Jan 06 2009
The Unspeakable Carnage They’ve Wrought
For anyone with a bit of a fond nostalgic streak, or for those who would pity (the admittedly pitiable) departing President G.W. Bush, or even if, like me, you simply want to forget the past and move on — I would ask that you do one thing first:
Read the piece that just came out in the February 2009 edition of Vanity Fair — distilled from scores of interviews — which offers fresh insight into the roles of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and other key players, entitled: An Oral History of the Bush White House.
It’s not so much a news article as it is a cautionary tale to those who may try to forget or otherwise whitewash the raping of the United States, Iraq, the environment, the global financial markets, and the world itself, in its entirety, by the Bush Administration over the past 8 years.
The threat of 9/11 ignored. The threat of Iraq hyped and manipulated. Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. Hurricane Katrina. The shredding of civil liberties. The rise of Iran. Global warming. Economic disaster.
I’ve no pithy remarks. No smartass commentary. No words of pseudo-wisdom to impart. I just hope as many people as possible read and remember this, and other relatively undiluted accounts of what REALLY took place over the past 8 years — before the Neocon spin masters get to it and turn George W. Bush into another Ronald Reagan.
