I'm editing out 80% of that article because it has nothing to do with Bush
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Originally Posted by Dankdude 
But Bush can compete with each one of these lesser lights of the presidency. Instead of using all the U.S. government’s national security resources to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, the perpetrator of the 9/11 attacks, Bush invaded an unrelated country, has become bogged down in a quagmire and civil war and has unintentionally provided a training ground for and fuelled the hatred of a jihadist terrorist movement that will probably attack U.S. targets for decades. |
Unrelated country? Iraq has been refuge for Al Qaeda and not to mention that he refused to let U.N. inspectors go inside certain facilities which led to believe that he was building WMDs and lying about it. By the way, because U.S. went to Iraq that didn't initiate a newborn hatred toward us from the extremist, they have long hated any resemblance of democracy, free-thought, capitalism, women's rights. Quit trying to say that we invoked them because they have long been our enemies.
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Originally Posted by Dankdude If he had been president at the beginning of the Second World War, Bush would have responded to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the Nazi declaration of war on the United States by invading Romania. But, surprisingly, this Iraq fiasco is not the most dangerous thing the president has done. |
Whoo-hoo, "What If" scenarios, I wanted facts, not speculation, and that analogy is retarded nonetheless.
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Originally Posted by Dankdude He has used the never-ending war on terror to claim unlimited power for the president during wartime. For example, he has flouted the Constitution by detaining prisoners without trial, spied on Americans without the constitutionally required warrants and blatantly said he will follow a congressionally passed law against torture when he feels like it. |
Kind of like FDR threw U.S. citizens that looked "kinda oriental" to containment camps during WW2. And Boo-Hoo to waterboarding, if it needs to be done to get some information that will save lives, go for it.
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Originally Posted by Dankdude None of the other post-war presidents has claimed unlimited power during wartime or crises. This is a truly dangerous claim, especially when the war is perpetual. |
Wait a minute, I thought it was still "war in Iraq". when it serves your argument, but you don't call it that when it suits your claim, interesting..
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Originally Posted by Dankdude The individual liberties guaranteed to citizens—unique to the American system—could be threatened by even greater future executive authoritarianism.
In the Constitution, in reaction to the despotic monarchs of Europe, the founders narrowly restricted the executive’s power. Bush’s arrogant power grab, which attempts to eviscerate the checks and balances that are at the heart of the U.S. Constitution, probably makes him the most dangerous—and therefore the worst—president in the post-Second World War era. |
Uh-huh..It was all passed through a Democratic Controlled Congress, whats the excuse now?