How will history judge George W. Bush in 10 years?

What will the history books say about this (p)resident 10 years from now --assuming we've all gained some perspective?

What will be his greatest failures for the annals of time?

Will there be any successes to log?

That's about the time he'll come up for parole after he's tried for war crimes.

for history -- popular history perhaps. I can't imagine that it won't be very, very harhs. But, on the other hand, I can't imagine a single person voting for him, so . . .

I figure in 10 we'll have cemented some strong opinions that will remain unchanged. Even though Nixon was not hated with the same depth before his death as he was when he held office and resigned, he was always considered the worst president in modern history by most.

Bush also may have changed Nixon's dark legacy by becoming the new 'worst' president.

it may take more than 10 years to fully assess the foolishness of invading Iraq, an area where history repeatedly teaches that Western interference leads to nothing but disaster.

my laptop keyboard sticks and it drives me batty.

I spend my workdays writing and when I get home I am a complete slob.

and I shamelessly grabbed the opportunity :)

Nixon was a hateful thief and lier, but he did do some good things in negotiations with china, and sneakey as it was, did bring an end to Vietnam.

I've been trying to think, as fairly as I can, what has shrub done "good" in his 4 years?

I guess the Iraq invasion isn't answered yet. It depends on the final outcome. If Iraq does become a better country, history will look much kinder upon the shrub. If it's worse, or just as bad as when Saddam was ruler, welllll.....

I think he will be remembered as the MOST secretive, and divisive administration in history.

Raygun's history is been rewritten -- he was a rotten Governor and a worse Prez.

imo

a lock.

Historians vs. George W. Bush
http://hnn.us/articles/5019.html

Although his approval ratings have slipped somewhat in recent weeks, President George W. Bush still enjoys the overall support of nearly half of the American people. He does not, however, fare nearly so well among professional historians.

A recent informal, unscientific survey of historians conducted at my suggestion by George Mason University’s History News Network found that eight in ten historians responding rate the current presidency an overall failure.



Full article at http://hnn.us/articles/5019.html

It was all a dream! Check that a nightmare-

in way over his head, and sorely lacking the necessary tools.

what does he know and when will he know it?

http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_13131.shtml

Over the past year, one revelation after another has ensued, demonstrating not only that Halliburton/KBR has enjoyed privileged access to Pentagon contracts, but that the Bush administration has done everything in its power to block any review of this corrupt relationship with Cheney’s former company.



* In December 2003, Pentagon auditors uncovered a overcharge of $61 million by KBR on a contract to supply fuel for the military in Iraq. Halliburton was also suspected of overcharging by $67 million on food for military mess halls in Kuwait and Iraq.



* In January 2004, Halliburton repaid $6.3 million in overcharges and kickbacks for fuel contracts in Kuwait.



* In February 2004, the Pentagon announced that Halliburton would repay it for $27 million in KBR overbilling for meals served to troops at five military bases in Kuwait and Iraq. The meals were never delivered.



* In March 2004, the Pentagon requested the Justice Department join the probe of overbilling, a strong indication that potential criminal fraud charges were at issue.



* In June 2004, Time magazine obtained and made public an internal Army Corps of Engineers e-mail from March 2003, reporting that the initial contract award to Halliburton had been “coordinated” with the office of Vice President Cheney.



* Later in June, press reports confirmed that a Bush political appointee, Michael Mobbs, was the Pentagon official who decided to award the initial planning job to KBR which facilitated its selection for the subsequent $7 billion implementation contract.



* In July 2004, a federal grand jury subpoenaed records of Halliburton’s subsidiary in the Cayman Islands, as part of an investigation into illicit dealings with Iran.



* In August 2004, a Pentagon audit found that $1.8 billion in billion by KBR for work in Iraq was inadequately documented and potentially unjustified. The Pentagon initially said it would withhold 15 percent of scheduled payments to KBR pending the result of an investigation—the usual procedure in such cases—but reversed the decision two days later.



* In September 2004, a federal judge in Dallas rejected a proposed $6 million settlement of a lawsuit by Halliburton stockholders charging the company with accounting fraud, suggesting that the penalty was far too small.



There's more. Much more.

Right now he is a fucking jerkoff asshole

In ten years he'll merely be an asshole.

The vitriol will have abated with time.

