G W was a disaster. His invasion of Iraq radically destabilized the Middle East. Iraq under Saddam was an enemy of Iran, and Saddam had his boot on the jihadis in his country. Iraq after we invaded was taken over by Shiite allies of Iran, and the jihadis were freed to go on a Christian killing-spree.
At home W was a wild deficit spender and government-grower. left us with the worst economic reversal since 1929-1932. There were even fears of bank runs in late 2008. If you liked Herbert Hoover, G W was your guy. W also tried to ram amnesty down our throats, and his open borders policy belied his talk about a war on terror
Yet Jeb says this catastrophic president - his brother - did a great job. That massive show of bad judgment by Jeb is why nobody is supporting him (other than GOPe)
Notice that Trump leads even though (or partly because?) he calls W a disaster and says we only helped Iran by invading Iraq
The justification for spending (or rather, borrowing) $1 trillion and losing 4500 American lives,to turn Iraq over to the Shiites (and make it an ally of Iran) is insanity.
Insanity is allowing the Muslim Terrorists to go on the offensive and attack us on home turf. 9/11 cost us almost 3,000 lives in one morning. The NYMEX was closed for about 1 week. The Pentagon partially destroyed. Air traffic completely halted for how many days? The US economy came to an almost complete stop. How many hundreds of billions did we lose in one morning? Crap, you are talking about years of war In Iraq that cost (tragically) 4,600 lives. Most Americans get that. But you don't which makes you what?
And those are the facts, Jack.
So, your answer to Iraq would have been what?
We had Iraq under control and on the way to becoming an Arab democracy if Barry hadn’t f’d up the status of forces agreement and told the jihadists exactly how long they had to wait before destabilizing the country.
In addition, it’s always fun to hear someone parrot the dem talking points about how Saddam kept the whack jobs in check. He paid the families of suicide bombers, had terrorist training camps in Iraq, and had used chemical weapons against his own people. You think he would have hesitated to sell some to bin Laden?
Not only that, but, your argument is akin to saying, “well, that Hitler fellow sure did keep Europe quiet, and Stalin, well there weren’t many problems with the Russian mob back then.
I agree with you on GW’ s domestic politics, he stunk, but we also controlled both houses of congress so there’s a lot of blame to go around there.
Still, at the end of the day, had we not nominated the worst possible candidate to run against Mr Hopey Changey, the middle east would look a lot different today.
As for your complete misunderstanding of the financial crisis, you can thank Carter and Clintoon for distorting the free market with the Community Reinvestment Act and not reigning in Fannie and Freddie.
HE wasn’t perfect, but, if you were even old enough to vote in 2000, I’m sure hope that Al Gore bumper sticker peeled right off of your Subaru.