I would only edit that to include his second term comments as well, and agree.
His only redeeming feature was as CiC - and the only reason I voted for that second term - For the sake of the military and defense conservatives - And I understand their loyalty.... But you'd play hell finding anything conservative about that man's second term otherwise. In every other way he went globalist left.
I threw Dubya into the dustbin when I read of his horrific mistake in Iraq, shortly after Saddam was deposed. To keep it brief, I'm posting the link to the Wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_GarnerGarner's "error" was his plan to "return Iraq to the Iraqi people" as soon as possible. Instead Bush replaced him with Paul Bremer, who started the gravy train for US government contractors...we all know how that turned out.
LTG (ret) Garner was a great leader in his own right. I knew him briefly when, as a LT Colonel, he commanded 2nd Battalion, 60th Air Defense Artillery at Ramstein Germany, during the late 70s.
I was the XO for a support detachment at Todendorf, a German training area in Northern Germany, during the summer of 79. My job was to shadow the battalion commanders of the visiting units during the week of training, to make sure every request of theirs was handled.
He was admired and respected by the officers and soldiers of his battalion, you could tell they loved him. His leadership style exuded positivity and professionalism. There was no doubt his battalion was rated C-1, combat ready.
I can only wonder how many American lives would have eventually been saved had he been left in charge of Iraq reconstruction.
