George W. Bush: A Controversial Presidency 

Please clap.

The Quaker-Oats Guy who doesn’t

Everyone forgets Jeb...please clap.

Florida Sucked thanks to Governor Jeb.

Florida always sucked

I forgot about all the Bushisms.

Same here. No idea what was really happening

I remember that day well, they cut off the end of Neighbours

I remember that morning too. I was 6 years and our principal made an announcement of the plane flying to the towers, though the thing I took from it was that it was somehow an accident. "There was a terrible, terrible fight..." is what I swore I heard him say. Now I think he might've been referring to the plane that crashed into that field.

No problemo

Some hero's don't wear capes

the narrator forgot to mention, he's a war criminal also, with a million of Iraqi and more 200k afghan got killed during war on terror, that's really unfair for the part of Iraq and afghan people, and no one have a balls to persecute him, even the international court, and after the war on Iraq, the US jeopardize the government of Iraq but still many westerns called it patriotic 😢😢😢😢

Thank you ❤❤❤❤❤

Bless you

There's something so heartfelt in them.

Art major well I'm not paying for your student debt

Stolen comment

True, I like his artstyle.

@@themadlad8540 Spent years paying my loans off in the service. Sigh.

@Darkclaw Gonz His father was a good man who helped a lot of people.

@@faultyvize6169 may his father rest in piss

What’s dubbyah?

@@james3440 W

I remember it this way. When JFK was assassinated I was 8 yrs old

rfk was defeated in a fight

He is a very nice person. He actually cares about people.

so i've heard from many

Always liked George but have lost a lot of respect in the last 4 years.

@@jamellfoster6029 yeah sure that's why he went into Iraq lol

@shocknot blah blah, don't care, didn't ask.

He should have been taken out of their, no question ask

Agreed. I think it's pretty nit picky. The outcome of abruptly leaving would have rose questions and possibly panic in the room. Bush didn't yet have answers to anything. By finishing the reading he could discreetly be briefed, then prepare answers based on the information. Somehow I doubt the current president would have exerted this kind of restraint or tact... Though from what I understand there's a population of voters who actually like it that way.

I strongly recommend you do a little research before you say "and nothing else he ever did". He has been one of our most humanitarian presidents. His PEPFAR initiative is directly responsible for saving literally MILLIONS of lives and stemming the AIDS epidemic in Africa from flaring out of control. You'll notice that since he left office he has been a pretty modest, quiet and unassuming man. I hasn't tried to continue to grasp the spotlight once his time in the spotlight was over. There is something to respect about that too.

Some people seem to forget that the president is the COMMANDER IN CHIEF of this country. The moment you tell the General that his people are under attack you have every right to expect the General to do take action. When seconds mattered, Bush sat there stone faced. A metaphor for who he is as a man: a coward.

Had Pres. Bush left that very minute would have not made a bit of difference in the outcome of the day. There was no order that could be given that would have changed anything. There is nothing he could have said at that time that could comfort our fears. The ONLY think he had control over during those minutes was the mood in that classroom.

@@simsj2763 I was going to say the same thing!

JFK and King's assassinations were NOT in the same year. Robert Kennedy was the one killed in 1968.

@@marthadelcastillo2551 we know this. Simon made a mistake.

Well intended but in way over his head because he lacked the experience and intellect for the job, and surrounded by sharks who had their own agenda that he was too naive to see u til it was too late. Throw in a major Oedipus complex toward his father and it was a disaster waiting to happen. Remains the worst president of my life thus far.

Sims J I call Cheney, Dark Sith Lord

He didn't need to panic but what about getting his ass up and doing his job?

@@middleeastern5796 he did his job when you appoint people you trust to handle things you let them handle things he couldn't do anything to fix the situation so why not keep the kids calm and then go handle it

cause it fits there storyline, Dubya wasn't the best president ever but i strongly believe he tried his best and had always come across as a nice guy

@@middleeastern5796 he was doing his job, he calmly took in the information, finished the current task in hand and then motivated a nation that hell no we don't stand for this

@@michaelf.2449 im just glad he was smart enough to hand the reins to cheney. handled.

Thanks for your service and sharing this story.

