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I can’t tell ya… it has been nearly 8 years since Bush first took office after what was an abysmal electoral decision by the US Supreme Court who sided with “expediency” over “accuracy". It wouldn’t take W too long to alienate the US from the world. He unilaterally left the ABM Treaty which has chilled our relations with Russia.

Then in a matter of a couple hours, the world came to our side after the 9/11 attacks. After what should have been a tremendous victory in Afghanistan and a chance for democracy in Afghanistan, Bush again unilaterally pulled out and set sights on Iraq, in what was one of the poorest planned American foreign policy actions in the history of the nation.

Katrina, Terri Schiavo, deficits continued… with one thing after the other. The Bush Admin has nearly sucked all the energy out of me. Their secrecy, their illegal invasions of privacy, their stand on torture, their out of touch black and white vision of the world… it just wouldn’t end. The denial, the spin, it was all in record form under the Bush Admin.

Goodbye W. Please leave and disappear. Sure, you may hope you’ll be vindicated like Truman, but you won’t. You were one of the most ineffective leaders in our history. In a time when the nation needed critical leadership, you failed. That is cemented in concrete. Anything good that comes from something you started will be in spite of your “efforts", not because of them.