TIL that in WW2 nine airmen escaped from their planes after being shot down during bombing raids. 8 of these men were captured, tortured, beheaded and eaten. The 9th man was George H. W. Bush

I don't understand why people hate on the Bush family so much. Coming from someone who thinks George W. Bush made some policies that I feel have been worse than most US presidents, I have to admire their intelligence, determination and heart.

George W. Bush was accepted into and maintained decent grades at one of the most prestigious schools in the US. And before anyone says anything about money or power. My friend who is son to a 2 digit millionaire, and who donated so much money to a Ivy-league school they built a building with his name, did not get into said school.

Also, George W. Bush, I feel is not the worst president we have seen in history I don't think any president is the worst, however, there have been questionable policies on all sides that may have hurt the nation more than helped.

JFK was aware of the Bay of Pigs invasion and pulled out resulting in many deaths and furthering tension with the USSR, Jimmy Carter was arguably the least fit person to be president there ever has been and he was a pretty terrible president in a lot of peoples views based on the fact he was too much a pacifist as well as was uniformed. Bill Clinton totally abandoned and ignored The Constitution in some measures he enacted as president. Obama pulled out of a country too soon and it created a race for ground between two known terrorist entities. Lyndon B. Johnson led the US to war over a incident that did not involve enemy forces. I have heard US presidents called anti-Semites and racist from my Professors when going to college, however true that is I am not sure.

Listen, none of said presidents are horrible people(maybe those who were actually anti-Semite or bigoted were not morally sound). Most if not all of our countries presidents are/were intelligent and worked their assess off to become president. To say George W. Bush or Barack Obama are the worst presidents is ignorant, and idiotic. Other Presidents have made better or worse decisions on certain subjects.

Every US president has done their best to further the nation in their best efforts to the right place, some have made mistakes, some early pioneers of this country were slave owners. But let's appreciate that they worked their whole lives to help their country, and did a better job than millions of other people had during their time, and were elected as the leaders of a vast nation with a lot of natural wealth, as well as cultural and monetary.

All our presidents just wanted to do their best to make our country the best it can be, and making fun and calling one idiotic is I feel ignorant, yeah we can disagree with their policies but to question their heart and intelligence is idiotic.

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