text: With just a little research, the following will be made apparent to you. Bush did not cause the 9/11 attacks, Iraq was approved by almost every democrat, including Hillary, The surplus was going away due to the dot.com bubble bursting before Bush was sworn in, causing a small recession. 9/11 impacted the economy much greater than we knew at the time. After the tax cuts, annual deficits fell to 161 billion in 2006. After democrats took control of the house and Bush misplaced his veto authority, the deficit ballooned to 450 billion in 2007. The market meltdown actually had little to do with either democrats or republicans. It was caused by a large number of very large investment companies investing heavily in garbage mortgages and then having them crash. The country had robust growth, falling unemployment, rising wages and greatly increased receipts to the government from 2003 to the end of 2007.