Write Bush A Farewell Letter
By on Jan 16th, 2009 at 10:15 am
Write Bush A Farewell Letter
The online community has been atwitter lately over Karl Rove’s decision to join the microblogging site Twitter; the former White House adviser already has more than 4,000 followers. In his latest tweets, Rove revealed that he’s putting together a letter-writing campaign to thank President Bush for his tenure. Yesterday he wrote:
Send a farewell letter to President Bush—Email gwbfarewell@gmail.com [no attachments] and I’ll give him your note
He later followed up and said that all messages are due by 6:00 p.m. ET on Jan. 19, and he will deliver them to Bush on Jan. 20. TP readers: Get writing!
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Dear chimpy,
Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.
I’ll see you swinging(from the gallows), after your war crimes conviction.
NUREMBERG II 2009
January 16th, 2009 at 10:22 amIs he f*&*king joking???? This just gets more entertaining by the minute – I’ll write a letter alright! Burn in hell Bush!
January 16th, 2009 at 10:24 amDear Dubaya, Thanks for doing everything i wanted you to do. Starting two wars was one thing, but collapsing the global economy, you’ve out-done yourself. -Osama
January 16th, 2009 at 10:25 amDear GWB
January 16th, 2009 at 10:28 amI am looking forward to a long lasting relationship I am sure you will find our friendship a very hot one
sincerely ,yours
Satan
Send a farewell letter to President Bush—Email gwbfarewell@gmail.com [no attachments] and I’ll give him your note
No Attachments?
January 16th, 2009 at 10:28 amSo no pictures?
Well then, if we really expect Bush to read them (without help) shouldn’t the letters be emoticons only? :(
Dear George,
Thank you for making me look good.
Sincerely,
Richard M. Nixon
January 16th, 2009 at 10:28 amDear president bush;
I have to hand it to you, you and your administration have a perfect record in that you have failed the American people on every level imaginable including but not limited to: National security; Foreign policy; Domestic policy; Economic policy; Fiscal policy; Energy policy; Educational policy and Environmental policy.
The bush presidency has been perfect…A PERFECT FAILURE!
January 16th, 2009 at 10:34 amNumbnuts,
Eat sh!t and die.
Hugs,
January 16th, 2009 at 10:35 amLividLib
Mr. Bush,
Invoking my name to lie your way into an illegal invasion really, really pissed me off.
Now, it’s my turn.
GOD
January 16th, 2009 at 10:35 amDear George,
Just leave me at the White House. I’d much rather stay with the Obamas.
Bark off,
January 16th, 2009 at 10:37 amBarney
Since Rove has made it obvious that only glowing praise is welcome, I doubt any letter I write would make it past their filter.
But I am amused that Bush’s handlers apparently feel the need to keep him cocooned in suck-ups and sycophants right up to the end.
January 16th, 2009 at 10:37 amraynman Says
January 16th, 2009 at 10:28 am
Dear George,
Thank you for making me look good.
Sincerely,
Richard M. Nixon
___________________________________________________________
Harding, Grant, Hoover, and several other less-than-stellar presidents are no doubt thanking Bush from the grave as well.
January 16th, 2009 at 10:39 amgwbfarewell@gmail.com
cc: KRove@twitter.com; CRice@LoveMyShoes.net; DCheney@nambla.org; DRumsfeld@knownunknown.com; JWoo@hidingunderthebed.net; DAddington@pissedmypants.com; AGonzales@alzeimers.org
You are hearby commanded to appear and testify before an International Grand Jury on February 1st, 2009 to answer to charges of war crimes.
signed,
January 16th, 2009 at 10:48 amChief Magistrate
International Criminal Court
Den Haag, Netherlands
Dear President Bush,
I might be the only one, but I will miss you and your wars on drak-skinned people who worship Satan. You are my hero.
Love,
Daryll
P.S. Can you believe the commies elected a black man to be President?
January 16th, 2009 at 10:50 ammisshusseinmolly;(@10;39, #12) LOL! thanx (:-D)
January 16th, 2009 at 10:51 amoops, my bad. raynman, you deserve one too. (:-D)
January 16th, 2009 at 10:52 amHere’s mine:
I hope the angry souls of the people you’ve killed, either directly or through your criminal negligence, rise from their graves and haunt you for the rest of your life. I hope you realize what a small, ugly, foolish and dangerous man you are and that someday you will realize the full extent of the damage you have done both to America and to the world in general. And finally, I hope you end up in prison for war crimes and treason – it’s where you belong.
