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It's hard to really illustrate to younger generations exactly how profoundly stupid George W. Bush is.
- No he wasn't, he was evil and deluded.
  
  Evil, deluded, and profoundly stupid are not mutually exclusive.
- I mean, part of that was his political strategy. He knew exactly what he was doing.

Maybe he believed it, maybe not.
My take is that Bush was trying to sell the WMD bullshit so hard he wouldn't be above telling allies that he could make flying monkeys shoot out of his ass if he thought that it would get him any support for his war to enrich defense contractors.
- Always follow the money.

Absolutely terrifying that such a man was in charge of post-911 USA
- And it's even more horrifying that a significant chunk of the US population apparently actually believes shit like this.
  
  And it's even more horrifying that the guy they have now makes Dubya look downright reasonable.

Yep. Reagan believed the second advent was to come in his time and he was ready to blow the godless Soviets to kingdom come. Stillson from The Dead Zone was inspired off him (Played by Martin Sheen, so a younger, bizarro-world Jed Bartlet)
Only, the USSR wouldn't first strike. And Reagan wasn't willing to kickoff the ball game, even when his peacekeeper missile was ready.
Life went on and George H. W. Bush went on to condemn atheists as unamerican, himself a true believer. So the nut doesn't fall too far from the tree.