FAILED BUSH PRESIDENTS BASH TRUMP—WHAT NERVE

BUSHES BASH TRUMP IN UPCOMING BOOK—WHAT CHUTZPAH1


(November 3, 2017)

Excerpts from a book on the failed father and son presidencies of the Bush family by  Mark Updegrove entitled “The Last Republicans” have hit the airwaves and newspapers.  In the brief  publicity excerpts released both Bush presidents are quoted as bad-mouthing the present Republican president, Donald Trump.

Both Bushes have a lot of nerve.

I can somewhat excuse the elder George Bush, #41 he is now in his nineties and his dotage.  He was a one term President who initiated the first Iraq War fiasco—when his foreign policy team mistakenly or by omission gave the green light for a Kuwait invasion to Iraq President Saddam Hussein. His weak performance in the White House and on the campaign led to the Clinton Presidency—another failed and destructive presidency...

His son, George H W Bush  No. 43 headed  the most disastrous presidency and foreign policy disasters of the Republic. Young Bush gave over much of decision making (knowingly or innocently) to his Vice President Cheney...who led the young, inexperienced, not too bright Bush into the disaster of the Iraq War.   A war of choice in which he and his Vice President deceived and cajoled the nation into fighting using cherry-picked data that claimed that dictator Saddam Hussein had “weapons of mass destruction”.  Which almost everyone knew was not true.  The Iraq War turned out to be a three trillion dollar political, financial and foreign policy disaster (and still counting) that caused thousands of American deaths and the loss of life of hundreds of thousands of. Innocent civilians and made refugees of millions.  The war and its aftermath destabilized a vast swath of the Middle East and led to political turmoil and the mass migrations and economic and cultural impacts that engulfed the Middle East and Europe and much of the western world.  We continue to this very day to deal with the Bush disaster which spawned the rise of al Qaida, ISiS and the lingering (15 years so far) wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Yemen.  These were Bush wars.  Mr. Obama to his discredit continued to half heartedly fight them too.

Mr. Bush should have been prosecuted and punished for his perfidy in getting this nation into the never ending Iraq war.  But bashing Mr. Trump just brings to mind (or should) just how bad a leader he was.  He would be wise to keep his mouth shut, keep painting pictures and disappear into the brush of West Texas.