I have no difficulty believing that, at the personal level, he is the kind of guy you could have a laugh and a beer with. Journalists who met Bush during the White House barbeque all agreed he was a very good host, making relaxing chitchat with everyone present. Be that as it may, he WAS the president who sanctioned torture to become part of CIA practises (the now infamous waterboarding), not to mention abducting people from countries such as the UK and then locking them up in secret CIA prisons in eastern Europe without any form of proper trial. And don't even get me started on the creation of Guantanamo Bay as a way to detain people who, some still until this day, are held captive without proper formal charges. So a nice guy he may be, but for me he is the worst US president we've ever had directly after Nixon. Though with all the stuff that's happening as is, Trump may very well topple Bush from that 2nd worst spot and put him in 3rd.

@@Mr00Chief00 I was never a fan of Bush, didn't vote for him, but served in the Army under him...he did the best he could under the circumstances...and remember, Guantanamo was how we eventually locked on to the courier that led us to Bin Laden...

Mr00Chief00 Obama was the one who committed the worst sin in starting the precedent of killing American citizens abroad without trial with Anwar Al-Awaki AND his 8 year old Colorado-born daughter being killed by drone in Yemen. At least Bush didn’t pretend we weren’t at war when he invaded a country, Obama always spoke wonderfully about peace, but then would take lives at the stroke of a pen just hours later when he bombed both foreigners and his own people in random countries with drones flown by ‘pilots’ back here in North America. At the end of the day, Bush’s biggest error was being naively trusting of the likes of Rove, Cheney and Rumsfeld. It’s a close one between GW and Obama though, both really screwed up the country in their own unique ways. I’ll wait til Trump’s term ends before trying to rank him.

@@MrEmperorApples agreed. Except that actually Obama killed Anwar Al Awlaki and two weeks later killed his 16 year old son. Trump killed his 8 year old daughter in that Jan 29 2017 raid early in his presidency.

"Excelled socially like he always had but struggled with his studies. He was a c student." Maybe listen more closely. XD

To be fair, for all the shit I thought he did wrong (sometimes terribly, unforgivably wrong) that isn't one of them.

He should've told the kids that the world was ending. I'm pissed that he didn't immediately pick up a shovel and dig a bunker in the classroom for those children.

You'd think that that's actually what some people thought he should have done after the way they talked about it, wouldn't you? It was ridiculous. Did people also want him to stop by every movie theater along the way, run into each room and yell "OH GOD WE'RE UNDER ATTACK WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE FEND FOR YOURSELVES" and then tear the screen down? Jesus Christ. What was he supposed to do? Like you said- Scare the children?

ehrldawg also it would’ve caused a panic if he rushed out of the school

Yep. They had seen the news about the first plane, and it took a while for people to realize it was a jumbo jet and they thought it was an accident. Then the second hit. Bush was in the classroom reading with children. Still little info, but he was informed it was a deliberate attack. You see how his face changes. His mind is elsewhere. He knows that he must act soon, but his people are still gathering information about the situation and it will cause a panic in the room if he immediately runs out of the room. So he finishes the story and then heads to the other room to deal with the biggest crisis our nation has faced since WWII. Bush didn't run on a platform of mucking around in the middle east. He ran on social and economic policy. Allow the man a couple of minutes to deal with the likely blind panic of being asked to act decisively and have all the answers for a horrified and grieving nation. I'm sure Lincoln, Roosevelt, Kennedy, and Washington were all allowed a few minutes to think when they got really bad news. Why criticize Bush for taking his?

Our decreased standards as a nation

This. Was about to.comment that JFK died in 1963 ha ha

He got the news from the SS while he was reading in a elementary school in Sarasota county. The biggest irony is the hijackers were trained as pilots in sarasota county as well.

What was he supposed to do, rip his shirt off ask for an AR-15 from the secret service and start shooting it in the fucken air?

Reminded me of Michael Corleogne from The Godfather

Agreed. Unfortunately, he learned a lesson that day that would shape the remainder of his presidency: It's more important to make an immediate decision than the correct one.

And then Obama tripled it with nothing to show for it.

@james mack yeah, because they were forced to. And now their health care is worthless because the medical system is worthless, it's now run by the government.

@james mack at the expense of people like me. My insurance premiums went through the roof. Lost my plan AND my pcp.

Bite Me I know dumbass conservatives like yourself don’t really like math, but the last fiscal year that Bush left had a 1.1 trillion dollar deficit, but like I said... math.

@@jacobcarter1947 show your numbers by an nonpartisan source.

