THE Bush legacy . . . too late to change?
- By l.t. Dravis
- Published 12/17/2008
l.t. Dravis
I created and have written the nationally distributed marketing newsletter, BOTH SIDES NOW, since 2003. I authored two books, BOTH SIDES NOW, Sell Like Professional Athletes Win and DEATH OF A SALES MANAGER. In 2008, I introduced a daily column for national syndication to newspapers.
By l.t. Dravis“The work hasn’t been
easy, but it has been necessary for American security, Iraqi hope, and world
peace,” George W. Bush said with a straight face. “I’m just so grateful I had the chance to
come back to
Let’s evaluate the 43rd
President’s own words and we’ll decide the truth – not the spin - about Bush’s legacy!
“The work hasn’t been
easy,”
Thinking people will ask, what work has George W. Bush done?
While Donald Rumsfeld was doing his senile
best to screw things up in Iraq, by his own admission to Bob Woodward, George
W. Bush had so little concern for hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops he put
in harm’s way that he handed the Iraq war over to Stephen Hadley, a lawyer
turned career bureaucrat who’d earned enough political points to become Bush’s National
Security Advisor.
Hadley, a man with no military
experience, was the White House Iraq Groupie who ‘allowed’ Bush to lie about
Saddam Hussein’s supposed attempt to secure nuclear materials from
This is also the man George W. Bush
considered to be best qualified, in his abdicated absence, to protect more than
a hundred thousand American men and women who went to
That this Commander-in-Chief would
abdicate his responsibility to protect our troops, that he would turn over that
responsibility to a
When George W. Bush assumed the
Presidency, he had every power and every resource necessary to govern wisely, to
use his office to protect and defend Americans in particular and the people of
the world in general.
He was given a majority in the House and
the Senate.
He was given a budget surplus by
President Clinton.
Moreover, he was given the trust of millions
of Americans and millions more freedom loving people around the world.
But George W. Bush lacked the intellectual
curiosity, the compassion, the intelligence, the insight, and the vision to use
the gifts he was given to make the nation and the world better today than it
was when he took the oath of office . . . twice.
How does George W. Bush, with any true sense
of history, reason or logic, say that the
Do the families of 4,209 brave Americans
who gave their lives because George W. Bush ordered them to fight an unnecessary
war based on lies trust this assessment from a man whose own record of military
service is at best questionable?
How about the thousands upon thousands of
brave American men and women whose bodies and souls have been forever damaged
by horrific war wounds? Do they believe they gave their limbs, their flesh and
bones for a war that was necessary for
American security?
Prove to us, George W. Bush . . . not
with rhetoric, but with facts . . . that the Iraq war was indeed necessary to
keep America safe, stay silent, or admit your culpability, apologize profusely
to the victims of your misguided ego, then go away.
“Iraqi hope,”
Would George W. Bush have the courage to sit
down, face-to-face with even one of the millions of Iraqis who’ve lost sons and
daughters and husbands and wives and fathers and mothers in firefights,
bombings, and mortar and rocket attacks in his
war and tell him or her that their sacrifice was worth it because Iraqis now
have hope?
“and world peace.”
World peace . . . by what measure beyond
rhetoric?
Since the Bush/Cheney invasion of Iraq 5½
years and a trillion dollars ago, U.S. troops continue to lose life and limb in
Iraq, terrorist organizations around the world still threaten to attack the
United States and its allies, expanding conflicts threaten to engulf
Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India, and a revived ‘Cold War’ with more nuclear
players on the pitch than ever before is evolving even as I write this piece.
Epilogue: Mr. President, I have news for you: Your legacy is inviolable . . . it
cannot be tampered with . . . no number of talking points can change eight
years of bumbling, narrow-minded, stupid, wasteful actions, inactions disguised
as your ‘policies’.
Just go away Mr. 43rd
President, quietly, while millions of Americans hope and pray we never see your
kind again.
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