George W. Bush has deliberately polarized and divided America for political purposes, politicizing the most basic questions of war and peace for partisan advantage.
Sidney BlumenthalGeorge W. Bush has exhibited hostility to science that no other president has ever displayed.
Sidney BlumenthalWe barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings.
Sidney BlumenthalBut presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.
Sidney BlumenthalWho was it in Afghanistan who screwed up in Tora Bora and let bin Laden escape? It was the Bush Administration. Who leached all the resources, military and civil, from Afghanistan, creating the instability that we see there today in order to prepare for the misbegotten invasion of Iraq? It was the Bush administration. If there's a terrorist problem today, who is responsible now? Bush has not done the job.
Sidney Blumenthal