![]() ![]() A practitioner of “compassionate conservatism,” Bush would have never barked the same rhetoric of intolerance that we’re hearing today on Fox News. ![]() Peter Baker’s exhaustive look at the Bush/Cheney administration, Days of Fire, gives Dubya a fair shake, recasting his presidency in a fair and balanced light, but still not letting him off the hook for his sins. Why? Because after 9/11 Bush claimed that, “Islam is peace” and that “the face of terror is not the true faith of Islam.” These days, folks such as Trump and Carson are not only calling Syrian refugees “rabid dogs,” they are even proposing a ban that will keep Muslims out of the United States. ![]() In the editorial, however, Mehdi Hasan claims that although he disliked Bush while in power, he is head and shoulders beyond the pack of freaks trying to win the GOP nomination in 2016. Although some like to blame Barack Obama for much of what ails our country (and the world) today, many agree that Bush’s ill-advised invasion of Iraq post-9/11 has brought us to a world where Islamic radicals can shoot up Paris or destroy a Russian airliner taking off from Egypt. ![]() Bush.” Interesting words about one of the most reviled presidents, Richard Nixon aside, in the past century. A recent editorial in New York Times reads, “Why I Miss George W. ![]()
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