Dead Certain: the autobiography of our simplistic ex-president - Page 2 - New England Patriots Forums

***Patters*** · 11-30-2010, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by PATSNUTme

OK,so what's the problem?

The article points out how shallow the presidents reasoning is. To make a major decision like that based almost solely on emotional issues is superficial. Bush lacked the ability to reason. Even if you were going to use torture, you might ask What's the best torture? What are the consequences? What is the evidence that it will work? What will be the reaction from our enemies? Will it put our troops at greater risk? And so on. What the review seems to say is that Bush just sort of made decisions off the cuff. No wonder we're still cleaning up his mess.

***PATSNUTme*** · 12-01-2010, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Patters

The article points out how shallow the presidents reasoning is. To make a major decision like that based almost solely on emotional issues is superficial. Bush lacked the ability to reason. Even if you were going to use torture, you might ask What's the best torture?This got the desired results. What are the consequences? What is the evidence that it will work? What will be the reaction from our enemies?Maybe they will water board instead of cutting off fingers and heads. Will it put our troops at greater risk? NO. And so on. What the review seems to say is that Bush just sort of made decisions off the cuff. No wonder we're still cleaning up his mess.

Perhaps he did not consider our method of water boarding torture? Our Navy Seal go through that in training. We don't torture our own troops.

He rejected 2 other methods that shows he was thinking. He never went to law school, like most Dem politicians, but had a degree from Yale and an MBA from Harvard. So not quite the dummie that the left wants to paint him.

I have disagreed with him on several issues. He stayed with Rumsfeld way too long in Iraq, for example. But on the water boarding issue I think it was fine.