• infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net
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    9 days ago

    > Created ICE
    > Created TSA (No fly list, porno scanners, etc)
    > Created the Patriot Act
    > Created No Child Left Behind Act (Left lots of children behind)
    > Lied to invade Iraq (Hundreds of thousands dead, inspired ISIS, Abu Ghraib)
    > Lied to invade Afghanistan (Hundreds of thousands dead again)
    > Somehow didn’t catch Osama
    > Botched Hurricane Katrina response, domestic humanitarian disaster
    > Emboldened a wave of evangelicism that dulled American culture for years
    > Normalized state torture in the west at Guantanamo
    > Halliburton
    > Vice President shot a guy
    > Greatly expanded NSA domestic surveillance and FISA

    These are just the big ones off the top of my head, I could go on.

    edit - Damn there’s a big list, dive in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:George_W._Bush_administration_controversies

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Zero Personal Scandals

    :-|

    Literally a book about them.

    Zero Blackmail Material

    :-/

    Now that they’ve cleaned that shit up.

    Zero Handlers

    :-|

    8-|

    Zero Financial Incentive

    The guy with $50M in his personal fortune and a family net worth of over $400M?

    Shut the fuck up.

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        10 days ago

        Especially the financial incentives. Cheney was the former owner of one of the biggest contractors for the war, and they were all tied to the oil industry.

        Anyone remember what the wars did to oil prices?

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          10 days ago

          The funny part was the massive gas tax that doubled my gas budget, which was later repealed, but gas prices were unaltered by the repeal. And I think that’s happened like 3 times in my life. I still remember thinking a dollar was expensive for gas.

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      11 days ago

      Bush was the “cleanest” Republican since Nixon only because he was such a Cheney puppet that Dick Cheney’s wedding ring is still lost up his ass somewhere. Cheney was president during that timeframe.

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      12 days ago

      His wife killed someone while drunk driving too. Also, spreads arms over giant Middle East map, all that war based on lies.

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        11 days ago

        He was just a puppet for that part. If 9/11 never happened he would have been a mediocre 1 term president.

        It’s pretty wild that he was actually pushing for a fast track to citizenship before that.