George Bush's Legacy

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that Bush Jr is about the most callous government official our country has ever had the misfortune of having as governor and president.

Bush's efforts to over-ride the decision of Shiavo's husband to stop the tube feeding of his wife in a coma by going to the Supreme Court fooled many of his supporters when he said "each life is precious!"

There's no cure for stupid.

C I

George Bush's Neoconservative friends are furious. Their champion seems to have allowed himself to be converted to diplomatic realism. The cause of their discontent is Undersecretary of State William Burns' participation last week in a discussion of the nuclear question with an Iranian negotiator. The Weekly Standard, which is their favorite vehicle for expression, recalls numerous peremptory remarks by the President himself and by his collaborators, expressing hostility to any negotiation whatsoever, so long as Tehran doesn't suspend its uranium enrichment program. Mr. Bush, then, did not keep his word. And Neoconservatives worry that it may become a pattern. A few months ago, he set drastic conditions for negotiation with North Korea, also concerning the nuclear question, and he would have abandoned them without any real concessions.

The few adherents that this group, quickly losing steam in Washington, still has in the Department of State would share the opinion of the Weekly Standard, if one is to take the word of an anonymous high official cited in the periodical: it's no longer preemptive war, but "preemptive capitulation." Has George Bush, a born-again Christian, been converted again? This is, in effect, the question raised by the presence of William Burns in Geneva with the Iranian representative. The answer isn't clear.

http://watchingamerica.com/News/2912/george-bushs-new-conversion/

Far too long to post the netire article. You should read it though/

Bush indeed has a history. He has a history of launching military aggression. He has a history of launching military aggression on the basis of manufactured threats. He has a history of launching military aggression without the agreement of allies abroad. He has a history of launching military aggression against the advice of "military skeptics," whom he either "retires" or sidelines or ignores when he launches the aggression. He has a history of launching military aggression regardless of the strain it puts on the armed forces or the national treasury.

And he does not need "political support at home" to launch another act of military aggression, if by "political support" Powers means popular backing from the public. Bush is not facing re-election, and never will again. And he has already been given full support from the Democratic-controlled Congress in a series of measures which fully embrace Bush's bellicose stance toward Iran, as well as the specious casus belli he has advanced.

We are indeed simply waiting to see if Bush decides to carry through with his clear intent -- and waiting helplessly, for exactly the reason that Powers outlines: because "no significant national leader in the United States has ever disowned or objected to [the threat of war on Iran] in clear, vigorous, principled language." Indeed, as noted above, all of our "significant national leaders" are in lockstep on this issue, and in their willingness to do "everything in [their] power to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, everything in [their] power to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon -- everything."

So yes, Bush has a history of military aggression. And the United States has a history of incinerating civilians with nuclear bombs. What seems to be forgotten in all the bloodlusting furor is that Iran has a history of neither"

http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1555/135/

But for Bush
USA would have been a
filthy
nasty power.

Bush has accomplished what many presidents will have difficulty doing no matter how much effort they put into it. He changed the status of the USA from a superpower to a whimp with hardly any support from our allies.

C I
I uphold, honour, respect USA not because of anthing other than BUSH's legacy.
Amen
Rama

Bush's "do it my way or the highway" has shown to be disastrous for not only the US, but for many around the world. That's going to be a feat most future presidents will not accomplish no matter how much effort they put into it.

Tomorrow is here.
The game is over.
The crisis has passed -- and the patient is dead.
Whatever dream you had about what America is, it isn't that anymore.
It's gone.
And not just in some abstract sense, some metaphorical or mythological sense, but down in the nitty-gritty, in the concrete realities of institutional structures and legal frameworks, of policy and process, even down to the physical nature of the landscape and the way that people live.

The Republic you wanted -- and at one time might have had the power to take back -- is finished.
You no longer have the power to keep it; it's not there.
It was kidnapped in December 2000, raped by the primed and ready exploiters of 9/11, whored by the war pimps of the 2003 aggression, gut-knifed by the corrupters of the 2004 vote, and raped again by its "rescuers" after the 2006 election.
Beaten, abused, diseased and abandoned, it finally died. We are living in its grave....

"How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it." - Thoreau

.....The time has passed for ordinary political opposition, "within the system." The system itself has been perverted and converted into something else; it is now impossible to "work within the system" in the old understanding of that term, because that old system is gone. To work within the current system is to collaborate with evil, to give it legitimacy.

http://www.chris-floyd.com/

The Bush Legacy, propaganda on a Goebbels' scale.

W's legacy??

He prevented anything else like 9-11 from taking place after 8 years worth of KKKlintler incompetence and malfeasance brought 9-11 about, and then survived eight years worth of baseless, stupid, and incessant attacks from the de-moKKKer-Rats and their lapdog media.

Well said, gunga.

You forgot to mention he also prevented Venusians from attacking the Earth. And he prevented Adolf Hitler from being cloned. And he prevented Osama Bin Laden from becoming a martyr.


(I suppose if Al Qaeda attacks the US anytime in the next 2 years it will still be Clinton's fault.)

How nice of you oKKKie to agree with gunga.

I agree with him too. Bush is a decent president. Four years of Obama will most definitely prove me/us right.

Some people can't see the ruin this country is now in, because they "believe" in Bush. Amazing, considering more families are going bankrupt after eight years of Bush. I guess all conservatives are not suffering from this economic malaise; all their family and friends are doing just dandy!

Some people will swear to their graves they were not wrong about Bush, and even blame the next president for not being able to bring our country back to where we were before Bush.

It must be nice to be blind and dumb in this environment, while our fellow Americans are losing their homes, paying more for fuel and food, and banks being taken over by the feds.

There's no cure for stupid.

No, you prove that every single day here at A2K.

Everything was pretty good back before the Dems took over Congress. Look what has happened in just a year and a half!!!

No kidding.

They raised the minimum wage and then cried foul when unemployment numbers went like it was Bush's fault. It really boggles the mind how anyone could support the Democratic party.

The problem is, you don't have a mind to "boggle."