Goodbye – and good riddance.
p.s. Karl – I wish the same things for you.
January 16th, 2009 at 10:56 amI’ve now heard from 3 different people. In Dallas, the schools are forcing 1st and 3rd-grade students to write ” thank you and welcome home” letters to the war criminal. CHILDREN !!!! Being forced by the teacher !
January 16th, 2009 at 11:02 amThis is identical to what they do in North Korea, China and Russia.
One child told her mother that it was Sadam Hussein that started the war.
GOD! I need to get out of Texas move back to The Real United States of America
AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGG!
Just because Bush gets the letters doesn’t mean he’ll read them anyways.
January 16th, 2009 at 11:06 amI really think this is a waste of time to send those letters.
krystalviews Says: I’ve now heard from 3 different people. In Dallas, the schools are forcing 1st and 3rd-grade students to write ” thank you and welcome home” letters to the war criminal. CHILDREN !!!!
They have to do everyting by force. They are beyond shameless. That is disgusting.
January 16th, 2009 at 11:09 amI just googled “Clinton letter of thanks for service” and then replaced Clinton with “Bush” for a second search.
Neither produces particularity remarkable results given the string used but of the two searches the Clinton one produces the most direct result (in the first four page) referencing a sarcastic screed written/posted in 2003.
http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/thanksbill.html
A couple of snips:
1. Thank you for introducing us to Jennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, Dolly Kyle Browning, Kathleen Willey, and Juanita Broderick. Did I leave anyone out?
2. Thank you for teaching my 8 year old about oral sex. I had really planned to wait until they were older to discuss it with them, but now they know more about it than I did as a senior in college.
8. Thanks also for reducing our military by half, “gutting” much of our foreign policy, and flying all over the world on “vacations” carefully disguised as necessary trips.
“Stealing the silverware” gets TWO paragraphs!
14. The last and most important point – thank you for forcing Israel to let Mohammed Atta go free. Terrorist pilot Mohammed Atta blew up a bus in Israel in 1986. The Israelis captured, tried and imprisoned him. As part of the Oslo agreement with the Palestinians in 1993, Israel had to agree to release so-called “political prisoners”.
So…ummm…good luck with that and with comparing Bush’s record to Clinton’s.
January 16th, 2009 at 11:10 amThe country’s gain will be Dallas’ loss.
January 16th, 2009 at 11:14 amDear Dubya:
January 16th, 2009 at 11:16 amPlease go away forever.
Take pig face Rove with you to shovel horse shi^ at the ranch.
tony and lido
Dear George
___________(**)
___________(..)
___________( )
___________( )
_______(~~~…..~~~)
___(~~~….’…’….~~~)
xx
DFtAG
(Apologies for the lousy art)
January 16th, 2009 at 11:17 amTo the writer claiming the surname 5th Estate. This is what happens to your brain after abusing it for several years with controlled substances and alcohol.
1. You can’t read because your brains are fried.
2. You can’t think because you lost your cognitive abilities.
3. You have delusions which you believe are real.
4. You vote republican because a commercial told you to.
You remind me of President Bush himself! Congratulations.
January 16th, 2009 at 11:21 amOf course thier are people out there who really liked President Bush…he’s a good comedian and makes people laugh.
January 16th, 2009 at 11:22 amI hope you get more then you gave out and death is to easy. May your years of suffering continue and I’ll let God handle the punishment as He can do things man couldn’t dream of. My the millions you killed join you when you close your eyes and may the crys of help be heard often. As you watch a cloud and it formss into a child being tortured, a woman being raped, a soldier asking why you will these images will never leave you even as you take alcohol/druggs to make it go away. We get in llfe what we give out and your future suffering has just begun.
January 16th, 2009 at 11:26 amOMG, that’s so sad. Why would someone admit that they knew less about Oral sex when they were in their 20s than was sterilly (i dont care if it isnt a word) read by Ken Starr?
January 16th, 2009 at 11:31 amA proper deeply-felt “thank you” letter to Dumbya would have to be sent via e-mail. If such a letter were to be sent in the old snail-mail format, it would have to be written on asbestos!
