“But Bush did a great and noble thing in overthrowing Saddam and his attempt to bring democracy to a Mideast tyranny is one of the finest acts of US foreign policy ever. And despite the false starts and wasted months before the arrival of Petraus, Bush has won his Iraq war with a historically low number of US casualties.”
The country did not agree with your appraisal. History shows that the majority of Americans do NOT like to have to go to war.
Leading up to our entry into WWII the GOP opposed our entry. The majority of Americans opposed entry, until Pearl Harbor.
Vietnam was unpopular, and hurt both parties-Johnson, and then Ford.
Taken in that light, Bush made a blunder. There were alternatives.
The blunder opened the door for the dems who recognize America’s dislike of wars.
What I just wrote will not go down well here, but “here” is not at all representative of the whole country.
Plus going to unpopular war peels off the Ron Paul and Chuck Hagel factions of the GOP.
Iraq and the economic meltdown doomed any GOP candidates this time. On the economy: Bush and the GOP led budget busting, failed to head off the mortgage excesses, and therefore get blamed.
While the mortgage housing bubble had seeds going back decades, Bush people did nothing, even when any sane person could see the writing on the wall.
Bush took credit for his administration attaining record levels of home ownership, when his advisors knew or should have known it was built on a pending crisis.
Bush is a good man, but left his party with a lot of repair to be done. I disagree with those who predict history will one day judge him well.
We sent our children of to fight and die, and kill to preserve our rights to eat pizza and pretend the world was not at war.
From my perspective, the blood and steel was raining from the sky every week in this town as the Jihadi blew up school buses and movie theaters. And that did not stop UNTIL AMERICA went to war! I have not heard a bomb here in Jerusalem for over two years. Get the picture, before the war was entered by America, I heard the bombs and screams in this city, from my bedroom window.
If Bush had not sent America to War, you could have heard the bombs and screams of the victims like me from your bedroom window.
It is a sound you never forget. Not having those memorys is a privilege that you have that I no longer have, and it was purchased by our kids listening to that sound so you do not have to.
NEVER FORGET, FREEDOM IS NOT FREE.
I will always salute George Bush for what he did for America and the world. He bought us 8 more years. And now, seeing the MSM foam at the mouth at Sarah, and do every thing in their considerable power to throw this election, I understand that Bush has been painted in quite a different color than he actually is.
Bush is a hero, and I believe that history will show him as such. And I am just as guilty as anyone here in Bush bashing, if you take a look at my posts.
God Bless Bush, and God Bless America. Both will spend the rest of their lives with the result of their decisions.
It is hard to love Dad, when he is spanking you. But at least we know we are the ones that voted God out and Marxism in.
We chose Humanism as our god, History will show us the foolishness of that decision rather quickly. Evil man kick um when they are down. Obama, like Hitler will move very fast to consolidate power once he gets in the door.