I always resented the left’s meme about W being dumb. I’m afraid to say in retrospect they may have had a point.
You gave me a good belly laugh with that one!
However, I will see your “dumb” and raise you “evil.”
To close one’s eyes to the destruction Islam and its followers (and NOT its “high-jackers,” Mr Bush!) wreaked on our country while this man was in office, and for him to run cover for them during that time in office by inviting representatives of Muslim-Brotherhood-connected CAIR to the White House, instituting an annual Eid-el-Fitr dinner in the same location, and — this takes the cake — promulgating the meme that Islam is “a religion of peace.” The damage he has caused thereby has been incalculable, and simply furthered exponentially by the current “undocumented” curiously Muslim-like occupant of the White House.
People have said that Bush “prepared the way” for Obama. That would make him John the Baptist to Obama’s “Messiah.” The fact that both of these chief executives have a “thing” for Muslim, Islam, and — in a sickening way — for the biggest exporter of Wahhabist and/or Salafist imams in the world — the venal, corrupt, female-oppressing, Christian- and Jew-hating, “Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”
Do a word-search on GWB’s article to which this piece links: I was unable to find a *single* occurrence of any of the following words: “Islam,” “Muslim,” “Brotherhood” (as in “Muslim”), “jihad,” or “sharia/shari’a” (as in “Law”).
Nothing like ignoring the elephant in the room, GWB!
This omission of the primary factors driving the “Arab Spring” is telling. It shows that — in his world view — GWB is a liberal, on the one hand, by denying the obvious (and ugly and deleterious) role that Islam plays in all that occurs in the region (see the State Department’s fantasy about attempting to “nation build” in a benighted hell-hole such as Afghanistan, where the “crime” of attending school is likely to get a pretty young girl a vial of acid thrown in her face), but — more importantly — it shows that GWB’s world-view is fundamentally NON-Christian, just as Obama’s is. While Obama is far more radical, Muslim, and evil than Bush, that does not relief Bush of the responsibility for his misjudgments and poor decisions that were born out of his faulty world view.
One more thing: Not only did GWB run cover for Islam and Saudi Arabia following the 9/11 attacks, it is clear to me that — with this article — GWB is actually running cover for Obama’s reckless and egregiously dangerous “contributions” to the Arab Spring — from throwing Mubarak overboard, to allowing Qaddafi to fall into the hands of thugs who sodomized and killed him without the benefit of a trial, to giving an entree to the Muslim Brotherhood in each of the countries that has experienced turmoil in that region in the past year: Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and — in the very near future, it would appear — Jordan.
Bush, therefore, and Obama are, at root, more similar than they are different, both being committed secular-minded globalists/internationalists.
My suspicion is that history will properly place Bush at a low ranking in history — just above Carter, who will be just above Obama.
Oh, did I mention that GWB made Karl Rove his chief political advisor and Colin Powell and Condi Rice his two Secretaries of State? Case closed.
“I always resented the left’s meme about W being dumb. I’m afraid to say in retrospect they may have had a point.”
It took one op ed almost 3 YEARS since that clown has been out of office for you to come to that conclusion? Were you paying attention when he was in power? Plenty of clues to his stupidity then.