunshot wound to the back of the head.

Stanley Huggins: Huggins, 46, was a principal in a Memphis law firm which headed a 1987 investigation into the loan practices of Madison Guaranty S&L. Stanley died in Delaware in July 1994 -- reported cause of death was viral pneumonia.

Paul Olson: A Federal witness in investigations to drug money corruption in Chicago politics, Paul had just finished 2 days of FBI interviews when his plane ride home crashed, killing Paul and 130 others on Sept 8 1994. The Sept. 15, 1994 Tempe Tribune newspaper reported that the FBI suspected that a bomb had brought down the airplane.

Calvin Walraven: 24 year on Walraven was a key witness against Jocelyn Elder's son's drug case. Walraven was found dead in his apartment with a gunshot wound to the head. Tim Hover, a Little Rock police spokesman says no foul play is suspected.

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Alan G. Whicher: Oversaw Clinton's Secret Service detail. In October 1994 Whicher was transferred to the Secret Service field office in the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. Whatever warning was given to the BATF agents in that building did not reach Alan Whicher, who died in the bomb blast of April 19th 1995.

Duane Garrett: Died July 26, 1995-A lawyer and a talk show host for KGO-AM in San Fransisco, Duane was the campaign finance chairman for Diane Fienstien's run for the senate, and was a friend and fundraiser for Al Gore. Garrett was under investigation for defrauding investors in Garrett's failed sports memorabilia venture. There was talk of a deal to evade prosecution. On July 26th, Garrett canceled an afternoon meeting with his lawyer because he had to meet some people at the San Fransisco airport. Three hours later he was found floating in the bay under the Golden Gate Bridge.

Ron Brown:. The Commerce Secretary died on April 3, 1996, in an Air Force jet carrying Brown and 34 others, including 14 business executives on a trade mission to Croatia, crashed into a mountainside. The Air Force, in a 22-volume report issued in June of 1996, confirmed its initial judgment that the crash resulted from pilot errors and faulty navigation equipment At the time of Brown's death, Independent Counsel Daniel Pearson was seeking to determine whether Brown had engaged in several sham financial transactions with longtime business partner Nolanda Hill shortly before he became secretary of commerce.

Charles Meissner: died: UNK - Following Ron Brown's death, John Huang was placed on a Commerce Department contract that allowed him to retain his security clearance
by Charles Meissner. Shortly thereafter, Meissner died in the crash of a small plane. He was an Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Economic Policy.

William Colby: Retired CIA director was found dead on May 6,1996 after his wife reported him missing on April 27,1996. Apparently, Colby decided to go on a impromptu canoeing excursion and never returned. Colby who had just started writing for Strategic Investment newsletter, worried many in the intelligent community. Colby's past history of divulging CIA secrets in the past were well known. Strategic Investor had covered the Vince Foster suicide and had hired handwriting experts to review Foster's suicide note.

Admiral Jeremy Boorda: Died on May 16,1996 after he went home for lunch and decided to shoot himself in the chest (by one report, twice) rather than be interviewed by Newsweek magazine that afternoon. Explanations for Boorda's suicide focused on a claim that he was embarrassed over two "Valor" pins he was not authorized to wear.

Lance Herndon: Herndon a 41 year old computer specialist and a prominent entrepreneur who received a presidential appointment in 1995 died August 10, 1996 under suspicious circumstances. He appeared to have died from a blow to the head. Police said no weapons were found at his mansion, adding that Mr. Herndon had not been shot or stabbed and there was no evidence of forced entry or theft.

Neil Moody: Died -August 25, 1996 Following Vincent Foster's murder, Lisa Foster married James Moody, a judge in Arkansas, on Jan 1, 1996. Near the time Susan McDougal first went to jail for contempt, Judge Moor's son, Neil died in a car crash. There were other reports that Neil Moody had discovered something very unsettling among his stepmother's private papers and was threatening to go public with it just prior to the beginning of the Democratic National Convention. He was alleged to have been talking to Bob Woodward of the Washington Post about a blockbuster story. Witnesses said they saw Neil Moody sitting in his car arguing with another person just prior to His car suddenly speeding off out of control and hitting a brick wall.

Barbara Wise: Wise a 14-year Commerce Department employee found dead and partially naked in her office following a long weekend. She worked in the same section as John Huang. Officially, she is said to have died of natural causes.

Doug Adams: Died January 7, 1997- A lawyer in Arkansas who got involved trying to help the people who were being swindled out of their life savings. Adams was found in his vehicle with a gunshot wound to his head in a Springfield Mo. hospital parking lot.

