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CrabCake
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« on: July 19, 2015, 02:32:24 PM » |
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One of the most inept, idiotic and out of place presidents ever to grace the office. In every conceivable measure the man was a failure. Debts and deficits blew out with unsustainable tax cuts and cooperate handouts. The few domestic "sweeping legislation" passed, like Medicare Part D and NCLB, were monsterous boondoggles. Mediocre and sometimes despicable people were promoted far beyond their ability, leading to various departments and agencies (the EPA, interior, FEMA, the justice department, much of the pentagon etc) becoming essentially moribund and dysfunctional. Remember "Brownie"? Remember the succession of non-entity AG's rubberstamping indefensible practices? Even the very last period of office was one of failure, with Paulsen and his team mistepping all over the place throughout the economic crisis.
Perhaps worst of all (and most indicative of the chaos in general) was the hideous botching and mismanagement of the dual wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even if you think these were worthwhile wars, the manner in which they were conducted created enormous debt, two sprawling quagmires that now border on human catastrophes and undermined any general goodwill the world had towards the U.S. for generations. The fact is Bush and team should have recognised that people like Tommy Franks were failing, and instead chose to sweep the issue under the carpet for years - even as the Taliban and rebels rang rings round the scandal-plagued invasion forces in both theatres; even as Rumsfeld sent out soldiers to die in hick armour; even as Bremer threw the baby out with the Ba'ath water, and condemned Iraq to be a a failed, ungovernable state for decades to come etc.
Aside from AIDS in Africa, I can't think of a single issue that the Bush admin will be remembered even remotely positive for. His failures continue to shame the U.S. Really I haven't even scratched the scandal, idiocy and incompetence that will define bush Jr and his team to future historians. It just needs to be said that, even with the benefit of very little time to mull over the precise implications of his misrule; it is abundantly clear that Dubya is among the worst leaders in American history and a textbook example of a man fundamentally incapable of holding executive power.
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