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George W. Bush is smarter than you
- bshanks 11y agoBy way of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10990105 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10990105
- bediger4000 11y agoI'm personally willing to go with that assertion. Nobody gets to be President by being stupid, as near as I can tell. But if I buy that Bush is so smart, then I have to feel even worse, much worse, about his dragnet surveillance programs, the Iraq War, and a bunch of other stuff, virtually his entire legacy. If he's that smart, why did he lie to us about "WMD", and the (non-)connection between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Al Qeada? What was the real motive for the huge manipulations to get the USA to commit to that war? Why did he think that "SOLARWIND" was such a great idea? Dragnet surveillance is very much against the American tradition, and has definite bad effects, and a slippery slope argument against it. Why did he OK that? Why did he OK "enhanced interrogation" I mean torture? There's just so many follow-on questions to that assertion. Did Keith Hennessey really mean to open that kind of a can of worms about Bush?
- manyoso 11y agoReally? http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/bushisms/2009/01/ws_greatest_hits.html http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/bushisms/200...