Bush's Legacy

When we lose in Iraq, thousands of U.S. servicemen dead and billions wasted, terrorism and anti-Americanism growing thorughout the world, are you going to admit that it was a bad policy and that Bush is to blame, or are neocons just going to blame the failure on the liberals at home who didn't support the war, just like Vietnam?

We don't know how the world is going to look in 15 years, or what major events may take place in that time period to influence that outcome. What we do know is this: Bush plotted this war before 9/11, his administration manipulated intelligence, bullied opposing viewpoints and lied to the American people to manufacture a consensus, and they've has made economic 'reform' in Iraq a priority even over protecting our own troops, much less the actual welfare of the Iraqi people. Whatever the outcome, the legacy is damning. If I believed in Hell, I'd pray to God that there was special place there for Bush, Cheney and the whole lot of them.

If (or dare I say 'when'?) we suffer another major attack by terrorists trained and bloodied in Iraq, and if (when?) we wish our military was ready to fight a necessary war somewhere else in the world but can't because we're tied down in Iraq, I wonder if the neocons will see the connection.

Probably not. After all, by his own admission, Bush can't remember a single mistake from his first term.

Believe.