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War Criminal George W. Bush Should Be Given An Indictment Not a Library Every nation on Earth has suffered through dark periods in their history and either learned from their mistakes, made changes, and progressed, or fell victim to their own incompetence and failed. America has had its share of trials and tribulations over its 236 year history, and yet it still prevailed to become the greatest nation on Earth until the eight year self-inflicted wound under the George W. Bush administration. Over the past few days, inordinate attention has been given to Bush and the opening of his presidential library, and it is beyond the pale that this nation, or any of its people, would give any attention to the man who presided over one of the nation’s darkest periods in its history. The concept of giving any regard, especially kind regards, to a convicted war criminal whose only relationship to a library should be a weekly visit to a federal prison library reveals that many Americans have very short memories. Even President Obama’s memory is a little fuzzy because he did say that “ the failed policies of George W. Bush wiped away a budget surplus and squandered the legacy of bipartisan foreign policy. Mr. Bush put two wars on a credit card, led the country away from our values and crashed the economy .’ There is a sense of irony that while President praised and dedicated a library to the man who tarnished the nation’s great name and sent the economy into deep recession, a week ago a report was released condemning America of unspeakable acts of torture with full knowledge of the highest levels in the Bush administration. America will feel the effects of the Bush years for a generation at least, and it is a mystery how the man can show his face in public, but he was joined by the current and three former presidents and a bevy of supporters who are either are still deluded by Bush’s “mystique,” or erased the 8-year nightmare that was the his presidency. Worse, a new poll revealed that although a majority of Americans consider Bush’s 8-year tenure as president a failure, 80% of Republicans surveyed thought that George W. Bush’s presidency was a success. Any American who considers Bush a success reveals themselves to be just as despicable as he was, and truly un-American for approving of some of the worst decisions in the nation’s history, and committing some of the most unspeakable inhumane acts known to mankind. When one reflects on the atrocities Bush presided over, condoned, and in most cases, ordered directly, and learn that 8 out of ten Republicans approve, it explains why they continue supporting GOP policies that have prevented America from recovering a semblance of its former greatness and why this nation is in decline. If Bush had been president 20 years ago, one might understand how memory-impaired Republicans would harken back fondly to two wars, crushing economic travails, and an out of control financial sector, but it has been less than five years since the worst administration in history destroyed America’s reputation around the world and wreaked havoc on the nation’s economy. It is difficult to imagine if Bush’s supporters consider success the senseless slaughter of hundreds-of-thousands of Iraqi civilians and a million more fleeing as refugees, or elevating the Islamic Republic of Iran as the major power in the region. It is