[E]ven Bush balked at attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities, and discouraged the Israelis from carrying out the attack on their own. (Bush would sometimes mock those aides and commentators who advocated an attack on Iran, even referring to the conservative columnists Charles Krauthammer and William Kristol as “the bomber boys,” according to two people I spoke with who overheard this.)As noted in the above-linked Think Progress post, Dick Cheney "has admitted that he was in favor of a U.S. attack on Iran, but was vetoed by President Bush."
Don't get me wrong -- I still think that Bush was an awful president. But every so often I hear something about his presidency -- like his above-referenced refusal to attack Iran -- that makes me think he might not have been as big of a tool that he appeared to be. One example of this was when he openly questioned the need for a second tax cut for the rich -- he told Cheney something like, "didn't the rich already get one of these?"
Cheney ultimately convinced him that they in fact did need to further loot the treasury and hand out the tax cut; but what I found interesting about the aforementioned Iraq decision was that Cheney was unable to convince Bush to bomb Iran, something that Cheney really wanted him to do.
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Probably the main reason Bush appears to be less of a "tool" than he used to, is because Obama's stature as King of the Tools seem to grow by the minute. Saw this billboard the other day, sums things up quite nicely for a lot of folks, I think.
http://www.noisyroom.net/blog/embarrassed.jpg
I've had my problems with Obama -- sure, he's had the most successful presidency in recent memory as far as legislative achievements in the first two years are concerned, but he should have started his first term by repeatedly telling the Republicans to go collectively fuck themselves.
They would have been easy targets for him, because all of the moderate, thoughtful Republicans are gone; and all that remains of that party are a bunch of brain-dead, Bible-beating assholes who apparently didn't think they fucked up the country enough when they were in power.
Those brain-dead, Bible-beating assholes are going to have full control of things, come November. Thank GOD!
Full control? I can't wait to hear your plan to win the presidency this November.
Next time you post here, please pull your head out of your ass first.
Talkin' 'bout Oregon Fu. Looks like you're the tool. I'm guessing no one knows what the inside of their ass looks like better that you do right about now.
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