I liked him- seemd savvy and relatively fair.
“seemd savvy and relatively fair”
All kidding aside SE Mom...he’s a politician, and without “going there”, I’ll dance around the idea that he is/has been a damn traitor as well.
That was the same perception shown in polls taken in Iraq during his tenure. The Iraqi people weren't starry-eyed about him - they just knew and acknowledged what was needed during the difficult times ahead.
When the histories are written the tragic irony of this whole sorry episode will be that while the Iraqi people and the American people understood and were willing to do what was necessary, they were both betrayed and undone by their own corrupt and incompetent leadership.
Supposedly he went into a police station and personally executed six captured alqueda. That story may have been apocryphal, but I liked it.