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via Bush’s Closing Argument: Was Anybody Listening? – Yahoo! News.

Or, to use his own words: “As the years passed, most Americans were able to return to life much as it had been before 9/11. But I never did.”

Perhaps, then, it was a mistake to give even passing mention to a horn-tooting list of favorite achievements, like education reform, tax cuts and the expansion of Medicare. Maybe he was right to pass by the collapse of the economy with less passion than he devoted to the story of the father of a Marine killed in Iraq. He could hardly be accused of making a big deal about non-war matters when he summed up the current crisis in a single sentence: “These are very tough times for hardworking families, but the toll would be far worse if we had not acted.”

President Bush - a national disgrace

We all know that Yahoo! News is biased toward the neo-con swill, but this story absolutely stinks of it. It makes my skin crawl to read statements that are blatantly false, yet hung out there like laundry, and waving to everyone as if the light of day will somehow transform this junk into the truth.

You see, the author mentions the way Bush conveniently skimmed over a collapsed economy but he failed to mention that Bush himself is responsible for sinking the economy through deregulation.

The author mentions Bush’s “favorite achievements” as if they were actual true achievements when the acts themselves have proved themselves failures. Education reform never happened in this country. The No Child Left Behind Act left everyone behind with huge demands and no support. School vouchers didn’t get off the ground because using public money for christian-right schools, or for-profit schools, just doesn’t sit well with anyone.

If you could point to one thing that Bush passed that has single-handedly destroyed our economy and gave the wealthy more wealth even though they didn’t ask for it you would have to point to Bush’s tax cuts. The last election has proved that this trickle-down theory of economics that Ronald Reagan invented overnight with no backing from academia, has utterly failed and is now dead.

The next one of Bush’s so-called achievemtns, his cowboy swsaggering, gun slinging, pre-emptive war philosophy is not only dead, it is deadly and dangerous and has cost us many more lives than the attack on 9/11.

And the economy? Bush says that things would be much worse if he hadn’t acted. Well, things are much worse because he did act. Bush has alsways been a liar, but those who hold up his lies are also liars.

Maybe the Main Stream Media will start publishing real news instead of right-wing propaganda now that this clown is gone. Good riddance to the worst president ever.

One last thing, please.

These issues pale beside the battle against radical Islam and its terrorist tactics, Bush insisted. Making his closing argument for the history books, the President declared, “America has gone more than seven years without another terrorist attack on our soil.” And he pleaded with the country to maintain the focus. “America did nothing to seek or deserve this conflict,” he said. “But we have been given solemn responsibilities, and we must meet them. We must resist complacency. We must keep our resolve. And we must never let down our guard.”

Richard Clarke, fired for telling the truth

Richard Clarke, the terrorist czar under Clinton and Bush, warned of an organization here in the U.S. that had it’s sights on a major target. He also told the world that Bush wanted to bomb Iraq for no just reason. What did Bush do about Clarke’s warnings of an attack? Nothing. Worse than nothing – he fired Clarke.

Bush was briefed in August of 2001 on Bin-Laden’s scheme to attack the World Trade Center, but what did Bush do? Nothing. He didn’t even order a follow-up. He stupidly and unwittingly turned his back and allowed the attack to happen. He failed to keep us safe on 9/11. He asked us to please maintain his focus. We need to do better than that. The attack of 9/11 was on Bush’s watch and the loss of lives that day is on Bush’s hands.

He used those deaths that day to launch us into the biggest blunder in which the U.S. has ever engaged. Iraq.

And finally, the author asks us if anybody was listening to Bush’s closing arguments. I hope not. Why would any one out there still listen to this criminal? Didn’t he lie us into war? Isn’t neo-con philosophy of pre-emptive war dead?