[Vaquero]

Bush did lie.....he had every chance to hunt down and kill bin laden but decide to exorcise daddy’s Iraqi demons, which was a lot easier with a nation and a capital instead of vast mountainous wilderness. Nothing liberal about the truth. In doing so he destabilized the region.

[Psalm 73]

Stop it.
Every western intelligence agency thought Iraq had WMD, even the Democrats voted to allow W to enforce the UN resolutions by force.
Were things mis-handled after the take-down? Sure, but was rectified with The Surge. This was a swamp that had been all but drained - until Obozo broke the levys.

"Bush Lied, People Died" is so far below the integrity of a Freeper, but surely not below Trump.

[stratboy]

I agree with that assessment. Bush went into Iraq under the pretense that they had WMDs. He never made a connection between 9/11 and the involvement of Iraq.

Once he got the permission to invade Iraq, he never defended his initial assertion. He has remained silent of this assertion to date. Day after day the rats beat him up on this issue, while he did absolutely nothing to defend himself. He tarnished the republican name bad enough that it stacked the deck against McCain (not saying that McCain would win without this, but it didn't help). And yes, it created a vacuum in the middle east which ISIS was more than glad to fill.

[PUGACHEV]

I agree. Sometimes the truth is not what you want to hear. For years I have defended the war, but I must admit now that Trump is right.