Current Events > I wasn't old enough to understand why Dubya was hated during his presidency

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RoboLaserGandhi
07/21/18 8:23:04 AM
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Just that he was "supposed to be" hated and I rolled with it.

I know his biggest criticism was starting the Iraq war for basically no reason but to finish up his daddy's work and because "we're already in the Middle East so might as well stop by and fuck up Saddam Hussein".

Nowadays I'm sure even the libbest of liberals would take him back in a heartbeat over Trump, but what else was so bad about him during his time?
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The Great Muta 22
07/21/18 8:32:04 AM
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Being complicit in lying about Iraq to get us into a war makes him objectively a piece of shit
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tamashiini
07/21/18 8:33:15 AM
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Patriot Act
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masticatingman
07/21/18 8:34:13 AM
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Id say Cheney was much more virulently disliked. He pulled a lot of strings behind the scenes. But partisanship is nothing new...
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dirtycommunist
07/21/18 8:34:34 AM
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The early chapters of the book Dirty Wars is a good look at just how bad the Iraq war and the war on terror were, in ways that can only be attributed to the Bush administration.

Tax cuts for the rich and presiding over the creation of a huge national debt didn't help his image.

Presided over the start of the great recession, though I'm not sure of the extent to which his monetary and regulatory policies were direct factors.
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The Great Muta 22
07/21/18 8:35:51 AM
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Oh, and his handling of Katrina was absolute ass
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Southernfatman
07/21/18 8:36:42 AM
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Patriot act and the erosion of the average American's freedom
Perpetuated bullshit trickle down economics to help the rich get richer and widen the wealth gap
Having total evil as a vice president and using his position to help his own company.
Letting Blackwater commit their atrocities
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tamashiini
07/21/18 8:42:45 AM
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shockthemonkey posted...
Hes much worse than Trump


No.
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frozenshock
07/21/18 8:43:34 AM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIpjqiy2Sxs" data-time="

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NibeIungsnarf
07/21/18 8:49:45 AM
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Bush was definitely worse than Trump.
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Tyranthraxus
07/21/18 8:50:27 AM
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RoboLaserGandhi posted...
but what else was so bad about him during his time?

He's the poster child for an anti-science religious nutcase.

1. He banned research on stem cells cause NO 'BORTIONS
2. He banned all human cloning research cause "Man should not play god"
3. He claimed he started the Iraq war because "God told him to do it" like not in a metaphorical way. He said God literally spoke to him in a dream and told him to invade Iraq

But "He's not as bad as Trump" is hardly a compliment.
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RoboLaserGandhi
07/21/18 9:03:57 AM
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shockthemonkey posted...
George W. Bush was so bad that Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize for not being George W. Bush

*for being black
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RoboLaserGandhi
07/21/18 9:13:12 AM
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shockthemonkey posted...
Just stop shitposting for an entire day

Mine was far more correct than yours but I'm shitposting, ok
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frozenshock
07/21/18 9:18:57 AM
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RoboLaserGandhi posted...
shockthemonkey posted...
George W. Bush was so bad that Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize for not being George W. Bush

*for being black


But he kind of did get it for not being Bush. Bush was absolutely reviled among arab nations... it was said he had the blood of iraqi children on his hands just to enrich his friends and steal the oil.

Then Obama comes and goes on a tour making speeches like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_889oBKkNU" data-time="


It's quite a change of tone. And it's also his talks on global warming and nuclear weapons.

Bush was so deeply hated and here comes Obama with his message of hope. The world just fell in love with him.

So yeah. Obama winning the Nobel really shows how hated Bush was.
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tennisdude818
07/21/18 9:23:43 AM
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Terrible war, torture, and surveillance. The left's anger towards W softened over time because Obama continued all of that shit.
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kUrUpT318
07/22/18 6:20:23 PM
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Bush was just as bad as Obama IMO, at least with regards to foreign policy. Obama didn't really do anything for the middle class. Republicans and Democrats are two sides of the same coin, they just differ on social issues.
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LJRENEGADE
07/22/18 6:50:28 PM
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The Great Muta 22 posted...
Oh, and his handling of Katrina was absolute ass

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DavidWong
07/22/18 7:12:32 PM
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Tried to put tariffs on steel and tanked the US Dollar index
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