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Originally Posted by ottopilot
Thanks dc-dux!
I guess I am looking for intellectual honesty when we assign blame or make judgments against anyone. I think the intense hatred for "W" has at times become politically fashionable rather than proportionately accurate. Piling on is human nature.
I'm merely listening at this point. I have no desire to challenge anyone here. I just want to hear what people are upset about in more specific terms. Going through old posts is what prompted me to ask. To be fair, I should have asked specifically why people like him so much.
If this is not worth exploring, I'm willing to bump.
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It's absolutely worth exploring because I think that we should all step back from time to time and check to make sure that what we believe actually lines up with reality. In fact I think it was Bush & Co's failure to do this that has led to this "intense hatred" of him that you speak of. After 9/11 they had LOADS of fun telling us that whatever they say, goes, and if you don't agree you're an unpatriotic, un-American, freedom fry eating bastard. And sadly the country for the most part lined up like the good little sheep they were and bought into it. Now that Bush has not only failed to deliver on his promise that his actions would make us safer, but has in fact made us quite a bit less safe, those former sheep have turned into wolves and are pissed. And who can blame them? They got rooked. Royally, utterly snookered.
I'm sure you've been ripped off in the past and I'm guessing you were pretty pissed off about it. It's the same thing here, only in this case people have finally realized that. . . well I'll put it this way. In my opinion everyone currently on this forum will be dead before this mess is completely cleaned up. Knowing that is enough to make anyone angry at the man who was the architect of this situation, don't you think?