Yeah, Bush left behind such a cheery utopia it's so hard not to miss him.
Through a series of international and domestic incidents the first POTUS of the new century was forced to play the crappy cards he was dealt.
The fact that we are all here (This assumption is debatable in and of itself.) to discuss the matter is proof of Georgie's success.
As Kenny Rogers said, "the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep."
We weren't guaranteed things would even be THIS kind of 'normal' (in the realm of normalcy...a normative coma brought on or brought about -- intentionally or not is of no matter -- by Barack Hussein Eboma).
A global Holy War triggered by Saddam & Israel & the Arabs & Jihadi warriors from around the world & Russia & China could have fried your circuits, mac.
President George W. Bush saved us from all of that as well as preventing worldwide chaos with a shutdown of the passageway out of the Gulf, the Straits of Hormuz.
Worldwide oil consumers, not us but our trading partners and allies, would have been pressured to get other sources of oil and they would have used whatever influence or muscle necessary to get it rather than have their national economies suffer total collapse.
Our global economies are all interrelated these days, for better or worse.
What would have happened to your bank and your money if there had been an international oil crisis from Saddam sinking a few tankers at the mouth of the straits, which isn't all that wide when you're navigating huge ships a thousand feet or more long and which take a lot of room to maneuver safely, through it?
However a global oil crisis never happened because W decided it would not happen on his watch.
That is yet another reason you should be singing his praises on these pages, at LEAST!!!
And finally for this post, barring some other unfortunate manner of dispatch, because of W you have a good chance of breaking even in this life by dying, NOT from a thermonuclear conflagration...
But peacefully in your sleep from old age.