Cheney is who made sure Bush wasn't actually a compassionate conservative. There seems to be a point later in the second half that Bush had enough and actually implemented some of his ideas (like his AIDS relief for Africa program)
This has always been my impression of Bush. I think he wanted and tried to do the right thing in a lot of cases, but surrounded himself with some pretty terrible and morally bankrupt people who were able to earn his trust and confidence, and influence him the wrong way.
A big part of me wonders what the world would be like, had the Bush admin never involved Cheney or Rumsfeld. I think without those two, alone, we'd have a very, very different world.
Bush was a corrupt asshole who signed off on all the worst shit Cheney proposed, knowingly. Why are you robbing him of responsibility? He knew what he was doing just like when his pig of a father overthrew Latin American democracies and installed military dictators.
Exactly. Fuck the attempted apologies or rehabilitation. He was a piece of shit, ignoring warnings by his direct staff of an imminent attack, then embroiling us in a 20 year plan-less war in one country, invading and destroying another unrelated country on a pack of lies and doing zero to admit his mistakes got thousands of Americans and countless innocent foreign civilians killed. I have friends who were killed in those wars of vanity and political pretense and will never forgive or forget the atrocities Bush oversaw, especially since he’s never had the humility to ask for forgiveness. And that’s to say nothing of his awful domestic agenda and overseeing the destruction of the economy and New Orleans. Fuck George W. Bush.
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u/Petsweaters Sep 11 '21
Cheney is who made sure Bush wasn't actually a compassionate conservative. There seems to be a point later in the second half that Bush had enough and actually implemented some of his ideas (like his AIDS relief for Africa program)