The Calcutta Times of India article posted by Dianavan:

"He was the first president who actually believed and was fully committed to the right-wing extremism of the Republican Party."

Opinion

"These included freedom of oil exploration in environmentally fragile areas, preventing action that the rest of the world was agreed upon to mitigate climate change,"

Excuse me!! "preventing action that the rest of the world was agreed upon to mitigate climate change," This coming from India??? who along with the USA and China are the world's major poluters, the Calcutta Times of India fails to mention that their Government also did not sign up for the totally ineffectual Kyoto Agreement. Rather like the pot calling the kettle black.

"...securing oil supplies for an import-dependent US by gaining control over oil-rich countries in the Arab world,"

Now I have asked before for ANYONE to show anybody on this forum exactly how the import-dependent US has gained control over ANY oil rich country in the Arab world - so far NOBODY has - the US gets very little of it's considerable oil imports each month from the middle east - Fact, a bit inconvenient I know but true none-the -less, accept it and live with it, but please don't keep trotting it out - that dog just doesn't hunt.

"...implementing tax reductions without reducing government expenditures"

Puts more money into the US economy, which oddly enough ain't doing so bad.

"..and abandoning the process of international consultations on matters of world importance."

Ask the people of Rwanda and Darfur exactly how effective the process of international consultations are on matters relating to their survival, never mind world importance, which at the moment seems to revolve around China securing the oil it needs - apparently China is allowed to do this without the slightest mention, but the US is not.

"He ignored the United Nations."

See above re actual effectiveness of the UN, GWB was right so to do. The United Nations is a corrupt broken reed that needs fixing and needs fixing badly.

"His policies did not have general national or international support."

He won two elections, the second of which was based entirely upon his policies with respect to the safety and security of the United States of America, the Calcutta Times of India seems to have forgotten that. The MNF that went into Iraq was formed of a coalition of a larger number of countries than participated in Desert Storm, another thing that the Calcutta Times of India seems to have forgotten, or omitted to mention - do they have any obligation to present fact in their reporting? -seems not.


"He was determined to avenge the humiliation of the US by the new Iran, cutting its close ties with the US."

This does not make sense at all, does it to anybody else?

"He wanted to kill Saddam Hussein, to avenge an attempted assassination of his father by Hussein."

Regime change in Iraq became official US foreign policy under the Clinton Administration in 1998 - that is a matter of record. It had abosultely nothing whatsoever to do with GWB. The calcutta Times of India's contention is complete and utter twaddle.