His motivation is oil And maybe just simply shows US's power

Incorrect. There was no intentional lie, and I don't know where you got that. The intelligence agencies of nearly EVERY MAJOR COUNTRY agreed that the actions of Saddam Hussein suggested he had WMDs in violation of several UN Sanctions and the UN passed 3 Resolutions to that effect over the course of the year. In addition, it's still inconclusive whether or not WMDs were in Iraq up to 2002 before being transferred to Syria due to Syria suddenly producing Chemical Weapons soon after (note: the specific WMDs that Iraq was suspected of having were the same type of chemical weapons), there being several mortar shells and bunkers discovered over the decade following the invasion that contained radiation too strong to have been from the Gulf War, and the Iraq Survey Group concluding that, while there was not evidence of an official transfer of weapons between Syria and Iraq, they could not dismiss or refute the possibility that an unofficial transfer occured. This last point is as of yet unproven, but is also fairly likely and cannot be dismissed due to our inability to dismiss the charges. Two Iraqi Generals that defected, one around the time of the Gulf War and the other before the invasion of Iraq, have suggested that this is exactly what Saddam Hussein did due to an agreement made between Syria and Iraq to transfer WMDs if their capitals were ever attacked and the fact that Saddam Hussein wanted to humiliate America by making them look foolish. In addition, there are those connected to Syrian intelligence who have claimed to have received intel from the Syrian Defense Ministry saying that Iraq WMDs were transferred prior to the invasion as a way of tricking weapons inspectors and were stored in three underground facilities. Now, understanding that this is still fairly debatable and uncertain due to our inability to prove or disprove the suspicions, we must also look at the other points. EVERYONE agreed that there were WMDs and they got it from their own intelligence services; it wasn't just the US making claims and everyone taking our word for it. The British intelligence services said so. Every American Intelligence Agency said so. Israeli Intelligence said so. Some reports suggest Chinese Intelligence and Russian Intelligence said so. Even French and German Intelligence suggested this face. As it stands, we can argue and debate that they had bad intelligence, and there is a true criticism in pointing out that global intelligence services across the world had very poor informants within the regime that left us with very little hard evidence (though it should be noted that there were surveillance photos of trucks reportedly carrying WMDs, though this was a minor piece of evidence and was partially inconclusive). Yet the intelligence was reported with solid confidence and affirmation that WMDs indeed existed in Syria. Everyone country in the UN agreed with the idea that Iraq had WMDs in violation of the UN Resolutions that they voted three times to pass resolutions to that affect in justification of the Iraq War. Bush and his administration were fully convinced by the intelligence that WMDs were there and so were every member of Congress (btw, the Gang of Eight, members of Congress that receive briefings on every piece of intelligence in the Nation and comprises the leadership of both parties, received the exact same intelligence that the President received and came to the same conclusion). Everyone came to this conclusion on their own and they were no coerced or manipulated or lied to in order to get that result. And let me nip lies about War in Iraq being about OIl in the bud. If we wanted their oil, we could have bought it like we did everywhere else, but we didn't need their oil because we had our own and we already had sufficient deals with other countries. In addition, we never took control of their oil fields nor took any oil for ourselves out of Iraq. We went in, deposed Saddam Hussein, and established a new government as we trained their soldiers. That's it. So why did we go in? 1) Reports of WMDs which, as outlined above, may still be true due to suspicions of transfer to Syria, but also could have been due simply to faulty intelligence, but was not based on lies. Being wrong is not the same as telling a lie. 2) Iraq had ties with Al Qaeda which risked the potential of Al Qaeda establishing a new safe haven where they could plan further terrorist attacks after we pushed them out of Afghanistan. In addition, intelligence suggested Osama Bin Laden was attempting to set up a base to flee to in Iraq and Saddam Hussein was a state sponsor of terror who would prevent us from getting Bin Laden. There are other smaller reasons, of course, but these were the two big ones. You may agree or disagree, but don't use your disagreement as an excuse to say that he lied. Just be honest and say that you disagree. Also don't use information we have today as an excuse to say they lied. People can only be judged based on the information they had at the time. NONE OF US ARE OMNISCIENT. As a quick note on approving torture: yes, Bush approved Advanced Interrogation Techniques that he believed were necessary to get information to guarantee national security, but he did not approve outright torture and instead only approved specific interrogation methods for common use and limited waterboarding (which has been classified as torture after the fact, though for good reason) to executive approval, which led to it being used only twice. The other methods were simple things such as sleep deprivation, which while often considered as light torture, was debatable at the time in terms of whether or not it was torture. He also did not consider nor take these methods lightly and worked hard to try and ensure that what he approved of was not torture. You may disagree with his decision, and that's perfectly acceptable, but to say he approved torture is a dubious claim since the classification of these actions as torture was contested and he did take his time and only authorize them under the view that they were not torture. Again, feel free to disagree with him, but you have to understand what his position is so that you can understand WHY you disagree with him, WHAT you disagree about, and HOW you can apply this disagreement in other ways. You don't like Bush, I get it. But instead of repeating the cliche lines about "Bush Lied, People Died" that was invented by Democrats who saw the same intelligence and made the same decision, look deeper and understand the full picture.