possible they celebrate the successful loss of thousands of brave American soldiers killed in pursuit of oil and no-bid contracts for Dick Cheney’s company Halliburton, or maybe it is the report last week that under the Bush administration America is guilty of violating the Geneva Convention and ordering Americans to torture alleged “enemy combatants.” Bush and his cronies are at least partly culpable for the terror attacks on 9/11 for ignoring clear warnings that Osama bin Laden intended to hijack commercial airliners and crash them into American buildings a month before the World Trade Towers and Pentagon were attacked and a hijacked passenger airliner crashed into a Pennsylvania field. Despite the damage Bush wrought on Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan, and economic suffering for most of the civilized world, it is the deliberate damage he brought on Americans that will haunt this nation for decades. The debt coming due for the two unfunded wars will reach $6 trillion over the next thirty years, and coupled with the gifts to the pharmaceutical industry and richest 1% of income earners, the nation’s economy will not fully recover for a decade; if ever. Unfortunately, although Bush is no longer in office, his GOP sycophants spent the past four years maintaining his fiscal agenda that restricted job growth during his presidency and continues unabated under the GOP’s Bush doctrine of deregulation and entitlements to corporations. The push to privatize Medicare and Social Security is a clear and present danger to retired and retiring Americans today, but they were on Bush’s wish list throughout his presidency. The nightmare just will not end. President Obama had a stellar opportunity to right America’s reputation on the world stage when he came into office, but instead of directing the Justice Department to go forward with indictments for torture , treason for outing an active CIA agent, and lying to the American people to take the nation to war, he said he did not want to look backwards and instead looked forward to put America on a path of recovery. However, he has spent four years looking forward into Bush’s mistakes and constantly fighting Republicans perpetuating Bush policies that still retard economic growth and keep Americans out of work. Last year, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and five other high-level Bush officials were convicted of war crimes , and last week The Constitution Project reported that without a doubt, America was guilty of torture with full knowledge and approval of the Bush administration, and yet as the statute of limitations runs out, there is no investigation or action from the Justice Department to hold Bush and his cronies responsible for war crimes and acts of treason. The Obama Administration’s inaction is not looking forward, it is looking away as if nothing happened and informs the rest of the world that America not only condones torture, they protect the guilty parties from prosecution. It makes one wonder why 80% of Republicans who consider Bush a success hate President Obama when he protected their favorite son from the wheels of justice. For many Americans, the Bush administration and Republican malfeasance he incited will forever be one of America’s darkest periods, and sadly, there is no respite as Republicans in Congress continue his corporate entitlement and deregulatory policies without pause. It is