(but we have all know that sense he was selected). I really don't think there will be anything positive. In reality, he did not handle 9/11 that well (everyone just wanted someone to cling to). He did really badly on everything else.

How can there possibly be any successes? He stole the 2000 election. That is well documented! He invaded a sovereign nation who was never a threat to the United States. What of any of his actions would deem him a success?

Herbert Hoover and James Buchanan.

I know he's the worst in my lifetime...

I know I can't think of any. But will historians come up with one success?

Will they call prescription drugs a success (as in "it was a start") just to throw him a bone?

Will Afghanistan be thought as his success?

Or will it be him standing on the Trade Towers' rubble with the megaphone and the fireman?

Best case scenario: The worst president in U.S. History.
Worst case scenario: The president who initiated the USA's great decline.

Unelected, unconstitutional, and a war criminal to boot.

Oh, and people will begin debating whether the dementia really did begin before or really got rolling after he took office.

Emphasis on the word "took".

-Technowitch

who endangered world peace , attempted to dismantle the social safety net established by FDR , despoiled the environment and allowed crooks and charlatans to loot the US treasury and good name .

another vote for "miserable failure"

greatest failure 1: deficits as far as the eye can see
greatest failure 2: squandering all the good will (international and domestic) post-9/11

at a federal prison institution, I hope.

One historian says he is the dumbest president since his distant cousin Franklin Pierce (Bar's side of the family), and the worst president ever.
morcatknits

look, just in my lifetime:

Bush41 - he was bad. Read my lips, Clarence Thomas, the thousand points of light nonsense, Noreiga, fiddling while the economy burned, not in the loop.

But he was nowhere near the worst pres of my life.

Reagan - he was worse. Exploding deficits and military budgets. Just say no to the war on drugs. The rise of the religious right. James Watt, Edwin Meese. Iran-Contra. Trees cause pollution.

But he was nowhere near the worst pres of my life.

Nixon - may have been Johnson's war, but Nixon really turned up the death. Cambodia. Henry Kissinger. Secret peace plans. Wage/price conrols. Abe Fortas. And I haven't even mentioned Watergate: I am not a crook, the enemies list, Saturday Night Massacre, or Rosemary Woods. Liddy & the Plumbers. The only President to ever have to resign.

But Richard Nixon looks like a balanced man next to *. Incredible. Worst? Harding, forget it he's just a piker; Buchanon was a real dandy and maybe he'll rest easier now his record has been broken by Junior. Worst pres in American history indeed, I would wish no leader like this on anyone's history.

"I would wish no leader like this on anyone's history."

Me either.

(I mean, the general public will know, not just the well informed)and they will be remembered as the most corrupt admin. we've ever had.

I see their only success being getting people to actually care about voting again.

n/t

Dumbshit will go down in history as: Worst President of the United States Ever.

Greatest Failures: All of them? ;)

Iraq & Afghanistan quagmires and the resulting loss of American, Afghanis and Iraqi lives.

Big Red Wreck: Ruined the Republican party, the same way Brian Mulroney ruined the RW Progressive Conservative party in Canada. ie despised and split in two wings. Actually this will be his only success. ;)

The hugh(freep spell)deficits he racked up will bite America in the ass over the next few years. ie poor economic growth, low job creation, bearish stock markets and possible US dollar currency crisis.

High oil prices because of supply/demand imbalances caused by loss of Iraqi oil production due to Iraq becoming failed state or close to it.

IMO, the ulterior motive of the invasion of Iraq was about cheap oil for an economic recovery in America and so that Dumbshit could run as a succesful war president in 2004. He failed to achieve both objectives.;) He could have won in 2004 if he had succeded.

To sum it up, Dumbshit will go down in history as WPOTUSE, because of economic, military and geopolitical failures leaving K/E a real nice mess to clean up. If Dumbshit was traveling at the speed of light would he be the infinite WPOTUSE?

ie Dumbshit = WPOTUSE * C squared :mad:

K/E 8 Mo' Years :party::toast:

Willfully stupid and arrogant who has fubar everything he has come in

contact with. Sets a new standard. First president who doesn't/can't

read. Megalomaniac Messianic psychopath filled with repressed anger

who was also a compulsive liar.

Other than that he will never have any competition for worst

President ever.