US Presidents: The 21st Century Edition – Part 1 (George W. Bush)

"There’s an old saying in Tennessee—I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, ‘Fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.’"

                                      —43^rd US President, George W. Bush (2002)

I turned 18 in 2001 and by the time held my computerized national identification card in my hands, George W. Bush had taken over the office of President of the United States of America.

Not only was Mr. Bush the first American president when I officially became an adult, but was also US’ first chief executive in the 21^st century and what a way to hurl into a new millennium for World’s super power.

The intellect that Mr. W has could not have brought more prosperity to the country in eight years than any other president.

He was not only an intellectual but a psychic as well. Without much substantial evidence, he knew Osama Bin Laden was hiding in Afghanistan, out of all the places in the world, in Afghanistan—a country that was already living through its own miseries.

Then he envisaged the Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. Saddam Hussein managed to build WMD after Iraq war when ‘majority of the population could not afford an Asprin’, at least that’s what we heard on American channels. However, his stance had always
been to build a new Iraq and get the Iraqi population out of the tyrant clutches of Hussein.

May be Mr. Bush thought in his thick Southern pidgin: “Wyell, eif Steve Jobs cyan mayke eiy Paud (iPod), wha canyt eiy mayke eiy Rack (Iraq).”

Which in simple English means: “Well, if Steve Jobs can make iPod, why can’t I make Iraq.”

He launched a war on Iraq in order to bring ‘peace’ to the country. Well, it looks more like a piece of him to the country.

He once addressed the terrorists in such a way some American started to rethink whether he is the right person to be their leader.

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

The decisions he made in his two terms have raised the war debt to a whopping $5 Trillion in the last one decade. Perhaps in his psychic mode he forecasted the 2008 situation back in 2004 when he said:

"I’m telling you, there’s an enemy that would like to attack America, Americans, again. There just is. That’s the reality of the world. And I wish him all the very best."

Bush has a ‘businessman’s eye’ as well. He was once discussing the French economic decline and was bestowing his business acumen on UK’s then-Prime Minister, Tony Blair in 2002, when this uttered. "The problem with the French is that they don’t have a word
for entrepreneur."

Well, maybe he skipped the Freshman English class in high school but entrepreneurship is a French word.

And when it comes to educational reforms, no one can supersede His Excellency’s insight in the crucial matter although he himself seems to find it hard to comprehend a language, for example, English.

He once gave thought to a notion a long hour and ‘sayd’: "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"

Well, if this was the man the Americans could find out of a population of 300 million to lead them not once but twice, then way to go people. I guess that’s the ‘American Way’.

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Posted by Usman Khalid on Dec 12 2011. Filed under Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry