I miss, George W Bush

[larwdem]

That's how fucked up this country is now.

[mr715]

1. No you don't. nt

[Ocelot II]

2. I can't say that I actually miss him, but he'd be an improvement over whatever the fuck this is.

[NJCher]

51. Republicans put

Horror movie producers to shame in coming up with new and improved morally depraved characters for roles as “president.”

[Chasstev365]

3. Nope!

Have you forgotten how incompetent he was? How he too favored the rich? How he lied us into war?

[PatSeg]

5. And GW Bush and many in his administration

laid the foundation for someone like Trump. Bush bent or broke a lot of the rules, often without being held accountable and that showed others what was possible. Trump managed to take it to the next level and beyond.

[Chasstev365]

18. Totally Agree! Rove blowing off a Congressional subpoena

[PatSeg]

40. It was all so much worse

than we tend to remember. The many lies used as an excuse to invade Iraq and the obscene amount of money that flowed into that country, much of which was never accounted for. Then there was Dick Cheney who outed a CIA operative out of petty revenge. Who can forget the Abu Ghraib torture prison or Guantanamo Bay?

Of course, there were the many judicial appointments that still affect us today, especially the Supreme Court justices.

[Jilly_in_VA]

14. Incompetent is better than cruel

I'd rather have an idiot who knows he's an idiot than an asshole who thinks he's God.

I do not, however, miss Darth Cheney.

[Dave Bowman]

4. I miss Obama. Badly.

[CTyankee]

12. Me, too. I deeply grieve him and Michelle and how wonderful it was when they occupied the WH.

Just beautiful people...

[Solly Mack]

6. Sure thing. I mean, there are days when I prefer a Ted Bundy to a Sam Little. Like, who doesn't?

[dalton99a]

7. That idiot was a scholar and a gentleman compared to the evil monster

[Jilly_in_VA]

15. He knows it when he hears it

and knows an asshole when he sees one. You can bet Shitler will not be at HIS funeral!

[BlueTsunami2018]

8. Yes, I pine for the days of a war criminal who destroyed civil liberties and the economy.

Salad days they were.

You’ve got to be kidding.

I don’t miss any of them.

[walkingman]

9. Discounting George W Bush's disgusting actions during his Presidency,

he left a legacy of corruption at the State Level in Texas - his minions...Greg Abbott, Rick Perry, John Cornyn, Ted Cruz, and Ken Paxton to name just a few were all part of his Texas Governor administration. This state has never been the same and not sure it ever will.

I am beginning to think Trump is even worse but still living with Bush's legacy and it sucks.

[leftstreet]

10. We need Nixon back

That's how bad things are

[Jilly_in_VA]

16. Nixon, at least

sort of accepted democracy, and he knew when he was beaten. That's why he resigned. Catch Shitler cdoing THAT!

[Lulu KC]

21. Thanks for LOL

He knew his limits, though rather late!

[Initech]

11. At least the Bush administration was somewhat grounded in reality.

As opposed to this mentally deranged fuckwad and his ass kissing goons.

[dalton99a]

13. +1. Bush and Cheney did not destroy American society and institutions

Their destruction was mostly outside the United States

[La Coliniere]

17. Not missed and should be in prison for war crimes

and lying to the American people about “weapons of mass destruction”. He and Cheney have so much blood on their hands and are responsible for dismantling civil liberties and the unnecessary deaths of thousands. Fuck that guy.

[Jilly_in_VA]

29. That was 100% Darth Cheney speaking

Bush wan't smart enough to pull that one off by himself.

[Dawson Leery]

19. Proto-Trump.

[SamKnause]

20. If he would have been impeached, charged, and prosecuted for starting an illegal war

we wouldn't be in this mess.

Looking forwards and not backwards has not worked out well.

[Skittles]

27. THANK YOU

yes INDEED

[leftstreet]

30. +1

[BadgerKid]

22. Remember, he joked "As long as I am the dictator"?

GOP, MAGA, and RW nutjobs alike really just want a dictator.

[gulliver]

23. Dubya is Trump's political father

Gore might have prevented 911. Dubya was warned and did nothing. When he finally did something, attacking Iraq, it was possibly the dumbest thing (and most damaging thing to our country) ever done by a President.

[Skittles]

25. nope

he and Cheney were evil pieces of shit too

[bif]

26. I'll bet the 100,000 dead Iraqis don't.

[Skittles]

41. plenty of dead and disabled Americans, too

Approximately 4,492 U.S. servicemembers were killed in the Iraq War from its beginning in 2003 until the official withdrawal in 2011. The total number of U.S. military personnel who died in the post-9/11 wars, including Iraq, is over 7,053.

