as usual, for lib/dem/left politics, you, et al, refuse to see the elephant in the room
>>Meanwhile, Bush also launched two costly, unfunded wars. One of them was a sensible, appropriate response to the terror attacks of 9/11. The second, and costlier, one ..[....]clearly had nothing to do with 9/11<<<
the islamists/jihadists declared war on the USA and attacked ruthlessly -- 9/11 was the catalysts that required our military response
so it was and is global war on gov'ts supporting jihadism -- we (GWB et al) decided that Iraq had the geography/people to fight fanatical islam
and now W was so right
Islam fanatics fighting Islamic secularists -- 10s of thousands being killed
In the name of allah
History will determine if this measures up the HST and the defeat of communism in Greece in 1948, where communism was stopped
and HST is in the top 5 of presidents
IMO W will be there with him