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Originally Posted by RichieLion
The OP posited that there are no politicians today of the caliber of those in the past that he admired for making tough decisions without regard to their personal impact.
I submitted that I thought George W. Bush is indeed of that same caliber. I never said he made exactly the same decisions as those leaders did, but that he would have, without question. George W. Bush proved time and again that he put the nation before himself.
There is no contemporary of his you can say this about.
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As someone who is a fanatic of sorts on history, I can assure you that history will treat GW Bush very kindly as greatness of men is always measured in hindsight.
On another sort of unrelated note......the famous drones that are always in the headlines were actually developed by the CIA, not the military and OKd by none other than GW Bush.
Most importantly to the thread theme, the one point the stands out in the thread opener is that that generation of which I as a young lad, was the greatest generation as Tom Brokaw has said. Character counted then....it does not now count nearly as much.