GEORGE W. BUSH

In June, 2001, George In June, 2001, George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin ended their face-to-face meeting with an outdoor news conference beneath a craggy mountaintop in Slovania.
“Is this a man that Americans can trust?” asked a reporter, while Putin glared at him and Bush replied, “Yes…I looked him in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul, a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country. I wouldn’t have invited him to my ranch if I didn’t trust him.”
This is the same president who said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, which was a lie. As despicable as Hussein was, he kept Al Qaeda at bay, and after the invasion of Iraq, the vacuum allowed Isis and other fanatical groups to emerge. It was a terrible military blunder and miscalculation on Bush’s part, and after, a civil war ensued. The senseless carnage of American personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan came in at 7,000 dead American servicemen and women, and 31, 994 wounded in Iraq alone. 387,072 civilians have died since wars in post war 9/11 in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Syria. Twenty-two American servicemen and women die each day of suicide due to PTSD. The American national deficit from the Iraqi war all in ballooned to six trillion dollars, and the economy has never recovered since; now over thirty trillion in debt and rising.
The war in Iraq started in March of 2003. On May 1, President Bush landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln in the co-pilot’s seat of a Navy fighter jet, appearing as a conquering hero. Bush was actually a draft dodger during the war in Vietnam.
Bush called Operation Iraqi Freedom “A job well done. Major combat operations in Iraq have ended.” The banner hovering over him read, “Mission Accomplished.”
In 2018 after Bush’s image had been rehabilitated for many years from the blunder of the Iraqi war that was enacted under false pretences, (weapons of mass destruction) President Biden awarded Bush and his wife Laura the Liberty Medal for their commitment to veterans after he racked up the national debt, and started a war that could never be won. (Like North Korea and Viet Nam) And Bush gets a medal for this; I don’t get it.
How do you think Iraq looks like today economically, and culturally, almost twenty years later? – Not very good. Afghanistan is even worse off with the total takeover of the Taliban. They simply walked in after President Biden cut his losses.