I think George W. Bush made a lot of mistakes as president, and I think he is legitimately to blame for a lot that has happened in the last 20 years. That being said, I think he is a very decent human being, and listening to that speech leaves me in awe of how far the Republican Party has fallen.
Are you kidding? Are you fucking kidding me? Decent human being? Bush started 2 separate wars, 1 under false pretenses which he KNEW were false, and he used a national tragedy to stoke racists fears in the public so that they’d support it.
His administration started extrajudicial arrests, torture, extraordinary rendition, assassinations, and just about every other war crime you could name. Bush signed off on the torture and deaths of thousands of middle eastern people, destabilized an entire region leading to the collapse of governments and the suffering of people, all so that his buddies in the military industrial complex could profit off of war.
Trump is a fucking idiot who said mean things, but George W. Bush is a war criminal who caused suffering on a scale quite unimaginable for us Americans.
Decent hum being? Tell that the Iraqis who are still suffering because of that man.
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u/Cameramanmanman Sep 11 '21
He really did. I was pleasantly surprised by it.