tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post4299149065001646905..comments2023-11-03T09:36:22.100-04:00Comments on In From the Cold: Making the Case for George W. BushGeorge Smileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07049707648660651119noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-17097015934789297362009-01-16T12:39:00.000-05:002009-01-16T12:39:00.000-05:00Funny, Mike McConnell said on Charlie Rose that we...Funny, Mike McConnell said on Charlie Rose that we wouldn't have gone into Iraq if we had the "inter-agency co-operation demanded by Bush after 9/11" <BR/><BR/>We needed to go into the war because Iraq spurned the UN? (right...GWB cares what the UN thinks) Human rights abuses? (right...because the US always invades human rights abusers like North Korea and China) Unfinished business? Well that's actually plausible. But boy there's a long list of US unfinished business. <BR/><BR/>And blame the Democrats for the mortgage crisis? Not the de-regulated banks and ratings companies focusing on short term profits to make quarterly earnings which is what bonuses were based on. <BR/><BR/>How about Alberto Gonzalez's politicized Justice Department, or FEMA (remember Brownie?) There's the Department of the Interior's oil-lease for sex scandal. And is it appropriate to leak a CIA operative's name if her husband says something you don't like? <BR/><BR/>The article should be entitled, "Maybe he's not AS bad as he's made out to be" <BR/><BR/>But obviously the author has an agenda.Paul G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17270835772123856564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-23338332655458687352009-01-16T01:52:00.000-05:002009-01-16T01:52:00.000-05:00I, too, am an historian and I concur with Andrew R...I, too, am an historian and I concur with Andrew Roberts' assessment of the man. There are few of us in the current generation of scholars who will judge Bush fairly, but as political passions cool, I fully expect his stock will rise significantly.D. B. Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05663484917515894917noreply@blogger.com