[Rhodes22-list] Politics - Worst President In History?

[pdgrand at nospam.wmis.net]

Disclaimer:  The following appeared in the Durham, NC local paper as a 
letter to the editor.  I am simply passing this along as another 
perspective. 


Worst President in History?


Liberals claim President Bush shouldn't have started this war.  They 
complain about his prosecution of it. One liberal recently claimed Bush was 
the worst president in U.S. history.

Let's clear up one point: President Bush didn't start the war on terror.
Try to remember, it was started by terrorists BEFORE 9/11.
Let's look at the "worst" president and mismanagement claims.

FDR led us into World War II.
Germany never attacked us: Japan did.
>From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost, an average of 112,500 per year.

Truman finished that war and started one in Korea.
North Korea never attacked us.
>From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost, an average of 18,333 per year.

John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962.
Vietnam never attacked us.
Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire.
>From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost, an average of 5,800 per year.

Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent.
Bosnia never attacked us.
He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three times by Sudan and 
did nothing.
Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions.
Over 2,900 lives lost on 9/11.

In the two years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush has liberated 
two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear 
inspectors in Libya, Iran and North Korea without firing a shot, and 
captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people.

We lost 600 soldiers, an average of 300 a year.
Bush did all this abroad while not allowing another terrorist attack at 
home.

Worst president in history? Come on!

The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking, but...

It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch 
Davidian compound.
That was a 51-day operation.

We've been looking for evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq for less time 
than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records.

It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy 
the Medina Republican Guard than it took Teddy Kennedy to call the police 
after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick.

It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in 
Florida!!!!