Posted on 04/24/2013 7:44:18 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Dallas (CNN) -- George W. Bush is a proud new grandfather and fascinated by his unlikely new hobby: painting.
But some things haven't changed a bit: the trademark smirk when he is amused, a squinty glare when he doesn't appreciate the question -- and a quick turn to humor when the conversation turns to "legacy," including the scars of Iraq or the cloud of Katrina.
"History will ultimately judge the decisions that were made for Iraq and I'm just not going to be around to see the final verdict," the two-term president told CNN in a wide-ranging interview.
"In other words, I'll be dead."
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Agree. I give him a good grade on handling terrorism and a fail on domestic vigilence. His biggest, big big mistake was establishing the DHS which brought us the TSA. This basically was the tacit surrender to world Islamic terrorists.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304192704577406612351805018.html
How can anyone buy into that Arab Spring BS? You are correct that GWBush did and does. He remains incorrigible on amnesty for illegals and nation building for insane Muslims
His wife is even more lovey dovey liberal but she was a fine and classy 1st Lady unlike Hillary and The Wookie
LOL.
Wasn't I just reading here that the Saudis and Kuwaitis picked up the billions for the invasion? Otherwise, it was money we "invested" mostly to ourselves.
I didn't get much response when I wrote that Giuliani would have been a better choice against The Won. "Just sayin'"
they fought an all out war with Richard Nixon.
Well that was justified. Bashing Ford and Bush was not. Nixon was so dumb for not destroying those tapes. He was absolutely the most arrogant President we ever had (even more than Obama who would have destroyed those tapes if he had any).
You forgot “puppet.”
STFU GWB!!!
Can you imagine if we hadn't butted in?
Saddam was an evil dictator, but he was a secular evil dictator who kept both the Iranis and also Al-Qaeda in check -- both these hated him
Saddam killed off the most fanatical Irani shias
Saddam also threatened Saudi Arabia
If we hadn't butted in, Saddam in 1999 would be anti-AlQaeda and also would have used the money he got from invading Kuwait to invade and dismember Iran.
The Saudis would be spending money to pay him off, so less for AlQ and the TAliban
Also, Osama's excuse for 9/11 was that we had infidel soldiers on the Holy land of Saudi Arabia
Nixon at least had the dignity to resign before he was impeached unlike the guy who wants to be “First Man” in 2017.
more, Pakistan should have been carved up
Bush #1 gave us Clinton, Bush #2 gave us Obama, I hope we never find out what Bush #3 will give us.
Out of the gate in his first term he put real money back into my pocket in the form of tax cuts and credits.
He opened up a very large can of Whoop-Ass on Afghanistan and Iraq and smashed the organized fighting forces there in short order, showing the world that the U.S. can’t be sucker punched without someone going down hard, bracketing Iran and Syria with significant forces, and creating a magnet for terrorists far from our shores.
He deployed a multilayered strategic missile defense system.
He banned partial birth abortion.
That’s just four off the top of my head. I’ve come to believe that GWB was a lot more Reaganesque than most people give him credit for in that he talked a solid conservative talk, and in his heart I think held to those principles, but was willing to compromise in order to get his agenda implemented.
Yes George W. Bush will be remembered as one of the great Presidents in U.S. history.
If I was GWB’s teacher, I would give him a C-. However, in comparison to our current POTUS, Obama makes Bush look like Churchill. I find it simply incredible that Bush’s popularity rating is about the same as Obama’s. The Progressives must be having major heartburn over this.
Roland Arnal was the Godfather of Subprime, the owner of Ameriquest — and W’s Ambassador to the Netherlands
Yep
>>And for what?
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=Petrodollar+Iran+Oil+Bourse
Imagine the sub-prime implosion occurring in the context of that.
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