What Will Be The Dubster's Legacy?

The cyberbabble about The Dubster carries a faint echo of "War Crimes" and "Impeachment." Impeach (and convict) now! Then extradite the sumbitch and all of his cronies to The Hague to stand in the dock for their crimes against humanity. This, and this alone, should be The Dubster's legacy. If this is a (fair & balanced) J'Accuse, so be it.

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What will Bush be remembered for?
By Table Talk

The president's legacy, as defined this week by members of Salon's reader community, Table Talk.

Jun. 06, 2008 | White House

George W. Bush: The Legacy

Seacat -- 08:51 am Pacific Time -- Jun 3, 2008

Has he done anything good for the U.S.?

Arctor - 10:01 am Pacific Time -- Jun 3, 2008 -- #1 of 42

Yes. He's made us all aware that "it can happen here."

Jo -- 10:12 am Pacific Time -- Jun 3, 2008 -- #2 of 42

His legacy? The next time you have a chance to vote for a president you would like to have a beer with ... DON'T.

Randall -- 10:21 am Pacific Time -- Jun 3, 2008 -- #3 of 42

He's got some brush cleared. He lowered the bar for the next president. He almost succeeded in uniting the Democratic Party. No one has ever been able to do that.

How can you call him a failure when he's achieved all that while taking a record number of vacation days?

Feircnom -- 10:24 am Pacific Time -- Jun 3, 2008 -- #4 of 42

His nicknames for other people are sometimes borderline creative.

Seacat - 10:58 am Pacific Time -- Jun 3, 2008 -- #14 of 42

He made it highly unlikely Jeb would get his chance.

Feircnom -- 12:14 pm Pacific Time -- Jun 3, 2008 -- #19 of 42

He put Crawford, Texas, on the map.

dsduryea -- 12:39 pm Pacific Time -- Jun 3, 2008 -- #20 of 42

And almost took New Orleans off it.

princessalex -- 07:19 am Pacific Time -- Jun 4, 2008 -- #25 of 42

He's shown us that it's okay to redefine words and phrases ("Mission Accomplished"?).

The United States of American now officially endorses the torture of prisoners.

-- Philadelphia Steve
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Permalink Friday, June 6, 2008 12:21 PM
Fascism

Few Americans know anything about Fascism, but the resort of the Bushites to the tactics of Joseph Goebbels should remind us that Fascism is a very present danger.

-- turnip
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Permalink Friday, June 6, 2008 12:27 PM
Hmmm

We've learned that not everybody should grow up to be the president.

-- piedras
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Permalink Friday, June 6, 2008 12:29 PM
Legacy or Rap Sheet

Turning America into a third world country or becoming the first US president to be tried for war crimes.

-- YogiBarrister
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Permalink Friday, June 6, 2008 12:29 PM
One word:

Incompetence.

-- Green Lantern
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Permalink Friday, June 6, 2008 12:32 PM
What will Bush be remembered for?

I sincerely hope the first president to leave office to go directly to prison for life. or at least be indited for teason.

-- dannils
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Permalink Friday, June 6, 2008 12:34 PM
GWB = WMD

Perhaps of equal infamy will be the Congress that facilitated his criminality; the Democratic leadership that put impeachment "off the table"; and the mass media that acted as his mouthpiece.

-- Scorpio69er
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Permalink Friday, June 6, 2008 12:36 PM
Legacy

I think 50 years from now historians will look back on Bush as a bold president that wasn't afraid to take on big risks and challenges (secularizing the Middle East through nation building) but those risks will not end up paying out. The bulk of his legacy will be that of the neo-con movement that turned the idea of "conservative" on its head and replaced it with impetuous and foolish decision making. His legacy will be contrasted with that of his father who fully assesed the risks and costs of invading Baghdad before blindly taking over a nation. The "Bush-doctrine" which defined his post-9/11 presidency will be considered a logically flawed doctrine since it holds nations harboring terrorists as responsible as the terrorists themselves. Many people will ask, what about Pakistan or Saudi Arabia? What's the point of a doctrine if it's only selectively applied? Otherwise it should have just been called the "Invade Afghanistan and Iraq doctrine" Keep in mind that terrorist cells were found near Buffallo, NY and are probably operating within the US today. Does that mean we should attack ourselves? If Bush is lucky historians will call James Buchanan a worse president because he's already easily surpassed Nixon in ineffectiveness. At least Nixon accomplished some progressive reforms and was sometimes successful with foreign relations.

-- jkipling
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Permalink Friday, June 6, 2008 12:42 PM
Abstinence

We wouldn't have been in this mess if he had just kept on drinking.

-- Parisnight
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Permalink Friday, June 6, 2008 12:43 PM
he ruined lot of lives

But it's not his fault. It's the fault of those who voted for him.

-- backacrosstheriver
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Permalink Friday, June 6, 2008 12:43 PM
The pollsters that ask "Who would you rather have a beer with?"

The guy that formulated that question should be sent to patrol outside the Green Zone. Because now we know what happens when presidents are chosen on the basis of such worthless criteria.

I find it to be a rather insidious question, aligned with the shallow qualities the Republicans would rather base the election on. To ask it is to imply (and to plant the seed in the voter's mind) that something is wrong with the more serious, policy-oriented candidate, by the way always the Democrat. It should never be asked again!

-- TruthandConsequences
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Permalink Friday, June 6, 2008 12:47 PM

Impeachment

I still have hopes that he'll be remembered as the first president impeached and convicted. If he bombs Iran, I think that there is a good chance that the new Congress taking office about 20 days before his term end would get it done just for starting another war on his way out the door.

-- cross1242
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Permalink Friday, June 6, 2008 12:47 PM
terrorist states

The "Bush-doctrine" which defined his post-9/11 presidency will be considered a logically flawed doctrine since it holds nations harboring terrorists as responsible as the terrorists themselves. Many people will ask, what about Pakistan or Saudi Arabia?
Heck, what about the US?

-- bearpaw1
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Permalink Friday, June 6, 2008 12:51 PM
Creating Stepford Government

Bush transformed agencies ranging from the Justice Department to the Patent Office by forcing experienced, competent professional people out and replacing them with Bimbo Barbies. These creatures are typically blond haired graduates from a Kristian school, in their late 20's to early 30's, and have items on their resume related to their social schedules as undergraduates. They speak and look like Minnie Mouse and probably have smaller brains.

One of these morons is the Ass't Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks. Needless to say, she has no technical background whatsoever. Another of them, in the Justice Dept., tried to argue for the government in a patent case, before the Court of Appeals (not yet transformed). This idiot thought that she could make up science and present it as fact to the justices, some of whom have PhD's. They thoroughly bitch-slapped her.

-- Busy Body
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Permalink Friday, June 6, 2008 12:55 PM
Mission Accomplished!

need I say more?

-- sunkid

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