It would have been good for 4000 plus dead Americans and thousands of wounded and for our nation if Bush had never quit. He would not have been president and not have presided over the most corrupt, immoral and illegal administration in US history. Iraq never would have happened and the recession emanating from it would not have occurred. People would have their limbs who now have none and sight would be given back to the now blind. Iraq is Bush's war. It is Bush who will have to, as he puts it, "walk on his knees" to ask that higher power for forgiveness as only that power has the power to give.

This law is a good thing for the US. It attempts to get people struggling with addiction some needed help. Unfortunatly the Bush bashers are trying to turn this ugly. I thought the liberal leaning people want to help people and give second chances. I guess it is only for the people you like.

Good for your Bush, unlike Obama who was using drugs not too long ago, still smokes and hides the fact he does, and who knows if he still using drugs or not you were at least honest and you gained my respect. GOD BLESS YOU MR PRESIDENT AND GOD BLESS THE USA

Mark, we do not know what McNasty is taking ot was taking. But we call your reaction towards Obama a character assassination, low class politics not dignifying at all. Both Bush and Obama have recognised and accepted that at certain point in time in their lives they have made errors, you have to find that courageous and noble, not everybody can do that noble gesture and use that past painful experience to teach others and help others. God bless America, God bless Obama. OBAMA08.

I sincerely believe he's been hitting the bottle --off and on --over the past 7 years.

It about time that Bush did something that human. I suppose his conscience must really be getting to him. After millions of people lives have been ruin from having the disease of addicition, there appears to be a light at the end of the tunnel. It has been a long time coming but at least the offers perhaps an opportunity to the countless young men,women and children who have been affected by this disease to be able to have something to look forward to. When Pres. Bush was running for his first term in office, he admitted that 'he made mistakes when he was young
but people deserved a second chance" speaking of him self of course. I said that certainly but with all of the privileges that he grew up with surely some one who is less fortunate than he deserved at least two second chances. Yet it took him seven and half long years before he chose to do something. Better late than never.

It is so embarrassing when W. Bush speaks publicly. He can't seem to articulate a simple sentence. Maybe he's a dry drunk who has gone back to Cocaine.
Wasn't that his drug of choice? J. Goodwin

It is so embarrassing when W. Bush speaks publicly. He can't seem to articulate a simple sentence. Maybe he's a dry drunk who has gone back to Cocaine.
Wasn't that his drug of choice? J. Goodwin

All this does is heap tons of cash on forced 12 step religios witchcraft groups with dead-end Goodwill clothes sorting crap. There is NO JOB TRAINING. Look it up, Absolutely no real training, just forced religion, rotten food bank discards, mats on the filthy floor and slave labor.. Another complete failure.

I was in the Jericho Program and it was all church, work for no pay, and brainwashing Jesus will save me. I don't drink or use drugs but they said I need to be redeemed. Well, I got my conviction overturned 3 months ago due to someone else found with the stolen items I was convicted for. That place said I was in denial. I never did anything and my life was destroyed. Whats with this I'm in denial, I never did anything. This is a scam.

This program is all about the evangelical Christian conversion. That has never in the history of the world helped anyone.

Can journalists not press Bush on
the issue of his use of alcohol/drugs
in the past and in the present? Probably
not, to answer my own question, because
of 1) the press is tame, 2)Bush himself
has created the climate, 3) the public
doesn't care. Yea, American Democracy!

Bush a good Christian? Yes, we are re-living the crusades... killing in the name of God. The world would be better off had he kept drinking.

Bush hates America..He loves the Saudi's and their OIL..

I'd cry in public too if I sobered up and saw that I sent a young man to his death for daddies oil business..... and now we've finally found a way to throw money to religious organizations.... isn't America a great place? Take from the taxpayers and give to those who pay nothing...........

I think that Bush has become a better President since his brain left(Karl Rove).

I also think that maybe he is not a monster or a criminal. He's a guy that did not have any real experience. As the Gov of Texas one of his favorite tactics was to watch the bills coming through the house and when it looked like one was coming through...he would call a press conference and pretend like it was his idea.

Even his driving record was hidden in Texas...he controlled the press pretty effectively. Bush did not have true policies he had puppeteers which he deferred to...

