What military mess is he talking about? I have yet to see a military mess in Iraq and unless our military starts fighting in the nude I don't expect to ever see them mess up. They are, and always be the best military in the world!

Hey Alfred E Newman, when did Bill Clinton ever do any mea culpa for all of his actual scandals (as opposed to George Bush's Iraq war policy disagreements you have with him [which you liberal Dems were all supporting in 2002 and 2003 anyway]? It was always, "I am guilty of no wrongdoing", "This allegation is a bunch of bull", "I did not have sexual relations with that woman", and the gazillion "I don't recall" "I don't remember" "I don't recollect that" lines. The only two times I think The Great Stainmaker apologized was (1) when he said "I am sorry" regarding slavery in the 18th century (Democrats are only willing to apologize for things they know they had nothing to do with. That way it sounds good and they know people know it wasn't really their fault) and (2) In August 1998 when he said regarding Monica Lewinski, "I misled you. And for that I deeply regret it." He misled, not lied. He regrets (that he got caught) but wasn't sorry. And then he used the rest of the five minutes to bash Kenneth Starr and Republicans. Such a poster child he is for demonstrating a mea culpa!

USA Today! Ha! It should be called Liberalism Today to be accurate. But that would admit to a leftist bias so thus the "USA" in the title, as if it's a neutral, objective paper.

USA founder Al Neuharth declared worst Publisher ever!

George Bush is the GREATEST President ever ... no other President has had to push through more psycho-liberal b.s. than G.W. Bush in order to get things done.

My Top 5

1 - George Bush

2 - Ronald Reagan

3 - Abraham Lincoln

4 - George Washington

5 - Theodore Roosevelt

Seems Neuharth is "gambling with failure" (Tony Snow today) even more than the Democrats in Congress.  >If you have seen todays WH briefing, you might want to< 

History is probably going to record President Bush as admitting to more errors (mea culpas) in foreign policies than actually will have been deemed to have occured. 

I am waiting to see how Senate votes before saying much more, though it seems America is still fighting its own civil war today >> why else would we need police forces of our own?  You know in our own streets?   Maybe we can send 2/3rds of such forces from Blue states/cities to Iraq and Afganistan (maybe just for one month) so MSM can gain some hope and perspective. 

Would Saddam now have his nuclear program up and running as right to defend himself from Iran today and keeping his neighbors angry at US even more just for the memory of all past US support of Saddam Hussein?   So USA today isn't just a carpet saver for finished hotel room service?

This man is a typical nearsighted liberal.

The first three are reported through the lens of a responsible history.  The last two are seen only in the light of a leftwing media cabal.   Neither Nixon nor Hoover can compare with the two jerks that do belong on that list.    Those two men ran the singularly MOST corrupt administrations in American history.   As much corruption as Grant engendered with his Indian and Railroad policies, these two exceeded.   Their administrations have the singular distinctions of having produced the two greatest quantities of criminal convictions.  These fine gentlemen were Warren Harding, whose appointees engineered among other things, the Teapot Dome scandal, and none other than our own William Jefferson Clinton, who had more felons in his administration than the next two contenders, Grant and Harding, combined.  It is ironic to note that Al Gore, during the Clinton Administration, was instrumental in selling the very Teapot Dome oil reserve that was the subject of the great Harding scandal, to Occidental petroleum, a company in which he and his family are shareholders.

So a record economy after one of the worst attacks on the U.S., not a single attack since, booming housing and job growth, reduction in the deficit and he ranks him worst then the Peanut Farmer!

GWB has been attacked daily in the press for so long that even the hardest soles are ready for him to leave office just so we can have a break from the whining.

However I still think he is one of our best leaders, I may disagree with some of his polices but not on the war. I rank him high on the list of great leaders, history will prove this out.

BUSH IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL

George Bush is the first American President expressing Christian certitude in his Presidential decisions. God even speaks to Bush, and as the President told the press, he consulted with and obviously got an answer from “another Father,” “a higher authority” than Bush41 on going to war with Iraq. If true, presumably God would have also told him how to win this Iraq war without all the blunders, suffering and death.

The world has seen Christian certitude before and it’s not a pretty picture: papal infallibility when the Pope had armies, the Inquisition (intolerance at home) and the Crusades (intolerance abroad). When the Crusaders captured Jerusalem in 1099, they slaughtered all its inhabitants. When the Arab leader Saladin recaptured the city, he spared all the Christian inhabitants. So the Middle East is already primed for another war with Christian invaders; and accordingly and as a recent NIE confirmed, the war in Iraq has increased the number of jihadists and terrorists and made America less safe. This is not praise for the enemy, but history and insight into why our “bring it on” cowboy President is only rekindling and fueling this centuries-old fire.

