who makes the US foreign policy?

[nampigai]

a simple question, is it Bush who think he has a brain or is it people standing in the shadows?

[Anathema]

It's his advisors. Or better said, those who write the scrips.

[nampigai]

IMO I don't see Bush as very intelligent, that's just my opinion. But the Bush Doctrine looks a little bit like something Wolfowitz wrote.

[Anathema]

Bush isn't smart; he isn't an imbecile, either. He's about average, if a little less (his grades really are representative of a lack in pretty much everywhere). But the man is not what matters- in the end, he doesn't make the calls, he doesn't plan these things. That's manifestly obvious in his complete failure to demonstrate he understands what he's talking about with his domestic and non-Iraq-related foreign policies. He's just there for charisma- he's the cowboy president, the proletarian monkey of the smart people. His State of the Union showed the world what he's good at- it was a dramatic, emotional speech when he had half a clue what he was going on about, or cared (namely, Iraq)- add some dramatic music and you've got a Hollywood president. However,that was only for a little bit- notice how badly he sucked during, say, anything else. Even he must have realized he was being patronized when he got a standing ovation for every piece of propogandic drivel he stumbled over.

[zamboe]

Who makes the US foreing policy ?

The wrong people.

There are brilliant experts in US, the entire world miss them.

[Edric O]

Can you say "Puppet Emperor"? ;)

[Davidu]

Bush is the best example that there is something wrong with the US. It is obvious that he is controlled. I wonder what will be the end of this transformation that's taking place in the US?

[nemafakei]

The US is proudly capitalist; as such, it is Bush's investors who run things.

I wonder when the political parties will float themselves on the stock market?

[Caid Ivik]

It's the Republican Party. Believing in conspiration theories is a non-sense. Also don't say that Bush is unintelligent. Just media show him like it.

[nampigai]

then in my eyes they are doing a good job, when ever he speaks without a prepared speach he sound unintelligent. To me it looks like mr. Rumsfeld and mr. Wolfowitz are controling him.