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reminds me of when trump disbanded the government's pandemic response team ~~for no other reason than obama created it.~~ and then covid happened...
edit: pandemic response team was created by bush, then expanded by obama.
trump gutted it
Or Bush/Cheney got rid of experts on Al-Qaeda and bin Laden upon taking over the office because of whatever reasons.
Because the Bush family had always been close to the house of saud. Of which Bin Laden was a member. On September 11th before anything was even clear. They had gone through and evacuated every member of the House of saud from the US. The majority of the attackers being from Saudi Arabia and also funded by Saudi Arabia. Bin Laden was also trained and armed by his father and Ronald Reagan. Their history goes way back.
Ah, yes, back when "enemy of my enemy is my friend" was used.
What do you mean the group we funded to fight off the imperialistic superpower that we were in a Cold War against is now against us and our interference in the region? /s
This is not a past tense thing with US foreign policy by any measure.
A true leopard's ate my face moment.
"I didn't think my enemy would attack us when we supported them in attacking our enemies!"
They smothered NASA too
… But that was a Bush thing.
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/george-bush-2005-wait-pandemic-late-prepare/story?id=69979013
Like, Regeneron and Moderna were direct US DARPA funding that came out because Bush was certain a new flu pandemic was enroute any day now.
It's a bit jarring to remember the era when Republicans weren't purely cartoonishly evil.
oops--editing
Trump wants to disband most beneficial government agencies because it’s a win win for him. Fascists need enemies, and his corporate mistresses will benefit from deregulation