"having won two wars far easier than predicted by the press "
No sense going any farther. Those weren't "wars". Afghanistan's most modern weapon was an RPG, or thereabouts.
Writing in the Daily Mirror, John Pilger reveals that both US Secretary of State Colin Powell and Bush's closest adviser Condaleeza Rice said, in 2001, that Saddam Hussein was effectively disarmed and no threat - putting the lie to their own propaganda. : Pilger : 22 Sep 2003
"War" my foot. Bush successfully invaded, using the mightiest Armed Force in the world, two minor third-world countries.
One of whom is almost completely back in the hands of the Taliban.
And the other is largely controlled by insurgents, the US controlling a geographic minority.
Arf