Cohen: Ground Zero is Bush’s true legacy (the hole has yet to be filled)

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Ground Zero is Bush’s true legacy

By RICHARD COHEN
Published Wednesday, April 19, 2006

NEW YORK - President George W. Bush is starting to look beyond his presidency. His focus is on his legacy, which, he is sure, will vindicate his decision to go to war in Iraq. But his most fitting memorial is likely to be where I was April 2 - the immense gash in lower Manhattan known as Ground Zero. More than 4½ years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the hole has yet to be filled.

Tourists come and look. The selling of souvenirs is prohibited at the site itself, but around the corner, on Vesey Street, peddlers hug the shadows. The proper souvenir of this place, though, is the memory of its immense emptiness. It’s a hole filled with broken promises and silly rhetoric, an inverted monument to the Bush administration’s unfathomable failure even to capture Osama bin Laden.

Where is this killer? Still in Afghanistan or nearby Pakistan, is the unofficial answer. Certainly not caught, is the official answer. This terrorist, this madman, this mass murderer of clerks and stockbrokers, of deliverymen and cooks, of IT guys and shoeshine boys, is still on the loose. Bin Laden was the guy Bush was going to get dead or alive, or something like that, but he is still at large, mocking us with his occasional tapes and his insufferable freedom. Even Afghanistan, liberated from the Taliban, is receding into chaos. The Taliban, it turns out, never left.

full article: http://www.columbiatribune.com/2006/Apr/20060419Comm002.asp

[opihimoimoi]

1. Bushies Legacy of FAILURE sounds about right....

[BlueEyedSon]

2. The should leave it unbuilt and ragged and dedicate it to Bush

[Burried News]

3. The perfect tribute to a Wrechedthem is a hole in the ground. nt

[rodeodance]

4. A long time ago i said bush is concerned with his legacy--Cohen is right.

NEW YORK - President George W. Bush is starting to look beyond his presidency. His focus is on his legacy, which, he is sure, will vindicate his decision to go to war in Iraq. But his most fitting memorial is likely to be where I was April 2 - the immense gash in lower Manhattan known as Ground Zero. More than 4½ years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the hole has yet to be filled.

[WI_DEM]

5. Bush's legacy will be one of monumental failure

[lyonn]

6. Osama? Osama who, we have terrorist to find,

like, like, ahh, the Ace of Spades, No. 77 on our terrorist list, .....

Crazy Dead or Alive bush deserves to have that dreadful hole dedicated to him. That is all he has talked about for 4 1/2 years.

Edit: Cohen is definitely being helpful to any bush take down that may occur. He is subtle.

[shadowknows69]

7. It serves the propaganda machine better

by remaining unfilled.

[paparush]

8. That's Bush's Legacy allright....a grave.