The Good in President Bush, I would like to know... Options

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I've read many debates regarding George Bush and John Kerry. Unlike Bush, Kerry never had a chance to prove himself as a president and show the American people how he could help this country and its people. George Bush had almost 4 years now to make a difference, and in my opinion any difference he made was make our country worse than it was before. I just don't understand why people like Bush. I really don't. I've heard unrational reasons, such as "He is a Christian" and "He is a strong leader", but I have not heard any REAL reasons on why Bush is a good person/president. So pleeease... someone tell me why so many people out there like Bush.

I would like non war related reasons, because i am against the war and therefore I will disagree with almost any reason given regarding the war.
For example: if you say you like Bush because he caught Saddam Hussein, my reply would be that he had no probable cause to go after Hussein. Even if he saw him as a threat, Bush had no proof or real intelligence to have reasons to bomb Suddam's country and capture him. I also don't believe in pre-emptive attacks. I think they are extremely hypocritical and destructive.

So if anyone has any input on how Bush improved our economy, environment, societal problems, scientific and technological advances, or anything along those lines please let me know.

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there's a lot of comments I want to reply to... or put my 2 cents in but i'm not trying to write anymore 5 paragraph essays so i'm just gonna reply to this one:

Seeing how I don't know much about science and politics, hopefully you'll explain to me why Bush is an obstacle to the stem cell research.

The reason Bush is hindering stem cell research is due to the fact he is against abortion. Although Stem cells can be taken from different parts of the body, such as your bone marrow, these cells are not as effective as the cells taken from a zygote, or embryo (fertilized egg). When a sperm fertilizes an egg and the cells start to divide, there are certain phases that the zygote goes through. When the cell gets to a cell count of 32, then the individual cells can be taken for research. These cells are special because they are undifferentiated, meaning that they can become ANY cell in the body. So you can manipulate each single cell to become whatever you want, a blood cell, liver cell, brain cell, etc etc. The stem cells taken from the bone marrow can only be used as bone marrow cells.... get what I'm saying? So since Bush is against abortion, he thinks that using these stems cells from the zygote is killing a life. However, most of these embryos are taken from fertilization centers, where people fertilize their eggs and freeze it until they decide they want it. When people don't want it, they usually send it for research. So i don't see what else they could do with the egg that would not be considered "killing" it. It all boils down to when you consider taking a life would be-- If you think it's once the sperm fertilizes an egg and is just a couple cells, or if you think it's when the egg becomes developed enough to form a shape of a human, with a heart and such. All I know is that the reason our life expectancy is so high and our quality of life is much improved since the past is mostly due to the advances of science and technology. If we ever want a cure for cancer, alzheimer's, parkinson's, or other diseases stem cell research is our best bet.

Bush has allowed research for only 60 existing stem cell lines. He disregarded about 100,000 embryos available for research in fertility labs across the country.