Posted on 03/21/2013 12:04:24 PM PDT by neverdem
That’s a loose thought process. If not Iraq, the media would have gotten Bush another way. Iraq was 5-6 years old before Bush really lost his footing. Events like Katrina and Valerie Plame were the hot issues that got public opinion over the edge....’culture of corruption’, etc. that was the central them in 2006. Additionally, if health care wasn’t passed in 2010, it would have been at some point in the next decade when they had the opening.
I supported the Iraq war... I was wrong.
Just as Carter gave us Reagan, GWB gave us Obama.
The GOP lost the Congress in 2006 because of three corrupt Congressmen and a string of bad GOP Senate candidates.
That is one main reason why I don’t want Jeb Bush as President. Good God can you imagine how bad that President would be after Jeb? George HW Bush gave us Clinton and George W Bush gave us Obama.....Sheesh after Jeb it could be the chick from Mass...forgot her name.
The war was good right and productive. The refusal to defend it is a symptom conservative fickle defenses.
Couple that with the compliant media, and you got Obamacare. The Iraq War had little to do with it.
Yes we all know. All the evils of the world can be laid at the feet of Bush. This is axiomatic, we don’t need 2000 words of bs to repeat it.
Elizabeth Warren?
Similar to what is going on now with the "lets get government out of the marriage business" nonsense.
Got Toe Fungus? Bush’s Fault!
Thank you.
Too many Freepers are willing to capitulate.
I agree with you and I still support it today.
As far as I'm concerned, there was a bigger picture involved that has never been discussed and rightfully so.
We now have military bases and air strips established in Iraq which are likely abandoned right now, but readily accessible if the need arises. We also have approved air space over that country.
If and when a true war breaks out in the middle east, which I firmly believe will happen, Iraq and all we have built there will be an invaluable staging ground for whatever action is necessary on our part......
And Denny Hastert being out for himself, sending up budgets that were fat and GWB not have the conhones to veto one to send him a message..
Hastert was a hotter mess than anyone will admit here IMHO...
Oh yeah. That’s “her” name.
But leaving health care out of the picture, the GOP got into such straits because of the "double whammy." It wasn't just the economy (and the deficits and Katrina) that turned a lot of people against Bush. If the high-profile Obamacons of 2008 are any indication, Iraq was as important.
You could argue that Bush's listlessness and inability to speak up for his policies had more to do with the economic crisis, and that the slump was more important to the average citizen, but for some traditional Republican voters Iraq was where the disaffection started.
Nuts.
The Democrats, MSM Liars, Saddam Hussein, and the Communist Chinese were able to knock down Bush's credibility by playing "keep away" with the MSM's, which were moved by the Russians to Syria in a big airlift before allied forces crossed the berm.
Saddam destroyed the calutrons and other equipment from his nuclear development program, but kept that a state secret: He wanted the world to go on thinking he was working on bioweapons and nuclear weapons.
By not chasing the weapons into Syria and giving the Ba'athists a sanctuary in Syria, Bush gave the Ba'athists, Iranians, and Democrats a weapon to use against him: No WMD's (false) equals "Bush lied, people died." (When was the last time anyone said that to Walter Duranty and Izzy Stone and the rest of our Red Chorus in the 40's?)
Bush's advisors stopped one move short in the WMD chase, and so told the Syrians and Russians it was okay to hide Saddam's materials and equipment.
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In Bush's second term, Bill Clinton, James Carville, La. Sen. Mary Landrieu, and Gov. Kathleen Blanco set a political snare for Bush by keeping FEMA out of Louisiana during "Katrina" using Blanco's constitutional power to exclude the Feds, and the MSM did their part by blaming Bush for what Blanco and Landreiu had done. Bush had asked Blanco to let FEMA set up shop days before Hurricane "Katrina" arrived; Blanco said no, on the advice of The Man Behind the Curtain, who was running his wife for President.
THAT is what happened to Bush's second term. Hurricane "Slick".
Which goes back to Karl Rove's constant advice to Bush, never to reply to critics. I don't know where Rove gets that, and some people on FR have begun to wonder if Rove isn't working for the destruction of the GOP. If he isn't some sort of closet case trying to destroy America, conservatism, morality, and the GOP in no particular order, to advance some secretly-hostile agenda. I don't blame them. How destructive could Rove's advice possibly be, and not make people wonder?
AND Bush 41 inflicted the Clinton(s) on us.
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