Bush on His Legacy: I 'Liberated' Iraqis

[douglas9]

Source: ABC News

In a personal and wide-ranging interview conducted by his sister about his legacy, his faith and the influence of his father, President George W. Bush said he hopes to be remembered as a liberator of the Iraqi people.

"I'd like to be a president as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace," Bush told his sister, Dorothy Bush Koch, in a conversation recorded for the oral-history organization StoryCorps for the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.

An excerpt of the interview was aired on National Public Radio Thursday, and the White House released additional excerpts with both the president and first lady Laura Bush today.

"I would like to be a person remembered as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process," Bush said, according to White House excerpts.

Read more: http://www.abcnews.go.com/print?id=6353033

[jwirr]

1. He cannot determine his own legacy. That is what historians are for. nt

[Joe Bacon]

59. Worst. President. Ever

Tell you what ol' W Boy, Thousands of years from now, you will STILL be regarded as the most incompetent asshole who was ever in the Presidency. In fact, you're in a race with Caligula for the biggest asshole leader of all time! Grant, Hoover, Harding, Buchannan and Nixon will fade away and be forgotten, but you won't!

President Obama's first action will be to take our flag and put it in a washing machine with enough detergent to wash your hash marks off of it. It may take years...

[asjr]

2. He has no soul to sell.

[mascarax]

20. My first thought too (n/t)

[tclambert]

49. Would would the devil buy what he can have for free?

[MichiganVote]

3. And sold millions of Americans into poverty.....

[Acadia Blue]

40. He is a tape worm, a parasite, a blood sucker. He should be in jail.

[EFerrari]

4. We should all contribute to this oral history project

and especially on the topic of how the torture president liberated all those people from their lives on Earth.

[daninthemoon]

5. the sociopath will never comprehend what he has done to us all.

[liberalmuse]

6. "Liberate", or more accurately, "Mass Murdered". Over 1 million.

It has been estimated that directly due to George W. Bush's pre-emptive war in Iraq, over 1 million Iraqi civilians have lost their lives. Some fucking legacy. Every time he opens his mouth, he violently rapes all that is true, good and just in the Universe.

[norepubsin08]

17. Good for you!!!

[onehandle]

7. And he caught the head guy behind 9/11.

Oh, wait. No he didn't.

And 9/11 happened on his watch, which had nothing to do with Iraq.

Bush gave us our second Vietnam. That's all he achieved in Iraq.

[tularetom]

8. Maybe somebody should ask the Iraqis about the boy king

I don't think he's gonna be remembered as the president who "liberated" them.

He destroyed their country and he's made a pretty good start on destroying this one.

He is a global joke and laughingstock. Too bad it ain't funny.

[peacetalksforall]

9. The culprits are his handlers. They had to keep him pumped up to go out

and raise funds, especially for all the travel by air. I figure they told him how well he was doing to keep him joiced up. Karen Hughes, Andy Card, Bartlett, his mother, Bill Bennett types. His Cabinet played along. They supported and grew a monster of delusion.

His legacy? Cheney exiled and buried and maimed Iraqis and attempted to destroy their culture and ancient heritage as well as their businesses, schools, infrastructure and Bush thought it was freeing them.

[hadrons]

10. "I'd like to be a president as somebody who liberated ..."; nice use of grammar, George

"I would like to be a person remembered as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process," Bush said, according to White House excerpts.

So he wishes he was someone else???

[Politicalboi]

11. What an asshole he is

He KILLED Iraqi's. He didn't liberate them. I think Depleted Uranium is going to be his true legacy.

[IndianaGreen]

12. Bush "the liberator" should go to Fallujah without Secret Service protection

and receive the accolades he truly deserves from the population.

[balantz]

13. What a fucking ass!

He liberated about a million of them from life. And he liberated countless children from their dead families and homes. He liberated Iraq from any sense of peace, well being and dignity. I could go on and on about his liberating ass.

[SaveAmerica]

14. Someone wiki this article under 'delusional' please...

[Anarcho-Socialist]

15. He liberated the Iraqis from their electricity and drinking water

...oh and plenty of its oil too.

[704wipes]

34. & all their other infrastructure - roads, bridges, sewage, hospitals

what an asshat

[tabasco]

16. The whore corporate propaganda media did their best to convince us, too.

[ryanmuegge]

21. And now they're reporting that the war has been won when absolutely nothing has changed.

Well, other than we've changed sides to supporting the Sunnis.

[quiet.american]

18. If it wasn't official before, it is now -- Bush is insane. nt

[smiley]

19. asshole

.

[City Lights]

22. An absolutely stunning display of arogance and delusion.

And how fitting that this "interview" was conducted by his sister.

[Mad_Dem_X]

68. Arrogant and delusional until the very end.

Words cannot even begin to describe how much a loathe this man.

[Doctor_J]

23. Probably the biggest loser in history

The bubble boy will die of liver failure thinking he was a success. a lifetime of privilege, surrounded by sycophants and enablers has him convinced that his legacy of failure, death, destruction, fear, and hatred are all the illusion of a hostile "elite".

The man is one of the biggest losers in world history.

[PatSeg]

24. How pathetic

This man actually believes this. I guess he has to, as the truth would be too much to bear.

[fascisthunter]

25. Sick Delusional Sociopath

[harun]

26. You're dreamin Mr. "war president".

"did not sell his soul to accommodate the political process".

They have to prosecute these people.

[Esra Star]

27. What is the actual score?

How many innocent Iraqis have died due to Mr Hussein and
how many due to someone named Bush?

[Vattel]

28. I hope that he's remembered

for what he has been: a militaristic fool, an enemy to human rights, a torturer, a kidnapper, and a serial murderer.

