If only Carl Bernstein and not Bobby Look-at-my-access Woodward were the more prominent and visible of the two, the country may not have taken six years to begin to scratch the Bush itch.
ViaEditor and Publisher, we learn that Bernstein believes Bush has done far greater damage than Nixon.
h/t to Huffpo
In an online chat at washingtonpost.com yesterday, Bernstein pulled no punches. Making the case that the American system worked to stop Nixon and his henchmen, Bernstein went on to add
In the case George W. Bush, the American system has obviously failed -- tragically -- about which we can talk more in a minute. But imagine the difference in our worldview today, had the institutions -- particularly of government -- done their job to ensure that a mendacious and dangerous president (as has since been proven many times over, beyond mere assertion) be restrained in a war that has killed thousands of American soldiers, brought turmoil to the lives of millions, and constrained the goodwill towards the United States in much of the world."
And that was just the warm up. It's so refreshing to see a mainstream voice like his refusing to buy into the propaganda. Head on over and read the whole article at E&P; Bernstein comments on the top Admin officials' disregard for the Constitution, the "dangerous characters" at the top, and makes this biting observation about torture:
"Then there are the Geneva conventions: Who would have dreamed that, in our lifetime, our leaders would permit their flagrant abuse, would authorize torture, 'renditions' to foreign-torture chambers, suspension of habeus corpus, illegal surveillance of our own citizens.... [ellipsis in original]
What a difference between him and star-struck Woodward!
I looked for a transcript at WaPo, but couldn't find it. Anyone else have better luck?