No need to be flattered Foxy. Most of us read the posts of the thread we are posting to. Most but not all.

I merely pointed out your generalisation and that it was incorrect. Nothing to get too excited about. I think though that your point about only the vanquished is another generalisation and unsubstantiated.

Besides, those who get categorised as either good or bad is a matter of opinion and depends on who writes the history. One man's villain is another man's hero.

Dear Ditch,

Exactly.

I'm glad you get it!

I'm glad I've made it clear for you Foxy.

Mark Latham once accused GWB as being "incompetent and dangerous" and was immediately howled down by all the Reich Wing apologists and their media chums.

Now Bush (along with Blair and Howard) is gone, nobody seems to be so afraid to criticise him anymore and some of that former cheer-squad can now smell blood in the water and are circling.

Bush became President through a Supreme Court
decision (undemocratic turn of events). He's
left quite a legacy behind, as another poster
put it:

"A prisoner of his intellectual poverty,
and a willing front-man for the
shadowy figures behind the scenes ..."

Then of-course there's his famous quotes:

Asked by UK tabloid, The Sun, about Tony Blair,
Bush reportedly said:

"I've heard he's been called Bush's poodle.
He's bigger than that."

My favourite is:

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful,
and so are we. They never stop thinking about
new ways to harm our country and our people,
and neither do we."

Any leader who has any death happen on his watch is going to get slammed by the left.

Winston Churchill would not have been allowed to fight WW2 if the left we have today was around back then.

I think GWB was dammed if he did and dammed if he didn't. He got one of the hardest presidential shifts in history thanks to the vile 9/11 massacre.

I mean imagine a Bob Brown type trying to navigate through that.