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

We are mostly New Orleanians here. The President of the United States of America took 5 days to get here after the largest "natural" disaster in American history. Inexcusable. So, do I "like" him? Not a chance.

But in reality his main legacy is Iraq. I disagree with his policies and decisions, but I understand that reasonable minds can disagree on whether it was a wise decision to invade Iraq. Where I take issue is two-fold. First, WMDs were not the real reason we went in. We went in to reshape the dynamic of the Middle East. We wanted a Democratic ally right in the heart of the Middle East - as a tool to counter terrorism and to ensure America's energy security. I disagree (and did then) that this would be an effective plan, but at least it is a reasonable one. The WMD thing was overplayed and put front and center to play on the American people's fear and trepidation following 9/11 knowing this would sell the war that he wanted (for a much more legit reason than WMDs by the way). So, to me, misrepresenting why you are putting thousands of American and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives at risk is inexcusable and immoral.

Second, war is real. We are far enough removed from Vietnam (well before my time) to think of it seriously. Let's face it, the huge war is not really a big factor in most of our day to day lives. So it really is not as big of an issue to us as it should be. In essence, we care, but not that much, not as much as we care whether to pick Coke or Ice Tea with our lunch. Sad but true. Because it isn't real to us. And to be honest, I don't think the war is real enough to the Commander in Chief either. You can say what you want about McCain and Kerry - but war is for darn sure real to them. And that would play a part in their decisions, to go, to stay, to whatever. And I think Mr. Bush did not and does not put enough weight in the idea that war = massive loss of human life and thus war (albeit sometimes necessary - ex. WWII, Afghanistan) is something that should only be enterred into when you are darn sure that it is the right thing to do. Like I said, I am not a pacifist, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do, like Afghanistan. But the Iraq war was just way too much of a question mark (at best) from the start to put so so many lives at risk. I know there is the argument, fight them there so yo udont have to fight them here. But all we have done is create more and more wannabe Anti-American terrorists and Islamic fundamentalists - and Bush didn't need a Harvard MBA to see that coming (his dad was head of the CIA and Senator - how can you NOT get into Harvard and Yale?).