Giving Name To The Bush Legacy: "SHANKRILA" -------->

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1. Bush's Legacy: America Off Course (way off course)

Just a reminder for anyone who may have forgotten:




The Bush Verdict Is In

By Dan Froomkin
January 13, 2009

Bush famously asserts that history's verdict on his presidency won't come until he's long dead. But far from waiting until his corpse is cold, the verdict is largely in before he's even left the building.

Some things just aren't gonna change, no matter how much time passes. Here is Bush's legacy, in part:

He took the nation to a war of choice under false pretenses -- and left troops in harm's way on two fields of battle. He embraced torture as an interrogation tactic and turned the world's champion of human dignity into an outlaw nation and international pariah. He watched with detachment as a major American city went under water. He was ostensibly at the helm as the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression took hold. He went from being the most popular to the most disappointing president, having squandered a unique opportunity to unite the country and even the world behind a shared agenda after Sept. 11. He set a new precedent for avoiding the general public in favor of screened audiences and seemed to occupy an alternate reality. He took his own political party from seeming permanent majority status to where it is today. And he deliberately politicized the federal government, circumvented the traditional policymaking process, ignored expert advice and suppressed dissent, leaving behind a broken government.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2009/01/13/BL2009011301509.html

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2. kick

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3. Protesters Say George Bush Library Should be a Pile of Rubble

Protesters Say George Bush Library Should be a Pile of Rubble



Wed, 2010-11-17 07:42
By Medea Benjamin

Several thousand people lined up to see George Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice shovel dirt into a hole at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, the site slated to become the George Bush President

Protesters Say George Bush Library Should be a Pile of Rubble


ial Center housing a museum, library and archives.


The protesters focused on the lies Bush told the American public to justify invading Iraq, his authorization of torture and the need for accountability. “Accountability is the sign of a true democracy,” said former CIA agent Ray McGovern. “No one should be above the law and the truth must not be buried or rewritten.”

Protesters were also concerned about the policies the new Bush Center will promote. President Bush said the Center would include an “action-oriented institute” to advance the principles his administration stood for, including the “benefits of limiting the role of government in people's lives.” According to local organizer Leslie Harris of CODEPINK, “this really means promoting the same kinds of disastrous policies that brought us pre-emptive war, economic crisis, environmental disaster, unprecedented presidential power, and diminished civil and human rights. We can’t let one of America’s worst presidents shape our future policies.”

http://warisacrime.org/content/protesters-say-george-bush-library-should-be-pile-rubblez

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4. V for Vendetta, no?

Looks like that was quite a moving protest....

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5. Bush is our "Jefferson"

He should be "moving on up" ... but not to a deluxe apartment in the sky.

I think a prison cell would be more appropriate.