re: Worst modern President

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One can question W on the Iraq War but you have to conclude that he knew their supposed existence of nuclear weapons was not a real threat - either due to the supposition being false, or that they were not anything to worry about. I find both those assumptions to be outside the oath a POTUS takes to protect the USA - you MUST not 'assume' the threats are not credible.
The only thing that would stick would be to know that Bush was in on the deception about the nukes - and I doubt that is true.

And as for the 'economic collapse' at the end of his term, the blame for that rests strictly on the Democrat Congress - I'm not sure what W could have done about it that was constitutional.

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Whether or not Bush knew the validity of the non-existent WMD's doesn't mean it wasn't a terrible exective decision to escalate war in the ME.

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To allege any responsibility for the pandemic onto Trump is the most illogical thing I have ever seen written.

Everything Biden says about the 'recovery' was all due to steps that Trump had already initiated, and that all democrats vehemently opposed.

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That's certainly a take. A terrible one though. Trump promoted government shutdowns, empowered Fauci and kept him on staff, and pushed untested vaccines to the masses. His terrible handling of the pandemic (as well as the resulting civil unrest in 2020) cost him his reelection.