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In reply to the discussion: My son, who preferred Obama over Romney had some pretty startling things to say............ [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)wrong with that. But Bush lied us into war, Obama has done nothing even close to comparable to the whole 'mushroom cloud' fear mongering of that administration. To claim that he has is wholesale denialism of the intensity of Bush's crimes. To say Obama is no better sounds to me like a defense of Bush's WMD lies and invasion of Iraq not to mention a defense of Bush's intelligence failures which allowed 9-11 to occur without interference. The PDB that said 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US' was ignored by Bush. Your son seems to want to tamp down the culpablity of Bush in that regard.
While I am not a fan of armed drones nor of hit lists, anyone who thinks the US has not used any means in it's power to take out enemies for as long as we have existed is nuts. The fact that we know about it now means it is less covert, and less likely to be abused, less likely to continue as policy. Those who think other Presidents did not do such things are just dreaming the good old dream.
Anyone who can look at the Iraq Invasion and say 'that's no worse than what Obama does' is just not well informed, not only about Obama but about Bush.