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Bush attempting to rewrite history of "disastrous presidency"

Published: 13 November, 2009, 04:55
Edited: 18 February, 2010, 21:49

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Former US President George W. Bush is set to rewrite the history of his presidency, which was a “disaster for America,” US radio host and author Thom Hartmann told RT.

The University of Virginia has announced it will put together an oral history of Bush's presidency. It will work together with the George Bush Foundation and is planning around 100 interviews with leading members of his administration.

“Rather than a presidential library, like most presidents have, which basically just chronicle the presidency, George Bush is going to be spending several hundred million dollars to hire so-called scholars to rewrite his legacy and to re-invent the history of his administration,” said radio host and author Thom Hartmann.

The reality is, he went on, that “the biggest legacy of his administration right now is what we saw last week in Fort Hood, Texas,” where a Muslim American officer murdered more than a dozen fellow soldiers.

Hartmann believes Bush should have dealt with “Osama bin Laden and his small radical Islamic mafia” in a different way. Had he “asked for international cooperation from police agencies, labeled them criminals, arrested them, had them tried and put them in jail, the 9/11 victims would have closure and Muslims around the world would not only not hate America and be afraid of it –as so many of them do right now – but we would probably see a renaissance in Islam.”

“Bush was the worst president of America, and if not the total worst, the second worst behind John Adams. His presidency was a disaster – it was a disaster for working people, it was a disaster for the military… for our international relations… for us economically,” Hartmann said.

“I guarantee it is going to cost him at least a couple of hundred million dollars… to re-spin that history,” Hartmann said. “He is going to do his best to do it, and he will accomplish it.”


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Count Cash February 18, 2010, 18:37
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Harv, Even from an American perspective, Bush didn't manage to keep 3000 Americans safe on his watch did he! They fell from the sky. Then he followed up with another 4000 US killed abroad, just for good measure! Wow 7000 dead on his watch! Everyone feeling safe? So I make it after the first period 7000 to zero in favour of Obama, that's a fact! But of course I don't know how many CIA ghost goals you are counting! But then again we are in a real game here, not a made up one! I suppose you just need oil your thinking, and it might come out OK.

Harv February 15, 2010, 01:54
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Count Cash and Hiding are typical screeching,whining liberals that wouldn't give W a break if he'd just saved their ungrateful butts. Obama couldn't carry Bushes gym bag. Bush kept America safe for 8 yrs., a condition, that sad to say, is much in doubt re. President Pantywaist. Obama will go past Bush like he's parked in the race for the worst presidency ever,he'll even pass Carter in that pursuit,and I thought that no one could ever pass Carter for the worst presidency. The people will ultimately decide that question and the Dems are going to get their collective hats handed to them in the fall and I wish it was tomorrow before he spends us into oblivion.

Vee Kay December 19, 2009, 22:25
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The American mainstream media has gotten it sooo wrong so far. Bush is now more popular than Obama. Bush was neither a true conservative or a true capitalist. However, Obama after putting up a facade is starting to come clean, he absolutely is not moderate in politics and not a capitalist.. As the Soviet Union went bankrupt competing against U.S. weapons, the U.S. is now attempting to bankrupt itself over the global warming lie....