You made to many statements to go point by point, so lets take a big one.
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After 9/11 we needed a strong leader to bind us together, and he did that for about 5 minutes before he manipulated the situation to push through his and his advisors' vision of America's role in the world, which has been in the works (by Cheney and Wolfowitz) since his father's administration
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I can’t think of anyway or anyone who could have bound us together better then GWB after 9/11. About the only people trying to change that are the democrats who are so desperate for a victory in 2004 they will oppose this president on all fronts including the war on terror, some going so far as to claim that Bush knew about 9/11 and allowed it to happen for his own political gain, (tinfoil hats for everyone!). Also I find it amusing how everyone assumes he was manipulated into Iraq. You assume he is so stupid/naive that he was led around by the nose into Iraq, but maybe HE wanted to do it, and has Cheney and Wolfowitz working for him because THEY agree with HIM. You can’t even see him as a leader, even if the worst of your motives for him were true.
Like it or not GWB IS a leader, he is not the kind of man who worries about the current poll and what a focus group is going to say. He has good people around him, he does what he thinks is best, and he doesn’t just talk about what should be done, he DOES it.