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Go away, Bush; go away, Bushbots
I cannot tolerate the defenders and apologists of George W. Boilerplate, who are out in full press mode now that the worthless leader they worship is about to leave office. Consider Joe Scarborough, who writes:
Twenty years from now, historians will not rate the president for the mistakes made in 2003. They will place him in the history books based on how Iraq and the Middle East play out…. I predict that like Ronald Reagan [sic], history will prove to be on the side of George W. Bush.Scarborough’s sole reason for his positive evaluation of Bush is the surge. Fine. Let’s give Bush credit for putting in place a general who would carry out the surge. And the surge worked (though, of course, vastly better than its champions had expected, because alongside the surge there occurred the wholly unexpected Sunni Awakening which the U.S. did nothing to bring about). However successful the surge may have been, the fact remains that it began 3 1/2 years late, a period longer than American involvement in World War II, a period in which Bush allowed Iraq to sink into a hellish chaos of ongoing mass death of Iraqis at the hands of demonic terrorists and ongoing death and disfigurement of American soldiers as they drove defenseless along Iraq’s highways, even as Bush kept emitting his smug boilerplate that we were spreading democracy, and that things were going great, and that we just had to stay the course because he was obediently using the number of troops his worthless generals like Sanchez and Casey and his deluded Secretary of Defense Donald (“mass looting is freedom”) Rumsfeld told him were needed. The surge, meaning the effective use of our forces to bring order and safety to Iraq, should have been the first order of business in 2003. That it was not, is unforgivable. The notion that a president who misperformed this badly, worse than any president in history, but who, after several years of disaster, finally did the thing he should have done at the start, deserves to be in the history books alongside Ronald Reagan, is enough to make strong men vomit. It shows the Bush supporters to be the shameless, brainless, miserable toadies they have always been. If there were justice in this world, every Bush apologist would be excluded from politics and forced to go through re-education camp before he was allowed to publish anything or participate in politics again.
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