In order to beat Gore he ran a centrist campaign and the first thing he did was start a rigid conservative purge when he got in office...He claimed to be one thing (Centrist) and his record did not reflect it.

Don't be blinded by Obama...look at his record...He really did vote yes on a handgun control bill (he usually just voted present) and now he's running around claiming he was never for gun control...there was even a pesky position statement that he signed and then forgot about from his IL days.

On every single issue you will see Obama has been careful to appear on both sides of an issue. And to top it off all of his policies and positions in this campaign are not things he has championed in the past...they were all developed from Edwards and Clinton...he took their positions then took the teeth out of them...like healthcare with universal taken out.

It'll will be interesting to see how critical you clowns will be of your Obamessiah. You people are so incredibly short sided and naive. You believe this punk Senator who has spent most of his political life running for office promising an Escalade for every driveway. He is an idiot lawyer that talks like a MLK/ used car salesman and you dimwits are buying into it. Enjoy it while it last because he will destroy your childish little party.

Anyone who thinks Bush is a good Christian, a good president, or a good man is a complete and total idiot. Do us all a favor and DON'T VOTE.

So, Bush's message is this: sober up, cash in on your daddy's connections, and instead of ruining your own life, you get to ruin a all kinds of countries including your own, their economies, the livlihoods of millions of their inhabitants... but wait, there's more: As a bonus for not drinking or snorting, you also get to ruin the entire global environment! With all the fun that can be had doing all this ruining, what's a couple thousand war dead?

Years from now, we will find out that this failure of a president was drunk through his entire administration. He acts like a drunk and talks like a drunk. No one can say or do the absurd things he does unless he is deficient or wasted. Wasn't he a Harvard graduate? I guess if you are Bush with a lot of money, any school will let you graduate, regardless of your personal abilities. A total drunk, just wait...

AFTER READING THESE COMMENTS, THIS ELECTION IS SIMPLY THE GOP AGAINST THE PUNKS.

All drunks...dry or wet..get maudlin. Especially if they have recently been secretly imbibing. If I were Bush my conscience would have been hurting a long, long time ago. I bet he is hanging on by his toenails and counting the minutes until he can run off to Paraguay, his already bought and paid for hide out. ( No extradition policy with the USA, don't you know !) The Crawford Ranch may not be the safest place, and I think he is aware of that.
I'd shed Blood, not just tears, if I were responsible for the deaths and maiming of several million innocent human beings...and all for nothing but profit and power for myself and my greedy friends and Corporations.
Too bad he did not stay a falling down drunk. I am sure that the world would have been a hell of a lot better off than with him pretending to be sober and turning our world into a hell on earth.

So when he was toasting with Putin he was drinking grape juice? If he is drinking again, which would explain much of his current behavior, then I would think the press would know about it. Which means if he is, the press isn't saying. Either way, I think that a President who admits to a drinking problem severe enough that he needed help to quit, should be required to take regular blood tests to determine the alcohol level in his blood.

I'm not sure whom all has seen the photos all over the web, but I've seen photos and videos of bush with a beer, drunk, etc..

Not sure if they are legitimate, but with how this country has been ran for 8 years one would wonder what buzz the guy has been on. Impeach both the president and vice president for treason. And no, there is no one else running worth anything except Ron Paul, and the elites are just not going to let that happen.

"All this does is heap tons of cash on forced 12 step religios witchcraft groups with dead-end Goodwill clothes sorting crap."

Purely 12-Step organizations I am familiar with do NOT espouse any particular "God" as being required for recovery. Drinking / drugging is not the problem. Loss of control and over reliance on self is. Since you can fix a me problem with more me, connection to power outside of self is all that is required. It works for millions, including atheists and agnostics.

Religious groups who contend that belief in a particular God is required for recovery from addiction speak for themselves, NOT all 12-Step programs. Probably not God either...

