Bush's Policies-Key Events
Personally I think that we should stop spending money on war because obviousally war doesn't really help because there will always be one country that doesn't like another one and we are always the ones that go in and try to help them out when we really don't have the money for it. I think we should spend money on trying to get homeless people off the streets because it makes us look bad, if we didn't spend so much money in wars I don't think we would have to pay anywhere near $20 trillion in debt by 2019 because war is just making us go under more and more.
George W. Bush's policies did not drive the federal deficits of the decade in November 2001 he had asked his Secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld to start coming up with a plan for war. By 2002 he began publicly pressing for regime change meaning that his government had reason to believe that the Iraqi government were tied to some terrorist groups and that they were developing weapons of destruction and they did not cooperate sufficiently with the UNs weapons inspectors. January 2003 he was convinced that diplomacy was not working like he thought it would so he started notifying allies like Saudi Arabia that war was imminent.
Although no agreement was used to authorize it, force could be found within the UN Security Council the war was launched in March 2003, after he in a speech on March 17 effectively declared war on Iraq along with a declaration of his objectives as assuring national security with the United States and no more poison factories, no more executions of dissidents, no more torture chambers and rape rooms.
Bush increased foreign aid by 65 percent from 2002 to 2006 also he made foreign affairs as a interpersonal leadership not knowledge, but the fact remains that the economic downturn because of his tax cuts and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq explain the entire deficit over the following ten years, if it wasn't for his tax cuts the deficit-financed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the effects of the worst recession since the great depression we would not be having to face these huge deficits in the near term. If you think about it, his tax cuts and the wars will account for pretty much half of the $20 trillion in debt that the nation will owe by 2019. The stimulus law and financial rescues will account for less than 10 percent of the debt at that time.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_George_W._Bush_administration#Iraq
http://www.ontheissues.org/george_w__bush.htm
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Well done!!