- Toppled a murderous regime in Iraq
Had to wait until Obama to get Bin Laden
The FBI doing their damn job before 9/11 would have prevented 9/11
It dropped the most under Obama
So much for state's rights.
So strict constructionists that they threw out a century old Montana campaign finance law.
The national debt increased by several trillion thanks to him
Hear that giant sucking sound?
No, the best Republican President, Clinton, signed that into law.
I know in liberal fantasy land, Obama = Jesus and Bush = The Devil, but reality is a very different place.
First of all, in the years after Saddam Hussein was toppled, Iraq became a functioning young democracy that still faced some challenge. For five years, we saw a reduction in violence there and people were clearly better off without Saddam Hussein in power. President Obama's decision to not leave residual forces behind in Iraq has led to a very dangerous situation there today.
Secondly, without the infrastructure put in place when Bush was President, we would not have gotten OBL. Obama deserves credit for ordering the mission, but Bush gets credit for rebuilding our military and having a presence in the region.
The reason illegal immigration has seen it's largest reductions under Obama is because President Bush doubled border patrol agents between 2004 and 2010.
Partial-birth abortion is essentially murder no matter how you put it, period.
The McCain-Feingold campaign finance laws and those like it may be well intended, but they result in a violation of the first amendment.
President Bush increased the national debt by $5 trillion over 8 years, compared with $8 trillion over 6 years and 7 months under this President.
President Bush 41 signed NAFTA into law, President Clinton implemented NAFTA. Both deserve credit.
dudeabides. What does that mean? I suppose it means that you're a dude who'll abide any Bush Family narrative put out there.
We shouldn't have been in Iraq. We went into Iraq under false pretenses for reasons only the Bush Family can answer. Iraq never attacked us, never had anything to do with 9/11 or Bin Laden, and while Saddam Hussein was vile, there have been, and will continue to be, a stable of world leaders who are equally vile that we will tolerate because it is in our interest to do so.
I remember watching focus group responses during the 2008 campaign. The issue that got the strongest responses were those on Iraq, and all of them were strongly anti-war. The American people felt they'd been had, and they had been had. And they'd been had by George W. Bush, and they blamed him for the mess in Iraq, because he was the one who lied to them about why we were going in there. THAT was the reason the GOP was so rousingly defeated in 2008; the financial crisis had hit, but its full effects hadn't been felt yet.
"Bush Lied - People Died" is more than a slogan. It's a fact. And the result, geopolitically, isn't great, and it has nothing to do with Obama. It has a lot to do with the fact that the Iraqi people themselves aren't committed to their "nation"; it's all about tribalism and religious sectarianism over there (something the repressive Saddam Hussein regime kept a lid on).
I don't mind if you're a staffer for Jeb, or for the Bush Family. But if you are, at least provide us with a disclaimer. Of course, that would be transparency and fairness, and that's not very Bush-like.
