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Friday, April 26, 2013

Daily Kos: Eugene Robinson says "Bush’s legacy keeps getting worse"

Daily Kos: Eugene Robinson says "Bush’s legacy keeps getting worse":


Eugene Robinson says "Bush’s legacy keeps getting worse"

He open his Friday Washington Post column bluntly"
In retrospect, George W. Bush’s legacy doesn’t look as bad as it did when he left office. It looks worse.
He discusses several items, starting with torture, and a discussion of the Constitution Project Report and the completed but unreleased Senate Intelligence Committee report, criticizes Obama for not appointing a blue ribbon commission to examine the misdeeds of his predecessor, and concludes this section with
It may be years before all the facts are known. But the decision to commit torture looks ever more shameful with the passage of time.
He then pivots to Iraq, with several important observations, noting that the profligacy in not paying for the war