Saturday, January 1, 2011

No, can't say I have

Most ridiculous bumper sticker out there at the moment: A photograph of President George W. Bush with the line "miss me yet?"
Doesn't anybody on their side of the political line remember that W is the reason Barack Obama is now the President?
Back Obama or hate him, he's in the White House because of the mess Bush left us.
Anybody remember that he left the economy in a shambles? That we've been (depending on where you live) in either a recession of a depression since 2008 because of  Dubya?
Bush lied about why he invaded Iraq, then proclaimed "mission accomplished" as more and more good American service men and women died.
To make things worse, his invasion made Iraq a bastion of militant Islam.
Saddam Hussein, that two-bit tyrant, was at least no friend of fundamentalist Islam. For starters, he had distilleries in Iraq -- blasphemy to radical Muslims.
In fact, before going completely rogue, Bin Laden offered to take Saddam out for the Saudis. The Saudis, however, figured that armed Muslim fundamentalists running around Iraq would be worse than leaving Saddam in power. Bin Laden then left Saudi Arabia and set up camp in Afghanistan.
Oh yeah, Afghanistan. W's war in Iraq took badly needed men and equipment away from our troops fighting the Taliban and Bin Laden's terrorists. So they're still there, years later, but now with their slimy fingers in Iraq and Pakistan as well as Afghanistan.
Miss George W. Bush? Not hardly.
Lord knows New Orleans doesn't miss him.
His foot-in-mouth disease did provide a wealth of unintentionally funny lines. But that's hardly the stuff of presidential legacies -- until now.

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