What laws??? Here is your chance to practice some dissent.

Can you provide a date as to when this was uttered by the Bush administration? I bet not. He may have said something similar in regards to foreign countries that did not support the war on terror but that is a horse of a different color my friend. You, like most on this site, continue to perpetuate the urban legends, which ultimately serve no purpose, as history tries to put things in perspective. Shame on you!

So what is your point? If a few police officers run amok and cause problems we should prosecute the governor? Set your emotions aside for a moment and really think this one through.

Spoken like a true patriot! And you more than earned that right. There is a time and a place for debate. Inauguration day is not one of them. What I typically see in left wing activists are arrogant, ignorant, inexperienced youths filled with propoganda by their hippie throw back university professors, out spewing this garbage at the expense of their working mommies and daddies (probably hard working tax paying Republicans).

God Bless my friend.

Cheers,
Sunflower Pipes

I believe Bush has actually had too much of a free ride, offered by you as well. You say we need to remember the “context” in which Bush governed. Rewind to day one and the context includes a budgetary surplus which he proceeded to squander. The context included outgoing security officials warning that Osama Bin Laden was the number one threat to the US – warnings he chose to ignore. The context included Bush being warned that OBL was “determined to strike within the US” and that he may fly planes into prominent buildings. Let's remember that, despite the boasts that he “kept America safe,” Bush actually allowed 9/11 to happen. For some reason people are too polite or too unthinking to point this out. Bush created his own “context” which then becomes his excuse for a free ride.

“Bush is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.” By this logic then (or lack there of) FDR was responsible for the deaths of millions of Germans and Japanese. It's like the people ignore the big white elephant in the room and focus on the carpet stain instead.

“…large part to blame for the destruction of New Orleans”

That is downright stupid. To summarize…a run down city controlled by a dem mayor in a corrupt state controlled by a dem governor choose not to prepare, in advance, their city (which is 20 ft below sea level 10 miles from the ocean in the middle of hurricane alley) from an approaching hurricane and it is Bush's fault??? Heck why not blame God for that matter? Bush offered assistance the night the hurricane struck and gov Blanco refused.

“…despite the international scientific consensus on global warming”

What concensus? There is not scientific concensus on Anthropogenic global warming. If fact more and more scientists (not environmentalists since they are not scientists) are comming out against it.

“Then there is the issue of torture and warrantless surveillance, crimes which Bush should be put on trial for committing”

Blah blah blah..I have heard this over and over like a broken record…what torture? (waterboarding is not torture…do you even know what it is?)

If you think the last 8 years were devastating you had better put your seat belt on because a bad situation with mediocre leadership is rough. A bad situation with lousey leadership is far worse. Mark my words. The next decade will likely either see a depression and/or a major war that will make 4000 dead soldiers look like a picnic.

Bush had far more class than the worst of the deranged, vicious people who have been attacking him.

“Appearance” of class maybe, but not actual class. Like lipstick on a pig.

Bush had far more class than the worst of the deranged, vicious people who have been attacking him.

At least in the next few days we may observe an end to this as well as the most stupid, cultish, “event-driven” Obama-worship that's the worst of the idiotic manic behavior he has spawned among so much of the Herd.

Then there is the issue of torture and warrantless surveillance, crimes which Bush should be put on trial for committing.

The truth is that the stain of yesterday was watching Obama and the rest of Washington congratulate themselves after playing no small role in the devastation of the last eight years. If these men and women aren't willing to prosecute those who admitted to crimes, like Bush and Cheney, then the least we can do is heckle them.

Should the Iraqi people have shown respect when Hussein was pushed out of office? How about Nicolei Ceaucescu? Augusto Pinochet? Ferdinand Marcos? Francisco Franco?

Who runs government? I can promise you it is not the President of the United States.

And talk about Bush asking us to eat our vegetables? Asking for a change of culture in September 2001? Bush asked for nothing. He promised tax cuts and asked people to go shopping.

As for Social Security, the purpose was not to fix the system but to dismantle it and create a vast private Ponzi scheme that would create Republican voters out of young people.

Not a single thing Bush did was done without thought of cynical politics. And the incompetence was the bitter fruit of a failed ideology that proved that government can't work.

Good riddance to Bush and conservative Republicanism.