No. He will be remembered as a tool of Saudi foreign policy. Sorry, make that TOOL.
Oh all right. I will answer your question. Look, too much BAD happened during the Bush administration, and that BAD is not going to be reversed easily. And you want to balance that with the freedom of whom?
Is Carter remembered for the Camp David accords? No. Everyone thinks he bungled the economy and Iran.
Is Nixon remembered for ending US involvement in Vietnam and opening relations with China? No. He spied and wiretapped people.
Bush will be remembered for setting up programs to take away liberties. He bankrupted the nation. He bled the military in long wars while proclaiming MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. He failed to control opportunists in his own administration. He reduced regulation to the point that many institutions became unable to function. He pushed federal responsibilities onto states. He ran huge budget deficits. And covering up torture? He resisted the worldwide movement to environmental responsibility, single handedly putting the US behind in what might be the ONLY technologies that are vital for the future. He left the entire economy vulnerable to Saudi oil policy.
To think of a worse president, I think you would have to go back to Grant.
But the SCALE of what Bush did is truly historical. This recession has destroyed more world capital than 40 years of communism in China AND 70 years of communism in the USSR did. Bush was worse for the world than communism in my book.
No. Bush was in a class of his own, and I hope he is always remembered that way.
And I consider myself a REPUBLICAN!!!!
