Eight years of misery and pure hell under the whip of a man who was given the office of president by the Supreme Court.
Below is a brief outline of the depravity of the Bush legacy.
Justice Stevens was harsh in his dissent:
What must underlie petitioners' entire federal assault on the Florida election procedures is an unstated lack of confidence in the impartiality and capacity of the state judges who would make the critical decisions if the vote count were to proceed. Otherwise, their position is wholly without merit. The endorsement of that position by the majority of this Court can only lend credence to the most cynical appraisal of the work of judges throughout the land. It is confidence in the men and women who administer the judicial system that is the true backbone of the rule of law. Time will one day heal the wound to that confidence that will be inflicted by today's decision. One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the Nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.
I respectfully dissent.
Bush spent months of doing little but purging the federal government of any and all things related to the Clintons, including ignoring warnings of an eminent attack on the United States by using aircraft.
On September 11, 2001, the unthinkable occurred.
Apparently struck dumb by the news, Bush sat on his ass for 10 minutes. To this day nobody knows what the fuck he was thinking. Did he know? How much or how little had Cheney told him?
The Decider began his descent into madness with earnest. Revenge, Hatred, Lies. Mushroom Clouds. Smoke'em out of their caves. With us or against us. Fear. Most of America, and ALL of Amurka, was whipped into a frenzy of vengeful retribution.
We were going to kill some brown people, and goddammit, it was going to feel good.
The trouble with combining malicious neocon ideologues with a mean spirited, feeble minded, narcissistic, crack head drunken sociopath like Bush, is that no matter what they do together it is going to be a clusterfuck of monumental proportions. While the initial response to 9/11 in Afghanistan became a secondary sideshow, the real target of their aspirations lay in the oil fields of Iraq. After Powell sold the world our bill of goods at the United Nations, it was a done deal. In short order there was no stopping the machinary of war. Thus began the most expensive, most intense, rain of death from above in history. Shock and Awe quickly and predictably turned into the Murder of Civilians.
In Fallujah, American soldiers were given orders to use White Phosphorus.
This is a bad idea because it results in the Melting of skin off of children In city after city the results were the same, horrific civilian casulties, while those on the right cheered for blood.
The realities of waging War on civilian populations is not pretty. I wonder how long it would be allowed go on if the images of that truth were shown to America. Instead we are given the pablum of really real reality shows, and the lies of a fourth estate who have gone AWOL in favor of corporate directives. Nobody in the media and almost none of our elected officials dared to show or tell the truth. While we were busy watching Survivor, and Sienfield reruns, the streets of Fallujah and other cities, literally ran red with the blood of it citizens.
This is the reality of the Bush Doctrine. This is the legacy of the republicans. Dead, murdered, burned children. Ignored, cast aside like rotten fruit, while the right wing challened my patriotism for asking a simple question:
What did this child do?
While untold numbers of Mothers and Fathers wept for their children, their brothers, their sisters, George Bush and his cabal made sure that those who survived the initial destruction, bombing and incinerating, could then look forward to having a conversation with their occupier killers.
After the scandal of Abu Ghraib, the neocons decided torturing people wasn't going to cause enough of a public uproar to slow them down. Emboldened by their success, and with no one to hold them accountable, they made it legal to cover their asses.
Caught in the middle of their sworn oath to obey orders from the Commander in Chief, and the common thread of decency our soldiers carry with them everywhere, our brave men and women in uniform paid the price. It is a lose/lose situation.
For that single betrayal alone, I will never forgive Bush.
Soldiers coming home were welcomed by a broken Veterans Administration, unable to cope with the numbers of soldiers who returned home needing care. Little has been done to correct this.
Homelessness and suicides among our vets are at an all time high. None of this is reported in the traditional media. You can read more about helping homeless vets in a dairy I did several months ago. There is some good information there if you are so inclined to help.
Homeless Vets. Don't you Dare Look Away.
One word: Katrina.
Bush missed most of this, he was busy eating cake with John McSame, and playing a little guitar with some redneck fuck I won't mention.
Heck'of'a job Brownie, Heck'of'a job.
Help from Bush never came, to this day the region is still devastated. The national guard unit responsible for help and protection of NOLA is slated to go back to Iraq at the start of hurricane season this year.
How's that for a kick in the ass.
Like Mother, like Son.
"What I’m hearing which is sort of
scary is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is
so overwhelmed by the hospitality.
"And so many of the people in the arena here, you
know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she
chuckles slightly) is working very well for them."
Barbara Bush
This diary chronicles only the tiniest tip of the iceberg of the Bush Administrations crimes against humanity.
It is my most passionate desire that after Barack Obama is sworn in we will see a new Department of Justice that is ready, able, and willing to do it's job.
America desperately needs to restore our constitution, return to the rule of law, and comply with the precepts laid out in the Geneva Conventions. Those who chose to violate these sacred trust should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
From a recent dairy by Meteor Blades:
Barack Obama's promises of a broad bipartisan focus on solving our country's problems may prove as wise as the similar message of the Civil War president whose words echoed in the Grant Park speech. But that healing cannot occur, not wholly, unless the crimes that have brought our nation to such a ruinous condition - morally, economically and politically - are investigated thoroughly and a proper penalty imposed. Most importantly, the bent machinery that allowed, nay encouraged, those crimes must be rebuilt with safeguards so that they never occur again. That's not vengeance. It's justice. And true healing and progress cannot come about without it.
I hope.