I have often written about Mr. Bush being a small person and it is all coming front and center now as he prepares to leave office. His lack of character and integrity is now playing out in his final days on the job.
It was reported how the Bush administration has issued talking points to his cabinet members to go out to the news media and talk about his accomplishments the last 8 years. Never mind that Presidents usually stand on their record with out having to tell the people how good they have been. Those talking points follows the talking points of Bush himself during the run up to war with Iraq when he and his administration tried to brain wash the people with lies about Iraqi WMD. This is a President who believes in his own lies and thinks if they are repeated over and over they will become facts.
Ben Feller, Associated Press writer reported that Bush, speaking at West Point told the cadets, "That today's military is stronger, more agile and better prepared than the one he inherited in 2001.' But the fact is Bush's unnecessary war in Iraq stretched the military so thin it did not have enough troops to fight the real war on terror in Afghanistan and now 7 years later we are talking about sending more U.S. troops to that country from Iraq.
Never in my lifetime has a sitting President passed off so many problems that he himself created to the new President-elect. Mr. Bush is leaving office just like he governed, "passing the buck." He is such a small person in stature. Despite his self serving statements history will record his Presidency as a house of cards, a house that can easily collapse. The change over from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration has been an 8 year disaster for the country and its people. What a shame.
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