Posted 1/20/2009 07:24:00 PM by Douglas

Interesting, even if embarrassingly biased summary of Bush 43 and this so-called legacy he suddenly seems so worried about. The keeper:

The Iraq war was a case study of what happens when politicisation is mixed with incompetence. A long-standing convention holds that politics stops at the ocean’s edge. But Mr Bush and his inner circle labelled the Democrats “Defeaticrats” whenever they were reluctant to support extending the war from Afghanistan to Iraq. They manipulated intelligence to demonstrate that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and had close relations with al-Qaeda. This not only divided a country that had been brought together by September 11th; it also undermined popular support for what Mr Bush regarded as the central theme of his presidency, the war on terror.

I don't doubt he's going to get blamed for a lot of things that may not be directly his fault, but he's not going to get credit for anything that wasn't either. But I think this notion is just laughable.

"The most important job I have had -- and the most important job the next president is going to have -- is to protect the American people from another attack," Bush said.

There also wasn't a horde of rabid, three-legged rhinoceroses attacking an orphanage. So he's got that going for him.