Richard94611

Bush drove this country into the ground by increasing the national debt enormously. Under Obama, the national debt has been dropping. GO FIGURE.

robmull Loc: florida

I guess, like Rush, Glenn and FOX, 11, pissing-off secular liberal progressives, world-wide, was "Dubya's" greatest "accomplishment"!!! And, of course, ridding the world of Hussein [Saddam not Barack], and stopping the WMD genocide-type executions of the thousands of Kurdish Muslims in N. Iraq, insuring that the remains of the tons of WMD's were either buried in Iraq or transported to Syria - where "crossing-the-line" in the next administration, and pulling-out ALL the American troops in Iraq, handing over trillions - that's TRILLION$, with a "T," TRILLION$ of dollar$ worth of the most technically advanced American military equipment to bestow directly into the enemy hands [rather than all the crap that had to be stonewalled about Benghazi], allowing ISIS to invade and conquer all the hard-fought territories "WE" had...there I go wasting my time again, trying to explain the REAL, humanitarian America to the "pigs 'WE' [used-to] seem to always cast OUR pearls." Damn shame the "o'zombies" now posing and posting on OPP [and America] as mere low-information useful idiots. Damn shame.

rebob14

Reduction of AIDS in Africa

Liberty Tree

9/11 was planned for over two years under Clinton who failed to stop OBL when he had the chance and let other terrorist attacks go unpunished. Any chance we will ever get truth and not just liberal spin from you? Nah!

grumpymarine Loc: Florida

You can't remember? Of course not, you were in grade school. Just parrot what you hear in college now? Go Trump!

mwdegutis Loc: Illinois

That's why Obama doubled it in seven years. GO FIGURE!

MarvinSussman

You need a course in Religion 101.

ISIS is Sunni. Sadaam's army was Sunni.

The current Iraqi gummint is Shia. The current Iraqi army is Shia.

Sadaam's solgers are not in the current Iraqi gummint's army. Sadaam's Iraqi solgers are with ISIS.

Do your homework!

The rest of your info was just as good.

Bush ignored multiple warnings from Dick Clarke and Tenant because he figured a little hijacking would have minor cost and major implementation of wartime crisis opportunity to do regime change, which was the pre-inauguration agenda.

You are so naive!

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

You're joking, right??

4430 Loc: Little Egypt ** Southern Illinory

Overall, I’d argue that the “who increased the debt more?” debate is rather silly. The bottom line is that Bush and Obama have continued an American tradition that’s been the norm my entire lifetime: spending without regard to revenues.

Richard94611

That still does not erase the fact that W paid no attention to the warnings he had several months before 9/11 happened. Quite an accomplishment, I would say !

Richard94611

The yearly national debt has been dropping since Obama took office. It is considerably lower now than it was during W's presidency. Furthermore, W. used an accounting trick that didn't even count the cost of the way in national debt calculations.

Richard94611

The figures are never regarded as "silly" when Republicans state them and misrepresent them, so they aren't silly now. Let's be consistent.

Richard94611

This is an irrelevant statement. We are talking about what W did.

Richard94611

You have predictably missed the point of my initial post. I put it there -- and now the secret must come out -- not to learn about W and his accomplishments, but to learn about the opinions of W's supporters. Predictably, you conservative Republicans worship the group W Bush walked on, but cannot justify your admiration by detailing actual accomplishments ! YOU FELL FOR IT !

4430 Loc: Little Egypt ** Southern Illinory

According to the White House's Office of Management and Budget, during his eight fiscal years, Bush ran up a total of $3.283 trillion in deficit spending .

In his first two fiscal years, Obama will run up a total of $2.826 trillion in deficit spending ($1.294 trillion in 2010, an estimated $1.267 trillion in 2011, and the $265 billion in "stimulus" money that was spent in 2009).

Thus, Bush ran up an average of $410 billion in deficit spending per year, while Obama is running up an average of $1.413 trillion in deficit spending per year — or $1.003 trillion a year more than Bush.

What is the current Debt ? 18 T