Bush did not kill 10 billion current people (at $1,000 per life) and he massively increased health-oriented foreign aid to Africa
Bush wasn’t a candidate in the 2008 presidential election, so it itself it’s irrelevant what he did or didn’t do. (Of course, you could make the meta argument that a Republican president is likely to behave similarly to another Republican president).
I was offering that as evidence that clean partisan lines don’t capture all the key variation, and to note that “$10 trillion” in losses suffered mostly by the global rich would likely be much less important (from a GWWC perspective) than a small fraction of that money that would otherwise be used in more efficiently humanitarian ways. And to blunt any signalling from the quote enough to ensure a broad audience could read the post without getting into arguments as soldiers mode.
Bush wasn’t a candidate in the 2008 presidential election, so it itself it’s irrelevant what he did or didn’t do. (Of course, you could make the meta argument that a Republican president is likely to behave similarly to another Republican president).
I was offering that as evidence that clean partisan lines don’t capture all the key variation, and to note that “$10 trillion” in losses suffered mostly by the global rich would likely be much less important (from a GWWC perspective) than a small fraction of that money that would otherwise be used in more efficiently humanitarian ways. And to blunt any signalling from the quote enough to ensure a broad audience could read the post without getting into arguments as soldiers mode.