8 years? So tell me because my memory isn't has good as it use to be. Who was in control of both house and senate in 2007? and now it's 2010
yeah...eight years. the presidency didn't change hands when the democrats took over congress. THe executive branch didn't change one iota. The conduct of foreign policy didn't change a bit. And THAT was ALWAYS my major beef with Dubya.
I kinda liked the fact that he talked the conservative talk but still spent like a drunken sailor on shore leave.... I kinda liked that he placated the religious right by promising to do something about gay rights and abortion and then never doing anything about it. I didn't REALLY like his tax cuts for millionaires, but that alone was not such a big deal for me.
It was Iraq... it was the stupid senseless invasion of Iraq that made ME mad and still makes my blood pressure rise when I think of it. Lies about the absolute certainty of stockpiles of WMDs when no such absolute certainty existed within the intelligence community... and absolutely fictional implications of a connection between Saddam and OBL that drove their feigned urgency to invade even after they had scored a significant diplomatic victory by getting Saddam to allow UN inspectors back into Iraq. They pushed that urgency with a drumbeat of fearful predictions: Saddam could give his bosum buddy OBL a nuke from his stockpile and there will be a mushroom cloud over an American city tomorrow!!! YIKES!!!! THIS IS SCARY!!!! WE NEED TO INVADE NOW NOW NOW!!!!! AAAAAARGH!!!!!
THAT is why I hate George Bush and, as I said earlier, THAT is why I hope to live long enough to someday drive to a cemetery in Texas somewhere and piss on his grave.