Joe Klein suggests this image as an appropriate monument to George W, Bush:
"This is not the America I know," President George W. Bush said after the first, horrifying pictures of U.S. troops torturing prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq surfaced in April 2004. The President was not telling the truth. "This" was the America he had authorized on Feb. 7, 2002, when he signed a memorandum stating that the Third Geneva Convention -- the one regarding the treatment of enemy prisoners taken in wartime -- did not apply to members of al-Qaeda or the Taliban. That signature led directly to the abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay. It was his single most callous and despicable act. It stands at the heart of the national embarrassment that was his presidency. ...
That's Joe Klein. Bob Cesca thinks a more telling image to capture the essence of the man is this, the video of his response to being told the country was under attack, on 9/11/2001.
This 10 minute video says all we need to know about GW Bush as a "leader".
It is essential that we not allow the truth of the worst presidency in our history to become muddled by partisan hacks and radio clowns. They will continue to blame Clinton. They're already trying to blame Obama, and now they're trotting out Roosevelt to blame for all our troubles.
If we can't face the truth, we'll never be able to fix anything. We cannot let this kind of thing happen again.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
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