Without Irony: The Caveat being that the one requirement in writing this Affirmative Statement-George W. Bush's Greatest Legacy as President- is from the perspective of the left-leaning moderate. The rebuttal comes from a right- leaning moderate. Bush’s War: In the PBS Frontline piece, we discovered that the lead-up to the war was carefully orchestrated by members of the Bush administration, akin to the role out of a new marketing strategy. They wanted to “sell” the American public on the idea of going to war. On the ground, the buzz on the streets was simply that Bush Jr. wanted to “finish the job” that his father had started, by going into Baghdad and taking down a despot. Saddam Hussein was a thorn in the side of the Bush legacy, and W wanted to repair the damage. Indeed, the general consensus seemed to be that the powder keg that was the Middle East would become much less volatile if only Hussein could be driven out of power. ...