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I don't think so. For all his flaws he's still just a human and worthy of respect. Many people may disagree with his ideas and his methods but he's had a successful life which is worth remembering after death.

I shall not. While I have no love for the man, that's the exact same crassness Trump exemplified and reveled in. I will not emulate him nor will I respect those who do, even his opponents.

"'An eye for an eye' leaves the whole world blind."

I definitely don't intend to. I just know people will.

If you're old enough to remember GWB being in office, contrast how people thought about him then (which was similar to Trump in a sense) to how they think about him now. In some new future republican administration, people may think similarly about Trump as they do now re: GWB.

Did you seriously changed your opinion about GWB? Why? For me it's same, no reason to change it, no new facts to paint him better that what he really was. If I missed something in recent years about him then I am more than happy to learn more.

I will always remember his face from Fahrenheit during kindergarten visit when he was told about 9/11 and how he froze for 10 minutes. I don't like that 'document' and I don't like Moore since he was far from objective, but GWB is a rather dark figure. He has blood of hundreds of thousands if not millions on his hands and that is never ever going away.

No, I did not. But society at large seems to.

I don't think society did. It's just that no one imagined someone even worse in almost every regard becoming president. I don't think anyone thinks better of GWB, simply that the bar was greatly lowered.

How could you possibly think Trump is worse than GWB?

GWB: Ignored warning signs for 9/11, Patriot Act, NSA mass spying, Afghanistan mismanagement, got us into Iraq on falsehoods, Iraq mismanagement, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, supported torture, Katrina mismanagement, 2008 financial crisis. I'm sure there are things I'm forgetting, but his presidency did things that are still causing issues today.

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