Great argument. “ There would have been a great invasion of USA by all those shooting at americans in Iraq if we hadn't invaded. ” Few or no countries have the lawlessness and and total anarchy that your hero created in Iraq under “winning the WOT” There is no way you can equate the mess we had to fix after creating in Iraq to some alternative future we might have had. Nothing could have been worse than that. That is why GWB thew away approval ratings in 90s for 20s and a big part of Pelosi Obama's wins.
RE “ Nonsense! The recession that Bush inherited ENDED on his and the GOP’s watch, in spite of that other mess left by the previous administration, Bin Laden. Besides, the housing crash occurred because of policies the Democrats supported. Even if the GOP failed to act against some of their reckless ideas, that doesn't clear the Democrats. ”
Those "heads I win tails you lose "arguments can be used by democrats swapping party names to excuse their future failure, and more effectively too. Because Clinton left the economy in a much, much better shape than GWB left it for democrats, which benefits democats. If republicans have all three branchs don't expect to win elections by blaming democrats for their own inaction.
These all sound like Hannity arguments
It doesn't surprise me that you completely evaded the point of my comments, which was that if Clinton had taken care of AQ when he could have, there would have been no 9/11 and no WOT.
As to whether AQ would have come over here to attack us, isn't that what happened on 9/11? And isn't that what was thwarted at Ft. Dix?
Oh, and that is Americans, with a capitol A.
Those "heads I win tails you lose "arguments can be used by democrats swapping party names to excuse their future failure, and more effectively too. Because Clinton left the economy in a much, much better shape than GWB left it for democrats, which benefits democats. If republicans have all three branchs don't expect to win elections by blaming democrats for their own inaction.
Clinton left the country heading into a recession from the tech bubble burst. The GOP WH and Congress took over that economy and left Pelosi with DJA 14,000+ and unemployment at 4.5% in 2006. It is Pelosi and company, who with control of the Congress have control of the purse strings, that have left the incoming administration with DJA 9000 and unemployment at 7.2% and climbing. If the economy doesn't turn around, those numbers will speak for themselves.