I agree with you but the problem in both cases is that he was lied to. He simply believed it when people under his White President presented him "facts" and they didnt tell him about the torture for YEARS because they knew that he wouldnt approve. I dont like him, its HIS job to hire people to tell him the truth...

@@Lodrik18 From what I've read since posting this 4 years ago, Bush knew what hiss people were doing. They wanted to have an alternative oil supplier to Saudi Arabia because Saudi Arabia was producing radical terrorists. To do this they would invade Iraq and install a government favorable to the US interests. By using the fear instilled by 9/11 they could get the public on board with another war to tackle non-existent terrorist weapons.

@@Name2site my understanding is that Dick Cheney had a "intelligence group" that feed Bush crap and nobody had the guts to tell Bush what was going one (like the leader of the CIA)

Hurricane Rita too

There was no pressure to attack Iraq. That was entirely his own whim.

True...

Wilson saw the world at war and kept America out of it. Lincoln saw the country ripped apart. Fdr rise of fascism, Munich, We armament of Germany, watching our closest allies and neighbors going to war and Congress being unwilling to act, Oh yeah and the great depression. I think Roosevelt had the most challenging presidency with Lincoln a close second.

@Battlefront Gaming and his policies led us to the crash...

Bush is another fraud

But his calls were objectively wrong

Stalin loved people like you.

he probably had OBL on speed dial.

You have a fitting name.

Any serious Presidential ranking excludes William Henry Harrison for very good reason. He served only 30 days and was ill for most of that time. He likely would have been a good President however. Same with James Garfield, who was a man of the utmost integrity who, sadly, only served 6 months.

Omg I agree so much man

I have seen that video, but for the life of me I can remember what it was called!!! I WELL remember Bush's speech. I thought it was a bit like FDR's Fireside Chats insofar as it calmed us collectively. It wasn't 7 minutes of indication on President Bush's part, it was 7 minutes of exploitation and profit on Moore's.

That’s one hell of a good opinion 🇺🇸

He ALSO oversaw and executed the INTERNATIONALLY CONDEMNED the genocidal attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq, While Bush & Co. also controversially usurped the Presidency and the subsequent undoings are absolute horror which continue to this day. And they NEVER had WMD evidence or links to Iraq upon which the wars were predicated---quite a detail.

@@n.h.moreno as rumpsfeld famously said "mistakes were made"

Remember that time Obama bowed before a Saudi Prince ? I remember when the Canadian PM at the time made it a point not to . He was one of those ingrate conservatives Lol .

War on terror? It was a conquest for heroin and lithium.

The thing that I do like about Trump was that he was the first president since Carter that didnt start a war.

Bush will get the Truman treatment in the decades to come. Truman was seen as a bad president in the 50s and 60s but now is considered to be a great president and I see Bush getting the same treatment.

Nah Bush is a mixed bag

@@jamescaylor6864 this is one of the stupidiest takes I've seen

"Put food on your family. Make the pie higher!" "I'm the master of low expectations."~ G.W. Bush

Aussies say G'day, not Brits.

I believe Harry Truman or Millard Fillmore hold that title

Hell no HE WAS DEFINITELY THE WORST PRESIDENT

@@fangalistpoland1326 Harry Truman was a great president lol

If you're referring to Trump, Reagan and Bush are still worse.

ORANGE MAN BAD!!

he got kicked out of the army because of laziness and constant masturbation, so I've heard...

Don't worry, your request has come true.

I respect your opinion Mr. Hanley-- However, George W. Bush was following the advice of the director of the CIA at the time, George J. Tenet, when he ordered the invasion of Iraq (WMDs). Both Hillary Clinton and John Kerry voted for the invasion based upon the same "intelligence". To his credit, I've never heard Bush throw Tenet under the bus. Bush has endured so much negative press without lashing out-- and why would he, knowing that doing so would further injure those that served in Iraq. I believe Bush is an honorable man. Conversely, George Tenet should be haunted by sleepless nights.