January 16th, 2009 at 11:34 amDear George,
Buying some tap shoes soon.
Can’t wait to break them in on your grave someday.
Will be waiting patiently…
Your pal,
January 16th, 2009 at 11:38 amSlappy White
Dear George,
Thank you for helping me find religion. You, Cheney, Rove etc. have convinced me to believe in Hell because I want to believe that you all have specially reserved places to suffer for eternity.
Sincerely,
Former Non-Believer
January 16th, 2009 at 11:43 amI think everyone should mail him a shoe as a “goodbye.”
If someone with more time and technical abilities than I can muster right now were to create a ’send bush a shoe’ youtube video and publicize it enough to get it to go viral, it would be great.
Imagine: The Whitehouse mailroom (or perhaps the new Bush Library at SMU in Dallas) inundated with shoes from thousands of people expressing their goodbye wishes in solidarity with the Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoe at Bush a couple of weeks ago…
January 16th, 2009 at 12:11 pmDear President Bush
I can’t believe that everyone I know thinks you are a War Criminal and should swing from a rope. They call you a traitor because of that CIA agent thing and say that you were told about Bin Laden striking the USA and you did nothing to stop it. They just go all crazy when I tell they that you are a great president and call me a fcuking idiot. Those people are mean and they should love you like I do.
Yours Truly
January 16th, 2009 at 12:12 pmTony Blair
Jackie Says: I hope you get more then you gave out and death is to easy. May your years of suffering continue and I’ll let God handle the punishment as He can do things man couldn’t dream of.
If you believe in god as he’s represented by the three major religions, then punishment surely awaits Bush in the hereafter unless, of course, he were to repent and atone for his crimes before he dies.
Now, me, I’m not eager to rely on the possible existence of a just or even vengeful god to give Bush his due. I want to see him tried, convicted and punished in this life. In this country. Our national honor requires it.
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Pathetic, Karl. Truly pathetic.
Next: Rove delivers letters to Santa.
January 16th, 2009 at 12:44 pmis f off and die too personal for someone i dont really know all that well?
January 16th, 2009 at 12:52 pmHere’s my letter:
January 16th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
absinthe Says:I think everyone should mail him a shoe as a “goodbye.”
Probly oughta be a loafer. <>
January 16th, 2009 at 12:53 pmOff the subject, but I just heard the pathological liar Condoleezza Rice on NPR state that Hamas took over in Gaza through a “violent coup.” Ignoring what one thinks of the organization, I thought Hamas was democratically elected.
I am so damned sick of the endless lies from BushCo and Conservatives/Republicans in general. I’ll be glad if the next administration doesn’t take that path.
January 16th, 2009 at 12:53 pmThanks for your Farewell Note to President George W. Bush Re: Please Deliver this Farewell Message to GWB:
“I’ll deliver the letters on January 20th—sorry, I can’t deliver any letters sent after 6:00 PM ET on January 19th. Karl Rove”
January 16th, 2009 at 12:54 pmI gotta agree with misshusseinmolly. The filters won’t allow any negative emails. So, let’s send a Stephan Colbert letter:
Dear George W Bush,
I thank you for your 8 years of leadership. None can compare to yours.
I especially thank you for ignoring the Clinton’s leadership and distancing your administration from it’s corrupt and sexually immoral stanards. If it wasn’t for you, terrorists would have never attacked our “homeland”.
I thank you for misleading our people into an illegal invasion of a country that posed no threat to us, that had no link to 9/11.
I thank you for the 4400+ lives lost, in order to restore “freedom” to a country that has now been thrown into complete chaos.
I thank you for ignoring not only the official rules of military law, but of moral laws as well, so you could protect our country by torturing captives who never would have endangered our lives, EVER.
I thank you for outing a CIA agent who was working on preventing nuclear material from entering Iran, a hot bed country who may or may not develop an atomic bomb in the next 20 years.
I especially thank you for ignoring the plight of thousands during that horrible September day in 2005 when the levees broke, while you ate cake and celebrated McCain’s birthday. Your apathetic attituded ensured that many poor citizens wouldn’t be “poor” no more. Hell, they wouldn’t be breathing.
And finally, I’d like to thank you for ignoring the press when they claim you are possibly the worst president ever.