[leftchick]

29. a strange term for killing millions

and displacing several million. I guess it works in his fucking opposite world.

[shanti]

30. yeah, liberated them from life!

mf'er!

[Joey Liberal]

31. Bin Laden was never the priority for Bush

Despite what happened on 9-11, Bush was always more concerned with liberating Iraq's oil. It's a modern day American tragedy, and Bush is by far the worst President ever.

[Solly Mack]

32. Do the tortured feel liberated?

Piece of shit

Liberated from life...(dead)

[cliss]

33. Bush doesn't need to make any efforts on his "legacy"

The verdict is already in by analysts and historians. Bush has been called a "failure", a "failed Presidency". There is nothing which is going to change that fact.

If anything, the verdict is going to be MUCH MUCH worse when we find out about everything he did in the past 8 year. We don't know everything.

Bush's statement about "not selling out" is 100% projection. That's ALL he's ever done

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[L0oniX]

36. No no no George ...you didn't liberate them ...YOU MURDERED THEM YOU FUCKING ASSCARROT!

[TK421]

37. And just think...the White House will be liberated from the worst scourge it has ever seen

come January.

[Submariner]

38. Too bad he couldn't protect the US on 911

He had the largest most powerful military and intelligence systems at his hand and he couldn't get a hint from the August th PDB or other warnings to increase security at the airports and prevent the tragedy.

Bush is nothing more than an incompetent coward.

[santamargarita]

39. A Legacy of failures!

Nothing but failure - you don't even make a respectable asshole!

[Nostradammit]

48. He is such a failure he fails to realize what a failure he is

Ultimate Fail.

[olddad56]

41. For the last 8 years, we have had a president would is delusional.

let him think whatever he wants to think, but let him think it in Crawford, or in jail.

[bobd0]

42. I'd like to see that son-of-a-bitch "liberated" the same way he claims he "liberated" the Iraqis. nt

[RushIsRot]

43. Bush hasn't got a LEGacy to stand on!

[tanyev]

44. I guess he knew he could count on Dorothy to give him a fair and objective interview.

Which to him means he gets to say whatever he wants and she doesn't call him on any of it.

[BrklynLiberal]

45. prez shit-for-brains has absolutely no mental contact with reality at all.

He obviously lives in a separate world that he has created and does not let things like truth and facts impinge on his view of himself or that delusional world in which he exists.

[truthisfreedom]

46. Liberated them from their lives, yes. Free at last.

Heckuva job, bushie.

[bluesmail]

47. You murdered one million innocent Iraqi's. You and only you are the responsible party.

Because you know what? You are The President. The Supreme Court voted. And that's your legacy.

[tclambert]

50. It's not a legacy, it's an aftermath.

[Kablooie]

51. Just as I thought. He is completely unaware of the image he has created.

He never allowed anyone to tell him anything he didn't want to hear or they'd be fired so he has no idea, none!, of what the world thinks of him.

I hope he gets a good snoot of it as soon as he steps out of the White House.

It would be delightful to see the shock on his face when he hears the truth.

[sofa king]

52. ...From their families, their prosperity, and their lives.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

53. To misquote Walter Mondale and Wendys

"Where's the peace?"

George's buffoonery and idiocy has proved a lightening rod for terrorists everywhere. The Mid-East peace process has totally collapsed and the Middle East is at its most volatile point for a long time. Where have you created peace, you vile little idiot?

[The Second Stone]

54. Why does he hate the troops?

Bush didn't liberate anybody. American soldiers, sailors, air force, marines and national guards. No thanks to the boy genius.

[LynnTheDem]

55. "liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace" Ummm, I don't THINK so, MFer.

But ya sure will be remembered as LOWEST APPROVAL and HIGHEST DISAPPROVAL ratings EVER.

Oh, and the pResident who ignored the warnings of 911 and took the longest pResidential holidy ever instead; the pResident who invaded other nations based on his infantile bullshit lies, slaughtered hundreds of thousands,and joked about it; the pResident who sanctioned TORTURE; the pResident who sanctioned American GULAGS

...Katrina...Iraq...war profiteering...blackmail...renditions...worst economic crisis since The Great Depression...largest deficts in history...

Oh yeah, you'll be remembered alright, bUsh.

But sure as fuck not as a pResident who "liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace."

[Sex Pistol]

56. "I" ...???

[MsLeopard]

57. What legacy?

His name is spoken with nothing but disgust - heck of a job, Chimpy! You pathetic bastard.

[Rocknrule]

58. In his mind, sending them to heaven = liberating them

[sam sarrha]

60. liberated Iraqi's...let us count the Graves..ahh,i mean the Ways.

[cambie]

61. He liberated millions of Plasmodium

Malaria parasites that is. The worst of them, falciparum, was eradicated in Iraq by 1980. Now they are back. In the process of dying people develop blackwater fever, reasons for that name too unpleasant to talk about. Fitting it is also the name of the mercenaries that he sent to run lawless there.

[SpikeTss]

62. Bush on his legacy: I liberated 1-2 Million Iraqis from their lives. Mission accomplished.

http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=323

This sentence is Bush's Holocaust denial.

[HopeHoops]

63. If by "liberated" he means "dead", then sure, I can see this.

[and-justice-for-all]

64. What a dreamer...nt

[Skittles]

65. clueless to the end

he can rot in hell

[w4rma]

66. He won't be remembered positively in any way, shape or form. (nt)

[tom_paine]

67. And Hitler liberated the Poles, you poor misunderstood Nazi-Bushie.

The man is inasane as Caligula. Lucky for us, the remnants of our System of Checks and Balances, while failing to prtoect us from the depradation of this monster and his monsters for the last eight years, at least it seems to have prevented the worst from happening.