Well...... I just checked my retirement accounts, and there's scarcely anything left of those either.
ahaque
· 1 year ago
Bush & Cheney made their billions from Iraq war and oil price rise, as for as they are concerned the rest of the country can go to hell. May be their assets should be frozen and redistributed amongst those who have lost in the recent stock market crash.
RitornaVincitor
· 1 year ago
Agreed, big time. Bush and Cheney will be rich no matter what happens to the rest of us. Speaking of crashes, I so enjoyed seeing Cheney looking so uncomfortable at the inauguration sitting in his wheelchair dressed like Dr. Strangelove. As they wheeled him around I kept hoping they'd lose control of the chair at a ramp or staircase. Can you imagine the sound of 1.8 million spectators roaring with laughter?
ahaque
· 1 year ago
I must admit the thought did cross my mind that what if someone pushes his wheelchair down the stairs, he will be a spectacle to see for millions in America and around the world who have suffered at his hands. Befitting punishment? may be not, I still rather see his and George's assets frozen and the two of them and their cronies thrown into Abu Ghuraib or some such prison.
barts
· 1 year ago
It's probably because Bush has been scarce for previous 100 days before Obama set foot in office. But believe me the legacy (damage) to our country from Bush is quite noticeable and probably impossible to erase.
ahaque
· 1 year ago
WILL THE INTERNATIONAL COURT AT THE HAGUE TRY THESE WAR CRIMINALS? George W. Bush, War Criminal-in-Chief
Dick Cheney, Joint War Criminal-in-Chief
Paul Wolfowitz, War Criminal Planner-in-Chief
Donald Rumsfeld, War Criminal Executioner-in-Chief
Richard Perle, War Criminal Co-Planner
Condoleezza Rice, War Criminal Co-Conspirator
Will The International Court at The Hague please stand up and indict these war criminals who have wreaked death and destruction on humanity and have made human beings suffer through Abu Ghuraib, Guantanamo Bay, renditions and an illegal war in Iraq?
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Add: Alberto Gonzales, Michael Mukasey, David Addington, John Yoo, and Jay Bybee. They gave Bush entirely spurious legal "cover" for torture.
And that doesn't even begin to winkle out the complicit thugs and spineless accomplices in both parties in both houses of Congress.
ahaque
· 1 year ago
You are absolutely right that all those who assisted in torture and provided legal cover for it should be added to the war criminals list.
If President Bashir of Sudan can be indicted for being responsible for deaths of thousands in Darfur, why can't George W. Bush and his co-criminals for causing deaths of hundreds of thousands in Iraq and elsewhere?
Upland_Oddball
· 1 year ago
Maybe Barack Obama and Congress should go two steps further and issue orders and pass laws that: One) forbid the naming of public buildings, facilities, monuments, and naval ships, including aircraft carriers, after stil living presidents, and Two) rescind the naming of such public property for still living ex-presidents. Thus, the USS aircraft carrier G. H. W. Bush would be officially renamed after someone both deserving and deceased. The practice began by Reagan Republicans to monumentalize the flagbearers of the modern Conservative movement needs to be repudiated, or we will see within our lifetimes again an effort to erect such monuments to George W. Bush.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
How about removing Ronald Reagan's name from National Airport here in DC. Reagan wasn't from this area.
dacnova
· 1 year ago
Reagan also fired the striking air traffic controllers. No airport should have been named after him.
Older_Wiser
· 1 year ago
Excellent point!!
oh_yeah
· 1 year ago
I never refer to it as Reagan, always stick with the original National. Burns my ears every time I hear it now.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
You know when you bang your finger/toenail really hard.....and it turns black and blue with blood under the nail.....and then you have to look at the disgusting nail for months and months...... till it falls off....
Well, that disgusting nail fell off Tuesday.
Here it is Friday afternoon....and I don't have to look at the disgusting nail everyday.
:) :)
okojo
· 1 year ago
There is plenty of the Bush Administration, whether in holdovers, whether in the "Terrorist Surveillance Program", in the Predator Drone airstrike today in Pakistan, in the powers that the Bush/Cheney Administration have developed and will still be in use for the Executive Branch. It is going to take years to finally root out all the stuff that was implemented by the Bush administration..
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Dubya...The Tutankamun or Tutankaten of the Bush Dynasty...
Jay
· 1 year ago
Bush is trash.
Dianne_in_DC
· 1 year ago
Some where I read about the restaurants replacing pictures of Bush with Obama. Apparently Bush is the only prez not to dine at the Palm, which has installed portraits of the Obamas together and the Bidens together. He will be erased from the DC social circuits and expect the Obamas to make it quite a scene.
wearing out my F key
· 1 year ago
oh yeah, bush and his policies are disappearing from the pages of time.
for proof, just look at obama's iraqi brain trust- chairman of the joint chiefs-of-staff admiral mike mullen, sod robert gates, us. ambassador in iraq ryan crocker and generals david petraeus and ray odierno.
see? that's change you can believe in!
