Bush's Top 10 Successes

Forget what you’ve heard about W’s presidency, writes Fred Barnes in the Weekly Standard. His decisive courage gave his term many successes:

• Rejecting the Kyoto Protocol: The treaty was broken—it exempted India and China from carbon emissions responsibility—but only Bush had the courage to say so.
• Enhanced interrogation of terrorists: The crucial intelligence gained by waterboarding al-Qaeda leaders like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed saved lives.

• Medicare prescription drug benefit: The program is popular and has saved costs by encouraging competition among pharmaceutical companies.
• John Roberts and Samuel Alito: Bush can take credit for making the Court more conservative.
• The surge. No one liked the idea of sending more troops to Iraq, but the surge and Petraeus counterinsurgency strategy worked.

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