Everyone Who Dislikes/Likes George W. Bush, Tell Us Why In Your Own Words

DD, you and so many here (Reb, Champ76, dapperdan, bulldawg, blackadder, and many others) are very thoughtful, reasonable, and learned posters. I learn alot from your posts.

That being said, I find it difficult, even impossible, to evaluate the Bush Administration with anything that is rational or reasonable in thought or context -- though the major discussions here are packed with so many people here exchanging substantive, rational, evaluative and predictive perspectives.

The true answers of why this administration has done anything it has done are not revealed. The operative and defining quote for this administration came here (taken from wikipedia):

"The source of the term is a quotation in an October 17, 2004, New York Times Magazine article by writer Ron Suskind, quoting an unnamed aide to George W. Bush:
<dl><dd>The aide said that guys like me (article author Suskind) were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."</dd></dl>I believe this strongly. We're all here assessing micro and macro events logically and based in reality. The administration, skillfully building firewalls around itself, creates its own reality, outside of history, reason, or law. They are secretive, and the secrecy of their agenda will be preserved throughout the hierarchy, at all costs.

Essentially, they are not truly our elected representative leaders. They are a rogue cocoon who has co-opted all levers of power and resources owned by the government on behalf of its people -- to further their own agenda, consolidation of power, and redistribution of public wealth and resources to their inner circle.

While I know my take may sound deluded, blasphemous and darn hyper-liberal to so many reasonable-minded people, I urge you to consider along with your own, any Bush event in that context.

As for Iraq, Iraq was a pre-ordained implementation of a PNAC strategic plan, that was delayed by 9-11, and was assumed to be a slam dunk, based on the 50%-50% assumption that surely one legitimate WMD or mobile lab would be found -- and -- that Shiites would embrace their freedom and keep the peace. As you noted earlier, considerations of pacifying Sunnis were never planned for, and the administration used only two filters to move forward -- the use of Iraq victory as a political commercial for re-election, and, with Bremer installed, the evolution of a new enterprise marketplace.