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

[brad haslett]

Paul,

The letter writer made some very interesting points.

My vote still goes to James Buchanan as the worst.
It's the presidents who do nothing to prevent war that
are far worse than the ones who start the fight.

FDR was right about WW 2, wrong on not establishing a
sunset on the all the depression era social programs. 
One of the single biggest mistakes FDR  made and later
Truman was not listening to General Stillwell on
China.  We should have forced a two party system there
and prevented the 1945-49 civil war.  Korea wouldn't
have happened.  Truman was right to use the bomb, we
killed more through conventional bombing in Japan than
we did with the two nukes.  

Clinton?  Long after we are dead the historians will
be debating whether to replace Buchanan on the list
and it won't be about blowjobs and impeachments.  Read
"Deriliction of Duty" by Robert Patterson.   Reagan
and Bush 41 have their share of responsibility as well
but it was Billy Boy who ignored the growing threat of
WW IV  (WW III being the Cold War).

Brad Haslett
"CoraShen"

PS: Anne, BITE ME!




--- pdgrand at nospam.wmis.net wrote:

> 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!!!!
> 
> 
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