George W. Bush. Bastard.

[WilliamPitt]

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Thanks to the linguistic calisthenics of his dipshit brother, George W. Bush and his catastrophic Iraq war are back in the news again...so I thought I'd run this one up the flagpole one more time.

I found myself literally unable to write for a large portion of 2008, because I was just burned out on this guy and all his pals. This was expiation, almost an exorcism for me. I tore him out of my soul and threw him from me.

But the cat comes back. Bastard.

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From a certain perspective, one could argue that you have been the most successful president the country has ever seen. Think about it, because according to your definition of "success," it's true. You came into office looking to make your friends richer, and to fulfill as best you could your most overriding personal belief: that government is the problem, so government must be damaged and denuded to the point of impotence. Through your tax cuts and your two vastly expensive boondoggle wars, you made your friends rich. By unleashing Mr. Cheney and your other minions, you tore the Constitution to shreds and tatters. You have achieved both goals in smashing style, so from that certain perspective, you have triumphed.

Could you also, from the proper perspective, be considered our greatest president?

Perhaps, someday, if we make it so.

It will be in the best interests of many powerful people if we as a nation simply dismiss you and forget you ever happened. A lot of news media people want us to forget you, because in forgetting you, we would forget the media's vast complicity in your actions and misdeeds. A lot of rich people making new fortunes from war profiteering and defense contracts want us to forget they and you even exist, as it would make it possible for them to do it all again someday. A lot of politicians who stapled themselves to you would simply adore it if we forgot about you. The Republican Party would be forever in our debt if we forgot about you.

No. We will not forget you. We will remember.

We the people are going to save you from ignominious oblivion. We will remember. You could be the president who doomed America, the worst president of all time, but we must not, will not let that happen. You will be remembered differently, because we will hold the memory of you high, and behold you, and say, "Never, never, never again." We have tasted the soot and smelled the blood on the wind; we have seen how fragile our way of government is when placed in the hands of low men such as you, and because of that, you will be remembered for all time.

Your greatness will be defined by how we rise to overcome and undo what you have done. Your greatness will stand forever if we never, ever forget the hard, bitter lessons you taught us. We are responsible for this republic, for our Constitution, and for each other. We are our brother's keeper. You taught us that by becoming our Cain. You nearly slew us, but here we stand, and we defy the place in history you would relegate us to. We defy you, and by doing so, we rise.

Something like you must never again be allowed to happen to this country, and if we save ourselves by preventing you from ever happening again, your greatness is assured. You are the tallest of all possible warnings, and a promise all of us must solemnly and stalwartly keep. If we can damn you to the past, we will save our own future.

May you live forever, you son of a bitch.

The rest:

William Rivers Pitt | The Greatest Greatness of George W. Bush
Wednesday 07 January 2009
http://truth-out.org/archive/component/k2/item/81880:the-greatest-greatness-of-george-w-bush

[HassleCat]

1. Maybe Number Two

As horrible as GW Bush was, I think Ronald Reagan nudges him into second place. Reagan didn't have much going on for wars, and had to fall back on Granada, a country where only half the army had rifles. When it comes to damaging the federal government, enabling corporations to freely rape the citizens, and shredding the constitution, Reagan is in the lead.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Reagan talked tough but he was too smart to get us involved in a land war in Mesopotamia./NT

[WilliamPitt]

3. Up.