Erik Look, there’s evidence Bush and Tony Blair knew there were no wmd in Iraq. They flat out lied, nothing was found in the aftermath. Hussein was a maniac, but let’s not pretend a few colonial powers did this for the good of the world. War is good for business. That’s all I’ll say.

Ladies and gentlemen... I would like to remind you that chemical weapons are WMDs.... S.H. killed many USING chemical weapons.... Thus, based on facts there WAS WMDs....

CheeZyZee Hell, the Boston Bombers were charged with discharging a WMD. WMD stands for weapons of mass destruction. It doesn’t stand for nuke. It simply means a device that does widespread damage as opposed to the targeted damage of a gun, rifle, tank, etc.

If he didnt invade that country. He might have been killed if he didnt do what they asked him to do.. or our suvallience guys sucks at their jobs and gave wrong info

D Hawthorne - there's no problem with the subscription button, it's that people don't get direct, or audio notification upon the upload of a video now. Personally, I far prefer it this way. I don't need a device bothering me to tell me a video is uploaded. When I sit down to watch RU-vid, I will look at my sub feed and find it. But, for a channel, I get why they want people notified when a video goes up.

EXACTLY. Any rational parent understands that.

Yeah and that delay probably cost lives. Time and place

@hyperchord what a stupid and ignorant thing to say. He wasn't personally going to fly to NYC and rescue survivors. He was the commander in chief, and had given the necessary orders for that moment.

@@jamesengland7461 Nah, what you say is stupid and ignorant. He's gotta make the calls and give out orders

Well, the peace of Iraqi children definitely wasn't on his mind

Yeah why would we ever want a successful governor and good Christian man to be president?

We did in 2020!

Wuncler Laufenbum Cornelius Ulysses Albrecht LVX only two things come from Texas. And I don’t see any steer 🙂

Since when?? You believe too much in fantasies

@@melvynsngltn27 since D.B Cooper hijacked that plane and parachuted his ass to freedom. That along with ALL the other hijackings that took place in the 60s and 70s is what prompted the F.A.A to mandate anti hijacking capabilities in ALL AIRLINERS. but it was D.B getting away with that cash, that really got the ball rolling with all that. ..What's crazy to me is we have self driving cars on the market, but you dont think we have self flying airplanes lol I think they're called drones homie

Pepfar is the single most successful public health program and saved millions of lives.

everyone forgets Jeb

@@byronhotchkiss7023 too low energy

Now then , now then

From sinister tv god to downright monster

But Barrack H. Obama is the reason Trump is now president. So, full circle, except Trump repeated Obama's lies about Pres. Bush during election.

Trump easily buy thousand percent worst president and human ever smh

@@tellyintokyo no the Electoral college and Russia ( inadvertently) got him elected

Telly Jonas but Obama was only able to bamboozal the country because W was a pretty bad president. If W was better McCain would have walked 2008 If it wasn’t for Sarah palin and the housing market crash.

Mcgreatness really ? How so

I mean, it is a 20 minute video.

It's no more light weight than the others. Not a fan of the Bush Years and think he was a disaster for America but I think this video is a great balance. It's very dificult in today's toxic political environment to say or do much if anything without people reading way to much in it. Cut down on the caffeine and just take a deep breath and expell and just enjoy things.

It's no more light weight than the others. Not a fan of the Bush Years and think he was a disaster for America but I think this video is a great balance. It's very dificult in today's toxic political environment to say or do much if anything without people reading way to much in it. Cut down on the caffeine and just take a deep breath and expell and just enjoy things.

It's RU-vid, dummy. And the host runs like 27 other channels, and also doesn't write anything he says. Don't come here for facts, bud.

@@shanejones7906 Lol. "In today's toxic political environment"... Yeah. You're part of that toxicity, buddy. Have you read the rest of your comment?? There's no open-mindedness to be found here.

Good information, I wasn't clear on that myself. Though I'm pretty sure people use them interchangeably as I have heard both Bush Sr. and Jr. and GW and HW

It's true that they're not technically Sr and Jr, but as far as usage goes it's okay to call them that in conversation just to distinguish between the two.

Definitely not true...

Yes but if you excluded the middle name it's the same. So for everyday convo you need the jr tag.