People were angry and afraid and our government harnessed that to found Homeland Security and put its citizens and any foreigners perceived as a threat on watchlists. Post-9/11 America was fueled by intense paranoia cloaked in patriotism. There were calls for impeachment, so please: Shut the fuck up about his puppy paintings. But beneath all of that seemingly insurmountable foolishness was something much more sinister in the eight years the Bush Administration led the nation, the US launched the War On Terror, invaded Afghanistan and then Iraq Katrina, the NSA, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo. It was during his presidency that the whole meme about Americans not being able to point to the Middle East on a map resurfaced, a legacy of the war his own dad waged in the early ’90s.
The infamous “Fool Me Once” speech the Mission Accomplished banner brought out for a mission that to this day has not fully been accomplished the inability to pronounce the word “nuclear” despite the fact that he was supposedly determined to hunt down nuclear weapons in the Middle East. Bush’s time in office earned its own word: Bushisms. The climate of idiocy surrounding George W.
Sixteen years before we elected the most embarrassing president in US history, we elected the second most embarrassing president in US history.
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