Citing History, Bush Suggests His Policies Will One Day Be Vindicated

[kpete]

Citing History, Bush Suggests His Policies Will One Day Be Vindicated

By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 9, 2008; A03


Meet George W. Bush, time traveler.

He's in Poland in 1939 as Nazi tanks advance on Warsaw, then flying with his Navy-pilot father to battle imperial Japan. He's alongside Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, William McKinley on his deathbed and Franklin D. Roosevelt on D-Day. He lingers with Harry S. Truman, another U.S. president deeply unpopular in his time.

President Bush leaps forward as well, envisioning a distant future in which Iraq is a tranquil democracy, Palestinians live peaceably alongside Israelis and terrorism is a tactic of the past.

"Imagine if a president had stood before the first graduating class of this academy five decades ago and told the Cadet Wing that by the end of the 20th century, the Soviet Union would be no more, communism would stand discredited and the vast majority of the world's nations would be democracies," Bush urged graduates at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs nearly two weeks ago.

As the door begins to close on his tenure, Bush is increasingly drawing on selected events of the past to argue that history will vindicate him on Iraq, terrorism, trade and other controversial issues.

more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/08/AR2008060802255_pf.html

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Ummmmmmmmmmm, Herbert Hoover's still waiting to hear he was right.

[rurallib]

2. hope they find him a nice cell to wait in til that happens.

[Blue_Tires]

3. nixon?

[spanone]

4. the real comedy of that statement is bu$h* 'citing history' i call bullshit...he knows no history

[truebrit71]

5. If he truly thinks that he's dumber than he looks...

...and that takes some doing!

[anonymous171]

6. He will be remembered as the president who singlehandidly ended the Conservative Movement.

Or at least, the conservative movement as we know now. I think the next batch of conservatives will be libertarian leaning.

[indepat]

7. Either delusional or a psychopathic liar?

:shrug:

[Supersedeas]

15. an unfaltering belief in the power of the $$$ to purchase revisionist shills and cronies

[ananda]

8. As the imperial presidency gained more and more power..

I don't think people realized that
the office would be taken by someone
so stupid and sociopathic.

Bush lives in a world occupied by
visions of his own success when
everyone else sees a different world,
occupied by nothing but his messes
and failures.

Yet he can get away with all those messes
and failures because his presidency is
protected by the courts, the Congress,
the media, and the apathy of the people.

Furthermore.. basically, Bush just does
whatever he wants no matter what Congress
or the people do or say.

He signs executive orders, makes recess
appointments, and continues making wars
and allowing the economy to sink and
collapse.

It's easy to blame him and ridicule him
and hold contempt for him for these messes
and idiocies.. but we must remember that
the people have pretty much just stood
back and allowed it.

[Maccagirl]

12. There is not one false word or idea in your post

Kudos to you.

[Blue_Tires]

16. well said....

[rocktivity]

9. History will vindicate Bush ONLY

if he and his cronies write it.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Bonhomme Richard]

10. "Will One Day Be Vindicated" didn't Charles Manson say.......

basically the same thing at one time.
Psychopaths....

[smoogatz]

11. A bit late in the game to start worrying about how you'll be treated

by history, dumbass. Here's the Bush misadministration's record in 18 bullet points:

1.Allowed the worst foreign terrorist attack on U.S. soil in history.
2.Responded by invading and occupying a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 but that does sit on $30 trillion worth of oil, resulting in the deaths of over 4,000 Americans and as many as 1.2 million Iraqis.
3.Promoted tax cuts for the rich that turned a $600 billion dollar surplus into $3 trillion of new debt, essentially bankrupting the nation.
4.Bankrupted the middle-class by allowing credit card issuers and mortgage companies to rob them blind.
5.Lost a major American city to a natural disaster and did nothing to rebuild it.
6.Presided over a 300% increase in the price of gas, and counting, taking money from the pockets of Americans and enriching Bush's oil industry cronies.
7.Wrecked the economy and the banking system.
8.Compromised the global food supply.
9.Prevented action on global climate change for eight critical years.
10.Failed to catch Osama bin Laden.
11.Politicized the Department of Justice and used it to attack Bush's political enemies.
12.Gutted environmental and product safety regulations. Gutted the FDA and other agencies responsible for protecting the public health and safety.
13.Spied on American citizens illegally, and claimed extra-constitutional powers for the Presidency.
14.Presided over the torture of prisoners of war, in direct violation of U.S. and international law.
15.Subverted the electoral process by committing massive election fraud in both the 2000 and 2004 elections.
16.Made the country less secure, less prosperous and less democratic.
17.Turned America into a dangerous rogue nation, reviled around the globe.
18.Abused the powers of the presidency, dismantled the Bill of Rights and dishonored the nation's highest political office.

[bunkerbuster1]

13. "the first graduating class of this academy five decades ago" probably assumed "Commies" would lose

What a stupid analogy.

[LeftishBrit]

14. I must have spent too much time in the Health Forum...

because I managed to read this as "Bush suggests his policies will one day be VACCINATED".

In that case, I hope that the experience of Bush has already vaccinated the world against accepting similar policies in the future!

[Vickers]

17. Was this bold, visionary statement before or after the belly-bump?

:shrug: