It's been over a decade since he left office. How has his legacy changed...

He said some dumb shit and had plenty of media gaffes but Bush wasn't stupid.

No, he wasn't.

Bush wasn't remotely stupid. He was a passable student at Yale, it's more than you could say for virtually anyone on Jow Forums. The whole git r dun persona was a put-on because he lost the race for Texas governor to a Democrat who exploited his out-of-touch egghead mannerisms.

The Iraq war marked the beginning of the end for American hegemony so Bush will likely be seen as even worse by future historians since he threw the American world order away just to have a stronger foothold in the middle east.

Congress*, not governor, sorry.

I hope he crash lands in the middle of Iraq and every single man, woman, and child takes a shit down his throat.

Bush played the retard for some reason. He even changed the way he spoke in office. Why? He's articulate, he went to Yale and Harvard, he's extremely well educated. And yet he pretended to be retarded for some reason.
What was the reason?

Well he fucked us over with the war in Iraq and still haven't heard from him why

So billy bob could think he's just like me?

As a zoomer who doesn't know or remember him, what else did he do other than Iraq? Was that it? That's his big gaffe or did he do other stuff to make him hated?
I understand Iraq was a disaster, but what actually made him bad otherwise?

Because it allowed him to play off his weak public speaking skills and flex on his awkward, overeducated east coaster opponents. Pic related.

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I doubt it. Billy Bob was gonna vote for a Republican no matter who it was

He didn't have weak public speaking skills though. You can find old videos of him before the presidency and he spoke totally fine

His widespread deregulation of financial institutions lead to the 2008 financial crisis, so there's that too. There's the Patriot Act as well that caused the biggest erosion of civil rights the US has ever seen.

nothing he did in his presidency was remotely justifiable

he was the meat in the sandwich between two democrats who caused the USA to have financial diarrhea. He squandered the effects of Clinton's presidency and needed Obama to clean up after his.

Bush was a shitty president

No idea. It's definitey a thing politicians do though. Our current PM is infamous for acting eccentric, purposely looking scruffy for the media, making bizarre statements etc. Yet he's extremely well educated too and by no means an idiot.

He was also a gigantic, unironic christfag who brought in a lot of christfags on his coattails. Santorum is a perfect example of what Bush's GOP was like. Very focused on performative evangelical christianity but also extremely pro-war and fiscally conservative.
He also all but assured Chinese and European dominance over genetic engineering by banning stem cell research. He is why China is doing gene editing and shit while the US still lags behind.

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bush is a disgusting war criminal just like obongo and tr*mp. hope he dies soon

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He was pretty smart compared to normal people and probably better than Trump but he also did way more damage than trump ever will
Even most of peoples complaints about obama seem to basically just be him continuing a less extreme version of what bush was doing

>Trump
Trump hasn't done shit yet.

>firing missiles at Syrian bases over """(((chemical attacks)))"""
he's doing better than his predecessors, still has done some retarded shit though

The Iraq War alone should sink Dubya's reputation

theguardian.com/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2009/aug/10/religion-george-bush

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Zoomer here.
Redpill me on the Iraq war. I was too young to know anything about it and was only 11 when it ended.

Iraq threatened Israel so Bush took them out. He spent months trying to convince the public that they had "weapons of mass destruction" (which was total bullshit) and then invaded anyways when most countries told him to fuck off. He then tried to take Iran out but that invasion never materialized.

Not a single soul alive believes that story. Further proof that "journalism" isn't a real job

I don't believe you

Was Jr worse or better than Sr?

Long story short this

Much worse desu. Sr might've been a literal cia nigger, but he at least knew enough that Iraq would completely unravel into chaos if Hussein were deposed.

Bush literally and unironically believed he could invade an Arab country as a western power and be greeted as a "liberator" with flowers in the streets by Iraqis. He fully believed that, that's how stupid he was. It's why he has the giant "mission accomplished" ceremony. He believed everything his advisors Wolfowitz and Perle told him.

So what if he graduated Yale? Of course he would, his parents were American political royalty. It doesn't mean he made wise decisions as a leader

>Wolfowitz
Hmmmm....

Bush introduced neoconservatism to the world stage. Any misguided zoomer conservative should remember that before he tries to defend him.

Sr was pure evil but not stupid

Jr was not evil but pure stupid

Bush sr is probably the shadiest character in modern American political history. Literally a lifetime career as a CIA glow in the dark nigger, evidence linking him to the Kennedy assassination, his speeches on new world order. People like him are the definition of evil, and along with the Jews, are the reason for everything wrong with America

But he appeared on Ellen DeGeneres and Jimmy Kimmel Show, that totally means he was a good guy! At least he didn't say mean things like Le orange man!

>Sr was pure evil but not stupid
>Jr was not evil but pure stupid
This is actually a really good explanation.
FUCK George Sr!

Yeah okay, regarding global conflicts his decision-making was awful. I'm not even defending his presidency.

Just think his widely-viewed legacy of being a moron is unfair. Read journalist accounts that he was the most endearing man they'd ever met which no doubt played a huge part in his political success.

George was a genuinely good person who just wasn't good at being a president. He's the opposite of his dad who was a genuinely terrible human being who is rotting in hell finally

based

cope

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>Nigger Rican
No one cares

>n-n-nigger!!!

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This is why no one takes you seriously

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>This is why no one takes you seriously

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Media has been trying to rehabilitate him and liberals seem to now be totally okay with him because of muh drumpf. But anyone with half a brain and a memory span longer than a gold fish still thinks he's a piece of shit

Because of much of what he did was actively malevolent, but he could play it off as just incompetence.

Muh "I could have a beer with him" voter

>Baby Bush will only really be remembered for 9/11 and the Iraq War (which he was absolutely wrong about)
>Not Katrina
>Not the Recession
>Not rejecting the Kyoto Protocol
>Not NSA spying scandal
>Not torturing at Guantanamo and CIA black sites across the world
>Not tax cuts for the wealthy
>Not trying to privatize social security
>Not Scooter Libby
>Not Tom Delay
>Not the mass firing of liberal US attorneys
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he threw a perfect strike at yankee stadium after 9/11, that is a huge part of his legacy.

Why do you hate him ?

he was an idiot but i believe he was genuine and a nice person.

He effectively proved to the world ameriKKKa was unequivocal evil. Good job.

of course he's gonna be mainly remembered for 9/11 and invading iraq. two of the most important events in our lifetimes

At the very least the deregulatory policies contributing to the world's worst economic downturn since the great depression should be there as well. Far more Americans were affected by it than 9/11 or Iraq.