1. Blood on his hands for every U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan since he abandoned that war in March 2003 in order to launch his vanity war in Iraq.
2. Blood on his hands for putting 4,209 U.S. military in body bags, almost half of whom were blown to bits by indiscriminate roadside bombs and improvised explosive devices; wounding over 30,000 more U.S. military, many of whom lost arms, legs, and eyes, suffering lifetime disabling injuries.
3. Blood on his hands for ordering the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi citizens for no other reason than he, as he stated to a reporter days before the Iraq invasion on March 19, 2003, "got to make the call."
4. Personally responsible for bringing about a worldwide financial crisis and economic collapse when he began the policy of borrowing (begging) foreign countries such as Japan and China to bankroll his fantasy of converting the entire Middle East to democracy at the end of a gun barrel. That bill has yet to be totaled up but it is estimated by some experts that the cost will exceed $3 trillion.
5. Complete abdication of his oath of office and breach of trust with the American people while he burdened our citizens with a $10 billion-per-month fiasco in Iraq; failure to confront major problems at home such as the Katrina damage and I-35 bridge collapse in Minnesota, increasing unemployment, poverty, and lack of health care coverage for 47 million Americans.
6. G.W. Bush sat by while our nation's infrastructure collapsed, allowing his greed-infested constituency that he once referred to as the "haves and have mores" to run amok on Wall Street. He and his Securities and Exchange Commission cipher Christopher Cox refused to enforce any regulation or provide oversight into the fraudulent, criminal theft of investors' money by the Ponzi Scheme corporate fat cats. Once swamped by their gambling debts, they convinced Bush's Feeding Chairman Ben Bernanke to hand them more free money when he lowered the interest rate they can borrow to 1%. When that money ran out, they turned to another sycophant, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who raided the U.S. taxpayers repeatedly to bail out the faltering piggy banks that allowed the current conveyor belt of "free" money to continue.
Finally, though the Bush 8-year detritus has yet to be fully analyzed, we know this: Bush has torn down the integrity and honor of the office of the presidency; installed in our federal courts partisan, activist judges hostile to individual liberties and freedoms enshrined in the U.S. Constitution; incited political, religious, and partisan divisions; and allowed terrorism to thrive and proliferate while he myopically focused on an Iraq War legacy that is wrapped entirely in his self-glorification.
On January 20, 2009, this sad and disastrous chapter in American history will end. The election of Barack Obama on November 4 was an emphatic repudiation of the George W. Bush imperial presidency-by-decree. All glory is fleeting.
by Richard A. Stitt
Austin, Texas
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/1861
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