BACKWARDS!!
January 12, 2009 | lincoln, Nebraska | Vetting explained
O.K. The flag is backwards......does that say enough about George W. Bush and his presidency.
A leader who myopically sees things his way, and in very simple terms: (evil doers, good doers) (military = democracy building, diplomacy = apeasement and failure) ( you're either with us, or against us)...etc.....
This president and his administration have twisted the constitution to fit their wartime needs, throwing human rights under the bus. Invading a sovereign country under false intelligence, causing the death of thousands of American soldiers and Iraqi's, holding enemy combatants for years with no trial and without the right to see the evidence against them, condoning torture, including waterboarding, as a necessary way to get intelligence, secret CIA detention centers in non-descript countries, illegal wire tapping and acquisition of telephone and internet records and phone numbers, detention at airports due to racial profiling and botched intelligence.
If you want, you can add the inability to forsee the events of 911, even though intelligence reports specifically warned of an attack by Bin Laden and AL Quida, the failure to keep the battle in Afghanistan where Al Quida and Bin Laden were, and instead spreading the war to two fronts and thus creating more terrorists and "haters of America", the colossal failure of recovery and rebuilding efforts during and after hurricane Katrina, and in general, the isolation of America from the rest of the world by acting solely on our own interests, disregarding the requests for diplomacy and careful negotiations by even our own allies, and plowing down a "stay the course" road of "our way or the highway".
It has been an excruciatingly long and disastrous eight years, and it could not end soon enough.
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