| What defines the Bush Presidency, many critics say | | | | agents, and he initiated funding for the electronic |
| things like a failed war, failure after Katrina, or the | | | | fence and also cargo container searches. Still illegal |
| dismissing of our freedoms and liberties, but those | | | | aliens marched in the streets of America's biggest |
| are folks on the far-left and they are wrong on all | | | | city during a communist holiday; Mayday. Gee, who |
| counts. But let's look at a couple of highly negative | | | | do you think organized that one? It wasn't the |
| comments that folks on the left like to complain | | | | Republicans. |
| about shall we? | | | | On the issues of free trade, global trade; this is not |
| Not long ago, a critic of the Bush Administration and | | | | what is hurting our manufacturing base, as these job |
| general left-leaning political activist stated: "Bush | | | | losses are caused by over regulations, and too many |
| sought amnesty for illegal aliens and backs the | | | | lawsuits from too many lawyers. Also from labor |
| free-trade globalism that exported our manufacturing | | | | unions demanding far too much and more than the |
| base and 3 million to 4 million jobs." | | | | company can afford. |
| The illegal alien issue is a serious and complex problem | | | | That's why I do not accept the left view that |
| and the reality is we could not round up all the illegal | | | | NAFTA or free trade is what is the killing American |
| aliens and kick them out of the country even if we | | | | jobs. If we are going to sell all the way around the |
| wanted to, and there must be 30 million of them and | | | | world then we are going to have to compete all the |
| the thought that there's only 12 million illegal aliens is | | | | way around the world. Trade promotes peace like no |
| complete nonsense because those figures have been | | | | other, history proves it. Please consider these issues |
| used for over 20 years. So it's not as simple as | | | | carefully before judgment, and as far as the Iraq |
| people would like it to believe. | | | | War? His policies prevailed, he just wasn't in office |
| Additionally President Bush put 12,000 border patrol | | | | long enough to get the credit for it. |