Dissing Bush's is a candidate's job when running against a whiney Bush who's trying to ride on his brother's coattails. It's Jeb who keeps bringing his family into the mix for exactly this reason, that some will view Trump as attacking the Bush family instead of attacking Jeb's strategy. Typical politician crap that I thought we might be getting past.
And flying around trying to keep him under wraps led to Islamic Kook outrage about us in the so-called Holy Land of Saudi Arabia (not our holy land, theirs). Thus the first World Trade Center bombing, Khobar Towers, Nairobi and Tanzania bombings, many more here and there, and finally 9/11...
At that point Dubya had no choice. You don't mess with the US.
However, after it was over, it was the nation building crap, the Islam is the Religion Of Peace nonsense that wore me down. And the democrats played Bush on this for political gains, the bastards. While Bush and Powell instituted it (Powell's "You break it, you own it" dictum), the dems would have screamed bloody outrage if we just walked away and left behind chaos and a vacuum Iran could walk into, even though, 5 years later, that was exactly what Obama did.
Religion of Peace. SPIT! Islam is WHY Bin Laden attacked us. Leaders of Muslim nations can be our friends but their religion calls us all INFIDELS, and their Holy Book DEMANDS they make war on us. Let us call a spade a spade.
After the disaster of (post-Saddam) Iraq, Libya, Egypt and Syria, I realized that brutally strong but weakly Muslim dictators are NEEDED in these countries to keep the rabid religionists on a tight leash.
We should have just replaced Saddam with an equally mean dictator, but one that was OUR dog.
TIL--Things I Learned--about Middle East Secular Tyrants.