Bush's Farewell Fabrication

Reading the talking points of the Bush Legacy Project, which is being managed by former White House political czar, the outgoing president reprised the Orwellian themes of his tenure: freedom promoted at the point of a gun, occupations framed as "liberations," fearmongering and a cowboy's claim of victory in a "war on terror" that still has no direction, no endgame, no capture of Osama bin Laden. Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
4.5
by Dwight Rousu - Jan. 17, 2009

Nichols dissects the 13 minutes well, uncovering the absurdity of the little emperor standing on a platform and bragging about his suit of clothes. The only question is whether it is fabric-ation as Nichols says, or delusion, as Huffington categorized it.

He was puffing himself up, like the Texan who was too big to fit in a coffin. They gave him an enema and buried him in a shoebox. Perhaps bush would deserve an added honorary shoe from Muntatar al-Zaidi. Plenty of room.

“I vowed to do everything in my power to keep us safe,” announced Bush, before proceeding once more to make a link that never existed between 9/11, national security and the attack on Iraq.

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