BUSHIES LEGACY: WRITTEN IN STONE

As it becomes clearer and clearer to Bush's Brain, and Bush himself, that his administration is one long disaster of epic proportions, he has adopted the tactic of manufacturing historical comparisons and speaking, wistfully, of his legacy.

He says we will be in Iraq for a looong time, but that's okay, because we've been in Germany and Korea, two countries we also "nation builded", for a looong time. And that worked out okay.

As for his legacy, well, he's just not worried about that. After all, it's been 250 years since George Washington was president and even now we're still debating his legacy.

I'm not a historian, but I think that we decided long that Washington was, in fact, a pretty damned good president. The only people dabating his legacy now are academics and writers, and they're just arguing over the small details.



Let's bring the flaws in Bush's comparison down to Kindergarten level:

Washington, and a bunch of really smart fellow revolutionaries, overthrew a brutal dictator, just like Bush. But, they we're in their own country.

Immediately after this action, Washington did not have to deal with the Quakers and the Baptists suddenly starting to kidnap, behead and torture each other. As far as I know, no Quaker heads were drilled by Baptist power tools.

He didn't have to cope with Canadian and Mexican theocracies sending funds to terrorist groups in Brooklyn or Plymouth.

Mothers and daughters could stroll thru Ye Olde Farmer's market without getting blown up by Catholic suicide bombers.

Congress wasn't made up of a bunch of political hacks, terrorist front men, religious nuts, tribal members seeking revenge on each other, guys who were only in it for the money, and corrupt, powerless talking heads.

As for Germany and Korea, see above.

What makes me blood boiling angry about all these conditions is that they were predicted before the war, and Bush, his thoughts clouded by a Cheney induced spell, chose to ignore it.

Now we have this colossal mess, this unprecedented disaster, this monumental fuckup.

Bush, your legacy has been written.