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Posted by Derek Hawkins
That Bushies are so soon confined to the trash bin of history is dramatic, and the author fully details how this came to be. But erasing Bushie disasters won’t be anywhere at all easy, mainly because they are so numerous and so hugely immense. Decades will pass before we cure ourselves of our massive neocon hangover. Or worse, there may not be enough “aspirin” to eradicate it completely.
Isn’t it wonderful to finally come out of the Cheney-Bush black shadows of fear, distortions, lies, and repression into the sunlight of freedom, able to speak without looking over one’s shoulder, or having one’s character attacked? Actually listening to intelligent conversation and having neocon nonsense and trickle-down dumbness confined to a few Neandertal necon senators stuck in the 18th century?