He helped manipulate a broken and frightened country into supporting a war that had no purpose (aside from the pursuit of oil and finishing up Papa Bush's bidniz with Hussein). Turns out wars are expensive, and we've dug ourselves in a hole of debt so deep our generation will be climbing out of for years to come. To say nothing of allowing further deregulation that has us in our current banking crisis. War crimes, tax cuts for the rich, it goes on, and on, and on..