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The
View from the Meadow
Observations
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Political
and Social Commentary by Dave Satre
| Lest We Forget....... Bush's Legacy George Walker Bush will be remembered in history for his total ineptness and his abuse of the power of the presidency. His reputation includes the failed Iraq war, the near destruction of the United States' reputation around the world, his favoritism for his cronies to the detriment of the people, and the financial disaster that resulted from the corruption of his presidency. His multitude of failures include the economic failure, resulting in a global depression, and the ensuing bailouts for big money while continuing to poor mouth when it came to rebuilding the infrastructure or providing healthcare and improved educational systems for the masses. His destruction of Civil Rights include attacking the Constitutional rights of free speech and assembly, as well as spying on citizens, tapping their phones, opening private mail, reading personal email, breaking and entering private homes and even arresting and torturing people without a court issued warrant. Bush's elimination of the Usury Laws controlling business enabled the rich to grow greedy at the expense of the poor and middle classes. He spent $$trillions to aid the financial, energy and petroleum industries, and the military industrial complex while handing out illegal no-bid contracts for his cronies. He raised the National Debt to more than $10.7 trillion, the highest in history, and developed the largest deficit the country has ever known while claiming to be against government spending And Bush and Cheney had the audacity to continuously claim they had the right to operate in complete secrecy and had all of their private papers locked away from the public in perpetuity. And Bush and Cheney continuously claimed they were above the law and that Congress and the courts did not have the power to stop them. There is also plentiful evidence that Bush was our nation's first sociopathic president.
George W. Bush presided over 152 executions while governor of Texas, more than any other American governor, and has expressed arrogance -- never regret -- when questioned about this. His Iraq war resulted in the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, including over 4,209 Americans and over 30,871 wounded, many handicapped for life, despite the fact that Iraq had had nothing to do with the attack on America of 9/11. And Bush has not provided the services and health care promised to these troops. He has actually fought to stop extra funding for educational and other benefits for veterans. GW never honored the dead and wounded from the Iraq war. No pictures of funerals or flag-draped coffins were allowed in the media.. He sent our troops into an unjustified war with inadequate equipment. He promised “Shock and Awe,” and that the war would be over in a matter of weeks. It's going on six years with no end in sight! He has never accepted the blame for the war, instead claiming to have been misinformed. He had been informed at many levels, but never listened. He has attacked critics, pushing to have them fired or attempting to destroy their reputations. Few Republicans have dared to cross him for fear of the destruction of their careers, which enabled the Bush Regime to ram their ill-conceived policies through Congress. Bush believes that he is always right. He claims to believe in the Bible and that the Lord speaks through him. But:
The spoiled son of a rich and politically powerful family, Bush never achieved anything on his own – unless you count being a cheerleader at Yale. He was at the bottom of his class at every educational level – without his family ties he wouldn't have been accepted even at his high school, much less Yale or the Harvard Business School. He was a total failure in business and should have been convicted of insider trading, not put in the White House. He is obviously not very intellectual. He has rarely exhibited intellectual curiosity and is relatively uninformed about life, especially as it relates to the common man. He never reads, doesn't use the Internet, doesn't watch TV news. His lack of knowledge placed him at the mercy of his advisors, and they turned out to be Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, et. al. He lacked the judgment to know they were wrong and were pushing personal agendas. Bush's legacy will be that of an inept leader who failed at every turn and the countless deaths caused by his incompetence. The fact that America elected this sociopath and even re-elected him will be an eternal embarrassment to the reputation of Americans and the country's model of democracy. Now, when it is far too late, even die-hard Republicans and the hard-right Christians are waking up to the fact that Bush and Company did not represent true Republican values. They lied and employed the deceptive campaigning tactics formerly practiced by the communists by promising voters what they wanted, and then employing their personal agenda (The Project for a New American Century). In other words, President GW Bush will be remembered as a lying sociopath, a man who left the White House with a smile on his face, a fortune in his pocket and the blood of hundreds of thousands on his hands. That is his legacy.
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