Mr. Bush, Your Legacy Awaits ...

[NanceGreggs]

Mr. Bush, Your Legacy Awaits …
By Nancy Greggs

Appointed to the presidency of the United States by the Supreme Court in 2000; NOT duly elected … and you’re a torturer.

“Elected” president in 2004 amid vote fraud scandals involving electronic voting machines owned and operated by loyal party members … and you’re a torturer.

Turned surplus left by previous (“tax & spend”) Democratic president into largest debt in US history – and still counting … and you’re a torturer.

Lied country into unwinnable war based on fabricated intelligence and outright lies … and you’re a torturer.

Ignored legitimate intelligence warnings of an “imminent threat” that could result in an attack on US soil … and you’re a torturer.

Millions of Americans have lost their health insurance during your tenure in office … and you’re a torturer.

Millions of Americans have fallen below the poverty level during your tenure in office … and you’re a torturer.

“Lost” billions of taxpayers’ dollars in the fog of war, while halting investigations into same … and you’re a torturer.

Awarded no-bid/no accountability contracts to war profiteers with family/friendship ties to the White House … and you’re a torturer.

Promoted programs to enrich oil companies and pharmaceutical companies to the detriment of the American people … and you’re a torturer.

Funneled billions of tax dollars into the pockets of cronies and family members under the guise of programs like “No Child Left Behind” … and you’re a torturer.

Appointed incompetent and inexperienced cronies to positions of power and influence (e.g. Michael Brown, Alberto Gonzales) … and you’re a torturer.

Distanced the nation from its traditional allies while allegedly fighting a “Global War on Terror” that, by its very nature, required their friendship and cooperation … and you’re a torturer.

Stonewalled investigations into the attacks of 9-11, and refused to speak to the Commission, once finally constituted, under oath … and you’re a torturer.

Handed millions of taxpayers’ dollars to “religious leaders” in exchange for promoting your agenda to their mindless flock and ensuring their votes … and you’re a torturer.

Ignored the system of checks and balances set out by the founding fathers in a blatant attempt to circumvent the laws of the nation, and the Constitution you swore to uphold … and you’re a torturer.

Brought political influence to bear in all aspects of the government, including the Department of Justice … and you’re a torturer.

Lost the respect of the world by virtue of your war-mongering and outright dismissal of diplomacy … and you’re a torturer.

Disgraced the country by acting the buffoon in public, at home and abroad, and speaking incoherently at all times … and you’re a torturer.

Lost an entire American city and many of its residents due to inattention, incompetence, and an obvious lack of interest … and you’re a torturer.

Used photo-ops – complete with sets, lighting and props at the taxpayers’ expense – as a substitute for actual leadership … and you’re a torturer.

Spent more time on vacation than any other president in U.S. history, despite never-ending statements about the critical times we live in due to “terrorists who could strike at any moment” … and you’re a torturer.

Launched war against a nation that posed no threat to the US, and did so under the banner of “liberation”, which has led to mounting US troop casualties, untold millions of dead Iraqis, and increased tension in the Middle East … and you’re a torturer.

Sent troops into combat without life-saving equipment while lining the pockets of corporations like Halliburton, who charged – and were paid – obscene amounts of money for so-called “services” like delivering contaminated water to soldiers in the field of fire … and you’re a torturer.

Ignored the plight of returning veterans who have been incapacitated due to their in-service injuries, while spouting the phrase “Support the Troops” … and you’re a torturer.

Further destroyed the environment by promoting programs that protected polluters and industries that profited from lax laws, while hiding their true purpose behind misleading names like “Clear Skies Initiative” … and you’re a torturer.

Involved in the “outing” of a covert CIA operative as a means of political revenge when her husband dared tell the truth … and you’re a torturer.

Operated in secret, destroying documents dictated by law to be preserved, refusing to cooperate with long-established legalities governing the retention of communications … and you’re a torturer.

Ignored the financial needs of our own country in order to direct funds into the mission of completely destroying a nation that posed no threat, and did not ask for your so-called “liberation” … and you’re a torturer.

I understand that you are constantly concerned with your legacy – but, as you can see, it has already been written by virtue of your actions, your inactions, and the corruption you have allowed – nay, encouraged – to flourish during your sorry, illegitimate occupation of the White House.

While this list is impressive in its length and content, it is by no means exhaustive. There is more, Mr. Bush – much more. And the extent of your involvement in these and other crimes against our nation, and against humanity, may take decades to explore and ultimately expose.

Your Legacy, sir, is exactly what it was predicted to be from the moment you assumed an office you had neither earned nor been duly elected to: Worst.President.Ever.

And when all is said and done in years to come, that will undoubtedly be the nicest thing anyone has to say about your tenure in office.

Oh, and by the way … you’re also a torturer.

[tuvor]

1. Legacy? Sounds more like an aftermath.

[NanceGreggs]

3. Just didn't want 'Mr. What-About-My-Legacy' ...

... to think he'll be forgotten in the years/decades to come.

By the way, did I mention that he is ALSO A TORTURER?

(Wouldn't want to leave the 'best part' out of that legacy thing ...)

