How many here would take back George W Bush?

[IMPress Polly]

Ordinarily I'd say "not a chance in hell", but you know...the Trump Administration is already so god-awful (e.g. have you SEEN the budget he's proposing?) that maybe even the monster who gave us the Iraq War, Guantanamo Bay, and the banks legal impunity just in time for the Great Recession would actually be a slight improvement over what we've got now. At least we could be assured of our basic national sovereignty and not seriously have to worry about the prospect of nuclear war with North Korea.

[Ethereal]

Bush destroyed an entire country based on false pretenses and allowed the worst terrorist attack in our history to happen on his watch. Nothing Trump has done even comes close to that.

[Private Pickle]

Bush is responsible for one of the worst war crimes ever. No I would not take him back.

The worst war crimes ever? Like ever in history?

lawl

[Private Pickle]

Ordinarily I'd say "not a chance in hell", but you know...the Trump Administration is already so god-awful (e.g. have you SEEN the budget he's proposing?) that maybe even the monster who gave us the Iraq War, Guantanamo Bay, and the banks legal impunity just in time for the Great Recession would actually be a slight improvement over what we've got now. At least we could be assured of our basic national sovereignty and not seriously have to worry about the prospect of nuclear war with North Korea.

Bush gave the banks legal impunity? Look up Glass-Steagall and get back to me...

[Ethereal]

The worst war crimes ever? Like ever in history?

lawl

Try reading my statement again.

[Bo-4]

The worst war crimes ever? Like ever in history?

lawl

He said "ONE OF" Pickles - and on that point he is absolutely correct.

It'd be pretty cool if we hadn't stirred the hornet's nest that haunts us to this day, wasted two TRILLION and blown 5,000 US troop lives.

We won't talk about the other million innocent Iraqis who were killed or displaced.

[Private Pickle]

Try reading my statement again.

Bush is responsible for one of the worst war crimes ever. No I would not take him back.

Read it....still lawling....

[Private Pickle]

He said "ONE OF" Pickles - and on that point he is absolutely correct.

It'd be pretty cool if we hadn't stirred the hornet's nest that haunts us to this day and blown 5,000 US troop lives.

One of? Like top 5? Top 10?

Let me guess...you'll both go with the plausible deniability angle for the sake of hyperbole?

[Ethereal]

Read it....still lawling....

I cannot figure out why. An entire country was basically destroyed, and some studies estimate around 500,000 war-related deaths as of 2013, although I consider that a conservative estimate. That doesn't even begin to address the spillover effects.

[Ethereal]

One of? Like top 5? Top 10?

Let me guess...you'll both go with the plausible deniability angle for the sake of hyperbole?

I don't really have a rank in mind. And I have no idea what you mean by "plausible deniability".