difficult to believe that 8 out of 10 Republicans still consider Bush a success, because 80% of Republicans are not in the 1% richest class and certainly most have suffered economic consequences of the nation’s worst recession since the Great Depression. Perhaps Americans just want to forget Bush and the monumental damage he caused America and the world, and it is possible that President Obama was right to look ahead and not backwards, but with Bush’s incompetent presidency still plaguing the American people, and his foreign policy inciting an American Muslim to bomb innocent civilians in Boston, it is impossible to look ahead without seeing the Bush nightmare. Obviously there are Americans who have fond memories of the Bush presidency, but for most Americans, it was eight years of sheer torture with economic disaster, thousands of soldiers killed and maimed, and crushing debt that has yet to come due. Maybe Bush will revel in his library opening, and then fade back into the shadows, but for many, many Americans, just hearing his name and seeing his face reminds them who is responsible for the darkest period in their lifetimes. 戰犯布什應給予起訴書不是圖書館
在他們的歷史上的黑暗時期,地球上每一個民族遭受過要么學會從自己的錯誤,做了修改,進步了,或犧牲品自己的無能和失敗。在其236年的歷史中,美國有其份額的考驗和磨難,但它仍然盛行,直到八年度根據喬治·W·布什政府自找的傷口,成為地球上最偉大國家。在過去的幾天中,過多的關注已經給布什和他的總統圖書館開幕,它是踏破鐵鞋,這個國家,或任何其人,會給予任何關注該名男子誰主持之一國家在其歷史上最黑暗的時期。
給予任何方面,尤其是親切的問候,被定罪的戰犯,其唯一的關係,一個好的圖書館應該是一個聯邦監獄圖書館每週訪問的概念,揭示了許多美國人有很短的回憶。即使奧巴馬總統的記憶有點模糊,因為他說:“喬治·W·布什失敗的政策掃平了預算盈餘和揮霍遺留下來的兩黨外交政策。布什先生的信用卡上把兩場戰爭,帶領國家遠離我們的價值觀和崩潰的經濟。“有一種諷刺感,而總統稱讚和專用庫,該名男子誰玷污了國家的偉大的名字,並派出經濟陷入深度衰退,一周前發布了一份報告,譴責美國難言的酷刑行為,充分認識在布什政府中的最高水平。
美國會覺得至少布什多年的影響了一代人,它是一個神秘的人如何能在公共場所露臉,但他加入了由電流和三位前總統的支持者是誰,無論是和一群布什的“神秘色彩”仍然迷惑或抹去了8年的噩夢,那是他的總統任期。更糟糕的是,一項新的民意調查顯示,雖然大多數美國人認為布什的8年總統任期是失敗的,80%的共和黨受訪者認為布什總統是成功的。
任何人認為布什的美國成功的揭示自己一樣卑劣的,因為他是真正的非美國批准的一些國家的歷史上最糟糕的決定,並承諾一些人類已知的最不可告人的不人道行為。當一個反映布什主持,縱容,在大多數情況下,直接下令,學習8十共和黨人批准的暴行,它解釋了為什麼他們繼續支持共和黨的政策,使美國恢復其昔日的輝煌的假象為什麼這個國家是在下降。如果布什總統20年前,人們可能會理解記憶受損的共和黨人會讓人回憶深情兩場戰爭,粉碎的經濟陣痛,並控制金融部門的一個徹頭徹尾的,但它一直低於五年以來最糟糕的行政歷史摧毀美國在世界各地的聲譽,對國家的經濟和肆虐。
這是很難想像,如果布什的支持者認為,成功的毫無意義的屠殺數百成千上萬的伊拉克平民和一個多萬難民逃離伊朗伊斯蘭共和國,或提高在該地區的主要力量。這是可能的,他們慶祝十萬勇敢追求切尼的公司哈利伯頓公司,或可能的石油和無投標合同中喪生的美國士兵成功的虧損這是該報告在上週,根據布什行政美國是違反日內瓦有罪公約和訂購美國人指控的酷刑“敵方戰鬥人員”布什和他的親信,至少在9/11恐怖襲擊的部分有罪忽略明確的警告,烏薩馬·本·拉丹打算劫持商用飛機,他們進入美國的建築和崩潰一個月前世界貿易大廈和五角大樓遭到襲擊,被劫持的客機撞向賓夕法尼亞州的一個領域。
儘管布什造成的損害穆斯林在伊拉克和阿富汗,和經濟文明世界的最痛苦,這是蓄意破壞,他會困擾這個國家幾十年來美國人帶來的。由於未來兩個資金沒有著落的戰爭的債務將達六萬億美元在未來三十年,加上的禮物對醫藥行業和最富有的1%的收入階層,國家的經濟不會完全恢復了十年;如果有的話。不幸的是,布什雖然不再是在辦公室,他的共和黨佞了過去四年保持他的財政議程,在他的總統任期限制就業增長,並根據共和黨的布什主義的放鬆管制和配額企業有增無減。推動醫療保險和社會保障私有化是一個明確而現實的危險,今天退休及將退休的美國人,但他們對布什的願望清單的整個任期內。噩夢就不會結束。
美國總統奧巴馬有一個恆星的機會右側美國的聲譽在世界舞台上,當他來到到辦公室,但而不是指揮向前走起訴書對酷刑,外出活動的中央情報局代理叛國罪,並躺在美國人民到司法部民族戰爭,他說他不想向後看,而是期待把美國的復甦之路。然而,他已經度過了四年期待布什的失誤不斷拼搏共和黨延續布什的政策仍然阻礙經濟增長,並保持工作的美國人。
去年,布什,切尼,拉姆斯菲爾德和其他五個高層次的布什官員被判犯有戰爭罪,與上週報導,毫無疑問,美國是犯有酷刑罪的完整的知識和對布什政府批准“憲法”項目,訴訟時效,但用完了,有沒有進行調查或採取行動司法部舉行布什和他的親信,負責戰爭罪和叛國。奧巴馬政府的無為是不是期待,望著遠處,彷彿什麼都沒有發生,並通知世界其他地區,美國不僅縱容酷刑,保障無罪的當事人起訴。這讓人奇怪,為什麼80%的共和黨人認為,布什成功恨奧巴馬總統時,他從正義的車輪保護他們最喜愛的兒子。
對於許多美國人來說,布什政府和共和黨的瀆職行為,他將永遠是煽動美國的最黑暗的時期之一,而可悲的是,沒有喘息的機會,共和黨在國會不停頓地繼續他的公司的權利和放鬆管制的政策。這是很難相信10共和黨人仍然認為布什是成功的,因為80%的共和黨人都在1%最富有的階層,當然大多數都遭受了經濟大蕭條以來的國家的最嚴重的經濟衰退的後果。也許美國人只是想忘記布什和他引起了美國和世界的巨大的損害,以及它是可能的,奧巴馬總統是右進取和不向後看看,但布什的無能總統仍然困擾著美國人民,並煽動他的外交政策美國穆斯林轟炸無辜的平民在波士頓,它是不可能向前看沒有看到布什噩夢的。
顯然有美國人誰擁有美好的回憶,布什總統,但對大多數美國人來說,這是8年的純粹的經濟災難的折磨,數千名士兵死亡和致殘,沉重的債務,目前尚未到期。布什也許會陶醉在他的圖書館的開放,然後漸退入陰影,但很多很多的美國人,只要聽到他的名字,看到他的臉,提醒他們誰是負責在其一生中最黑暗的時期。
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