Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Bob Herbert has a good idea

As George W. Bush prepares to hand over the keys to the White House and quietly slip out of town, Bob Herbert thinks we should do something about that.
When Mr. Bush officially takes his leave in three weeks (in reality, he checked out long ago), most Americans will be content to sigh good riddance. I disagree. I don’t think he should be allowed to slip quietly out of town. There should be a great hue and cry — a loud, collective angry howl, demonstrations with signs and bullhorns and fiery speeches — over the damage he’s done to this country.

This is the man who gave us the war in Iraq and Guantánamo and torture and rendition; who turned the Clinton economy and the budget surplus into fool’s gold; who dithered while New Orleans drowned; who trampled our civil liberties at home and ruined our reputation abroad; who let Dick Cheney run hog wild and thought Brownie was doing a heckuva job.

The Bush administration specialized in deceit. How else could you get the public (and a feckless Congress) to go along with an invasion of Iraq as an absolutely essential response to the Sept. 11 attacks, when Iraq had had nothing to do with the Sept. 11 attacks?
Li'l Georgie doesn't do history,but the rest of us should make sure that history has all the details. It's a pity the SS won't let us give a damn good thrashing that he deserves.

// posted by montag @ 6:45 AM
Comments:
May he be pelted with horse dung and rotten tomatoes every day for the rest of his miserable life.

Fred Flintstone
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 12:13 PM
 

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