[FREEWILL56]

19. Yes but he's the 'decider'.

Oh did I mention he decided to torture?

[JeffR]

2. This is just an honest mix-up, Nance

Bush never said anything about his legacy. He has, however, made multiple statements like:

"I want my lego, see?"

"I'm worried about my lego, see?"

"I need to top up the coffers so I can get me some more lego, see?"

I don't know who took the poor lad's lego. Bill Clinton, probably.

[NanceGreggs]

4. Thanks, JeffR! That explains so much!

All this time I've been thinking that the country, and the world, was suffering from Bushie's crimes.

Apparently, it was just a yellow corner-brick inadvertently stepped on in the dead of night, now permanently stuck in the arch of our foot.

[JeffR]

6. Nothing hurts worse than those corner-bricks!

x(

[opihimoimoi]

5. Just who are those 24% still clinging to the dude??? Are they nuts?

[NanceGreggs]

9. In a word ...

YES.

They ARE nuts - and they probably believe that water-boarding is equivalent to a typical fraternity hazing.

Any volunteers for initiation into Bush's 'Secret Brotherhood of the Yeah, Yeah, Whatever You Say-Hood" among the Freeper/Lurkers?

Hmm, I figured there wouldn't be ... guess that's because they're all enlisted and fighting in Iraq by now.

[immoderate]

29. What's all the fuss about water boarding? Looks like fun to me...

Wheeee!

--IMM

[FREEWILL56]

39. Yea fun, but try picturing that guy waterboarding

upsidedown in the water and you get an idea of the fun this administration has allowed its prisoners to have.

[FREEWILL56]

20. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[liberal N proud]

46. Delusional, mentally challenged, stupid and just plain dumb

All 24% of them

[EVDebs]

47. The same 24% who administer shocks in the Milgram Experiment

The Milgram Experiment
A lesson in depravity, peer pressure, and the power of authority
http://www.new-life.net/milgram.htm

Milgram Experiment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

[DCKit]

7. Oh Nance!

How do you do it?

[NanceGreggs]

8. Get informed, get pissed-off, get typing. n/t

[Old and In the Way]

10. He has the title, but not the moral authority to be President.

Decider Guy, yes. Commander Guy, yes. pResident, yes. President of the United States? Never.

The only satisfaction I can gleen from GW Bush's tenure will be that he and his fellow criminals will occupy the undisputed title of most incompetent and corrupt administration for as long as there is a United States...which he seems hellbent on hastening its demise.

[gateley]

13. I would so love to see them brought to trial and serve time. I would REALLY love that. nt

[FREEWILL56]

21. Motion 2nd.

[AzDar]

11. Sums it up nicely.

:thumbsup:

[rasputin1952]

12. His "legacy" as president will be no different than his legacy as

a man....complete and utter failure at everything he has attempted.

I've seen a lot of failures in my time, have been a part of a few, if I want to be honest. However, to have never succeeded at anything, is one hell of a low level of the bar.

I can understand if he is the most frightened kid on the block, I can understand why he is a sociopath, I can understand why he dresses up in $1000 suits; it is because no matter how difficult it is for him to admit his life has been a complete disaster, he must mask it not just from others, but from himself as well.

Andrew Johnson, Horace Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover can finally Rest in Peace with the knowledge that it is incredibly unlikely that anyone can possibly be as a poor a president, (or human being), that this pathetic dirt clod.

Funny thing about Hoover though, after his presidency, he did some pretty incredible hings that he didn't get much credit for. What Harding and Coolidge set up for him to take the fall on, weighed in for more than what he accomplished in the Marshall Plan, and other humanitarian endeavors. He got a lot accomplished after he was president, but still, The Great Depression, and his lack of any type of plan or leadership to get out of it is what he is known for.

bush, will certainly go down as the worst president ever, and just might join Caligula, Ghengis Khan, Tamerlane and a few others in the history books.

[NanceGreggs]

14. A failure in business, a failure in public life ...

... perhaps history will be kind by calling attention to his ability to be consistent.

[mwb970]

49. I am genuinely amazed at how awful bush is.

I mean, that someone so manifestly incompetent and unqualified can become president, for Chrissakes! And stay there for 8 years screwing up every damn thing he touches while Americans stand around awkwardly, kicking the dust as we watch him pee on our Constitution.

I guess I'm just naive (at 58) but I would never have imagined such an outcome for our so-recently-still-great nation.

Legacy? Don't make me laugh. bush is one of a kind, thank God, and that's how he'll be remembered. What a terrible, terrible person.

[alfredo]

15. His story will be told here:

[FloridaJudy]

16. His legacy: the dead and maimed

Of this bloody useless war, as well as the corpse of the Constitution and a ruined infrastructure.

I wonder how he sleeps at night..oh, that's right: sociopaths have no conscience. He probably sleeps better than the rest of us.

