President Bush Bashing

[🪦 QuiGonFishing ●]

Quigonn You say we should all get along but the first time somebody says something you don\'t like you accuse him of being ignorant. Surely you can see the hypocracy there.

A appreciate that, Indica, but I hope you read my entire post. Don\'t forget this part:

"I know I\'m the guy who started out saying that we have more common ground than differences and we should be more civil to one another and I believe that, but my blood gets to boiling fast when I encounter people who have no desire to do anything but hate and oppose...You haven\'t said enough for me to formally tag you as a "hack" just yet, but the first words out of your keyboard on this leave me without much hope, but if I\'m wrong, I\'ll say I\'m wrong."

I highly respect anyone\'s right to have an opinion, whether I agree with it or not, and wouldn\'t think about bashing someone for a second for their beliefs.

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...Except the President of the United States apparently.

All I\'m saying is diagreement is American, hate speak and vitriol should not be. Enough said, though. I agree with you that this is not the place and I apologize as well. I just hear theese lines so often and I tend to get a bit worked up. Sorry.

We return you now to your regularlt scheduled message board

[🪦 Hauntmaster9 ●]

Love bush, hate bush, the man has trouble with the english language and the result is hilairty for all.

[🪦 GBeninati ●]

if one more person says something bad about Ronald Regan they are getting banned...

[🪦 Mutilated ●]

Ronald Regan was a good man.

[🪦 QuiGonFishing ●]

if one more person says something bad about Ronald Regan they are getting banned...

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One of my heroes...

[🪦 adamms ●]

IMO ronald regan was a great president, one of the best, IMO along with truman, but IMO most of the other presidents havn\'t been to great, and people forget, not EVERYTHING is up to the president, he passes stuff to congress and they decide a lot of things, he dosnt have that much power, yes he has some but not as much as people think, IMO bush sucks, yeah i agree his speech is horrible, i know mines not the best, but it is funny to watch and if i watched myself give speeches i\'d laugh also :lol: but anyway....

watch halloween in slow motion, and u\'ll see the polka dots!

[🪦 QuiGonFishing ●]

IMO bush sucks

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I\'m trying to be a good boy, but...

[🪦 GBeninati ●]

Do you really think third-rate military dictators
would laugh at America and burn our flag in contempt
if Ronald Reagan were president?

[🪦 Darth Veach ●]

Do you really think third-rate military dictators
would laugh at America and burn our flag in contempt
if Ronald Reagan were president?

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Nope. Because if you screwed with Reagan and you\'d got yer ass kicked. Period. He had his silly charm, but people took the man seriously. I still hear in many circles he is one of our best presidents ever and I agree. Better than the big business loving, Texas oil monger illiterate idiot that\'s in there right now.

[🪦 QuiGonFishing ●]

Do you really think third-rate military dictators
would laugh at America and burn our flag in contempt
if Ronald Reagan were president?

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Unfortunately I do... and they did:

Lybia
Nicaragua
Cuba
Iran
Beriut
PLO regions

But the Soviet Union did not laugh. That\'s because after four years of appeasement, inaction in the face of aggression, and the gutting of the military industrial base under the Carter administration, Chairman Brezhnev understood that he was now dealing with a man who would not put the interests of bueracrats in the United Nations ahead of the intersts of his country (Hmmm.... that sounds familiar for some reason, I\'ll think of it).

Reagan began the largest military re-invigoration project in the history of the US in an effort to restore our standing on the world stage to superpower status in league with the Soviets. So while Reagan was sending the message to Moscow that the US was not going to continue its policy of weakening the military and allowing the Soviets to increase its already huge margin of superiority, he was also making it clear that the USSR would not stand unopposed in its STATED goal to expand and threaten domacracy around the world.

In less than ten years, the USSR went from making real progress toward military supremecy on a global scale, success in expanding its power both politically and territorially, and effectively destroying the US\'s ability to oppose them, to complete dissolution of the union and the birth of fledgling democracies across the Asian continent. The communist economic system could not keep pace with the US\'s capitalistic market in an arms race unless the US itself helped to sabotage itself along the way (see Carter above). The Soviet economy went bankrupt and had no choice but to dissolve and adopt a more robust form of economic and political reform.

So the answer to the question is yes, third world dictators and the people who follow them DO scoff at and burn images of our flag and of our strongest leaders. Such demonstrations are born out of fear. Fear that their power is about to leave them and they\'ll find themselves rotting in a spider hole somewhere. Those displays are intended to rally their countrymen behind them so that they are protected. Most military dictators are paranoid and cowardly.

It\'s the strength and resolve of our greatest leaders that they fear. Beware of the President who is NOT being burned in effigy somewhere around the world. That\'s the guy for US citezens to fear.