The President had been in office for a mere eight months when our country was attacked on September 11, 2001. Previous administrations on BOTH sides of the aisle had ample opportunity to deal with the threat of Islamic terrorism and chose to do nothing in the face of attack after attack; it was President Bush who finally said "enough" and had the testicular fortitude to do what needed to be done, even when he KNEW it would be "unpopular". I've disagreed with the President on many issues, but as far as terrorism is concerned: BUSH WAS RIGHT!
The fact of bush lying about the intelligence regarding 9/11 and WMD is well documented. In fact several books by insiders at the White House has been published on the subject. If you are able to ignore any truth that conflicts with your love of the 43rd president that is certainly your personal delusion and I would not want to interfere.
Are you implying that Bush and Cheney did not distort the available intelligence information? Did you miss the NIE that was declassfied a year ago? Miss Richard Clarke's book? Scott McClellan? Are you living in a bunker?
This "Bush lied, people died" business is absolute nonsense. If you believe that President Bush lied about Saddam's threat of WMDs in Iraq, then so did President Clinton, Secretary of State Madeline Albright, National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, Senators Carl Levin (D-MI), Tom Daschle (D-SD), John Kerry (D-MA), John McCain (R-AZ), Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) with a host of other Senators, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), British Prime Minister Tony Blair and just about every intelligence-gathering agency on the planet, who went on record saying exactly the same thing AS EARLY AS 1998, a full THREE YEARS before President Bush ever took office. Read much?
To say that our troops (who VOLUNTEERED to serve in the war on terrorism) went off to fight for a lie dishonors them tremendously. Because of their efforts and their sacrifice, they have brought about the demise of a brutal dictatorship and helped put in its place a freely elected government, forced a rogue nation (Libya) to hand over its nuclear weapons, changed the entire face of the middle east and brought about an overall decline in terrorism worldwide. Probably the first time in recent memory that the government got a good return on the taxpayers' investment.
I guess soon you'll start blaming everything on Obama. Good Luck. America has moved on from the partisan silliness.
I think you're a little confused, there, Johnny-boy. It's you sufferers of Bush Derangement Syndrome who like to play the partisan blame game.
Regards,
Scott Perry
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