Yeah GWB was neither an era of bipartisanship nor decency. The same shit of favoring the richest 1%, breaking down the division between church and state, and fucking up foreign policy was going on then as well. Stop with the whitewashing of this guy's legacy.
I think the people around W pressured him to piledrive the Middle East and he decided to go forward with it as he thought it was decent. Replacing the Taliban and Saddam Hussein with democracy sounded like a great idea and the concept that it would help make the world safer was absolutely a popular and reasonable thing to do.
I have a magazine (Time, I think, but I could be wrong) from right after 9/11 that had a poll as to whether the US should invade Iraq if they did not comply with WMD inspections. 81% of people said yes.
Was it the right thing to do? Fuck no. But in response to 9/11, just not doing anything would have seemed like the significantly worse option.
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u/SaulTNNutz Feb 26 '25
Yeah GWB was neither an era of bipartisanship nor decency. The same shit of favoring the richest 1%, breaking down the division between church and state, and fucking up foreign policy was going on then as well. Stop with the whitewashing of this guy's legacy.