Boston Bombing

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George W. Bush lied to us about Iraq, and started an unnecessary war that caused more American deaths than 9/11. He also established secret prisons around the world, where inmates were tortured.

George H. W. Bush banned the importation of military-style semi-auto rifles.

Ronald Reagan sold weapons to Iran to fund a covert war against Nicaragua. He also banned production of machine guns for civilians.

Richard Nixon gave us Watergate. And during his reign, unarmed students were massacred by National Guard troops.

Colin Powell relayed information from the CIA to the world about WMD in Iraq. They had to craft it in a way that would not focus on the WMD's that we had been selling to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War, which we later learned were smuggled to Syria starting in 1998. Even so, we did find remains of chemical weapons and manufacturing centers for WMD, and Saddam drew on the perception that he had WMD to intimidate the region willfully. It's very simplistic to categorize the Iraq pretext to war as a lie and blame Bush for it, but it does fit the marxist media template of being extremely disgruntled about not being able to get Al Gore elected via massive voter fraud. Imagine what the official story would have been regarding 9/11 if Al Gore had been President.

Yes, George H. W. Bush did preside over the ATF extra-constitutional decision to ban importation of military-style semi autos.

Ronald Reagan did not sell weapons to Iran to fund the formerly overt war in Nicaragua, George H. W. Bush/Oliver North/William Secord did, without Reagan's knowledge. Guess who Reagan didn't endorse as the Republican nominee in 1988 for President? Reagan and Bush were about as far apart ideologically as could be, and ran against each other in the 1980 primaries. Bush is the one who called Reagan's economic policies "voodoo economics". He was literally one of the last people Reagan wanted anywhere near his cabinet, but was left with 2 choices at the convention in Detroit in 1980, and basically had to train his gag reflex not to work when his committee staff pressured him on Bush. It was either him or Ford, and Ford would have been a disaster.

Republican Presidents have not appointed 2 KKK members to the Supreme Court, racially-profiled patriotic Americans and interned them in prison camps, or presided over the biggest economic crises in US history. It wasn't a Republican President that oversaw the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, and went against the findings of the Rand Corporation to throw tens of thousands of lives wastefully into Indochina in a conventional military approach. I dislike much of both parties, because they tend to resemble each other in many ways once they get together in D.C., but the big D machine has worked extremely hard to transform America more into a Nation governed by principles totally counter to those the Nation was founded on, and they do it often with the help or acquiescence of the RINOs that are the majority in the big R machine.

As far as change goes, there's nothing that will ever compel me to recognize the degradation of our Nation, and simply accept it as destiny without working to counteract the forces of self-servitude. Both political parties are obviously about serving the party interests first, and to hell with the Nation. If you ever spend time in D.C. and see some of the on-goings in our Capitol, you are forced to accept that reality, and it is a bitter one.