I think we're having two different conversations.

What Bush would do is completely irrelevant, because Obama is different (and, many feel, `better`, as a human being) than Bush.

We're not talking about the mess the country's in, at least, I didn't think we were.  We're talking about a guy, with a gun, in the vicinity of the President. 

Bush, almost certainly, would have flipped, and the guy would have a nice time being tortured in a rather funky dungeon, without due process.  It would quite suck for him, unless he was into that sort of thing. (I'm picturing those cartoons of Cheney, in leather, at Cagle's political cartoon index, and I think I just puked in my mouth, a little.) 

So, yes, Bush is completely irrelevant. Thankfully, we don't have to care what he'd do, because he's (and, I truly do thank whatever deity/deities may or may not exist for this) no longer president, and no longer in charge.

Now, if we were talking about WHY people are so angry, and why things aren't so good in this great nation of ours at the moment, then Bush becomes quite relevant, as do folks like Madoff.   

The essence of freedom is proper limitation of government.