Why does everyone hate Bush?

I don't hate George W Bush. I dislike his policies and leadership. I also don't hate Tony Blair, I'm just extremely ticked off that he seems to be acting like a petulant child, alienating just about everyone on the political spectrum in the process.

maybe we should ask him

Salaam

I too hate Bush for the sake of Islam becase he does not like Muslims. He keeps saying that attacking countries such as Iraq and Palestine, is to defeat terrorism but i belive its for the oil as well.

format_quote Originally Posted by Naheezah

u r perfectly ryt!

When did Bush attack Palestine? Especially since Palestine doesn't exist. George Bush isn't my favorite president, but for all of his flaws I believe history will judge him more kindly than present opinion would indicate. Obviously much of this will depend on Iraq and what it becomes in 10 to 20 years.

format_quote Originally Posted by Naheezah

4 ya kaafir palestine doesn't exist
but 4 us muslims palestine does xist!!

peace.

The question of the existence of Palestine aside, when did Bush attack this place called Palestine?

Domestic and Foreign policy. Since I live in the US, its more his Domestic policy that ticks me off:

-Privatizing Health Care (further more)
-Attempting to Privatize Social Security
-Spending 740% more on the Military than Education
-Heavy Taxation, strangely, despite promising lower taxes
-Patriot Act


Its bad enough here, and we don't hate him that much -- I can only imagine what he's done to others with his deranged foreign policy.......

format_quote Originally Posted by SilentObserver

He certainly is not looking out for the interests of me in my country. In fact american policy has harmed me economically more than once. It has benefitted me in other ways sometimes.

I really do not think the people who are in power are their to serve your interest. It is usually you pay the bill for their crime and they cash the check in.
How ever I do not think you have suffered compared to the people on the recieving end, the economical harm is neglible in comparison.
They may extend their hand to you if it serves their interest example will be for political purpose.
To assume one has somekind of control with the goverment is an illusion, (maybe some rudimentary control) thinking that it will stops wrong being perpuatated.

I really do not think the people who are in power are their to serve your interest. It is usually you pay the bill for their crime and they cash the check in.

Quite often that is true

How ever I do not think you have suffered compared to the people on the recieving end, the economical harm is neglible in comparison.

Also true

They may extend their hand to you if it serves their interest example will be for political purpose.

Again usually true

To assume one has somekind of control with the goverment is an illusion, (maybe some rudimentary control) thinking that it will stops wrong being perpuatated.

One of my pet peeves. Actually, we do have considerable control. But, because of general apathy and much laziness. We fail to exercise it. As Americans we are very poor bosses. We forget that the government is hired by us. We are the managers, although not very good ones. We tend to hire politicians on the basis of their physical appearance and not based on qualifications. We hire them and then forget about them until things go bad and only then do we start pointing fingers.
We forget that when we hire a president, it is our responsibility to see that he is doing a good job. We keep making the same mistake of hiring on the basis of who will look good on TV and forget to consider aptitude and integrity.

When we get bad government, it is our own fault. We need to get out of our easy chairs and exercise the powers we have over our government. Sadly too many of us say, "Quite true, I'll do something about it as soon as the ball game is over."

If we tried to run a company in the same manner we try to self govern, we would soon be out of business.

format_quote Originally Posted by Woodrow

One of my pet peeves. Actually, we do have considerable control. But, because of general apathy and much laziness. We fail to exercise it. As Americans we are very poor bosses. We forget that the government is hired by us. We are the managers, although not very good ones. We tend to hire politicians on the basis of their physical appearance and not based on qualifications. We hire them and then forget about them until things go bad and only then do we start pointing fingers.
We forget that when we hire a president, it is our responsibility to see that he is doing a good job. We keep making the same mistake of hiring on the basis of who will look good on TV and forget to consider aptitude and integrity.

When we get bad government, it is our own fault. We need to get out of our easy chairs and exercise the powers we have over our government. Sadly too many of us say, "Quite true, I'll do something about it as soon as the ball game is over."

If we tried to run a company in the same manner we try to self govern, we would soon be out of business.

woodrow - i don't agree at all. we do not hire a president and the president does not work for us. he works for the corporate donors - who, by the way, fund both the republicans and the democrats. we are offered a choice that is really not much of a choice at all - the 2 wealthy men picked by corporate interests - to me, it is largely a farce. as long as the choice is no choice, how do we have power or control?
i do not think the people will ever be given any power at the election booth.
i read somewhere the statement that in some country in africa, people confuse elections with democracy - i think that applies here as well.