Joe wrote:
Worst president in history?

(The following appeared in the Durham, NC local paper as a letter to
the editor.

Actually, it did not. This is the first of several non-truthful
statements in this post, I happen to live quite close to Durham NC and
subscribe to the Durham Herald-Sun.



.... Let's look at the "worst" president and mismanagement claims.

FDR led us into World War II.
Germany never attacked us: Japan did.

False. German U-boats attacked US vessels before we declared war


Truman finished that war and started one in Korea.
North Korea never attacked us.

False. North Korea invaded South Korea and attacked U.S. Army occupation
forces there.

... John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962.

False. Eisenhower started the U.S. involvement in the Viet Nam War which
started alternately in 1946 or 1829 (from the Vietnamese point of view).


Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent.

False. What short memories you "conservatives" have. You apparently
don't remember shrieking about how Clinton was a traitor for putting
U.S. troops under NATO or later U.N. command.


He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three times by
Sudan and did nothing.

False again. There was a brief period of time when it may have been
possible that OBL coould have been captured in Sudan with full
cooperation by the Sudanese.

Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions.
Over 2,900 lives lost on 9/11.

And is currently being ignored by the Bush Administration.



In the two years since terrorists attacked us,
President Bush has liberated two countries,

Which two?

rushed the Taliban,

"rushed"? Has he been giving them methyl poppers? In any event the
Taliban is still a potent force in Afghanistan and will almost certainly
be part of any democratic coalition gov't there.

... crippled al-Qaida,

Other than Bush campaign advertising, what evidence do you have for this?

put nuclear inspectors in Lybia,

That is the U.N.'s doing, not Bush's.

... Iran and North Korea

False. There are no "nuclear inspectors" in Iran or North Korea, let
alone U.S. ones.


Worst president in history? Come on!

IMHO he's in the running for it. So far, his "supporters" have to lie
like rugs to come up with any positive accomplishments (see above). In
the mean time, he has run up a tremendous debt, mostly to shovel money
at the military contractors who form the backbone of his "new age" army,
who commit war crimes and are unaccountable. He has weakend the U.S.
military by commiting a huge force (which is nonetheless still not large
enough to pacify the occupied zone) to an operation which does nothing
at all to increase U.S. security (let me remind you that Iraq had no
connection to the Sept 11th terrorists), and spent tremendous military
appropriations on this operation which has forced our military to cut
spending on other very important programs. Bush & Cheney have turned
most of the long standing and staunch U.S. allies into uneasy barely
cooperative nations or outright enemies.

And that's just "the war on terror" which is really not about terrorism
but politics. Do you want to look at what Bush & Cheney have done for
the economy, the environment, education, etc etc?


Our military is GREAT! PASS IT ON.

I agree. But it certainly none of Bush & Cheney's doing.

Regards
Doug King