Mary C. Mahoney: 25, murdered at the Georgetown Starbuck's coffee bar over the 4th of July '97 weekend. She was a former White House intern who worked with John Huang. Apparently she knew Monica Lewinsky and her sexual encounters with Bill Clinton. Although not verified, it has been said that Lewinsky told Linda Tripp that she did not want to end up like Mahoney.

Ronald Miller: Suddenly took ill on October 3rd,1997 and steadily worsened until his death 9 days later. (This pattern fits Ricin poisoning.) Owing to the strangeness of the illness, doctors at the Integris Baptist Medical Center referred the matter to the Oklahoma State Medical Examiner's Office. The Oklahoma State Medical Examiner's Office promptly ran tests on samples of Ron Miller's blood, but has refused to release the results or even to confirm that the tests were ever completed.

Had been investigated by authorities over the sale of his company, Gage Corp. to Dynamic Energy Resources, Inc. was the man who tape recorded Gene and Nora Lum and turned those tapes (and other records) over to congressional oversight investigators. The Lums were sentenced to prison for campaign finance violations, using "straw donors" to conceal the size of their contributions to various candidates. Indeed, Dynamic Energy Resources, Inc. had hired Ron Brown's son Michael solely for the purpose of funneling $60,000 through him to the Commerce Secretary, according to Nolanda Hill's testimony.

Sandy Hume: On Sunday, February 22nd, 1998, Sandy Hume, the 28 year old son of journalist Britt Hume, was reportedly found dead in his Arlington, Virginia home. Aside from the statement that this was an "apparent" suicide, there remains in place a total media blackout on this story, possibly out of concern that the actual facts will not withstand public scrutiny. Worked for Hill magazine, about Congress for Congress.

Jim McDougal: Bill and Hillary Clinton friend, banker, and political ally, sent to prison for eighteen felony convictions. A key whitewater witness, dies of a heart attack on March, 8 1998. As of this writing allegations that he was given an injection of the diuretic lasix has not been denied or confirmed.
Died on March 8, 1998

Johnny Lawhon: 29, died March 29, 1998- The Arkansas transmission specialist who discovered a pile of Whitewater documents in the trunk of an abandoned car on his property and turned them over to Starr, was killed in a car wreck two weeks after the McDougal death.. Details of the "accident" have been sketchy -- even from the local Little Rock newspaper.

Charles Wilbourne Miller: 63, was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head on November 17, 1998 in a shallow pit about 300 yards from his ranch house near Little Rock. Police found a .410 gauge shotgun near Miller's body and a Ruger .357-caliber revolver submerged in water. Investigators concluded the Ruger was the weapon used by Miller to kill himself. Yet, two rounds in the handgun's cylinder had been spent.

He had long served as executive vice president and member of the board of directors for a company called Alltel and was deeply involved in his own software engineering company until the day he died. Alltel is the successor to Jackson Stephens' Systematics, the company that provided the software for the White House's "Big Brother" data base system and that was behind the administration's plan to develop the secret computer "Clipper" chip to bug every phone, fax and email transmission in America.

Carlos Ghigliotti: 42, was found dead in his home just outside of Washington D.C. on April 28, 2000. There was no sign of a break-in or struggle at the firm of Infrared Technology where the badly decomposed body of Ghigliotti was found. Ghigliotti had not been seen for several weeks.

Ghigliotti, a thermal imaging analyst hired by the House Government Reform Committee to review tape of the siege, said he determined the FBI fired shots on April 19, 1993. The FBI has explained the light bursts on infrared footage as reflections of sun rays on shards of glass or other debris that littered the scene.

"I conclude this based on the groundview videotapes taken from several different angles simultaneously and based on the overhead thermal tape," Ghigliotti told The Washington Post last October. "The gunfire from the ground is there, without a doubt."

Ghigliotti said the tapes also confirm the Davidians fired repeatedly at FBI agents during the assault, which ended when flames raced through the compound. About 80 Branch Davidians perished that day, some from the fire, others from gunshot wounds.

Mark Corallo, a spokesman for the congressional committee chaired by Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., said that police found the business card of a committee investigator in Ghigliotti's office. Corallo said Ghigliotti's work for the committee ended some time ago.

Tony Moser: 41, was killed as he crossed a street in Pine Bluff, Ark on on June 10, 2000. Killed 10 days after being named a columnist for the Democrat-Gazette newspaper and two days after penning a stinging indictment of political corruption in Little Rock.

