As we say in Holland, een heel zalig Kesrtfeest en een heel gelukkig Nieuw Jaar voor U and Uw familie

Dorian

with kindest regards,
dr.e

Then Bush must be the greatest man on the planet! Seriously, though, he does care a lot that her is reviled– but how could he ever admit to it?

Exactly, Dorian- they have wasted way too much time trying to reinvent the facts. It makes me mad that I won't be around to see if historians buy all of this revisionist baloney.

Like Cheney's admission that he “inadvertently” may have been involved in the Plame outing. Uh—just where was Cheney when Scooter was on trial, Judith Miller was in jail— Patrick Fitzgerald was spending millions of taxpayer dollars to find out what happened?? Now that Cheney might look like a scumbag to historians– he has the “integrity” to come clean. Well, I think there's a lot more he's not saying.

As I recall leading up to 9/11, the Bush administration was receiving low approval ratings, and after Bush's initial success in Afghanistan, Bush's true colors showed again. His response only made the various crises worse because Bush/Cheney was trying to cover everything up (from Abu Ghraib to Katrina) under the guise of national security, and had a compliant Republican congress (though the Dems haven't been any better the last 2 years).

So yes, Bush started the war on terror on the right foot, but couldn't manage more than one task at a time when the business of running the rest of the country became necessary. Sort of like the way he ran his oil companies. He choose to venture off into Iraq for his own gain (and the gain of his political supporters who “won” no-bid contracts in Iraq).

Bush's job is to protect our country from enemies.. foreign and domestic. He did so when he went after the terrorists and the Taliban. He did not do so when he went into Iraq, which posed no threat to the US. Bush wouldn't even let the UN weapons' inspectors finish their job before bombing Iraq.

Shall we star with not taking action on the 9-11 signs, with crashing the economy, Katrina, civil rights, taking its eye off the real terrorists and the real war on terror, not getting Osama Bin Laden, corruption, exposing a CIA covert agent, lying to the American people, shredding the Constitution–and documents, obstructing justice, domestic. illegal wireta[[ing, setting themselves above the law, torture, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, wasting billions in Iraq, grossly mismanaging that war, etc., etc.?

The Bush administration failed? Failed at what?

Keep in mind that admiration is the goal of worthless losers.