"DSK" wrote in message
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If you take away the Iraq election, which was a good step but so far not
much follow-up, and the *potential* withdrawal of Syria from Lebanon and
the undercutting of Hamas & Hezbollah thereby, you can't really point to
a single thing in four long years that Bush has done right.



NOYB wrote:
That's like saying "if you discount the New Deal programs, and our
victories over the Germans and Japanese in WWII, you can't really point
to a single thing in 12 long years that FDR did right."


Bull****. FDR did a huge number of things right, from his radio fireside
chats on up to chosing John Nance Garner, then Truman, as his Vice
Presidents.

Give the man credit. His Middle East policies are working.


Whose?

Afghanistand hasn't worked out too badly, but then that one was done by
the pros. Not too big a success story follow-up once it was handed off to
the Bush/Cheney team.

Hahahaha. That's a funny one!

How many US military personnel were overtly operating in Afghanistan while
Clinton was President? How many sorties did our fighters fly over
Afghanistan while Clinton was president?



Iraq... with the exception of the election, which is only about year later
than originally planned... has been a disaster.

Nothing like downplaying Iraq's first Democratic election ever!


Lebanon *might* work out but then Bush hasn't done a whole lot there he can
take credit for other than standing on the sidelines smiling.

He might be standing on the sidelines smiling...but there's a reason for it.
He has 160,000 troops on Syria's eastern border, and he's demonstrated the
willingness to use them.


And it hasn't happened yet.

I take your above statement as an admission that there isn't anything else
the Bush/Cheney team can point to as a success.

How about 3 million new jobs created in the last 21 months? How about
cushioning the landing of a declining economy when he took office, thus
making our last recession one of our mildest and shortest-lasting recessions
in history (despite the 9/11 attack)?
How about the fact that there hasn't been another terrorist attack on US
soil for 3 1/2 years despite at least a dozen promises from bin Laden and al
Zawahiri that the next one would be coming any day?
How about the fact that he's done what very few Presidents have ever
achieved: helped his own party *gain* seats at the mid-term and
end-of-first-term elections?