“Dubya made it safer for us all...”
“No, he didn’t.”
Yes he did.
He put the jihadists back on their heels and deep into their caves. W showed that these bloody, loud, sabre rattlers will turn and run for their lives when confronted with determined force. No more 9-11’s after that. A major contribution W made among lots of screw ups was he did make America safer in showing by action, not just words, that “Freedom will defend itself.”
You’re dreaming. I understand that it seems more pleasant, but you’re dreaming.
W couldn’t even bring Bin Laden to justice. It took freaking *Obama* to do that, which shows how pathetic his response really was.
From personally running and hiding on the day to telling Americans that our contribution to the War on Terror was to keep on shopping to bungling the war in Iraq, he was an absolute disaster. If only we had had a real conservative in office when it happened.
Look, I do get it. But we have to be consistent. If the exact same response came from a guy who had a (D) after his name (and considering how feckless it was, it seems perfectly plausible that we’d have seen the exact same response from a guy who had a (D) after his name), then we’d be ripping him to shreds.
I’m not willing to give W a pass just because I voted for him.