Okay. Maybe Bush deserved to be a punching bag. I get that. But I have to defend Dubya. He was great after 9/11. Iraq was a bold move. Saddam was a SOB. He had to go. Maybe we should had given power to somebody in Ba’athist Party. Iraq would be a military dictatorship similar to Egypt today. Anyway, Bush didn’t do anything radical like Obamacare or New Green Deal. We can thank him for that.
Disagree. Iraq was a scam and too many of our wonderful citizens died in that war. It was not necessary and most ME dictators are a-holes; we don’t need to die to rid the world of a-holes because it’s an impossible task.
My research at the time led me to believe we should go to war in Iraq. But I now see my research sources were all biased. I didn’t have a real picture. If I am honest, the lefties against the war were more right than we were, even if for the wrong reasons. (It wasn’t blood for oil; it was blood for a globalist oligarchy.)
Bottom line, Busch lied. Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11. And his Wars beginning and Iraq has made the country less safe.
Bush was too weak on terrorists. That is why we are still dealing with it today. He should have nuked Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq. Maybe nuke Syria as well.
That way the USA would have a perfect record of nuking anyone who attacks our home land.
Bush is directly responsible for the Student loan mess. In the 2005 Bankruptcy reform law Bush eliminated being able to discharge student loans via bankruptcy as a favor to his donor Alfred Lord, CEO of Sallie Mae. Because of this, creditworthiness of borrower went out the window and anyone wanting to go to college received a student loan. Then if they default on the loans, the taxpayer, i.e. you and I, pays the holder of the loan. This has created a gravy train of people who don’t belong in college going to college or trade school or some of the other “schools” advertised on late night TV, i.e. chef,art design, et al. They receive useless degrees but keep a constant flow of students going to these institutions. And when they can’t find work and default on these loans the taxpayer foots the bill. The government can then go after the defaulter, that costs the taxpayers more expense in legal and collections fees, plus the defaulter may not be able to ever pay back the loan or it may takes year to pay it back. Time is money and as inflation destroys the value of money the taxpayers, in essence lose.
Yes, Bush was a better choice than Kerry or Gore, but they all just show the type of scoundrels that are politicians. The type of people that make used car salesmen respectable.
Bush was gutless.
He waited around for consensus on Saddam while the WMD’s were moved overland into Syria right under our noses.
So what if Saddam was a jerk, not our problem.
Where shrub really failed was two-fold...he took the political capital given to him by Republican voters and used it to push for cheap labor for his crony friends at the country club and most alarmingly stole the 4th amendment from all Americans.
I walked my district for the man in 2000 & 2004 and got to shake his hand during a CA stop...should have thrown eggs.
Still bitter about that betrayal.
We took out one strongman and then took his place ourselves. We weren't prepared for the consequences. And it has destroyed the lives of too many of our own and those of countless others in that region.
He handed the future of the public school system to Ted Kennedy.
Pushed amnesty.
TARP
Medicare Part D
Patriot ACT
No Child Left Behind
Reckless spending
Undeclared Wars
Foreign aid/Money for AIDS africa
Obvious immigration failures