Ultimately, I will have to wait for more document releases - transcripts and the like.
I was able to see him in person, and I know what the military was like under him. I do not get the sense he was a fully complicit player with the cabal. Doing a bit of Monday morning sense-motive checks - I get the sense he felt the cabal structure was wrong - but was largely without the tools or experience to dismantle it.
I think classifying him as anything close to the same as Obama is a mistake - but that may just be the depth of the deception. One must wonder, then, why they would not opt to continue with more people like Bush, if he was truly as complicit and evil asany here suggest he was.