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Martin Eden

(15,915 posts)
8. Bush is a war criminal who caused a million deaths
Mon May 4, 2020, 06:49 AM
May 2020

He belongs in prison. So does Trump, for lesser crimes, and this current POtuS has very likely already caused more American deaths with his catastrophically bad handling of this pandemic.

Trump is egregiously unfit for the office he holds, menatally and morally. He is appallingly ignorant, a pathological liar, and a malignant narcissist without a shred of human decency. He is also a treasonous tool of Vladimir Putin.

It's difficult to gauge at this point whether Bush or Trump will have done more long term damage. The Middle East is still roiling from the pandora's box Bush opened. Using the national tragedy of 9/11 to launch a war of choice based on lies is IMO the most egregious betrayal of public trust by a president in our nation's history.

Bush had 90% approval in the wake of 9/11, and he used it to manipulate the anger, fear, grief, and patriotism of the American people to enact the preexisting neocon agenda to invade Iraq.

Trump has never had that level of trust and support. It was obvious from the start who and what he is. The betrayal was by voters stupid or deplorable enough to put this monster in office.

And in the long run, Trump (even if he's gone soon and doesn't start a war) may have done more in one term to bring America down than GW Bush. He's done more to destroy the Western alliance and America's role as leader of the free world than the Soviet Union could during a half century of the Cold War.

In any event, the last two Republican presidents have been total disasters, the absolute worst. They both belong in prison, and 40% of the voting public belongs in the nut house.

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