Who was the worst American president of recent times?
Richard Nixon, who authorised the killing of tens of thousands of innocent people in Vietnam by burning them to death by napalm and leaving many thousands in pain and agony for life because they weren't lucky enough to get killed.
Then he went on to head up the Watergate affair and was subsequently impeached.
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George Bush Jnr., who authorised the killing and massacre of tens of thousands of Iraqi innocent people by relentless bombing and rockets leaving thousands injured for life. It seems the sole reason for doing it was to finish off what his father started so he would look good in daddy's eyes.
America lost both wars, made them the most hated country on the planet, and left thousands of American families without a father, brother or son.
Col
Hi Colin: I will have to disagree with your assessment of Richard Nixon. I do agree that he was one of the worst President but for different reasons. However, to win a War one must become almost as bad as the enemy. For 10 years after Johnson sent and thereby killed 50,000 of 'our boys' to Vietnam, the enemy refused to come to the negotiating table. Nixon was elected on the terms that he stop the war.. The only way to do that was to make war like you meant it not play at it. (Not Play at it means in this post: Taking a hill and then letting the enemy have it back and next week taking it again. Imagine what Europe would have looked like if the allies played that way with Hitler. Nixon went to the source, Hanoi and bombed the hell out of them. They (enemy) decided to come to the table and was there....almost!!?
That is until our illustrious Liberal Hippies decided they would raise all matters of hell here in the states. (One of the reasons I have very little love for a far left liberal is when I come home, I was spit upon and called a baby killer even though I came from the opposite part of the world.)....Back to the war..... The Vietcong decided to pull out of the peace talks.We were already pulling out of the country and Siagon was the last. The Vietcong came in at the very last minute killing everything that was standing (man, woman and child)...But we got out of the war...........
The liberal left will tell you that GWB invaded Iraq because of his father but it really did not go down that way. Sadam did have WMDs (killed is own Curds with gas) and this was presented to to our Congress and the President. Yes, he recommended taking him out (sadam and we did) they said they did not find any WMD but as of late right before we left, there was a whole bunch found over there and then there was a bunch found by the ISIS. Yes, it may have been bad but we are talking 15 years laying there. Also he was good friends with Assad in Syria. Some say that before we invaded Iraq (because it was all over the news about the WMDs) Sadam moved a lot of the WMDs to Syria. We do know that Assad does have WMDs.
The war bombed known enemy positions with surgical precision. However, that precision is null and void if the enemy uses the innocents as sheilds and that is what Sadams forces did. The people of Iraq actually helped us know who the enemy was toward the end. They knew we were there not there to occupy (ISIS) but rather to help rebuild their country. Unfortunately, time run out for GWB and the Far Left Liberals took over.OBAMA! He immediately pulled out of Iraq because it was a political promise and the rest is history. Had we left a contingent of say 10,000 soldiers there, ISIS would not exist to the levels it enjoys today. Look back to the days after WWII. With the exception of Japan, there were warring fractions still active in Europe and they had to be taken care of. In fact, we are still there. Do you really want us to move out???????? Putin is counting on it.
I guess we are the scourge of the planet. But,,,,,,,,who do you come to when you want something? IN fact this whole scenario reminds me of the days/years before WWII where the countries of Europe were very liberal and let Hilter gain power even though they had just got out of WWI. I think they even signed a peace accord with Hitler. Did not your prior PM to Churchhill sit and do nothing while Poland was invaded. And then we have the US who administration was so liberal they would not think of helping oout. In fact, when the reports of the Jewish slaughter, they looked the other day. If the Japanese had not attacked us, we would have let Hitler take over without ever looking back. PH 1941, D-Day 1944. No we did not win the war but when we did enter it shifted the power back to Europe side.
If you are going to fight a war, fight it with as much aggressiveness as the enemy and get it over with and hope you can regain you soul afterwards.
Have a good day Colin
Blade