Dan Froomkin: froomkin@huffingtonpost.com | HuffPost Reporting First Posted: 11-22-10 09:53 AM | Updated: 11-22-10 11:46
WASHINGTON -- These days, when we think of George W. Bush, we think mostly of what a horrible mess he made of the economy. But his even more tragic legacy is the loss of our moral authority, and the transformation of the United States of America from global champion of human rights into an outlaw nation.
History is likely to judge Bush most harshly for two things in particular: Launching a war against a country that had not attacked us, and approving the use of cruel and inhumane interrogation techniques.
And that's why the two most essential lies . . . in his new memoir are that he had a legitimate reason to invade Iraq, and that he had a legitimate reason to torture detainees.
Neither is remotely true. But Bush must figure that if he keeps making the case for himself -- particularly if it goes largely unrebutted by the traditional media, as it has thus far -- then perhaps he can blunt history's verdict.
It may even be working. Extrapolating from the response to the book, former vice president Dick Cheney on Tuesday told a crowd gathered for Bush's presidential library groundbreaking in Dallas that "judgments are a little more measured than they were" and that "history is coming around."
This is more BS from Dick Cheney. Bush ratings have not gone up and he is rated in the bottom 10 per cent of presidents in the last three presidential polls in Wikipedia. Bush's ratings will remain permanently dismal in the history books.
Even if Bush could be forgiven for the $ one trillion Iraq debacle, his domestic policies were equally as bad.. The US is just starting to come out of the great Bush recession that started in 2007.
See the complete article at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/22/the-two-most-esssential-a_n_786219.html. It's worth reading.
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History is likely to judge Bush most harshly for two things in particular: Launching a war against a country that had not attacked us, and approving the use of cruel and inhumane interrogation techniques.
And that's why the two most essential lies . . . in his new memoir are that he had a legitimate reason to invade Iraq, and that he had a legitimate reason to torture detainees.
Neither is remotely true. But Bush must figure that if he keeps making the case for himself -- particularly if it goes largely unrebutted by the traditional media, as it has thus far -- then perhaps he can blunt history's verdict.
It may even be working. Extrapolating from the response to the book, former vice president Dick Cheney on Tuesday told a crowd gathered for Bush's presidential library groundbreaking in Dallas that "judgments are a little more measured than they were" and that "history is coming around."
This is more BS from Dick Cheney. Bush ratings have not gone up and he is rated in the bottom 10 per cent of presidents in the last three presidential polls in Wikipedia. Bush's ratings will remain permanently dismal in the history books.
Even if Bush could be forgiven for the $ one trillion Iraq debacle, his domestic policies were equally as bad.. The US is just starting to come out of the great Bush recession that started in 2007.
See the complete article at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/22/the-two-most-esssential-a_n_786219.html. It's worth reading.
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