The Past and The President
Barack Obama hints that he does not really care to upearth the Bush presidency. He is justified, his entire stance is that of a break with “The Past”.
There is nothing to learn from the Bush era. There is already more literature and investigations into “what went wrong” than required. A Federal investigation is only going to tell us just how guilty they are. If the America will is to override its sense of responsibility for the effect on the rest of the world of the needless Iraq war and what can only be described as consequentially similiar actions by Israel in its dealings with Hamas. Preventative war for what one fears that the enemy will do next. In other words Israel have acted out the Bush Doctrine already.
It may not be in the interests of the USA itself to mull over how it went wrong under the non-leadership of GW Bush and his cohorts. Impeachment would have been justice. But letting him cause more damage with some kind of positive retaliation is agreement that the Republican party are within their rights to highjack the constitution.
If Obama is right with that, then the economic problem we are facing must be terrifyingly worse.
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