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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
Fair enough. I misunderstood you. I'm glad that you don't think Bush is a "murderous thug".
If Bush's wars were so evil, then isn't Obama just as bad as Bush? Obama is continuing the wars.
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Hmm...well I didn't say I didn't
think it, I just said I didn't
say it in that post.

As for the Obama administration, in Iraq they are gradually implementing a phased withdrawal. I give them some credit for that, although I am not sure their efforts there really differ greatly from how the Bush administration would be handling Iraq now were it still in power. However, I wouldn't say that gradually implementing a slow end to a completely unnecessary war is "just as bad" as starting a completely unnecessary war in the first place.
As far as Afghanistan, I think the Obama administration's decisions to ramp up U.S. efforts there are absolutely horrible. I have criticized the administration's actions there on numerous occasions, and hope that other liberals do the same. If we only criticize the Bush administration when they do crap like this and give the Obama administration a free ride, we are just as hypocritical as all the conservatives who suddenly started caring about the debt and deficit in January '09 after ignoring it for eight years.