Well, he kinda was.

I defended Bush II a *lot* - especially form some of the more savage liberal epithets ("trained monkey" being one I remember specifically).

But the facts speak for themselves.

We had a LOT of support for going into Afghanistan. He (Bush) even did 'the right thing' (IMO) in giving the Taliban a warning: "Hand over Bin Laden or else". Granted you, me, him and every person on the planet knew what the response to THAT would be.

Iraq? Not so much. A lot of countries were pulled into that kicking and screaming. As the news later came out that the WMDs had vanished and Saddam was most likely bluffing a LOT, we lost prestige. Abu Graib had us lose more. Finding out about ignoring any intelligence that ran contrary to The Party Line on WMDs had us looking BAD.

And when you look at the fact that we're still in Germany, Japan and countless bases all over the world - you begin to understand how someone can see things that way.