Much of your concerns are good points or things to be worried about, but they have very little to do with Bush himself.
-What people do to people protesting the war is not the fault of the president.
-The dip in the economy was starting at the end of Clinton's 2nd term, right now we have just passed the apex of a bear market, assuming that people maintain confidence in the economic system it will come back up over the next 3 years, whether or not Bush is the next president.
-When it comes to the national economy the president has very little direct control over it. A president can only manipulate taxes and the federal budget. It's sort of like trying to make something float in a different direction by pushing waves at it.
-Had Enron never happened in the first place we wouldn't have started an economic decline. Why Enron happened is a complicated matter including a lot of people in the IRS and if someone wanted to assign presidential blame it would be Clintcn (although he was a decent president by many standards).
-This government let 9/11 happen hasn't ever been proved and I haven't seen enough evidence to believe it myself. AND even if it did happen it had nothing to do with Bush, he hadn't been in office that long, everything that happens in the government isn't the president's fault.
-School systems weren't improved, but literally every single candidate for president over the last 2 decades has said he would improve the educational standards, and noone ever has. Anything a president claims he can do during his term is bogus, he has to write bills and watch them go through congress just the same as anyone else.
On many of your concerns it boils down to congress. How many people in congress benefit from this war? Tons, most of them have stock in oil. Take a look at the public tax records of many members of congress, particularly the senate, they are very.... interesting. Bush paid nearly 50% of his annual income in taxes this last year, Cheney made 2x as much and paid nearly the same amount.
On a side note:
Out of all members in the government Cheney is the one who should be watched and blamed, didn't Haliburton just get exposed for illegal tax practices? Wasn't Cheney an executive of Haliburton before this? Isn't Haliburton related to oil?
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