Originally Posted by User Name

Well, we are talking about "The Worst President in History". In this context something that happened 53 years ago does count.



In contrast with Katrina, as you say, people were given plenty of warning. Some left the areas under warning, some choose not to. The damage to property was a separate thing from the overall death count which you don't dispute was less than 1,000. The property damage would happen regardless of folks leaving or staying in, for example, the New Orleans area, so I am not sure what your point here is. The President of the day is not responsible for property damage done by a storm ... Katrina, as bad as it was, does not anywhere stretch to the Vietnam death toll.

So I ask again, what had GW done that puts him in the category, "The Worst President in History"?

Originally Posted by Kate2112

How about setting a financial nightmare that many Americans dont realise is happening, the budget deficit is $512 billion. The current accounts deficit for the first quarter of 2005 was $195.1 billion, which projects to a deficit for 2005 of $780.1 billion. That means that this year alone the United States has financed its lowered taxes, its costly war in Iraq, its growing demand for cheap goods, by a total of $1.29 trillion. The US has never faced this kind of debt before...does that work for you. He is responsible, he and his party who as you rightly point out are in control of Congress. Is any of this making sense?

Originally Posted by gruffbrown

Kyoto Treaty, must have been someone else, a body double perhaps?

Originally Posted by Kate2112

Cronyism

His defense department gives huge contracts to ‘friendly’ corporations without even the semblance of open bidding or fair awarding of contracts. Halliburton, for instance, was awarded a $7 billion contract, non-competitively, to repair Iraq’s oil infrastructure. (The former CEO of Halliburton is none other than the sitting vice-president, Mr Cheney.)

Originally Posted by Kate2112

Cronyism

His defense department gives huge contracts to ‘friendly’ corporations without even the semblance of open bidding or fair awarding of contracts. Halliburton, for instance, was awarded a $7 billion contract, non-competitively, to repair Iraq’s oil infrastructure. (The former CEO of Halliburton is none other than the sitting vice-president, Mr Cheney.)

Originally Posted by AmerLisa

In case you haven't noticed, GW started a little war of his own and there have a been a few deaths (don't even know how many innocent Iraqis have died) associated with it. But, what has a storm, that GWB knew was imminent, have to do with storms in the UK or the bloody Vietnam war???

Originally Posted by anotherlimey

Shame they didn't keep receipts because all that money seems to have gone missing.

The good news is I'm off on an all expenses paid trip to the birthday party of a Haliburton director in an 18k white gold replica of the Taj Mahal.

Originally Posted by gruffbrown

Kyoto Treaty

Originally Posted by anotherlimey

Shame they didn't keep receipts because all that money seems to have gone missing.

The good news is I'm off on an all expenses paid trip to the birthday party of a Haliburton director in an 18k white gold replica of the Taj Mahal.

Originally Posted by User Name

I don't dispute what you say, but it does not put GW into the category, "The Worst President in History".

Vietnam dwarfs Iraq, where more bombs were dropped on Vietnam than in WWII, several tens of thousands of Americans lost their lives in the Vietnam war. Vietnam did not attack America. Under the last President, bombs were dropped on a country in Europe's backyard that also did not attack America. Under a previous U.S. President, the atom bomb was developed and dropped on two cities. So I ask again, what is it that GW has done that places him in the category, "The Worst President in History"?

Originally Posted by User Name

I don't dispute what you say, but it does not put GW into the category, "The Worst President in History".

Vietnam dwarfs Iraq, where more bombs were dropped on Vietnam than in WWII, several tens of thousands of Americans lost their lives in the Vietnam war. Vietnam did not attack America. Under the last President, bombs were dropped on a country in Europe's backyard that also did not attack America. Under a previous U.S. President, the atom bomb was developed and dropped on two cities. So I ask again, what is it that GW has done that places him in the category, "The Worst President in History"?

Originally Posted by User Name

I don't dispute what you say, but it does not put GW into the category, "The Worst President in History".

Vietnam dwarfs Iraq, where more bombs were dropped on Vietnam than in WWII, several tens of thousands of Americans lost their lives in the Vietnam war. Vietnam did not attack America. Under the last President, bombs were dropped on a country in Europe's backyard that also did not attack America. Under a previous U.S. President, the atom bomb was developed and dropped on two cities. So I ask again, what is it that GW has done that places him in the category, "The Worst President in History"?

Originally Posted by Kate2112

Whatever you do if one of the "shareholders" asks you to go shoot a few birds for a bit of light refreshment................... DONT GO!!!!