The effects of the Bush presidency
In 2001 when George Walker Bush took the white house office, he was given an opportune momment, due to the attack on the twin towers, to take advantage of the shocke American population and use it against them to win the support to go to war. And it seemed like the right thing to do in a way. To go to Afghanistan and destroy the group responsible for what happened and to keep them from doing it again. And that is exaclty what happened. And for a while the war was only between America and the al Qaeda terrorist, but then the talk began about Saddam Hussein and his regime being associcated with the al Qaeda and having access to weapons of mass destruction.
Once again Bush came to the American people to tell them of the dangers of Saddam Hussein and that immediate action should be taken. With the current war on terror in Afghanistan the American population wanted any kind of threat to their safety to be destroyed. So yet again Bush got what he wanted and he invaded Iraq.
His first term went fine in terms of people liked him. Not everybody, but it is impossible for an entire country to like a president, but he was doing good. However, after his 2nd term began we discovered that there were no weapons of mass destruction. a complete lie that any other president woud have and should have been impeached immediatly. But he wasnt, instead we stayed in Iraq and still fought. But for what purpose?
I believe that in the beggining the war was for Bush’s personal desires. There were many options open to him after 9/11 and he thought he could do them all at once. Grab the oil from Iraq, look good to America along with the entire war, while in the process capture his fathers attempted murderer. He achieved one of these, capturing Saddam, and now when we should by no means stay there, we cant leave. Ethically we cant leave Iraq in the condition we have put it in. Before we invaded that country, Iraq did not have the best government but for the most part the people of Iraq were living in a somewhat ”stable “ enviroment.
However, since out occupation of Iraq the entire country has gone to shit, and it is not getting better, The people dont want us there, they dont like the kind of government we are trying to instill for them, and our troops are dying. There is no reason to be in that country, except now we cant leave becuase not only will we have to worry about retaliation from pissed off Iraqi’s we have to worry about how we are going to look to the rest of the world.
Bush has single handedly destroyed our economy, two countries, mad every country in the world look down upon us, and put the American people into nothing short of suffering.
I have always thought the role of a president was to look out for his people, then worry about the rest of the world, but not Bush. Since this war has began, it has been his only concern. The bullshit that Americans are going means nothing to this man. It is showed in his actions and his words. What matters to him is this war. Not what we are going through, not how deep he is putting our country into the ground, and how in the future he wont be the one that has to make up for his mistakes in the future.We are the ones that have to suffer becuase of him now, and we will have to suffer because of him in the future.
