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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (38928)	2/12/2013 9:08:43 AM
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7 Things Democrats Would Have Freaked Out About If Bush Had Done Them Obama's national security policy has continued some of the most controversial moves of the Bush administration. Silence from much of the left. posted on February 11, 2013 at 1:44pm EST Benny Johnson BuzzFeed Staff posted a few minutes ago Democrats were overjoyed when George W. Bush left office in January of 2009. View this image › Via: amfussybroad Obama had promised to end Bush's hawkish foreign policy and the "war on terror's" detention and interrogation regime. View this image › Image by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images But in the beginning of his fifth year as president, Obama's record has been surprisingly similar to his predecessor's in those areas. View this image › Image by Kevin Lamarque / Reuters 1. Democrats fought George W. Bush’s troop surge in Iraq in 2006. View this image › Image by Hans Deryk / Reuters Obama copied it in Afghanistan in 2009. View this image › Image by Charles Dharapak / AP You would think Democrats would react the same way they did to Bush's surge policy: View this image › Via: iced-gif But they were really more like: View this image › Via: iced-gif 2. American deaths in Afghanistan have skyrocketed since Obama took office. View this image › Image by Steve Ruark / AP Actually, the death tolls in Afghanistan under each administration look like this: View this image › So you would think Democrats would react like this: View this image › Via: sleepinbeaute But they are much more like this. View this image › Via: sleepinbeaute 3. President Obama's drones and special operators are working down "kill lists" of suspected terrorists. View this image › Image by Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Obama even put Anwar al-Awlaki — an American citizen — on such a list. View this image › Al-Awlaki was killed under secret authorization from the justice department in 2011. Source: tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com If Bush did this, the Democrats would be all like: View this image › Via: brittanygracex But now they are more like: View this image › Via: brittanygracex 4. Drone attacks have risen sharply under Obama. View this image › Image by Photo: EPA Last year, a teenage American citizen, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, was taken out in a drone strike without a trial. View this image › Via: cdn.theatlantic.com If Bush did this, Democrats would literally hyperventilate. View this image › Via: deartrolls But with Obama they are more like: View this image › Via: deartrolls 5. In Pakistan alone, the administration has launched more than 300 drone strikes. View this image › Via: thenewstribe.com Pakistani civilian casualties due to these strikes are as high as 800 according to international estimates. View this image › Image by AFP / Getty Images So the Democrats should be like: View this image › Via: brittanygracex But they are a lot more like: View this image › Via: brittanygracex 6. Obama promised to end the Bush-era torture interrogation practices. View this image › Image by Kevin Lamarque / Reuters But last year the U.N. released three damning reports detailing torture in Afghan facilities under Obama's security watch. View this image › Image by Andrew Burton / Reuters When Bush did this, Democrats were like: View this image › Via: deartrolls Now: View this image › Via: deartrolls 7. Obama was unable to deliver on his pledge to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center, which Bush had also said he would close. View this image › Image by John Moore / Getty Images When Bush did this, Democrats were all like: View this image › Via: iced-gif And... View this image › Via: mr-growley 8. And... View this image › Via: mr-growley But now they are much more like: View this image › Via: iced-gif "We may not be so different, you and I." View this image › Image by Courtesy of the Bush Center, Houston Texas. buzzfeed.com