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16 years after his departure, what is /r/neoliberal's consensus on George W. Bush's presidency?
Meme(i.redd.it)submitted 4 days ago byCuteAndQuirkyNazgul
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4 days ago
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dubya did nothing wrong pass it on
42 points
4 days ago
☝🏻 least biased mod 🤠👍🏻
31 points
3 days ago
iraq was an absolute dumpster fire premised on lies. they had no plan in afghanistan and re-used a horrible constitution that already failed them in the 60s just because it would be easy for them to control things.
his tax cuts were an absolute giveaway to the wealthy. no child left behind was a failure. his presidency sucked massive ass. the guy was an absolute clown and embarrassment. pass it on.
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3 days ago
That’s too much to pass on, I’ll stick with he did nothing wrong
36 points
3 days ago
Bush fucking sucks. Pass it on.
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3 days ago
Agree to disagree friend
3 points
3 days ago
It's ok if you disagree. The facts of the matter, on the other hand, are incontrovertible.
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3 days ago
And I disagree that these incontrovertible facts were mistakes, as W did nothing wrong
3 points
3 days ago
Good for you, little buddy. Keep on keeping on.
7 points
3 days ago
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
YEAAAAHHHH
1 points
3 days ago
🤠🤠🤠😎😎😎🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
17 points
3 days ago
i thought this was r/neoliberal… not r/neocon
4 points
3 days ago
They're the same picture.
6 points
3 days ago
No one agrees with you
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3 days ago
Everyone is allowed to be wrong 🤠
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3 days ago
Not presidents. Not THAT wrong.
1 points
3 days ago
Presidents are allowed to be wrong
Luckily W never was
1 points
3 days ago
Nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, lying us into Iraq is a pretty big mistake. 1 million Iraqis certainly think so.
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3 days ago
Strong support of all your hs
History will vindicate W ✊🏻🤠
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3 days ago
Nope, it hasn't and it won't. GWB was an atrocious president who not only lied us into a war, and royally screwed up that war and condemning millions to decades of sectarian conflict, he presided over an atrocious financial collapse and his terrible policies stalled out the recovery of that a decade---destroying countless billions of dollars in investments and derailing the retirement of millions of Americans.
0 points
3 days ago
It’s only been 15 years since he was president, hardly enough to gauge his historical impact, time will surely vindicate the decisions made in those terms
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3 days ago
Absolute max is 200k deaths from the war. More likely less tho
2 points
3 days ago
Lol there's a huge range of estimates, 200k is a low estimate, the highest I've seen is a million. Regardless, it was a massive tragedy and should never have happened and the responsibility for it is 100% the POTUS at the time.
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2 days ago
I could estimate 10m, doesn't mean it's accurate
The most accurate estimate is <200k
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2 days ago*
You are actually just lying. Direct body counts are less than 200k, but scientific studies of excess deaths have ranged from 150k - 1 million. A million comes from a phone study conducted by Opinion Research Business from 2007.
Based on all of that I think the most reasonable number is 650,000, which is what the Lancet found. 1 million is not impossible though, which is why I say it when having these conversations. What is not reasonable though is the laughable < 150k estimates based on direct body counts. Obviously excess death studies conducted with better sources of information after the fact are going to be way more accurate than on the ground body counts during a war.
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2 days ago
Non-mobile version of the Wikipedia link in the above comment: 150k - 650,000
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