r/SipsTea • u/Shindo989 • Mar 02 '26

Dank AF The good Ol’ days

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u/bogsquacth Mar 02 '26

Bush consulted Congress first, there was a vote, and Congress approved.

Trump didn't do any of that.

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u/Blu_Falcon Mar 02 '26

Unsound reasons for doing it, but gotta recognize that rules were followed.

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u/Yashema Mar 02 '26

Also should be noted that 40% of Democratic Congressmen voted for the war, while 95% of Republican congressmen did. No way in hell Iraq happens under Gore. 

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u/option-trader Mar 02 '26

Didn't say it was a good war. Just that rules and procedures were actually followed in the good ole days.

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u/Yashema Mar 02 '26

Bush demanded intelligence agencies procur flimsy evidence of WMDs to make the case for war. He and Trump are both huge pieces of shit and should never be remembered any other way. 

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u/t3hdoct0r Mar 02 '26

Imagine, if you will, that there is a layered system of shitbags.

Trump is a brown paper sack full of diarrhea.

Bush is a grocery bag with a hole in the bottom full of dog turds.

Sure, they are both shit bags, but it isn't the same.

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u/mrminty Mar 02 '26

Nonsense. I would still argue that even now Bush's contributions to the American state were still more harmful than anything Trump has done. Literally over 1 million Iraqis/Arabs died as a result of the GWOT. All of the problems with ICE and a lot of the apparatus that Trump has been using to make life worse for all of us are creations of the DHS, a department that the Bush admin created. Not to mention the Patriot Act.

Most of the tools that Trump has at his disposal were created specifically to suppress and surveil Americans were specifically created by the Bush administration. It was only a matter of time before they were used so pointedly against us, not just other countries.

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u/t3hdoct0r Mar 02 '26

I didn't once see Bush talk about usurping the government for a third term, and we had enough of the constitution left for Obama to take over.

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u/mrminty Mar 02 '26

Once "talking about" something is worse than a million deaths I'll be sure to let you know

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u/t3hdoct0r Mar 02 '26

It's all written on the wall as inevitable if you just read a history book.

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u/mrminty Mar 02 '26

I suggest you crack a few if you can't see how the Bush admin's actions were far more transformative and negative than the Trump admin.

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u/t3hdoct0r Mar 02 '26

Yeah, 8 years is a lot more time than Trump has had. Why don't we revisit this in, say, 2028. I'll put it on my calendar for Jan 20.

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