Bob Herbert: Add Up the Damage

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/opinion/30herbert.html?_r=1

Does anyone know where George W. Bush is?

You don’t hear much from him anymore. The last image most of us remember is of the president ducking a pair of size 10s that were hurled at him in Baghdad.

We’re still at war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Israel is thrashing the Palestinians in Gaza. And the U.S. economy is about as vibrant as the 0-16 Detroit Lions.

But hardly a peep have we heard from George, the 43rd.

When Mr. Bush officially takes his leave in three weeks (in reality, he checked out long ago), most Americans will be content to sigh good riddance. I disagree. I don’t think he should be allowed to slip quietly out of town. There should be a great hue and cry — a loud, collective angry howl, demonstrations with signs and bullhorns and fiery speeches — over the damage he’s done to this country.

This is the man who gave us the war in Iraq and Guantánamo and torture and rendition; who turned the Clinton economy and the budget surplus into fool’s gold; who dithered while New Orleans drowned; who trampled our civil liberties at home and ruined our reputation abroad; who let Dick Cheney run hog wild and thought Brownie was doing a heckuva job.

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But instead, there will be calls for "unity, reconciliation and national healing"- Just like when Nixon got pardoned. Because of that, we got Dick Cheney and his cronies back OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

Deja moo.

That was perfected in the 1970s and 1980s by our CIA in South America.

Every time I think he's hit one out of the ballpark, he comes along with the next one and bests it. Hits it out of the CITY.

of course this is the way we want to see him leave

He does it yet again.

but most importantly, paddy wagons, if those old horse-drawn jail carts aren't available.