Krugman: American Evil - The Bush Administration
As the Bush administration fades away in the rearview mirror, my sense is that many people — even liberals — are forgetting what it was really like. It becomes, in memory, just another administration whose policies you disapprove of, like the reign of Bush the elder.
But it wasn’t. It was an administration that deliberately misled us into war, exploiting an atrocity to pursue an agenda that had nothing to do with that atrocity — and causing vast amounts of death and destruction in the process, not to mention undermining American strength.
And it was an administration under which America became a torturer, with the enthusiastic approval of top officials.
This wasn’t normal. And if it’s going be normal from now on, all the more reason to remember the Bush years with horror.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/american-evil-2/
Right on target, as usual.
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BushCheneyRove just about destroyed my country.
I feel like Cassandra here, because I said over and over (during the BushCheney years) that we were not going to be able to undo the damage in one presidency no matter who we elected. Saying "I told you so" gives me no satisfaction, but every so often I just want to scream it here.
Obama is human and makes mistakes. But he is not the evil monsters that got us here. He's trying to undo it. And it CAN'T be done in one presidency. It might not be undone in what's left of my lifetime either.
Just never, ever forget who actually brought us here, and don't waste time tearing down anyone who is actually trying to get us out. Like, for instance, Dianne Feinstein. The shit I have read about her since the day before she published the report is a classic case of Kill the Messenger.
And FUCK YEAH! 