Our brave, innocent young men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan are fighting for a better world, but a leader ignorant of history and cultures can easily cause the opposite. The stupidity of World War I and of Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau caused terrible consequences for another 70 years after the end of that war, including Hilter and Communism. Afghanistan is the right war, certainly a just war and the whole world agreed and was on our side, and if we would have concentrated our efforts there we probably would have wiped out Bin Laden and those responsible for 9-11 by now. Iraq is a total disaster, and Iran will be even worse. Let’s face it, all George Bush knows is how to start wars!

AMERICAN DIPLOMACY… now there’s an oxymoron! The leader of Iran comes off as a whacko, however, the Iranians and the entire rest of the world view George Bush in the same way, so there is a common starting point. Real diplomacy involves talking with your adversary one-on-one without preconditions, and there’s a lot to discuss with Iran: the CIA in the 1950s, the Shah, the 1979 hostage crisis, sponsorship of terror, Israel and justice in the Middle East, and nuclear issues. But if past is prelude, Bush’s diplomacy with Iran will be perfunctory and rigged - this time, our mentally unbalanced, messianic President needs to provoke a war, AND HE WILL FIND A WAY! 

This new Bush war should further help over one billion Muslims in their decision to fight America in a mutual holy war. When the President finally increases the level of hatred against the United States to where it engulfs Pakistan, then we face nuclear terror, and Biblical Armageddon becomes real and a self-fulfilling prophecy. Oh, the joy, the Rapture! Right now roiled Pakistan is just one assassin’s bullet away from going under, and still jihad recruitment is in only its infancy.

Back at home, Christian certitude is present in Bush’s politics of division and hate. Nonbelievers of Bush’s Christian values and policies are viewed with contempt, instead of as fellow citizens in a pluralistic democracy. Civility has gone out of our civilization, and this type of Christian Right hate is completely out of the closet with Ann Coulter’s book on 9-11, which has been repudiated by few if any on the right who claim to practice the Christian message of love. Hate, hate, hate -- welcome to the new Christian America (not exactly like Mother Theresa or the Amish).

“Good and evil” is a concept common in religion, morality and ethics. Obviously the whole world needs more good and less evil. But is there a practical definition that everyone can agree on and that lends itself to objective measurement. How about: GOOD is something that makes the many human lives better and no or few lives worse, while EVIL is something that makes many lives worse, and no or few lives better. Some obvious good in this world: Habitat for Humanity, St Jude’s Children Hospital, etc. Evil under this definition would include a considerable number of Hollywood movies, a lot of poison on TV and violent video games.

Measuring George Bush’s actions by this definition with objective facts, our compassionate conservative, Christian President does mostly EVIL: from the Iraq disaster to Katrina mismanagement/incompetence to the politics of division and hate to “no child left behind” (children in extreme poverty up 20% since Bush took office) to the $3 trillion dollar tax giveaway to the rich. Particulars on the last item: SUPPLY-SIDE (trickle-down) economics is a bogus theory promoted by those who benefit from it. In a mature capitalist system, supply side never rules, it’s always the demand side of the equation that governs growth and well-being. Think about the 1930s Depression, General Motors had plenty of supply, but demand evaporated.

Previous U.S. recessions have been cured with only $200 billion in tax cuts targeted to the middle class, because the consumer (the great middle class) spends that tax cut and primes the economic pump. But George Bush has raised the debt that our children and grandchildren will have to pay from almost $6 trillion to almost $9 trillion for this current recovery, which is uniquely without wage gains, and which has shrunk the middle class that makes America strong and great.

Corporations (the supply side) are now loaded with cash, but there’s no place to spend it because they don’t see any demand. So many corporations are using that cash to buy back their stock -- WOW, isn’t supply side wonderful in how it fulfills America’s needs? As the rich-poor divide increases, we’re headed toward previous shining examples of trickle-down economics: South America of the recent past and feudalism in the Middle Ages (South America and feudalism also had no wage gains). This is such good evil by our compassionate conservative, Christian President and his myriad of engorged friends.

I see a dark future for the country we all love. Even our Constitution is at risk when a President says he speaks directly to God (witness how God/Allah influences and corrupts Islamic attempts at democracy). The Constitution guarantees freedom to all, and freedom for all from tyranny. Our precious Constitution binds us together as a nation, and allegiance to it is the definition of patriotism.

All one needs to know about Al Neuharth is that he lives in a treehouse in Florida. Literally.