So Bush was doing America First in Iraq (#2), while rolling out the welcome mat for illegals and islamists to come here?
Yet, all the traditional America firsters, in many cases paleocons like me, wanted the exact opposite of Bush (and later, Bushbama).
Was Bush America first? I think he went to Iraq because Saddam tried to kill his Daddy, not to further American interests. This would have come through as securing a forward operating base in Iraq, and to ensure the free flow of oil. Bush did not of that.
Bush shared the neocon belief that democracy can be exported at gun point. A lot of us did before realizing that Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is not shared by all cultures. Islam does not want democracy. That is the flaw of Bush and neoconservatism.