Police have concluded that no charges will be filed against the unnamed driver of a 1995 Chevrolet pickup, which hit Moser as he was walking alone in the middle of unlit Rhinehart Road about 10:10 p.m

Police say they have ruled out foul play and will file no charges against the driver because he was not intoxicated and there was no sign of excessive speed.

I've tried to stay out of this thread...but I can't anymore. :D


Instead of playing with numbers and puny little detailed shreds of information (which are always biased in one way or another)
I'm curious how the american people are backing up an administration that has out right and very obviously lied to them..over and over again.
It's like you defend your leader(s) whatever they do..it's looks an awful lot like blind patriotism to me.
No matter how badly they f*ck something up, you forgive them. You know, in alot of other democratic countries, that leadership would
have to (more or less) step down.
The media should play the role of the watchdog over the administration...but in the US it seems like the media is nothing but
a megaphone and a source of the same bullsh*t that the government are pouring all over you.

Also, doesn't the fact that about every other person on this planet, except for the americans think the current US administration is
not doing a very good job? And please don't come with the classic "they're all just envious of our country" bullsh*t.
Now, it hasn't always been like this, so there has to be something that has changed. Maybe you're just too close to it to see it?

And about that terrorism thing random mentioned, and about europeans not understanding the pain?
We have had two world wars fought on OUR soil, how many have you got on american soil? YOUR homes being bombed down?
And the US didn't see hitler rioting and said "AMERICA TO THE RESCUE" right away, it took an attack on you by the japanese for you to intervene.
And I do realize that everyone in europe, and the whole world owe the victory over the axis forces to american backup, but you can't use that
as an excuse to do whatever you wish and completely ignore a body like the UN, which the US was apart of creating.

Er...yea, and on to Mr Bush;

He made everyone believe that bombing countries will pass as a "war on terrorism". Wtf was he thinking?
If anything, actions like this will feed the minds of terrorists on a global scale.
You can't seriously think that war will prevent new 9-11's from happening? On the flaming countrary!

What he has and hasn't done for the domestic issues of the USA, I don't know much about.
What everyone can think for themselves is that the vast amounts of money used on wars like this, isn't helping.
It's straight out of your pockets. Just at least think for it for a moment, can it be profitable? Can it be worth it?

You can't turn a muslim country into something pretty much the opposite by freeing them from a cruel dictator.
Getting rid of the baath party was a great thing for everyone, that's a given. But don't expect the people to welcome
a military force from a country that has kept them suffering because of years of sanctions with open arms and hugs.

I'm sorry, I'm typing very randomly here... >______<

A president that has not been ABROAD once in his lifetime before elected the LEADER of the country, cannot have the perspective of thinking
a president should have. I mean, that's just obvious. A president that comes up with names like "the axis of evil" cannot be taken seriously.
A president using the word "freedom" and "peace" in every speach he makes, can't be taken seriously.
I have a question for the possible people that voted for him;

Why did you vote for him? What in his political views made him better than the other?



I'm sorry, but a man that can't name the prime minister of China is not suited to control a country as powerful as the United States.
"oh, but it's ok, someone will tell him who it is"... won't cut it. A man that will be the President of the US SHOULD KNOW everything about
the outside world.

And if someone thinks, "who are you to tell what the US can and cannot do?"
We all live on this same planet. If the US won't sign the kyoto papers, everyone suffers.
If the US pushes genemanipulated foods on the world, we all suffer.
The USA is a very powerful and important country. Don't vote for morons to lead it.

And stop using the word "opinion" all the time. Sometimes it isn't about opinions.
GWB said they knew about WOMD in Iraq and that they would find them. The haven't. That is a fact, not an opinion.
GWB and Blair gave WOMD as the reason for going to war with Iraq. Now they're shifting and twisting things around to confuse everyone
and to forget about what it all begun for.


Also, why do most americans take an attack on their government as a personal thing? Are YOU the president?
If someone flamed the president of Finland, I'd listen out and not start defending her like a loon before actually looking into the matters.
And if I found myself thinking that the flamer is wrong, I'd state that. Why do people take it so personally?
If you ask me, you're brainwashed to do so. You're programmed to support the leadership of your country no matter what. (<--- an OPINION there :p)


Bah, I have to go, I'll edit this later on I think. :D


EDIT: Whoa, didn't see the posts above. *reads later* ^__^

... I'm gonna be 50 by the time I finish reading anything on this thread.

i cant help but loving heated threads like this..

But i must agree with both Spectra and Paavo on this one.. Maybe its because im from Europe (I know spectra isn't ;)), and paavo might have a point in the 'brainwashing' part (allthough that word seems pretty harsh to me)..

Fuel for the fire.

Adult Language in this link...WARNING

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