The details of what you describe are rather accurate but they involved a lot of individuals who are not named George W. Bush.
Bush largely did the right thing by standing strong with military force to back better decision making in Iraq and the larger region.
Remember that the radical anti American Left was committed to making sure that we don’t have permanent bases in either Afghanistan and Iraq. That is because they know that the antiAmerican fantasies they seek cannot win in a world where we can regularly assess and kill our enemies. We need those bases today. We cannot have them because ISIS and Michael Moore are agreed about what the world should look like.
Ironically Bin Laden was right— the world looks to the man on the Strong horse.
Bush was the strong man. Obama is the weak man and that is exactly what the anti americans want— both here at home and abroad. Obama and his advisers have deliberately conveyed a message of confusion and weakness. They have helped the Muslim Brotherhood and other Arab supremacists in the region.
We all would do well to stop pretending Bush is the enemy. He really is not.
I sadly would give Obama a third term if 80 percent of Americans would finally realize how stupid all this BDS is. If the Left and the Right want to agree that Bush was the problem — go ahead. I won’t be traveling that road with you.
I will sadly simply wait for the next attack that blows that stupid theory out of the water.
And again I don’t fault anyone who wants to be more strong or direct than Bush. I am not going to pretend that Bush is the worst. He is quite far from the worst and much much much much better than President Obama.