All poloticians lie I guess that if they didn’t they wouldn’t be elected. Better to hear a nice lie than a hard truth. "So all presidents forget or change their minds or tell lies. Even so, Reagan was a consistent foe to Soviet Imperial expansion and ended the Cold War. Clinton balanced the budget. Bush the younger kept us safe after 9/11. They all have some bragging rights." Actually the Soviet Union collapse because it was withheld banking loans and depreciation in the value of oil which the Soviet system had it not received banking loans from western banks collapsed under all the regimes. By the 70’s taking advantage of the Jackson-Vanik amendment the USSR used it as a conduit for the black market economy to keep the Soviet economy afloat. And it had more to do with estimations of Europe’s future energy demands calculate during the mid 70’s Europe’s future would be dependent on Eurasian oil and gas then under USSR control hence Brezinski/Gates initiative under Carter administration to secretly train and finance Afghan Islamic guerrillas 6 months prior to the Soviet invasion hence it’s strategic position to push into Central Asia and the wars in Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Tajikistan, Islamic insurgency in Xinjing and Kashmir. All of which perhaps maybe Kashmiri separatists are supported and financed by the CIA through organisations like NED. No coincidence that Brezinski was and is at the forefront who policy and lobbying against Serbia and Russia. In fact if you notice all the areas of highest Islamic fighting since the collapse of the USSR they are in geo-political areas with untaped oil reserves to be developed like Algeria. In the Balkans Clinton and his staff helped facilitate the establishment of international terrorism in Europe including Bin Laden personally meeting the President of Bosnia in 95 as well as Atta and KSM. As for bush protecting the US after 9/11 the fact that not a single terror cell has been convicted planning attacks against the US on domestic soil or credible evidence for Intel of an attack from abroad and even the CFR admitted the Taliban were not supporting Al Qaeda and Bin Laden did not run the camps in Afghanistan and there is no evidence connecting Afghanistan and Bin Laden to 9/11 (check out his FBI most wanted list on there website). The Taliban itself was created in the mid 90’s by the CIA/ISI. And all the links lead to the hijackers are the US closest allies Britain, Germany, France, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. So Bush has helped spur the decline of the US dollar by getting it in trillions of dollars in debt by launching pointless protractive wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, massive hike in the defence budget and continuing borrowing from abroad .