Continuing our look back at the Bush Years, 2003 was dominated by the Iraq War. That will be covered in a separate entry. Non-Iraq news was dominated by health issues.
The Bush Administration passed the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit. This program is the biggest government program since the Great Society. The program is popular amongst seniors, but will prove expensive in the long term. It comes as a surprise to many that a Republican president would push this especially during a war. However, the social conservative wing of the GOP is liberal on government intervention and social programs. In this way, the Social Conservatives are no different than liberals.
The other major health issue tackled by the Bush Administration is African AIDS Relief. Bush is the first president to really address AIDS in Africa and Third World poverty relief. It is one of the issues that the left give him credit on.
Lastly, the Columbia disintegrated upon reentry in February.
The rest of the year was all Iraq all the time.
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