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Legacy

How will the 43rd President of the United States be remembered? Chances are, as the Torture President.

For a span of 225 years after George Washington so eloquently and publicly opposed the practice of torture, the United States maintained a standard of human rights that protected even the most hated of her enemies. But in his attempt to wage war on terror, the 43rd President of the United States, George Walker Bush, subverted the constitution and denied the writ of habeas corpus to government prisoners. President Bush vetoed a bill that sought to establish a single standard of integration for US forces. He supported the practice of waterboarding as a means of extracting information from suspected terrorists. And despite the effort of human rights groups around the world, President Bush, in an attempt to circumvent the Geneva Convention, refused to characterize this practice of simulated drowning as torture. Bush may well go down in history as the torture president.


What do you think George Bush's legacy will be? Comment below.

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March
04, 2009
07:35 pm
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Speaking of George W. Bush: George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog). George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes. And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention. Many people know what Bush did. And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world. Bush was absolute evil. Bush is now like a fugitive from justice. Bush is a psychological prisoner. Bush has a lot to worry about. Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time. In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy. 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 ______________________ I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: “If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never got stale and faded.” Oh wait—off the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.
February
13, 2009
12:28 pm
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Hopefully forgotten, not remembered... If we're lucky enough... George W. fucking who..?
February
12, 2009
04:13 pm
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thiis mann is farkenn GAYY
January
30, 2009
05:44 pm
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I struggle to understand how we all blame Bush, what about his advisors, who are they, what were they thinking? The weapon makers, Halliburton, the people and companies who funded his reign are as guilty surely as the pathetic figurehead we know as Bush. It's a sad day when the western world, so called civilised , goes to war with a country when it's only a small few who follow their counties policies. I wonder who he wuld have attacked next, Switzerland ?
January
30, 2009
11:28 am
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Pff. "At least he has a legacy". Things would have gone better if he had done nothing. At all. So even if Barack Obama does nothing at all, at least it will be better than the damage done by Bush's time in office.
January
15, 2009
12:12 pm
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It just sinking in for me that we've failed. Now that Obama is about to be inaugurated and we're already talking about how Bush will go down in history, I feel sad at the fact that we let Bush stay in office the entire eight years. The end of his term to me symbolizes this country's failure to initiate a change on its own. Instead we wait until someone comes along waving the word in our faces and hope for the best.
January
14, 2009
11:44 am
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The ultimate irony will occur next week when Obama is sworn in as thousands of concerned teens and young adults march for life in Washington, DC - 3000 children murdered daily with Obama's FOCA promise to Planned Parenthood's $$$ greedy baby butchering machine -
January
13, 2009
03:16 pm
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George W. Bush - The Financial Meltdown President or the Economic Collapse President? He's torturing us all, not just those prisoners.
January
09, 2009
08:17 pm
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thought Bush Jr. was the one who denied the Habeas Corpus, torture was a regular policy from the US Govermennt trough their organizations suck as CIA, School of the americas, and many many others. Countless masacres have ocurred in El Salvador, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil (and almost every other latinamerican country) by foes trained in US institutions or by US instructors.
January
09, 2009
09:32 am
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hopefully this douche bag won't go down in history for anything. the world should just completely disregard his existence.
January
03, 2009
10:15 pm
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I hope the door hits him in the ass on the way out...it can't come soon enough. He needs to be held accountable for this entire mess..it's just so disgusting, words can't even begin to describe the disdain I have for this man, and I suspect I'm in good company. Amazing that some of the most hardheaded steadfast Republicans that I know have said to me...I thought he was a good man, that's why I voted for him..but he changed. My answer to these people...he didn't change, he just finally showed you who he is and who he has always been. Some of us knewway before and predicted this outcome. He wasn't voted in, he conviently stole that election......Sign me..A TRUE PATRIOT.
December
16, 2008
07:42 pm
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I just dont understand why American voters actually voted in GW Bush in 2000 and 2004. Now I hope American voters finally learn their lesson.
December
16, 2008
03:25 am