Because, without a doubt, you aren’t “possibly”. You are.
Period.
Thanks for confirming by decision to be a progressive. Every day that you spent in office, and every vote for Obama, has made me lean more left than ever before.
Thank you.
For I realize, as lucky as I’ve been as a business owner, I could never walk in your “money first, nothing else” footsteps.
I finally, even though I’ve no inclination to be president, my 2 years of ownership have proven more successful than any you’ve ever ventured, without a being spoon fed.
Sincerly,
DRxJ
PS, if you note a little bit of sarcasm and snarkness, well then, good for you, you mucking foron. Because I absolutely detest all you’ve done, and everything you stand for. You make me PROUD to be progressive! I weep with the families of our soldiers, and I cheer with the majority that YOU ARE FCKING GONE!!!
January 16th, 2009 at 12:56 pmAnd, I mean this in all sincerity (and coming from a Christian). MAY YOU ROT IN HELL!
Thanks for confirming “by” decision
January 16th, 2009 at 12:59 pmshould read
Thanks for confirming “my” decision…
Dear George,
Get used to filtering and censorship. The Federal penal system has standards too.
PS, ask mommy to send soap-on-a-rope.
January 16th, 2009 at 1:05 pmlaworder Says: “To the writer claiming the surname 5th Estate.”,etc…
Umm, I’m experiencing a bit of confusion between your comment and mine.
Your points 1 through 4 are an excellent summation of the essentials of the ‘letter’ I quoted–it is all that you describe.
However no-one has hijacked my moniker and there are plenty of TP regulars who I am confident can assure you that I have never reminded them of George W. Bush in any way.
I may be misconstruing the apparent sentiment expressed in the final line of your comment as it looks sincere instead of sardonic or sarcastic to me–but as it seems to conflict with the tone of the majority of your comment we may both be getting our wires a bit crossed at the end. :D
January 16th, 2009 at 1:08 pmMy apologies to the many grammatical errors in post #44.
It’s hard to write an editorial, laden with smart ass comments, all the while entertaining your children because of a snow day.
My bad.
January 16th, 2009 at 1:16 pmSurely the emails will be 1st automatically filtered and then someone will only pick out the flattering ones.
January 16th, 2009 at 1:23 pmhttp://www.stephaniemiller.com/blog.php?PageId=81&PageSubId
Tanks in my memory
January 16th, 2009 at 1:27 pmThey can’t automatically filter it to get rid of everything negative. Karl is going to have to add staff to go through all these. As much as I’d like to help overload Karl’s little plan, I really see no point in trying to say anything to Bush, even if I was face to face with him. He’s cognitively incapable of understanding reality.
krystalviews Says:
I need to get out of Texas move back to The Real United States of America
That’s right. You live in Fake America. Ha haa!
January 16th, 2009 at 1:44 pmHow’s it hangin’ Mr Bush? You’ll hang together or hang separately. You’ve surely been given all the rope you need.
January 16th, 2009 at 2:30 pmruptured rectum; You are going to be out of town when Obama is sworn in?
Don’t you think that’s mighty WHITE of you?
January 16th, 2009 at 2:47 pmDear Mr. Bush,
You’ve done such a great job, and have made us allsooo proud, we want to have a little parade for you when you get back to Dallas! A convertible will pick you up at Love Field, and we’ve arranged for your motorcade to wind through downtown Dallas, where thousands of adoring citizens will line the streets to welcome you home! After a quick left onto Elm St., you’ll pass under an ominous looking six-story building with a few windows on the top floor curiously open. The motorcade will slow to 5 mph, so the people who have waited at Dealey Plaza will get a goodlook at you, and then…BAM!You’ll be home before you know it!
January 16th, 2009 at 2:50 pmThis one’s from a friend of mine:
Dear President Bush,
I was going to write a long letter to you but then I remembered my mom tellig me that if I couldn’t say something nice, not to say anything at all.
Sincerely,
K M
(New Orleans, LA)
January 16th, 2009 at 2:59 pmRaptureReady Says:
You conservatives have no brainpans. Good. I am sure the people of ANYWHERE are always glad when you leave. NO ONE cares what you think and only your BEST posts can be called assinine. Most of them are a confused combination of incoherence and stupidity
January 16th, 2009 at 2:59 pmAwwwwwwwwwwww! Poor widdle Wuptured Wectum is allllllll upset.
