Originally Posted by
IDF2
I think George W Bush was a remarkable president.
I believe his response to 911 will go down in history.
I also believe the invasion of Iraq was wrong. After years of torturous sanctions, it was not fair on that country.
But I do believe the good that was done by Mr. Bush and his war on terror saved many an Irish life and for that I thank him.
The most remarkable thing about Bush has been his public rehabilitation since stepping down as president. I can remember the books, articles, commentary and documentaries: at best he was the idiot analogue to Adolf Eichmann in Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, a puppet to evangelicals and neoconservatives, a hypocrite draft-dodgeing playboy, a moron; at worst he was pure evil, the spearhead of a vengeful imperialist hegemon, a murderer of innocents across the arab world, an election stealer and a war criminal, a racist. Nobosy had a nice thing to say about George W, well except maybe wartime president.
But almost as soon as he stepped down and Obama took office there was a softening towards George W. We got to see his sensitive side: he began painting portraits of veterans and statesmen; then it was his friendship with Michelle Obama, hugging each other at the National Museum of African-American History and passing each other candy at John McCain's funeral; and the final act to his rehabilitation was his very dignified distaste for Trump, the media couldn't help falling over themselves to pose the rhetorical question "If the original bad guy didn't like Trump then what does that say about Trump?"
"Remove prostitutes from human affairs, and you will unsettle everything because of lusts..."
St Augustine