Grasping for a Legacy

Mr Richard Wolffe in his article has mentioned that the President Bush has most notably failed to live up by his own standard set at the start of his office to either the tone or the result he promised about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Perhaps he forgot to mention Pakistan where the American Administration has not only failed against war on terrorism but the General Musharraf military dictator who is following MR Bush against the payment of 80 Millions per month have also failed. In Afghanistan Mr. Karzai controls only 30% of land and Pakistani regime could account for only 30% of the dollars obtained from USA.

President Bush in his second term oath taking ceremony promised to introduce, protect and spread democracy all over the world. But he left aside his golden principle for introduction of democracy for Pakistan and for General Musharrf and failed to fulfill the promise he made in his oath taking speech.

General Musharraf abrogate the Constitution though he himself had taken oath to protect it to the best of his ability, he removed 60 judges of the high and Supreme Court. The Chief Justice of Pakistan is still under detention along with other fellow judges. He curbed media arrested lawyers and who opposed his action. He solely trimmed the Constitution just for making himself genuinely elected president of Pakistan, whereas, the Constitution does not permit army General to seek election for any public office.

Pakistan has rejected the worst governance and lawlessness of Musharraf on 18 February 2008 Elections. Neither Musharraf nor his style of governance is acceptable to the people. They want change, peace, food and shelter, remedy of their problems, rule of Law and independent judiciary so they could have access to justice.

M. Saleem Sheikh, Advocate
Pakistan

REOPEN 9/11 INVESTIGATION!!! LOCK BUSH AND HIS GANG UP FOR LIFE!!!

What happened to the real open 9/11 investigation? How come none of the presidential candidates are mentioning it? They are all afraid, that the truth would come out.
For Bush to make any progress against terrorists at all, he would have to lock himself and his gang up. Him and his gang planned and executed 9/11! Many people know it now. All this bla bla bla about freedom in US. There is no freedom, they are just creating more fear and paranoia. Yeah, and be carefull if you mention the constitution too much, you will be considered a terrorist.
Also his new budget clearly shows that he is more interested in making the walthy even more waelthy and screw the rest.

What happened to the real open 9/11 investigation? How come none of the presidential candidates are mentioning it? They are all afraid, that the truth would come out.
For Bush to make any progress against terrorists at all, he would have to lock himself and his gang up. Him and his gang planned and executed 9/11! many people know it now. All this bla bla bla about freedom in US. There is no freedom, they are just creating more fear and paranoia. Yeah, and be carefull if you mention the constitution too much, you will be considered a terrorist.
Also his new budget clearly shows that he is more interested in making the walthy even more waelthy and screw the rest.

George Bush's legacy is one of arrogance, incompetence & lies. He and the powers that be made a mockery out of democracy by blatenly stealing the 2000 election and as a result we have been saddled with the worst presidency of all time! Unchecked republican power has resulted in disasterous policies, horrific scandals & untold death and heartache. PLEASE america, no more rich, privileged frat boys for president (are you listening Romney supporters?).

Simply put, this is by far the worse presidency to date. As far as I am concerned, they are all war criminals.

I've always been proud to be an American. I am not proud of what America has become under this administration. He does not represent the average American citizen. I hope that he doesn't represent any of us ever again. Lousy foreign representative. Lousy economic representative. Lousy environmental representative. Lousy human rights representative. GW is simply useless in every possible position in the US government. President ?George W. Bush will cost the US reputation for decades.

Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Rice, and Rove should all be brought up on charges of treason for completely fabricating evidence to invade Iraq, killing and maiming thousands of Americans and Iraqis, and completely disregarding the Constitution. I firmly believe that this group of criminals has placed this great nation in a much more dangerous position, with no regard to human rights. We have allowed this administration to demonstrate such a lack of moral leadership worldwide, while squandering our formerly
good standing as a decent nation resting on solid, unwavering values. It will take at least four presidential terms to reverse the extensive damage to our nation's soul perpetrated by these zealots, who will never truly understand the damage they have wrought. America as a nation is firmly in decline due to the actions of the Bush/Cheney "Team". I am ashamed that Americans allowed his gang, including Jeb Bush, to illegally place him in office, and that Americans returned him to office. This will be Bush's only legacy.

The reason Bush hasn't been impeached is, I believe two fold. 1) The Democrats remember that impeaching Clinton cost the Republicans the majority the next election cycle and 2) having Bush in office is a boon to Democratic candidates.

As to the Bush legacy - he will go down in history as the president who knocked Buchanon out of the "worst president in history" spot.

Bush seems to be ignorant of the fact that we have a system of checks and balances built into the government of our nation for a very real reason - so that Congress may have the ability to check against the wildly treasonous actions of Bush. It amazes me to this day that he has yet to be impeached and ejected from office. Who does he think he is to be issuing threats to our elected Congressmen?

Unprovoked attack on a foreign country. Deliberately misleading the American people. Unchecked profiteering from war contractors. Unprecedented profits by oil companies, while prices continue to increase.
TREASON.

I believe that, unfortunately, GW has never had an original thought. Just a pawn,along with many other Republicans, in the Cheney administration. Dick Cheney has written and directed the GW Bush legacy. He is just avoiding the majority of the blame by getting others (..Scooter Libby) to take the fall. I thought outing a US spy, in a time of war, was an act of TREASON. Unbelievable.

Bush has runined the fiber of this country at home and tarnished the American image abroad more than anyone else could. I can't wait for Bush and Cheney to slither out of Washington.

This has to be the very worst Presidency in American history. Dick Cheney is just as Bad.

It is with relief that i see George bush make his last union address. No more expressions like "bring em on" , "we have to go over there before they come over here" and "he tried to kill my daddy", This "President" has been a total embarrassment to Americans, regardless of what party one belonged to. I travel overseas quite a bit and it will be relief to many other countries that Bush is on his way out. A more destructive and hypocritical President would be hard to come by in recent memory. It is fortunate that we have capable and basically honest persons such as McCain and Obama who could possibly bring some honesty and straightforwardness to a terribly corrupt and broken political system.
Russell c schokman.

Bush the butcher of butchers .

Bush the butcher fo butchers !

if you can not afford to pay "an average of $1800"; you, of the 116 million(?) who make so much money to have your income taxed, try to get a job, a MacJob, earn $5-8, or a whopping $10 an hour... your income tax problems are over!! seriously, the people in a MacJob pay the highest percentage of taxes of icome. they support the rich corporations (all the purchases of a poor person = 100% of income spent). property taxes, gasoline taxes, sales taxes, alcohol and cigaret taxes (if you can afford to drink or smoke!) added up equal more percentage of a "taxpayer" of income tax on his pitifully low, overtaxed $75,000 income. i could dream of such money...