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I don't quite get why they hate Bush so much, he's really closer to
a
conservative Democrat than a conservative Republican.

This is a truly incredible statement. Bush is the most right-wing
president in over 100 years.


You are saying he is more conservtive than Reagan??

Yes. Domestically, Bush proposed privatization of Social Security,

It needs to be done soon.

the largest federal program, while Reagan increased Social Security
taxes in what was the largest tax increase in American history until
that time. Bush also has partially privatized Medicare.

And stolen another issue from the Dems. You need to understand that if they
don't get privatized they are going to bankrupt us.

There was
nothing comparable to the 1100 page Patiot Act under Reagan.

It's all been done before under FDR.

Reagan
also appointed Anthony Kennedy, who wrote one of the most important
decisions for gay rights, Romer v. Evans, and Sandra Day O'Connor, who
has consistently supported Roe v. Wade.

Nobody ever knows how a Supreme Court Justice will vote.

Reagan did favor prayer in
schools, but Bush has proposed diverting public school money to
parochial schools, and public support of other religious institutions
through the Office of Faith Based Initiatives.

Because he wants the money to go where it works best. The teachers unions
don't want any change because they know they will suffer by comparison.

Their tax cuts have
been similar, although Bush's are larger.

Only as a total number of dollars. As a % they are tiny.


The unilateral, unprovoked invasion of Iraq, for sheer scale, is
without parallel in American history since James Polk invaded Mexico.

It was not unprovked, or unilateral.

Reagan did mount a lot of covert operations, but the ideological
embrace of American global superiority based on military power, as
embodied in the 2002 National Security Strategy, has no precedent at
any time in U.S. history.

Your forgetiing Clinton.

Reagan also negotiated a number of
international arms control agreements and generally stressed
negotiation, while Bush has unilaterally withdrawn from many
treaties--the ABM treaty,

Because there was no more USSR with whom the treaty was made. The Kyoto
accord has nothing to do with Bush, the Senate rejected it.

the Kyoto Protocol, the ICC--and been
contemptuous of diplomacy, the UN, and other countries.


because the UN has become totally impotent.