Was George W. Bush actually a liberal? (Congress, Iraq, Afghanistan)
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Other than being anti-abortion (for the evangelical vote) and having a folksy demeanor (something that is faked considering he's a phoney baloney carpetbagger from New England), pretty much. Fooled a lot of people with his "humble foreign policy" and small government 2000 campaign mantra.
WAR is mostly a Democrat quasi-liberal mentality. Just ask just about any Democrat from 1945 until now. Truman (nuking Japan), LBJ (Vietnam), Clinton (Balkans), and Obama (Afghanistan).
WAR is a Democrat quasi-liberal mentality. Just ask just about any Democrat from 1945 until now. Truman (nuking Japan), LBJ (Vietnam), Clinton (Balkans), and Obama (Afghanistan).
He is said to have had no personal problem with gay people and to have had many gay associates. Yet he campaigned for D.O.M.A. ...go figure.
Republican congessmen introduced DOMA in the 1990s. Congress passed it, and Bill Clinton signed it into law. Bush had nothing to do with it.
George Bush spent a few cursory moments promoting a federal marriage amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman, but it didn't go anywhere. I'm sure it was just another bone to throw to the Evangelicals to keep them quiet.
More troops over there. Sounds to me like a vote of confidence for more WAR!
Whenever Democrats talked about bringing troops home, they were called cowards, wimps, and traitors. Most Republicans strongly supported both wars while Bush was in office. Now that he's gone, you're against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Whenever Democrats talked about bringing troops home, they were called cowards, wimps, and traitors. Most Republicans strongly supported both wars while Bush was in office. Now that he's gone, you're against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
The Democrats should've taken the "wimp" beating like a man. Now they're going to lose the liberal anti-war vote. Should be about 10-15% easy, maybe more. Using the tired rhetoric of "where else you gonna go?" just ain't gonna fly. Liberals will not fall in line with the moderates, no matter how much Dems pretend to widen the tent. There'll be a home for them somewhere else.
I was always anti-war. The objective was always Bin Laden. Now he's dangled like a carrot on a stick while we extract natural resources vis-a-vis exclusive energy agreements with Karzai. Why don't Obamatrons like yourself acknowledge that there are neo-cons and there are conservatives, as opposed to clumping them together? I can't imagine anyone is that thick headed to still believe they're one and the same.
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Whenever Democrats talked about bringing troops home, they were called cowards, wimps, and traitors. Most Republicans strongly supported both wars while Bush was in office. Now that he's gone, you're against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
not to speak for him, but we are more libertarian, and both disagreed with the overseas occupation from the beginning.
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