1. For being decisive & not buckling under pressure.
2. He bought in necon philosophy & went on to spread what the neocon agenda was based on unilaterlism if requireed because we were the sole superpower & if required we will take swift decisions if the allies were slow in coming.
3. He kept the terrorist attacks after 9/11 away from our soil, where as the other liberal countries have not been able to do.So he made us safer.
4. He took the war to somebody else’s soil and has been an ardent supporter of democracy far more than any others perhaps with the exception of FDR & Truman.
5. Saddam may not have built & left a cache of WMDs but surely he was close enough to be able to make them unleash them on his neighbors. Had he been allowed to survive today’s democrats will sing a different song.
6. Others may not like us but when they did we were good only to give them aid and build them up. So does International respect have much value.

For all the reasons above, I hope history judges him a lot better than today’s polls.

Sam Bansal
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