Somebody call the WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHmbulance!!!!
January 16th, 2009 at 3:03 pmPresident Bush
It is so good to have you finally gone. You were clearly the worst president in American history. My fondest hope for you is you someday gain the self awareness to understand how dispicable your policies were, how much of a betrayal of America your lies were and just how total a disaster your presidency was. My fondest hope for the world is that you will find yourself in an orange jumpsuit, shackled handcuffed and frogmarched to the Hague to stand trial for your warcrimes. Here you will find some luck. If the Nuremberg precedent were followed you would be hanged but international law no longer has the death penalty. Perhaps you can do your 25 to life at Abu Ghraib and all the techniques you said WERENT torture can be refined on YOU. I am not cruel enough to hope Darth Cheney will be your bunkmate
January 16th, 2009 at 3:04 pmDear President Bush,
The whole world is counting the seconds until you’re gone. You’re the worst thing that ever happened to America. My only wish is that some day, you will be judged for the hundreds of thousands of innocent people that you tortured and murdered.
May God send your soul and the souls of all your accomplices to eternal damnation.
January 16th, 2009 at 3:20 pmI’d love to send a letter – but I’m sure they’re using this as a means of gathering email addresses. I don’t want to get on any gopper mailing lists.
January 16th, 2009 at 3:49 pmTXProgressive – get a throwaway account.
Of course, I’m not doing that as somehow I don’t think my letter will make it to Shrub.
January 16th, 2009 at 5:06 pmDear Karl,
Why no address for writing YOU a farewell letter?
January 16th, 2009 at 5:22 pmHaving been properly brought up, I realize the social necessity of writing what we used to call “bread and butter” letters to people who had given us gifts, hosted us in their homes, or done helpful, thoughtful things for us. Here’s my B&B letter to BushCo:
My fellow “Americans”: Had not the rescue on the Hudson yesterday been such a superb example of what America CAN BE, I would still be shriveling in shame at what BushCo has “gifted” to us: flagrant human rights violations at home and abroad; a scornful oligarchy [Mr. Bush--"oligarchy" means "government by the elite"] which has tried diligently and vigilantly to eviscerate the Constitution [Mr. Bush--"eviscerate" means "cut the guts out of"]; exaltation of Pharisees [Mr. Bush--"Pharisees" were the supposed legal scholars, self-worshipers, and moral leaders whom Jesus castigated roundly for their "holier than thou" attitudes--oh, Mr. Bush, "castigated" means "criticized harshly"]; blatant hubris at home and abroad [Mr. Bush, "hubris" means the kind of misplaced, self-satisfied, and unjustified pride which, in any GOOD Greek tragedy, leads to the downfall of the one who exhibits it]; a nearly crippled economy upon which favored plutocrats have battened for years [Mr. Bush, "batten" in this context means "devoured" or "sucked blood" or "drained the life from by sucking out the nutrients"]. . . I’m getting all choked up remembering the heritage that you and yours have tried so sincerely to inculcate [that means "teach and urge by example"] in the American public. In only 8 years, you and your cohorts have transformed the phrase which used to describe democracy[ "government of the people, by the people, and for the people"] into this: “government of BushCo, by BushCo, and for those chosen by BushCo.” Congratulations. And thank you, of course.
January 16th, 2009 at 5:41 pmDeer bush,
Dat der terms u serbed wus greet. u ar da greetast precedent evir. u suure tuk it to dem der teroristss arab peeple. uh kay, i gut too go finds sum of dem illegals wit my 12 gauge and den go to church and wurshiip dat der almighty god. jebus luuves u bush.
Sincerely,
January 16th, 2009 at 7:56 pmThe 30% who still approve of you.
To: Karl Rove
re: Good bye Mr. President
Karl,
Hey, Karl, I’m not part of the angry Left any more. I’m happy to be rid of you, and your dumb friend. Really happy. Thank you so much for leaving.
And oh, by the way, history does not reward the inept and the
incompetent. I’m a reader, too, you see. I know things
January 20th, 2009 cannot come fast enough.
Your pal,
BurningFeet
January 17th, 2009 at 12:17 amI already got a thank you from Rove!