This is a man who will get away with stunning crimes against our Constitution and humanity (hundreds of thousands, perhaps a million people, died as a consequence of "the decider" insisting on the invasion of Iraq. Millions more have fled out of Iraq. We are all to sadly aware of our casualty list). Nobody in this country really cares that the greatest crime in our history was just pulled off nor do they have the energy to lift a finger to at least put him on a fair trial for it. Nobody cares that his post presidency will be the greatest permanent vacation all of us can even imagine. Not only will he get away with it, he will personally profit immensely once he leaves office giving speeches and all that other nonsense that is nothing more than legal mafia "thanks for putting forth our special interests". His post-presidency will be filled with sunshine, peace, immersed in nature, traveling in first class wherever he wants to go, catered to daily any need he has, wealth, relaxation, the good life from here on out. I don't believe for a second he is haunted by anything nor will he be. He will have left behind human carnage but he himself will not see that. I believe within a decade he will be worth about $100 million and will have led a life we all only dream of (a shangra-la existence that but a miniscule number of people get to experience on this planet). That is how justice works on earth for people like George Bush. They get away with horrific crimes against innocent people and they never have to pay for it for a second (Henry Kissinger is the best American example I can think of off the top of my head as leading a great life after wreaking havoc that resulted in the deaths of millions of innocent people). If there is an afterlife as Bush believes in, I genuinely would feel terror for him as he might be in the category of believers that Jesus warned when they stepped before him expecting complete acceptance and unimaginable love: "I don't know you.". We are may or may not be changed but if we are...then who I am to judge anyone? But if there is the judgement that Bush expects, he may not be given the judgement he expects. His could be an unimaginable terror and darkness...forever. Jesus said he will be harsh only to those who believed in him yet did horrible things to innocent people in His name. If atheists are right? George Bush will not only have gotten away with setting a genocide of innocent people in motion along with sending thousands of Americans to their death or crippling status (physically/emotionally), he will have profited supremely from it all and enjoyed a life unimagined by us mere mortals. As John McCain might say: "That, my friends, is just how it is". And we should all apologize to God, if we believe, since we too were part of it all if we did not publicly speak out against it in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008. I only participated in the online dialogue against war and in personal conversation. So, "Forgive me, Lord. Have mercy on me."

I'm no expert, but i think one of the 12 steps is accepting there is a higher power. there are programs out there with the religion turned down, but the vast majority of the popular ones (i.e AA) are certainly based around a "christian god." that is not a values judgement, but a simple truth.

but my big question is: When will people stop believing Bush???? Bill Clinton got tore apart for lying about what happened under his desk. Bush's lies started at least one war, killed thousands of americans, decimated our economy (see US dollar), and made all his buddies super-rich.

If you voted for him once, i guess i understand. Ok, if you voted for twice, I may have gotten over that by now.....but what possible reason do you have to believe still???? He is either completely incompetent of a bold faced lying thief. You decide.

As long as we send drug users to jail the problem will never be solved.

It's a nice sentiment to help them get their lives together after they get out, but unfortunately it is usually too late by then.

Why do people who use drugs go to jail? I know it's against the law, so I guess I wonder why it's against the law.

If people want to abuse drugs that's their business. The government should be more worried about real crime.

Why don't we imprison anyone who hurts their bodies? Boxers, football players, mixed martial artists, pro wrestlers. Anyone of those professions causes just as much damage to the body as does drug use.

Drug use should carry a stigma. However it should not be considered criminal. Small minds...

I have been trained on AODA issues. L have learned from personal and professional experienc that you don't "just get up and quit". America has had a dry drunk in the White House since 2000. Look as his behavior, lies, denial, failure to accept responsibility for his actions, mercurial changes of personality.
I hope America makes out with some options to repair the damage this one man has done to us, our reputation in the world community and our military.

Too bad he didn't stay on the bottle, would've never be president and we'd all be better off.

It's funny that you guys go spouting off things about how all of these soldiers have died because of Bush. What you don't know (because you're ignorant), is that MORE SOLDIERS DIED DURING THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION than during the current administration, and we weren't at war at the time. What do you have to say about that??? Clinton sucked, and had no morals. I'm so glad you guys know for sure what Bush is like, and what he's doing. It's amazing you can tell all of that from your computer.
Give me a break!

Clearly there is a big difference between "quitting drinking" and RECOVERING from the disease of alcoholism/addiction. Very few people understand this disease or how to combat it in the most effective way. Almost everybody is affected by it on some level.
Getting outside help is a start. That is what this bill is about right? Helping people turn their lives around.

I think Bush is not a good president as well as not a good man.
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