Happy George W. Bush Legitimization Day.

[Ron Green]

Up until 12 years ago, he was just a brush-clearing vacationer who never picked up on the Israel/Palestine opportunities.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

1. Bush v. Gore; My Pet Goat; Bullhorn; Dead or Alive; Homeland Security; Iraq;

those were some truly shit-tastic years for America.

[Politicalboi]

2. Presidenting is hard work

They expect you to read and understand complicated junk. Then you have to pretend to care. Then the press takes your picture, and then you get asked questions your press manager should have already answered. Then there's the fuzzy math. Yup, Presidenting is hard work. It's so misunderestimated.

[Hekate]

3. Relabeling our nation with the Germanic "Homeland," which still creeps me out. Heckuva job, Brownie.

Creating an enduring and poisonous mistrust of the US government --> Mission Accomplished on that!

[Ron Green]

10. Yet curiously they created a new, stronger trust

in security measures: militarized cops, ID checks, free speech zones, submission to uniformed minions.

[Hekate]

11. Ja, the Homeland.

[DemocraticWing]

4. Rec.

I understand we needed to unite after 9/11, but anybody who disagreed with Bush and still voted for him because of "leadership in a crisis" or any similar BS is a fool.

[Skittles]

5. remembering how 90% of the country rallied for that lying, warmongering incompetent bastard

[LisaLynne]

9. Fear response is an amazing thing. nt

[pjt7]

6. Also Happy ME invasion, resource grabbing, endless war

Military Industrial Complex, Surveillance day..

100% Agree that Bush was given almost unlimited power from this event, but so many others in GOV, use it.

[B Calm]

7. I pray that in my lifetime we will never have another like him in the WH!

[Octafish]

8. For ENRON

"Money trumps peace."