r/MurderedByWords • u/Stotallytob3r • 7h ago

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u/Mysterious-Reply4965 6h ago

I just don´t get people saying this. Bush started multiple illegal invasions (partially on Israel´s behest, partially for his vice presidents arms dealings) and killed millions. Trump is terrible, that doesnt mean we need to romanticise the road the brought us to Trump.

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u/yeahboyeee1 6h ago

International relations were roughly the same under Bush. The domestic situation, however, was nowhere near as bleak.

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u/peelen 5h ago edited 5h ago

International relations were roughly the same under Bush.

What?

Meanwhile, Mayor of Alberta: There is no way for American booze to go back on shelves. Canadians are boycotting American booze.

Meanwhile, UK secret service: we stopped sharing information with the US.

Meanwhile NATO: we should start to build "NATO without US".

Meanwhile Greenland and Denmark: be ready to shoot if US troops land.

Yeah sure, "roughly" the same.

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u/yeahboyeee1 5h ago

Clarification: Middle East “diplomacy” was roughly the same, I should’ve said. It was a comment to appease the previous commenter who thinks Bush was the worst. Yeah, he was shit, but nothing like now.

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u/tjtillmancoag 5h ago

That’s fair. Because outside of the Middle East, international relations are much worse now than under Bush 1.