[Emile]

28. A guy that lied us into a twenty year war.

I don't miss any republican m

[marble falls]

32. Crazy, isn't it.

[Skittles]

42. what is crazy

is thinking ANYTHING makes that warmongering POS Dubya look "better"

[DaBronx]

33. And Dick Cheney

Awful times

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

34. George was sort of ok, but I don't miss President Cheney

[Jspur]

35. George W Bush was the first president in my lifetime that I truly hated

. He became president right when when I was 17 and half years old as a senior in highschool. I couldn't vote that year he ran but I could clearly tell he was an idiot and reminded me of all the affluent privileged smug kids I went to highschool with. I wanted Gore to win but unfortunately Bush got away with cheating in Florida due to the Supreme Court ruling in his favor.

Little did I know the worst was to come as a freshly 18 year old freshman in college when it came to Bush. For those of you who don't know I'm a US born Indian guy whose parents are from India. My ethnicity is Punjabi and I have been mistaken on many occasions of being middle eastern with the way I look. 9/11 happened and afterwards my college experience sucked since I had to deal with a lot of dumb angry racist shit heads who thought I was a terrorist due to my appearance. That was annoying to deal with and Bush made it worse with his stupid war on terror propaganda which pretty much painted all brown skin people as the enemy.

On top of that I made many enemies on campus for speaking out against Bush's war on terror and the laws he enacted such as the patriot act. That truly was not a fun time in my life when it should have been. College is suppose to be fun but for me I never look back on it on fondness due to the nonsense Bush put me through.

[MustLoveBeagles]

37. I'm sorry you went through that

People suck sometimes.

[Omnipresent]

36. I don't remember Dubya losing his composure and giving anyone the middle finger.

Come to think of it, non of the past Presidents ever had as thin a skin as trump.

[Blue Owl]

38. Say what you will about George W. Bush

But NO president in our history has ever sought to overturn the principles of democracy anywhere close to the extent of Donald tRump.

The Bushes, Reagan, Nixon, and predecessors laid some groundwork but tRump has escalated exponentially and gone full-blown dictator on behalf of Vladimir Putin (by way of Paul Manafort and Felix Sater) and the billionaire class (by way of Elon Musk and the late Jeff Epstein), destroying our democracy from within.

IMPEACH HIM NOW and throw his fat pedophile ass in JAIL where he belongs.

[Skittles]

43. you know, except for lying their way into a war

[Kid Berwyn]

39. Bush and his ancestors and chums are to blame for the NAZI mess we're in now.

DU from 2007:

Know your BFEE: Spawn of Wall Street and the Third Reich

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=872755

[H2O Man]

44. Thank you.

I do not miss the war in Iraq. So I cannot in any way relate to missing him. He is a war criminal.

[Kid Berwyn]

45. You're welcome. So's his old man.

Poppy Doc Bush lied America into Gulf War 1.



Anyone remember when Bush lied America into war on Iraq?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10026202003

When the nation refused to rally behind the George Herbert Walker Bush rationale for war on Iraq — “It’s not the oil, it’s WMDs” (the first time)!, the money trumps peace swells trotted out a “young Kuwaiti OB nurse,” who testified to Congress that she saw Saddam Hussein’s troops enter her hospital in Kuwait City and empty the incubators full of babies onto “the cold, hard floor” and then roll the incubators out the door and up the road to Baghdad, swear to Goodness. It was all a lie, as she, in reality, was the Kuwaiti Ambassador to Washington’s 15-year old daughter. Didn’t matter as Congress authorized war to restore the Kuwaiti royal family.

Of course… Poppy and Capitalism’s Invisible Army lied Saddam into making war in the first place.

Gulf War 1 -- April Glaspie Gives Green Light

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2748315&mesg_id=2753417

[H2O Man]

47. Wow!

I was just talking about that little "perception management" skit on another forum this afternoon!

[Kaleva]

49. Averell Harriman Was a prominent D with close ties to FDR and JFK

He was Prescott Bush’s mentor.

[Kid Berwyn]

54. Absolutely. Then there's the Prescott's paw, Samuel Prescott Bush.

From a DU thread more than 2 decades old...

Know your BFEE: Merchants of Death

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3743890



The links from above may be on the fritz, but still yield usable content via the Waybac from Internet Archive...

https://web.archive.org/

[Blasphemer]

46. I don't miss him. I miss people like McCain, Dole, and Kemp. nt

[EnergizedLib]

48. I miss certain childhood/teenage memories

Many of which happened to occur during his time in the White House.

I'm not sure I miss him, just that someone outdid him in the absolute worst way - something I couldn't have fathomed 20 years ago.

[Polybius]

50. You are free to miss him

I sure don't.

[no_hypocrisy]

52. You kidding?

Like Trump, he was a figurehead.

Darth Cheney was calling the shots.

Karl Rove was consolidating power and putting AL Gov. Don Siegelman in jail.

He sent American troops into Afghanistan and Iraq only because former leaders "tried to kill my Daddy".

Trump doesn't negate Bush II and make him benign.

[Norrrm]

53. Worst President in America's history? Dubya thanks God every day for Trump.