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!

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.

To: George W. Bush
From: Your biggest fan

Re: Your imminent unemployment
Greetings, 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>

(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

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,
Beelzebubba

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.~

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

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,
The 30% who still approve of you.

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.

Why no address for writing YOU a farewell letter?

Of course, I’m not doing that as somehow I don’t think my letter will make it to Shrub.

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.

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

Somebody call the WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHmbulance!!!!

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

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)