To clarify a little more so I don't continue to embarrass myself...
If unproven claims were not part of the formula could you or anyone maintain that the Bush clan was 'worse' than any other examples of American behavior. I told you long ago the only thing I found wrong about Junior's war action is the fact that it was a lie that started the war. Saddam was magnitudes worse in terms of warmongering and disregard for human life. He was a genocidal maniac. It is good that he is gone and that was the only saving grace.
By comparison, I found Reagan much more despicable than Bush. I liked Nixon but then there was a lot I didn't realize about his true legacy. I found inspiration in his outreach to China. I'm not a fan of war and truly I don't understand where humanity finds the depravity to wage it, but we do it...and in the end we either win or lose and there is not much else to say.
Again, don't misunderstand what I'm saying...'I' with an exaggerated I would never do it but the benign psychopath is there to take up the mantle for the sake of the vulnerable human. Motives, motives, motives...why we do it, how we wage it, and what are our end goals? Those are very sobering questions that of necessity have to be addressed in the here and now.
And last but not least, today's Republican party is decidedly NOT the party of Abraham Lincoln, hell as we well know even Abraham Lincoln was not Abraham Lincoln, but that is the nature of the reality that we deal with daily.