After all, conservatives hailed the debt boom of the Bush years as a triumph of free-market finance right up to the moment it turned into a disastrous bust.

毕竟，保守分子将布什时代的债务繁荣称赞为自由市场金融的伟大胜利，直到这种繁荣变成灾难性的破灭。

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And what we've had instead over the last three years is disastrous incompetence by the Bush administration and a really fragmented damaged Iraqi society that has not overcome its history of violence.

NPR: Reflections on Three Years of War in Iraq

The establishment embraced Mr Bush because he seemed to promise an easy chance of rehabilitating itself after a disastrous few years when it had been outfoxed by Bill Clinton and led up the garden path by Newt Gingrich.

ECONOMIST: An elephant never forgives (they say)