[The Wizard]

17. Also known for

Aiding and abetting the enemy by removing the freedoms they hate us for. And through foreign policies planned by those who don't reside in the reality based community, weakened our international status while at the same time devaluing the dollar resulting in lower living standards for an ever increasing number of Americans.
Insulted everyone whose ever defended our Constitution by eviscerating the essence of a more perfect union, established of, by, and for the people.
Torture is listening to him speak and the inability to change stations. Of course he never appears in public. Who would, having the well earned reputation of a new age Torquemada on steroids.

[FREEWILL56]

22. You haven't seen anything yet as the market will crash and we'll

have a major recession if not a depression. It will be ignited and fueled by oil. (pun intended)

[tavalon]

18. Wow, even harder hitting than the writer you remind me of

but as usual, spot on.

[FREEWILL56]

23. Kicked & Recommended.

After all of that posting I forgot to say that and again to thank you Nance for putting my thoughts into type as you are very good at it. I look forward to reading material from you.

[calimary]

24. And he's a TORTURER!!!

Good one, Nance! When I get up the stomach actually to look at a picture of him, I see the face of someone who's going to go to Hell when he dies. cheney too.

[Perry Logan]

25. Here are some more choice items.

George W. Bush is...

the first cokehead in the White House
the first National Guard deserter in the White House
first convicted criminal in the White House (Cheney, too!)
lost more jobs in his first year than any President in history
broke more international treaties than any in history
lowest job growth in American history
more debt than all previous President's combined
first administration to out a CIA agent for partisan reasons
presided over the worst terror attack in world history
first President since the Civil War to lose an American city
spying on his people more than any administration since Stalin
first President to use a wire
first President on antidepressants (& God know what else)
more vacation time than any other (which is a blessing for the country, really)
Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in U.S. history. Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period.
Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.
Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in U.S. history.
Presided over the biggest energy crises in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
Presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
The most secretive and un-accountable of any administration in U.S. history.
Presided over the biggest corporate stock market frauds of any market in any country in the history of the world.
Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in U.S. history.
Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in U.S. history.
All-time U.S. (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
First president to run and hide when the U.S. came under attack

And he's a torturer.

[immoderate]

30. I'm copying this. OK to spread it around?

--IMM

[NanceGreggs]

31. You betcha! n/t

[NanceGreggs]

32. Pretty astounding ... thanks for adding this! n/t

[emanymton]

26. It Can Be Loudly Acclaimed, "Mission Accomplished."

.
shrub has accomplished the mission of the GOP.

Through shrub's effort he has hobbled the people's government. shrub has turned USA into a hateful 'have' versus 'have-not' society with a profound callousness toward misfortunes of others.

It will take honest people generations to undo the corruption, greed and grief visited onto the people of USA by shrub's government. And in the end shrub will get away with it.
.

[Yael]

27. Yup -- that about sums it up!

[ForeignSpectator]

28. Hopefully that legacy cures the American people from voting for any Bush ever again...

Because poppy is going to feed you Jeb Bush next and there is Jeb's son in the pipeline, too. When the Clintons get done with their next turn...

[windoe]

34. Seriously...

Can anyone think of anything GOOD that he has done since being appointed.....I for one cannot think of anything, sad.
(Other than good comedian fodder)

[Coexist]

33. legacy

noun

Something bequeathed, left, or established for future generations
John Muir left as his 'legacy' an enduring spirit of respect for the environment.

A person who is entitled to acceptance in an exclusive club or organization, due to the person having a family member who was already a member


... yup - legacy fits.

and it will damn him.

Great post.

[Mad_Dem_X]

35. Perfect!

His legacy will surely be as the worst US president ever.

[berni_mccoy]

36. Nance, your posts are wonderfully therapeutic, and I really need them... keep them coming!

:kick:

[Magleetis]

37. Nice work

and this is the stuff we know about.

[rockybelt]

38. His legacy

His legacy should read: President Bush, the worst president in American history, has been imprisoned for the rest of his life for the act of treason committed against the United States of America.
The vice-president, current secretary of state, former secretary of defense, Carl Rove and others should stand trial for the same atrocities committed by the despot wanna-be George W. Bush.
Then, and only then, can the United States begin to heal the monstrous wounds inflicted by this despotic administration.:rant:

[Applan]

40. Bloody brilliant Nancy

But I think you forgot to mention he is a torturer!

[RoccoR5955]

41. Bush Legacy = Decline of America as a Nation n/t

[Joey Liberal]

42. Great article! n/t

[mlevans]

43. Somebody should

set this to music or something. It'd make a great litany, don't you think?

[roxnev]

44. The only good thing you done

Was show what a$$ holes the Republicans really are.

[NanceGreggs]

45. You know, that's true ...

So I guess he should get credit for having done one thing successfully.

[Gregorian]

48. But being a torturer is such hard work.

What brilliant work of yours.

And I say that not only because you have recalled most of the heinous acts perpetrated by this damaged goods of a man, but also because of how I have a sense of being isolated and alone. You bring us together. Our minds are alike.

Today I went to the vets. And I had never met these people before. But when in the room alone with the doctor, we really went at it full steam ahead. He gets it. He gets how the media has put a sugar coating over the lies. And how much we have lost as a democracy in the last few years.

This is important. To see it. To hear it. To know that we are together.

Thanks.