Here is my letter:
Mr. President,
In 2004, I wrote an open letter “Mr. President, I want to know” (the President was you.) Today, I am somewhat revising my letter, especially after you recently expressed your disappointment for not finding any WMD in Iraq, hoping that you will get it on January 20th.
So, Mr. President, I still want to know what is a mother to say to her child when old enough to ask why did Dad go to war, why did he have to die?
What should we read on the tombs of the brave American soldiers who lost their lives? What should we tell the orphans of Iraq?
I want to know the name of the God you pray, the one who told you that you were right to attack Iraq, how you managed to smile and lied at the same time, how you could and still can sleep at night.
I want to know how many poor families, how many people without health insurance, how many of our own we could have helped with the billions we spent in Iraq.
Mr. President I was hoping that before you leave would have been humble enough to say that you are sorry, instead of pointing fingers at those who “mislead” you. If I cannot find peace for your war that I call a massacre, it
would have restored in me total faith in humanity.
Mr. President, you have not been impeached although you committed crimes against our Constitution ( authorized torture, lied about it, authorized surveillance on American citizens, went to war under false pretense and more), but impeachment would not have brought back our sisters and brothers neither the innocents civilians, women and children who lost their lives in Iraq just because they happened to be there. Your legacy will be “the war
president.” You own it.
But, because I believe in Justice, I know that one day you will be made accountable.
So, just for now I say farewell.
Monique Frugier
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter” ~Martin Luther King Jr.~
January 17th, 2009 at 12:43 amDear Dubya:
Can’t wait to drink a beer with ya… hope you don’t mind if it’s a little war. Down here we have no refrigeration.
Yours truly,
January 17th, 2009 at 10:32 amBeelzebubba
warm that is…
January 17th, 2009 at 10:33 amWill they accept, “EAT SH$T AND DIE!”?????
January 17th, 2009 at 9:54 pmLet everybody who has not already done it feel free to symbolically sign the petitions against Bush indicated at the links below.
(I) http://andrewyu-jenwang.blogspot.com/2008/10/let-everybody-feel-free-to-go-to.html “Let everybody feel free to go to http://www.petitionspot.com/ to sign petitions relative to Bush.”
(II) http://andrewyu-jenwang.blogspot.com/2008/10/let-everybody-feel-free-to-go-to_23.html “Let everybody feel free to go to http://www.petitionsite.com/ to sign petitions relative to Bush” (a different set of petitions).
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
“GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
ONLINE ANTI-BUSH SCHOLASTIC RESEARCH: LISTING OF MAJOR ISSUES
http://andrewyu-jenwang.blogspot.com/2008/10/bush-is-worst-president-in-american.html
January 18th, 2009 at 1:03 amI may not have always agreed with your choices, but it could not have been easy coming into a disolving society with the world watching your every move. I pray God’s peace over you.
January 19th, 2009 at 5:47 pmI didnt write this, but thought it was so perfect, I sent it..:)
To: George W. Bush
From: Your biggest fan
Re: Your imminent unemployment
January 20th, 2009 at 9:46 amGreetings, Mr. Bush.
I was sorry to hear about the passing of your cat, India. Eighteen years is a long time for a cat – my mother has one that’s 20 and still going strong, if you can believe it – and I’m sure India had a comfortable, caring life with your family.
I got to spend part of last weekend with an old friend of mine. He’s a bit older than 18, and he’s also a troop who recently rotated back from a tour in Falluja. He just had a baby daughter, and he will be sent to Afghanistan before too much longer. He did his duty in Iraq, dealt his share of death and saw his friends die or be ripped to shreds right in front of him.
He was hollow in a lot of places that had been full before he went to Iraq. He was not the same man we’d said farewell to. But he was alive, and if he survives his upcoming Afghanistan tour, maybe he will get the chance to have a long, comfortable, caring life with his family, just like little India.
At present, my friend’s life is the polar opposite of comfortable, and he still has Kabul waiting for him just over the horizon. His life is the way it is because of you, Mr. Bush. You have been the single greatest influence upon his time in this world; you put him over there and hollowed him out, and because of you, it’s about to happen again. You were the single biggest influence upon the lives of every person he knew over there, every person he saw over there, and every person he killed over there.