Bubbles
· 1 year ago
If you ignore the giant train wreck of a crater that surrounds us, yes, hardly a trace of Bush.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
You know how, when you erase something, those little fragments of dirty rubber stay on the page, and you never know what to do with them, and you kind of brush them off and hope they disappear, somehow, even though you know they're now in the carpet?
That's what we're trying to do to Bush and his legacy.
wearing out my F key
· 1 year ago
and what happened to all those people in the bush white house? oh, they all moved over to k street where the real money is at. they'll be "helping" our "representitives" write up new "policy" before you know it.
and you know k street is hiring! because all the old clinton people who spent the last 8 years as lobbyist are now back ing government, serving the intrests of the public.
boom, baby!
Older_Wiser
· 1 year ago
It's the policies that aren't so obvious that are worrisome. Let's hope the Obama admin. quickly finds those, too, although it seems to be doing a yeoman's job of the larger issues.
BushCo left its fingerprints over a whole lot of stuff all over the country. All of it needs to be rooted out and destroyed.
Phil
· 1 year ago
Didn't they erase Stalin and Kruschev, Musolini, Amin and many others in those countries that had despots rule?
Interesting.
aratina
· 1 year ago
"Amerika! F@#k Ya!" It was pointed out on a different blog, "Live by the sword, die by the sword." Bush abused executive orders that Obama can easily overturn. Lasting change comes from laws passed in Congress and Obama understands this.
coffee
· 1 year ago
Obama is smart on so many levels for ordering the closure of Guantanamo. It has been a long time coming
coffee
· 1 year ago
Obama is already taking steps in the right direction; pretty soon the U.S. will be able to join the world community once again
JustAGuy
· 1 year ago
The party's over but the melody lingers on...
Obama can do nothing to "cauterize" Bush's Supreme Court appointments. Nor can he do anything to to remove all the Federal judges Bush appointed. Obama's likely Supreme Court appointments will be replacing existing moderate justices.
That, unfortunately, is G. W. Bush's lasting legacy: Bat-shit crazy "activist" judges with lifetime appointments that create bat-shit crazy case-law and set bat-shit legal precedents. Not just now, but for all time.
Anyone feel safer yet?
-S
Older_Wiser
· 1 year ago
It really is lovely, though, to see so much fear emanating from the Rethugs.
They're really narcissistic, spoiled children and scared as hell someone is going to be prosecuted eventually. That's the 800 lb gorilla in the room for them.
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
EXPUNGE the Mo Fo
TimK
· 1 year ago
I wish the statement in this post were more true, but:
I'm just really curious about why he kept "ruggie" in the Oval Office. Couldn't it have been sent to Dubya's new library/conspiracy center?
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Economical...plus the Saudi, Chinese and rich old lady-fueled Dubya Library will have to eat the rug copy cost for the presidential pyramid duplicate Oval Office exhibit...
All Comments
George W. Bush, War Criminal-in-Chief
Dick Cheney, Joint War Criminal-in-Chief
Paul Wolfowitz, War Criminal Planner-in-Chief
Donald Rumsfeld, War Criminal Executioner-in-Chief
Richard Perle, War Criminal Co-Planner
Condoleezza Rice, War Criminal Co-Conspirator
Will The International Court at The Hague please stand up and indict these war criminals who have wreaked death and destruction on humanity and have made human beings suffer through Abu Ghuraib, Guantanamo Bay, renditions and an illegal war in Iraq?
And that doesn't even begin to winkle out the complicit thugs and spineless accomplices in both parties in both houses of Congress.
If President Bashir of Sudan can be indicted for being responsible for deaths of thousands in Darfur, why can't George W. Bush and his co-criminals for causing deaths of hundreds of thousands in Iraq and elsewhere?
Reagan wasn't from this area.
Well, that disgusting nail fell off Tuesday.
Here it is Friday afternoon....and I don't have to look at the disgusting nail everyday.
:) :)
for proof, just look at obama's iraqi brain trust- chairman of the joint chiefs-of-staff admiral mike mullen, sod robert gates, us. ambassador in iraq ryan crocker and generals david petraeus and ray odierno.
see? that's change you can believe in!
That's what we're trying to do to Bush and his legacy.
and you know k street is hiring! because all the old clinton people who spent the last 8 years as lobbyist are now back ing government, serving the intrests of the public.
boom, baby!
BushCo left its fingerprints over a whole lot of stuff all over the country. All of it needs to be rooted out and destroyed.
Interesting.
Obama can do nothing to "cauterize" Bush's Supreme Court appointments. Nor can he do anything to to remove all the Federal judges Bush appointed. Obama's likely Supreme Court appointments will be replacing existing moderate justices.
That, unfortunately, is G. W. Bush's lasting legacy: Bat-shit crazy "activist" judges with lifetime appointments that create bat-shit crazy case-law and set bat-shit legal precedents. Not just now, but for all time.
Anyone feel safer yet?
-S
They're really narcissistic, spoiled children and scared as hell someone is going to be prosecuted eventually. That's the 800 lb gorilla in the room for them.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/obama-...