For some reason I keep thinking it was economically a bad idea to spend more than a trillion dollars in Iraq with no return on that investment while simultaneously providing tax cuts without funding them with countervailing spending cuts. Also, I can't figure out the economic advantage Bush was trying to gain by having Paul Bremer 'misplace' billions of dollars in Iraq, but Bremer must have exceeded Bush's expectations somehow because Bush awarded him a Medal of Freedom for his 'work.'
If you do like history, feel free to jot this down... you will eventually see a paragraph just like it in every history book about this era: "George W. Bush squandered one of the largest budget surpluses in American history by engaging in a trillion dollar war of choice while simultaneously stripping American citizens of key Constitutional rights. He managed to quell public outrage during his Presidency by satiating his constituency with unfunded tax cuts that kept them quiet while he badly damaged the country and put the national economy on the verge of imminent collapse. Barack Obama did an inadequate job of cleaning up the enormous economic mess that George W. Bush created and failed to return the country to the economic heights achieved during the Clinton administration."
