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with all this bush and obama bashing who do you guy's think did a good job as president...in our time and why, I liked Clinton (Slick Willy) I remember the economy being better with him in for 2 terms.
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what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
Just to set the record straight and get the facts into the statement, NAFTA was the brainchild of President Ronald Reagan and the agreement was ratified during the G.H.W. Bush term.
November 13, 1979
While officially declaring his candidacy for President, Ronald Reagan proposes a “North American Agreement” which will produce “a North American continent in which the goods and people of the three countries will cross boundaries more freely.”
January 1981
President Ronald Reagan proposes a North American common market.
December 17, 1992
Official signing of NAFTA by Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, US president George Bush, and Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, subject to its final approval by the federal Parliaments of the three countries.
source: http://www.fina-nafi.org/eng/integ/chro ... menu=integ
Hail, Hail!!!
Wow - talk about selective memory. Maybe you forget how he bombed eastern Europe ... mainly to take the pressure off himself and the Monica situation.
I also believe his actions or lack thereof contribited a lot to 9/11.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
As for 9/11, every US president for the past couple decades up until George W Bush himself contributed to it.
The airstrikes in the former Yugoslavia were part of a NATO operation, not a unilateral, unpopular war like Iraq was the second time around. There was also more than a little genocide going on there. The Balkans was not some sideshow diversion. A few of my in-laws actually had to escape from Bosnia to avoid winding up in a mass grave.
Selective memory? Did you select to forget about the bombardment of Milosovic's artillery upon civilian populations in the former Yugoslavia? The U.S. Naval F-18s and A-6s were the most capable resource to take out those artillery positions.
But, yeah... I see your point. Our bombing of their military positions was much worse than the ethnic cleansing going on at that time. We should have just sat it out and pretended that we didn't see it, huh?
Hail, Hail!!!
Like we're doing with Darfur right now.
Yes. But, we can use the rationalization, "Hey... at least we're not bombing anyone" and feel better about ourselves.
Hail, Hail!!!
Like we've been doing with Palestine for how many years now??????
No No No, just keep bombing the shit out of them. They're arabs and Muslims. The world doesn't need them... :roll:
I wonder what your position would be if YOU were born Muslim or arab and had 9-11 almost everyday in your country.....But it's ok man, keep bombing them cuz they're dirty Arabs/muslims....what's the definition of terrorism again?????
Yep
BOS-9/28/04,9/29/04,6/28/08,6/30/08, 9/5/16, 9/7/16, 9/2/18
MTL-9/15/05, OTT-9/16/05
PHL-5/27/06,5/28/06,10/30/09,10/31/09
CHI-8/2/07,8/5/07,8/23/09,8/24/09
HTFD-6/27/08
ATX-10/4/09, 10/12/14
KC-5/3/2010,STL-5/4/2010
Bridge School-10/23/2010,10/24/2010
PJ20-9/3/2011,9/4/2011
OKC-11/16/13
SEA-12/6/13
TUL-10/8/14
Apart from bombing Iraq in his first week in office and overseeing 8 years of daily bombing raids and sanctions which killed an estimated 500,000 children.
Oh, and he was at the helm when Bosnia and Rwanda were being ravaged and millions slaughtered and chose to sit back and allow the slaughter to continue. In fact, he didn't just allow the slaughter in Bosnia to continue for 3 years, but he encouraged it by preventing the Bosnian Muslims from arming and defending themselves.
What a hero!
Who IS your favorite American President?
My guess is your favorite leader is not American at all....
Does he pray East 5 times a day?
I never said he was a hero. Its all relative. And as you are so fond of evoking the concept of international law, let's also note that the sanctions on Iraq were UN-imposed, not the unilateral product of American decision-making, and that the entire world stood by while genocide occured in Rwanda, even though there were UN officials on the ground there. This isn't all on Willy. People are always going on about how terrible colonialism was and African self-determination, but they want to have their cake and eat it too by arguing that its up to the US and other Western powers to prevent those people from slaughtering each other. Why didn't the African decision-makers and UN peacekeepers do something about Rwanda?
maybe the only true sign of a good president is one who kills the fewest amount of people.
but fuck, there are nearly 9 billion of us. its kinda hard not to kill someone.
all of them do both good and bad things. i would say in recent years it was Clinton for me. Seemed to me he learned that in order to be a president you need to remember you don't just govern those that voted for you. Having the republican controlled congress helped him get that pretty quickly. He had a tough go and was a bit of a sleeze, but I thought he did a good job of managing the country.
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
except his actions helped cause the economic crisis we are in now and allowed banks and hedge funds and all those people to merge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm%E2%8 ... Bliley_Act
oh and i forget what he called it but he allowed the timber industry to go onto federally protected land and wildlife preserves and cut down whatever tree the timber industry felt would be a fire hazard and naturally a lot of sequoias and old growth forest were targeted
what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
Like I said, they all do good and bad, the current crisis was not caused by one person or one thing. I am not going to come on here and say he was perfect, but he did more for budget balancing and debt reduction than most presidents. To me he was pretty centrist and that is an important aspect of what is needed to be a good leader. No president has not done things they regret or that turned out to have unforseen consequences that weren't good.
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
It's not relative at all.
As for the sanctions on Iraq being U.N imposed, do you also think that both Iraq wars were waged by the U.N, or were they sought and waged primarily by the U.S?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_sanctions
'A non-express goal of the sanctions held by some was the removal of Saddam Hussein. It was openly stated in the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, expressing a sense of the U.S. Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton,[12] that U.S. policy was to "replace that regime" in Iraq,[13] to force Hussein from power, an outcome not referenced in the resolutions. And in 1991, Paul Lewis wrote in the New York Times: "Ever since the trade embargo was imposed on Aug. 6, after the invasion of Kuwait, the United States has argued against any premature relaxation in the belief that by making life uncomfortable for the Iraqi people it will eventually encourage them to remove President Saddam Hussein from power."[14] The economic sanctions failed to topple Saddam, and may have helped further entrench his rule.'
The African decision makers appealed to the U.N to intervene but the U.N - hindered by the U.S, France, and Britain - hand their hands tied.
The U.N peacekeepers wanted to do something about it but were ordered not to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role_of_th ... ted_States
'In the US, President Bill Clinton and US Ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright repeatedly refused to take action.[11] US government documents declassfied in 2004 indicate the Clinton administration knew Rwanda was being engulfed by genocide in April 1994, but buried the information to justify its inaction. Senior US officials privately used the word genocide within 16 days of the start of the killings, but chose not to do so publicly because Clinton had already decided not to intervene. Intelligence reports obtained using the US Freedom of Information Act show the cabinet and almost certainly the president had been told of a planned "final solution to eliminate all Tutsis" before the slaughter reached its peak.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Ge ... rican_role
A National Security Archive report points out five ways in which decisions made by the U.S. government contributed to the slow U.S. and worldwide response to the genocide:
1. The U.S. lobbied the U.N. for a total withdrawal of U.N. (UNAMIR) forces in Rwanda in April 1994;
2. Secretary of State Warren Christopher did not authorize officials to use the term "genocide" until May 21, and even then, U.S. officials waited another three weeks before using the term in public;
3. Bureaucratic infighting slowed the U.S. response to the genocide in general;
4. The U.S. refused to jam extremist radio broadcasts inciting the killing, citing costs and concern with international law;
5. U.S. officials knew exactly who was leading the genocide, and actually spoke with those leaders to urge an end to the violence but did not follow up with concrete action.