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The Bush Years...

"I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."

George W. Bush on September 14, 2001, using a bullhorn, with firefighter Bob Beckwith by his side.

. Bush has proven to be a very staunch ally of Israel even to the last days of his presidency.

With Prime Minister Ehud Olmert looking on, President George W. Bush reaches out to Israel's President Shimon Peres Friday, Jan. 11, 2008, as he arrives at Yad Vashem , the Holocaust Museum, in Jerusalem.

George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice stand amidst the ruins of Capernaum, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, during his final stop Friday, Jan. 11, 2008, in Israel.

The Middle East is not a very friendly place for Bush. But there are exceptions. He's got some good friends there, thanks to his dad, the former US President Bush senior. President George W. Bush is greeted by the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al Sabah after arriving Friday, Jan. 11, 2008, at Kuwait International Airport.

WHEN PRESIDENT BUSH traveled to sub-Sahara Africa last year, he was greeted by large and tumultuous crowds of admirers - which mystified many of his critics, who believe that the animosity toward his administration abroad is universal. But polling data from the Pew Foundation shows something different: Approval ratings for the United States exceed 80 percent in many African countries, some with large Muslim populations. In Darfur, many families name their newborn sons George Bush.

While the civil war continues, casualties have declined and people are being fed by aid agencies, thanks to US government generosity, which may explain why Bush is so popular among the Africans in the camps. America has played an important role as mediator in Burundi, Liberia, Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo after civil wars devastated all five countries. In Sudan, the United States played a central role as peacemaker in ending a 20-year civil war between the Arab north and African south, which killed 2 million people. However important these diplomatic efforts may be, Bush's enduring legacy in Africa rests on humanitarian and economic, not political, foundations. The president's HIV/AIDS program, principally focused on providing Africans with anti-retroviral drugs to treat the disease (1.7 million people are on the therapy), has been such a success that the program has been extended to 2015 at $48 billion. His five-year, $1.2 billion effort to combat malaria has provided 4 million insecticide-treated bed nets and 7 million drug therapies to vulnerable people. Africans will long remember what Bush' critics have ignored.

The Presidential round table for education at the University of Liberia

Bush with the next Vice President Joe Biden. Though a harsh critic of Bush, Biden wholeheartedly supported Bush's humanitarian efforts in Africa

"The President's emergency action program for HIV/AIDS has saved more than a million lives," Biden said. "It may be the greatest legacy this president leaves."

Bush's 'NUKULAR' Deal is a huge gain for India and has taken Indo-US relations to an unprecedented new level

Bush with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. Even thirty years from now, this conservative George Bush-appointee, John Roberts would possibly still be the Chief Justice, swearing in many more US Presidents after Bush, beginning with Barack Obama.

President George W. Bush dances in front of the media while he awaits the arrival of then presumptive Republican Party presidential nomimee John McCain and his wife Cindy on the North Portico of the White House in Washington, March 5, 2008.
President Bush is known for his obsessive love of punctuality and routine. From Dead Certain, by Robert Draper, Pg 106: ~~~ The president often described this fidelity to schedule as a courtesy bestowed on others. "Whether it's John McCain or an average citizen, they shouldn't be kept waiting," he would say.
~~~ One time, Colin Powell was running late to a Cabinet meeting. "Lock the door", President Bush said. When a few minutes passed until finally there was a scuffling of the doorknob causing the Cabinet Room to erupt in laughter, President Bush signaled to allow the Secretary of State into the room. The President made his point.

Bush bends down to pick the cap of one of the two Marine guards, which fell off the guard's head, blown by the wind.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (L) receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. President George W. Bush during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, January 13, 2009.

President George W. Bush welcomes retired New York firefighter Bob Beckwith and his wife Barbara to the Oval Office. Mr. Beckwith visited the White House to present the President with the bullhorn the President used, to talk with recovery workers during his visit to the World Trade Center Sept. 14, 2001.

Voting in Iraq...

If by Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools; If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

BEDFORD HEIGHTS, Ohio. January 16, 2009 -- After two years of traveling around the country and criticizing President Bush, President-elect Barack Obama said Friday that he "always thought [Bush] was a good guy." Barack Obama tells CNN's John King that it was "tough" for him to request the additional bailout funds. "I mean, I think personally he is a good man who loves his family and loves his country," Obama said in an exclusive interview with CNN's John King. Obama said he thought Bush made "the best decisions that he could at times under some very difficult circumstances."

Eight years ago, Osama bin Laden lived as a state-guest in Afghanistan under the brutal Taliban. Those were days when Taliban would play host to terrorists of every variety including the hijackers of an Indian Airlines in 1999. Today, the Taliban has been removed. Bin Laden is in hiding, making home-videos containing threats he is unable to fulfill. His last hope was a man named Abu Musab Zarqawi, the Al Qaeda man in Iraq. With Zarqawi killed, the fortunes of Al Qaeda is waning in Iraq. Eight years ago, Saddam Hussein's nearly 30 year-old dictatorship had already caused the death of 4 million Iraqis through torture chambers and two wars, used chemical weapons on its Kurdish citizens and invaded a neighboring country (Kuwait) before being chased out. Saddam's two sons were also beginning to display greater levels of brutality. There was nothing the world could do about Taliban or Saddam. There was no law that permitted anyone to interfere and put an end to tyranny in Iraq and religious oppression in Afghanistan. But the oppressed needed an answer. History demanded an answer. The answer may not please everyone. The existing International Laws may not approve of the answer. In an imperfect world, an imperfect man did an imperfect job. The man is George W. Bush. It could have been done differently and yet, Iraq has now been freed from Saddam and his sons. The Taliban can no longer oppress the ordinary Afghans or play host to global terrorists and their training camps. The legacy of George W. Bush will continue to be debated. The liberal mainstream media will continue to attack Bush while retaining its phony pretense of neutrality. The Iraq war was certainly mismanaged. Katrina and the economy will be a blemish on Bush's record though his efforts at salvaging the US economy are winning him praise. And yet, Bush and his supporters can be proud of some of his achievements. The two conservative judges he has appointed to the US Supreme Court, Justice Sam Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts are two of the finest choices he could come up with. The Nuclear Deal with India is a significant game-changer in many ways. The decision of Libya's Gaddafi to abandon his decades-old nuclear ambition and his weapons of mass destruction is a significant achievement of the Bush administration. More than anything else, Americans should be thankful because George W. Bush kept them safe from terrorist attacks ever since September 11, 2001. Last month, Kosovo decided to name a central street in their capital city Pristina after George W. Bush in appreciation for his contributions towards their independance. Bush is also a very popular man in Africa. It may take a while for the world to fully know what this man has been up to in the past eight years. To call Bush "the worst president ever" is either dishonesty, ignorance or stupidity of the highest order. (How can you do that when Jimmy Carter is very much alive??) In its 335 years of existence, America has had only 12 presidents who have served two terms. George W. Bush belongs to that elite club. It's no mean achievement. A few decades from now, when history judges this man, it may sound a lot different from what you heard on CNN or read in New York Times.

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