This post was triggered by reading a recent review of a new biography of George W. Bush. Bush by Jean Edward Smith.
http://www.buffalonews.com/life-arts/book-reviews/the-worst-foreign-policy-decision-ever-made-by-an-american-president-the-man-who-made-it-20160904
I've read several books on the Iraq War and on the Bush presidency. I'll added this to my "to read" list on Good Reads.
I've often speculated what a single paragraph bio of George Bush's presidency would look like. I think it would go something like this.
"After ignoring intelligence warnings, George W. Bush responded to the worst terrorist attack on American soil with an unfunded invasion of the wrong country based on misleading and deliberate false information which directly led repressive laws assaulting the civil liberties of Americans and a decade long economic recession. Historians have concluded that Bush's decision to invade Iraq was the worse foreign policy decision ever made by an American president."
That statement sums it up well, and many of us who spoke up about the Iraq invasion at the time, were called traitors.
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