'The Memory of Bush Will Darken America's Image for Years to Come'

[Andre II]

German newspaper commentators have launched a scathing attack on US President George W. Bush's record, saying he embodies "the arrogance of power" and has shattered the world's faith in America.The diplomatic fence-mending between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President George W. Bush over the past two years seems to have done nothing to pacify German editorial writers who have seized on the US president's farewell trip to Europe to launch a tirade of criticism of his eight years in power.

The Iraq war, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, CIA renditions and Bush's record on climate change have tainted not only Bush's image but also that of America for years to come, write Germany's leading newspapers.

The comments coincided with talks between Bush and Merkel at the German government's guest house in Meseberg, 70 kilometers north of Berlin on Wednesday, on the second leg of Bush's week-long tour of Europe which will take him on to Rome, Paris, London and Belfast.

More here:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,559056,00.html

[99th_Monkey]

1. .... unless the WH war criminals are indicted & imprisoned, that is. One great reason to impeach.

This is one of the more compelling reasons to impeach I know of.

Without a day of reckoning, where the light of truth and justice spotlights the criminal actions
of the Bush Administration, it will indeed take many years before America will be trusted again
among the international community of nations.

On the other hand, Americans would be cheered and immensely respected around the globe for impeaching,
indicting, and imprisoning the WH criminals.

It need not be "for years to come", but apparently the Dem. leadership in Congress is hell-bent on
making it so, by not impeaching.

[izquierdista]

2. They know

Germans are in a good position to know how long the stigma remains once a truly hideous leader manages to grab power.