Here are a few of George W. Bush's major catastrophes:
1. He has kept us safe from domestic terrorist attacks since Sept. 11.
2. Bush's USA Patriot Act removed the walls that Attorney General Janet Reno imposed between the CIA and FBI, which prevented sharing of information.
3. He made major improvements to the intelligence community, improvements that are now being reversed by the Democratic Congress. These changes have allowed the CIA, FBI, and military intelligence agencies to put about 5,000 terrorists out of business.
These are successes the media rarely reports. The primary reason for these successes is the use against terrorists of the same wire-tapping capability that is used to monitor organized crime.
4. He defeated Saddam's regime, which used WMDs to kill more than 300,000 of his own citizens.
5. He has turned a Middle East powder keg into a strong ally.
6. He initiated the No Child Left Behind Act, resulting in reading scores rising nationwide and, in some areas, cutting in half the gap between white and black students.
7. Until the Democratic Congress took over two years ago, the unemployment rate was far better than during the entire Clinton administration, and the deficit remained
Had it not been for the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Charles Schumer, Charles Rangel, Harry Reid, John Dingell, Henry Waxman, Chris Dodd, et al., and Bill Clinton's "Fair Housing Act," not only would the economy not be in trouble, but it would be the best since before the collapse of the dot-com era.
This is in spite of the costs of recovering from Sept. 11 and the Iraq war.
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Joseph Sucha
Spotsylvania