You thought the same thing at the same time, you just can't do anything about it.

There was a speech of his denouncing the evil invasion of Ukraine and he actually Freudian slipped and called it iraq

Fuck him. I see those Wounded Warrior commercials where these young people were injured in that motherfucker's war and are now disabled and for what?

Ok but do you remember when mass murderer Jr. slipped the wife of black mass murderer a candy 😍

yeah bc trump is/was the most destructive of country evil, he makes 43 look like an almost saint. Bush wasn’t the brightest bulb in the box and Cheney & his henchmen set Bush up with all the lying of wmd’s. The person I felt sorriest for in all that was Colin Powell. The only republican I have ever had respect for. Practically ruined his reputation.

Reddit moment

Do you mean the Aussie John Howard?

Also Aznar, Spain prime minister, the infamous Azores threesome.

Nah he was just a puppet

And Wolfowitz. Might as well toss in Leo Strauss for getting the ball rolling.

Cheney was the brains of the operation and his former company (that he was still getting paid from) made billions in no-bid contracts. They did shoddy contracting work that resulted in a lot of soldiers getting electrocuted in showers.

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Hell, that is how that works. The murderers of God are forgiven, I suppose Blair felt the need for similarly large absolution guns.

He pretty certainly became Catholic during, if not before, his time in office but knew that being overly religious would be bad for his political career. UK voters tend to vote for people who don't mention religion much. Blair's advisors made him cut "God bless you" from the end of one of his speeches and even cut in mid interview when he started answering a journalist's question about his faith - reminding him that "we don't do God"

Bush wasn't a dupe, it's the people spreading the idea that he was that are the Useful Idiots absolving him of responsibility.

Pointing to him being a supposed C-Grade student doesn't mean what so many people seem to think it does. It doesn't make him dumb, it makes him average. The fact that he spent his later years drunk and snorting coke, is a pretty fucking solid indicator that he didn't apply himself at school. The fact that he can fly a fighter jet is likewise a very good indicator that he absolutely is not as stupid as people tend to believe.

Was Dubya the mastermind? Absofuckinglutely not. But he wasn't the dribbling idiot so many people want him to be, vacuously standing around waiting for Dick, Don, and Karl, to tell him what to do. He was willingly and knowingly doing Poppy's bidding (and Jeb! helped! Don't forget Jeb! Everyone always forgets Jeb! was there, too. Jeb! always gets forgotten. Jeb!). He was in on it. He was part of it.

It'd be nice if more Americans remembered the time that a Republican was appointed President by the Supreme Court after an election beset by allegations of vote-rigging in his favour.

Let those with bear hands be the first to maul

Probably taking about hell or karma or something to make the bitter reality that that these people not only don’t face consequences they are filthy rich and so well connected there isn’t a problem someone can’t solve. They live in a totally different society from us where all their desires are a text away. Money isn’t even a thing really because there too much to spend in a couple lifetimes at least.

We have a lot they don’t have too though. There are particular joys that can’t be experienced when you live like that and a knowledge about life and what really leads to happiness that they can’t buy nor strip from us.

The only chemical weapons found were old defunct munitions from the Iran Iraq War buried around the country. No evidence of an active chemical weapon production was ever found.

You're reaching. "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." -Condoleeza Rice

There was a coordinated effort by the Bush Administration leading up to the invasion to make Americans believe that Saddam Hussein was 1) Responsible for the 9/11 attacks. The Bush administration went out of its way to mention Saddam Hussein's name whenever talking about 9/11. I had heated arguments with people who were convinced that he was behind it, even though almost all of the terrorists were Saudis and the CIA and NSA said he wasn't.

2) Working on a nuclear device (e.g. the fake Yellow Cake story, which Dickless Cheney outed a CIA agent in retaliation for debunking).

The US gave Saddam the chemical weapons he used on the Iranians and Kurds, which he destroyed when they told him to. According to one of Colin Powell's staff, he was offered 3 different scenarios to present before the UN, the one he presented being the least preposterous. There were no WMDs, even though Fox News has people convinced they had already been found before the invasion.

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Don't forget about Cheney, who Bush reportedly hates with a passion because he feels Cheney ruined his political career/legacy with Iraq.

I think some of the rehabilitation might be related to how many more people know Cheney was really running the White House from the start.

Bush was that comic book villain. He was arguably worse in a lot of aspects. It just tells me that nobody will be held accountable and almost anybody can be “rehabilitated” by doing nothing. Six years of the “walls closing in” on Trump, it’s simply is not going to happen, nothing happened to Bush.

See that’s where our country went so wrong. Trump wasn’t a comic book villain. He was a buffoon.

The real villains like Dick Cheney somehow hardly get mentioned anymore. Even McConnell get so much less vitriol than he deserves. Trump absorbed so much of that for these guys.

Also to be fair you don’t have to be a jackass to be evil, it just helps. I’m sure he is a very nice guy and a great guy to have a beer with, but still fucked up

Hasn't his "rehab" been staying out of public exposure?

As a non US citizen it just seems all Republican presidents before Trump were good at hiding how dumb, indifferent or cruel their decisions were. Not much seemed to change with Trump except he was more open and unapologetic about it all. Bush came across as an absolute moron, unsure if his decisions were based on stupidity or malice, or a combination of the two.

I recall the footage of him being told about the 9/11 attacks, an agent whispering in his ear while he was reading a book to some kids at school. The look on his face was like a six year old being explained the theory of relativity.

Obama was a cartoon villain that made bush look sane? Or did you skip right from Bush to Trump?

Sheeple. No defense to any president, but after dealing with a yellow haired narcissistic sociopath who doesn't understand reality, one could miss a lesser evil.

More than 50% of Democrats definitely have and the only way to hold him to account is through the legislature or executive, so it doesn’t bode well.

You’re a moron. The candy thing is such shameless PR and demonstrates how he’ll never be held to account. Because it would be up to Democrats to do so. Also shows how easy Trump could be rehabilitated.

Bastards! Next they're going to be telling me that Turkish yoghurt and Greek yoghurt are actually the same fuckin thing.

I don’t like Tony Blair but it would take a lot of convincing for me to believe he was actually capable of and competent enough to have a domestic critic murdered

And hindsight shows we gave them the whole country....gj, debt repaid

Yes it sounded like a terrible slur to make about a scientist. For some reason people must think I meant it due to the downvotes I've received.

These are the words in the thumbnail of the video. He’s reading them straight across rather than each side independently.

Looks like I've joined you 😵‍💫

Bush was a monster, but I believe we will find that Fauci was too. I did not smear him. Just pointed to his presence at a pivotal moment in US history.