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Hopefully he'll be remembered as just a stupid kid who ran out of bailouts from daddy. Placed in office by an ignorant electorate that thought money really could grow on trees and that we weren't REALLY pissing of the rest of the world for a near century past. Bush tortured people, oversaw a staggeringly wasteful expansion of crappy government, screwed up public schools even worse, allowed banks and mortgage lenders to rape consumers, ran two half-assed wars and did it all because WE LET HIM. I don't think history will charge one man as harshly as the society that let him and his "buddies" make America perhaps the most feared nation in the world. Oh and the greatest irony of all is that he (yes, stumbling, bumbling Bush) WILL be remembered as the figure-head of the most effective manipulation of language in American political history (religious right propaganda, coming to a political science class near you!).
December
15, 2008
05:19 pm
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It sounds like that excerpt says it all, but by the same token--and not to imply that I am or that I was a Bush supporter--if nothing else than to stir up the pot a little, at least he has a legacy. Didn't Oscar Wilde say "There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about"? Maybe Bush wanted to extend that 15 minutes of fame into 8 years of infamy.
December
09, 2008
11:17 pm
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Not including all the torture, which by itself should earn him a conviction treason or war crimes.... Bush reading My Pet Goat (?) while 9/11 attacks were happening. The levees breaking in NOLA, thanks to Bush's infrastructure budget cuts The rolling blackouts in California Iraq and Afghanistan wars done horribly wrong "I don't care where Bin Laden is" six months after 9/11 The list goes on and on....
December
07, 2008
10:14 pm
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here's what not to do.
December
01, 2008
05:02 am
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I am not sure what the Bush legacy will be. I will remember his presidency as shameful and one of the worst things to happen to the USA.
November
30, 2008
10:26 pm
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Dick Head?
November
30, 2008
10:24 pm
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without heads, without heart ... there is no word to describe someone like that.
November
30, 2008
10:02 pm
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No comments, such a stupid gay....
November
30, 2008
10:01 pm
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No kidding, a child of 7 years had done a better role that this asshole .... He fuck everything that could have fucked up ....
November
30, 2008
09:55 pm
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He’ll be remembered as the idiot who represent 50 million stupid dunkeys that vote for him!!!
November
30, 2008
03:15 pm
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It is tragic that Bush was voted in as president, twice; but the whole system in the United States is bullshit. People are forced to vote for the lesser of two evils, and for once now they are finally making progress with Obama being elected. That being said, Hopefully the majority of Canada can get their heads out of their asses and realise that economy is not the issue, the health of our planet is far more important. I agree with an article in adbusters that a Conservative government is not going to make things better, only worse. Case and point, Canada's Alberta provincial conservative government endorsed cutting green initiatives in order to avoid a "deficit". As for Bush's legacy, I think it can be likened with any other totalitarian.
November
24, 2008
02:28 pm
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Criticising George Bush is extremely lame. Yes, he is an idiot, but did not around 50 million people vote for him, twice? why blame him?
December
09, 2008
11:19 pm
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Because they were his policy decisions. I also blame drunk drivers for crashing their cars, not the bartender or the brewing company.
November
21, 2008
05:56 am
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He'll be remembered as a True Americunt.
November
21, 2008
03:04 am
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One of the biggest mistakes in the United States history. A mistake made twice.
November
20, 2008
01:36 pm
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George Bush is the reason for war
November
19, 2008
01:38 am
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Iam a young college student I pay into the system yearly.Even I can see what he is really about.I hope any REAL honest person would.I never voted until this year so as a young american it felt good to have my voice be heard.GO OBOMA!
November
17, 2008
10:50 am
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The man is a halfwit and got into office by nefarious means. But that aside, after 911, many Americans suffered psychic and moral nervous breakdowns. Along came Bush and offered them Iraq and torture as whipping boys for Osama. I am so ashamed of what this country has done. Torture is medival. Why hell, if persons have no rights against torture, then why not drag them to the public gallows or chopping block, as well? Really give the people a show. Torture degrades those who practice it. And, whose word do we have that the tortured are guilty? Only the words of the torturers. It's a tautology, like people who says everything in the Bible is true. How do we know? Because the Bibles says so. I, along with millions and millions of others, will party hearty on that horse's ass last day in office. I apologize to any horses I have offended. Your asses are much more aesthetic and intelligent than Bush's face.

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