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thebesig 0 points ago +1 / -1

George Bush assumed the presidency in January 2001. The terrorist attacks occurred that following September.

No, the wars that he started were not disastrous. Sarin, mustard, and blister agents were used against coalition forces in Iraq during the duration of that war. All three are chemical agents, hence WMD. Understand that WMDs consists of chemical, biological, and nuclear agents. As a Trump supporter, I highly disagree with President Trump with regards to the importance and justifications for going into Iraq. Had we not gone into Iraq, Afghanistan would've been bloodier and we would've pulled out possibly before Obama's first term began. I would be glad to generate a post explaining my argument in detail.

Additionally, WMDs were not the only reason for our going into Iraq. President Bush advanced other justifications, which included the need to extend western style freedoms to the region... Hence Operation Iraqi Freedom. President Bush's explanation for the war on terror in general, and the Iraq War, fall under the umbrella of unrestricted/asymmetrical warfare.

No, Bush did not give us Barack Obama. It was an uneducated, low information population that was easily manipulated by leftist causes that voted Obama in. Before there was "Trump Derangement Syndrome", there was "Bush Derangement Syndrome."

It was hatred against a republican president, combined with anti Bush media propaganda... Which fooled enough low information voters into blaming Bush for something that was decades in the making... That gave us Obama.

I've been a news junkie since 1982. I've seen the mainstream media's anti conservative pattern repeat itself throughout the years. Had it not been for social media, Hillary Clinton would've blown Donald Trump out of the water due to the mainstream media's actively peddling anti conservative propaganda.

I'm an Iraq War Veteran, a retired Soldier. There is a lot of information, too much information, about the Iraq War that the public did not get. No, it was not disastrous. We won that war, militarily, with a straight cut victory. It was Obama's policies that darn near eroded that victory into a political defeat... Like how Democrats turned a military victory into a political defeat for Vietnam.

Although I disagree with Bush's anti Trump actions now, that will not dismiss the fact that his decision to invade Iraq was a damned good decision. I say that from 40 years of following history related topics and almost 38 years of being a news junkie.