It’s funny. I was thinking the other day about when I marched in one of the first large-scale post-inauguration protests against you in Washington, DC. It was May of 2001, it was The Voter’s Rights March to Restore Democracy, and it was a few thousand people shouting down the unutterably ruinous Supreme Court decision which unleashed, just as we then feared, everything that has since come to pass. “Not my president!” we bellowed. “Not my president!”
It’s funny because that memory seems so very quaint to me now. A stolen election? Pfff. To paraphrase a different president, Americans get scarier stuff than that free with their breakfast cereal nowadays. Thanks to you, governor.
My All-Time-Grand-Prize-Bull-Goose-Gold-Medal-Winning Top Five list of what you’ve done, in no particular order, and in my own humble opinion:
1. You were warned by the outgoing administration when you first took office. You were warned by the Russians. You were warned by the Israelis. You were warned by the Germans. You were warned in a memo given to you by your own National Security Adviser. You were warned by men like Richard Clarke. You were warned all those times that Osama bin Laden intended to strike the United States, and still the Towers came down.
(All those people working on that Legacy Project of yours should go back to bed, by the way; they are trying to salvage the unsalvageable. You protected us, they claim? Ha. You’re 0-1 on terrorism and 0-2 on war)
2. Less than a month after those Towers came down, a reporter asked what you thought we should do. “We need to counter the shockwave of the evildoer,” you replied, “by having individual rate cuts accelerated and by thinking about tax rebates.” I happened to be watching television and heard you say that live into a camera. The only reason I didn’t throw up on myself is because my teeth were clenched too tightly for the vomit to pass my lips. I swallowed hard, grabbed a pen, and wrote down what you said and when you said it. It was October 4, 2001, just after nine in the morning. You’d like people to remember you standing on that pile of rubble in Manhattan, you with the bullhorn and the heroic pose. I, however, will always remember you pitching tax cuts to a devastated nation while a pall of poison smoke still hung in the air over Ground Zero.
3. A few years later, you wanted hundreds of billions of dollars diverted from other areas of the federal budget and into your war in Iraq. You took more than $70 billion out of the budget used by the Army Corps of Engineers in Louisiana to fund the repair and maintenance of the New Orleans levee system. Katrina struck not long after you took that money and poured it into the sand, and the levees failed for lack of funded upkeep. Through this, along with your disinterested disinclination to help your own countrymen in their hour of darkest need, you played the very last note for that old, sad, lost American city. Reflected in those actions are the same budgetary priorities that motivated you to turn Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the hospital where I was born, into an abattoir of suffering and neglect for the wounded soldiers you tore apart for a lie.
4. You let Dick “Crazy-Eyes” Cheney do whatever the hell he wanted to whomever he wanted whenever and wherever he wanted, and be damned to the damned old Constitution anyway. Cheney once said the vice president’s office was not part of the same branch of government as the president’s office, and he said it with his bare face hanging out the whole time. Why? He didn’t want to give any of his official papers over to the National Archives, as mandated by at least two federal laws. Nope, he said, my office is in Congress today, sorry about that, but be sure to come on back after you drop dead. Or words to that effect. That’s about one zillionth of a percent of what he did, because you let him pick himself to be your boss.
5. On July 19, 2006, you vetoed H.R. 810. On June 20, 2007, you vetoed S. 5. Both vetoes killed legislation aimed at funding and vastly enhancing the reach and scope of stem cell research in America. The father of someone I know died of bone marrow cancer just after that first veto; he was adopted, no family could be located, so no donor match for a bone marrow transplant could be found. With stem cell therapy, doctors could have taken his own marrow and grown enough healthy, matching marrow to save his life. Two other people I know have diabetes, like millions of Americans. Stem cell research could offer them a cure. Someone else I know has multiple sclerosis, and stem cell research could very well help her, too. She’d write you a thank-you note for those vetoes, but her right hand doesn’t work so well anymore. She’s getting better with her left hand, so maybe that note can get written next year.
Also, you defied lawfully issued subpoenas and potentially set a precedent that could shatter the separation of powers. You told the American people Iraq was in possession of 26,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin, 500 tons – which is one million pounds – of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent, 30,000 missiles to deliver the stuff, mobile biological weapons labs, al-Qaeda connections and uranium from Niger for use in a robust nuclear weapons program, even though all of that was a lie. You made a joking video about not being able to find any of it. You outed a deep-cover CIA agent who was running a network designed to keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of terrorists, and you did so because her ambassador husband told the truth about you in the public prints.
