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On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:32:24 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:28:02 -0700, wrote:

On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:47:12 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:36:47 -0700, wrote:

On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:40:14 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:03:12 -0700, wrote:

He did other things, but there were usually very nasty strings
attached... e.g., AIDS education/prevention in Africa, but only if
abstinence only was taught exclusively, No Child Left Behind, but
didn't do anything about the lack of funding for it, and there were
probably a couple of other things as well.

But, I was asking Greg for what _he_ thought Bush did right...

I am not the guy who is defending Bush but you assume it is a zero sum
game so if I say Obama is screwing up I must think Bush was smart.
I haven't liked anyone in the White House for the last 20 years. They
are all pretty much the same to me.

Still waiting... What has Bush done right? Come on... it can't be that
hard.

You just got done defending him.

It is all in your imagination that I defended either of the Bushes.

So, when you said that you think Bush might have made the right
decision about Iraq, you were kidding?

Bush I basically did the right thing. Bush II was a liar, and he
screwed us and the Iraqis over.

I am just saying history may be kinder than we are today if the Iraqis
actually come out of this with a democracy ... unless you think having
Saddam was better.

History may be kinder in the sense that some good finally resulted
after Bush lied to the American people and the World.

Most wars are started with a lie. The victors tend to ignore the lie
when the history is written.

Only in the short term these days. The information age is upon us.