You gave away our right to privacy by sending the NSA to spy on us. You turned us all into torturers and butchers in the eyes of the world with your decision to use Abu Ghraib prison the same way Saddam Hussein once did. You tried to appoint Henry Kissinger to lead the investigation into 9/11. You turned the entire Justice Department into a carnival of political hackery. You championed the economic policies and deregulation fantasies that have left the financial stability of millions in ashes. You used the threat of terrorism against your own people in order to give yourself political cover. You killed hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people who did you nor us no harm.
You did all this, and so much more.
From a certain perspective, one could argue that you have been the most successful president the country has ever seen. Think about it, because according to your definition of “success,” it’s true. You came into office looking to make your friends richer, and to fulfill as best you could your most overriding personal belief: that government is the problem, so government must be damaged and denuded to the point of impotence. Through your tax cuts and your two vastly expensive boondoggle wars, you made your friends rich. By unleashing Mr. Cheney and your other minions, you tore the Constitution to shreds and tatters. You have achieved both goals in smashing style, so from that certain perspective, you have triumphed.
Could you also, from the proper perspective, be considered our greatest president?
Perhaps, someday, if we make it so.
It will be in the best interests of many powerful people if we as a nation simply dismiss you and forget you ever happened. A lot of news media people want us to forget you, because in forgetting you, we would forget the media’s vast complicity in your actions and misdeeds. A lot of rich people making new fortunes from war profiteering and defense contracts want you to forget they and you even exist, as it would make it possible for them to do it all again someday. A lot of politicians who stapled themselves to you would simply adore it if we forgot about you. The Republican Party would be forever in our debt if we forgot about you.
No. We will not forget you. We will remember.
We the people are going to save you from ignominious oblivion. We will remember. You could be the president who doomed America, the worst president of all time, but we must not, will not let that happen. You will be remembered differently, because we will hold the memory of you high, and behold you, and say, “Never, never, never again.” We have tasted the soot and smelled the blood on the wind; we have seen how fragile our way of government is when placed in the hands of low men such as you, and because of that, you will be remembered for all time.
Your greatness will be defined by how we rise to overcome and undo what you have done. Your greatness will stand forever if we never, ever forget the hard, bitter lessons you taught us. We are responsible for this republic, for our Constitution, and for each other. We are our brother’s keeper. You taught us that by becoming our Cain. You nearly slew us, but here we stand, and we defy the place in history you would relegate us to. We defy you, and by doing so, we rise.
Something like you must never again be allowed to happen to this country, and if we save ourselves by preventing you from ever happening again, your greatness is assured. You are the tallest of all possible warnings, and a promise all of us must solemnly and stalwartly keep. If we can damn you to the past, we will save our own future.<strong>
Monique,
I spent 7 years serving this country. I joined months before 9/11 and my entire tenure of service was under Bush.
He served the military faithfully, and treated us with a level honor and respect that we had not seen in years (If you’ll recall, Bill Clinton refused to even return a salute when rendered one. Dishonorable in the extreme, but typical for his character.)
When we join the military, we accept the possibility that we might die. Our families accept the possibility that we might die. If you are unwilling to take that burden upon yourself, you have no business serving in the armed forces.
It is irrelevant how sad a spouse, child, or family member is at the loss of their loved one. Spewing your rage at the Commander in Chief is blight upon the service member’s memory, and it shames the service that they selflessly gave to this country.
We serve this nation, we are lead by the Commander in Chief.
Your venom has no place amongst the memories of my fallen brothers.
People like yourself, people like everyone on this board, are the reason I have disavowed the Democratic party.
I will never again vote for the same people who spit in my face. I will never again vote for the people who called me a “murderer”.
You all typify everything I have seen in the Democratic party.
May you all learn to feel shame.
January 24th, 2009 at 6:07 pmAfter reading the comments posted here, all I can say is, “Really? And you sophomoric jackasses call us Texans rednecks?”
This is the kind of asinine attitude that has resulted in the great failure of communication and sharing of ideas between the two great political parties running this country.
Welcome home G.W.! Here’s to retirement!
January 27th, 2009 at 8:45 am