Bush set to rewrite history of his 'disaster' presidency?

[fedtheend]

george bush was probably right when he said one day the history books will proclaim me a great president. by that time it will be like mandatory to kiss ass.

[alleyghost]

Well, since he did sooooooo good, I don't see why he would have to do that.

It's self-defeating in a way.

[Exoskitzo]

He shouldn't talk about John Adams like that. He was a great American hero and Bush doesn't even compare to his shadow.

[tbirdky]

Quit blaming Bush and Obama. It's like getting mad at a ventriloquist's puppet. Grow up.

[greg357159]

lol, Bush the president that murdered ! The President that lied straight faced ! The President that created distrust from all parts of the world and led to the collapse of the American Dollar. Let's all erect a statue to this idiot !. lol, dress it up like a gangster with a small puppet head and the caption: " LOOSER"

[s6jjy123]

american people are dangerous .... to think you could sit back and let sum1 this stupid run the country that is supposedly the #1 super power and not revolt !...man!! ..either the whole nations really stupid or all caged up like monkeys in the zoo...alex jones is right ...the masses are brain dead.

[KarmicOmen]

USA is criticized around the world for Bush and past administrations, but UK, Australia and Canada have no room to talk. UK rounded up 150,000 children they called a strain on society, lied to their families that the kids would have a better life, lied to the kids telling them they were orphaned -- then shipped the kids to Canada and Australia where siblings were split up and the kids faced a new life of abuse, torture and neglect. Nice new life these poor, lied to kids got, huh?

[barneygrumble]

anyone that is invested in defense spending.

[JusticePetitioner]

lol wow!

So do they plan on making sales off of all the debunk books coming out after?

[andrewh23]

He's spending more to rewrite history than he did on the 9/11 investigation. That's fucked up.

[diane613]

oh BS....Bush was not the worse in history. Give it up liberals.

[nesianboy]

Bush is definitely in top.

[thucy2]

I admire Hartman and agree with most of what he says here, with one caveat: I think James Buchanan needs a shout-out as one of the worst, if not THE worst American president, ever. This was the guy Lincoln had to clean up after. He connived with Roger Taney on the Dred Scott decision, turned the other way as southerners shipped artillery south and plotted open rebellion, and was thoroughly corrupt and incompetent.

So IMHO Buchanan and Bush run neck and neck for worst president ever.

[wsee]

bin laden???

where has this asshole bin hiden???

no muslims involved in the 9/11 psy op...

brought to you by the

military/industrial/media complex...

september clues

ends all speculation...

[biskit2004]

Christ.. if Bush had used some if not all of that $100million on poverty and the homeless we would start seeing a different image of him already.

However, if he really wanted solid closure to make himself feel good and important about himself, perhaps that money should have been spent on a solid gold coffin.

[mikkitiny]

yes, Bush needs those spin-doctors to spin out the disastrous history of his presidency: winless war in Afganistan that's in impass now; illegal war in Iraq that destroyed the country and did not achieve the goal of strongly proamerican government; cold relations with european allies and icy with Russia; financial and economic crisis; incredible state debt of US. so, he really needs good inventors to write his biography.

[LNSmithee]

Good God, Tom Hartmann is an idiot.

I wish I had time to dismantle his nonsense word for word, but suffice it to say this: He says Bush should have treated the thousand members of Al Qaeda the way Clinton treated Tim McVeigh. SCUSE ME? McVeigh was ONE person with only one known accomplice and a truck full of fertilizer, not a well-financed global network of terrorists! And remember 1993, Hartmann? AQ tried to take down WTC & Clinton DID put AQ members in jail. Did that prevent 9/11? NO, IDIOT!

[NShutterbug]

The reason Bin Laden attacked the US, with plenty of notice by the way, was because of the presence of American troops in Saudi Arabia. After the war started, they were quietly removed from Saudi Arabia.

[LNSmithee]

Osama Bin Laden was exiled from Saudi Arabia, so he didn't speak for its government any more than, say, Mexican resident Jesse Ventura does for ours.

What exactly is your point, though? That somehow America should listen to bin Laden at the point of a gun, but not vice versa?

Whatever. My point remains: Treating AQ like a common criminal didn't stop their terrorism, which is what idiot Hartmann speciously suggests, and people who haven't been paying attention buy it hook, line, and sinker.

[thucy2]

"Treating AQ like a common criminal didn't stop their terrorism...."

Treating the Mafia like common criminals hasn't stopped them either. Isn't it about time we invaded Sicily?

Seriously, Clinton's response to the WTC plot was exactly right, with the result that there wasn't another assault on US territory (except by right wing terrorists) for the rest of his administration. It was only when Bush/Cheney dropped the ball that AQ was able to mount another strike inside the US.

[thucy2]

"...and people who haven't been paying attention..."

Why do Bush supporters always assume that people who oppose his policies do so out of ignorance or "hatred of America"?

I for one have been paying attention to the issues, and think the Bush/Cheney response to the threat of AQ was a disaster, both before and after 9-11.

Read James Fallows, "A New Strategy for the Fight Against Terror," in the Sept. 2006 issue of the Atlantic as a start to understanding my thinking on this.

[NShutterbug]

"But what was it that sent Osama totally over the edge? What compelled him to plan the mass murders of civilians on every continent? Omar tells us. When Osama saw American female troops on Middle Eastern Arab soil, he cried out. Women! Defending Saudi men!

That was the ultimate shame, the only shame that mattered..."

See the "Libertarian Republican" blog, or put the sentence above into Google. You are really ignorant.

[yo1dude1man]

I'm sure its going to be one of those Pre-K Pop Up Page books [that he'll be able to read].

[wiselblower]

Start by rewriting Mr Crowley lyrics on Bush's Forehead and let everyone sing along.

[karlkarlkarl1234]

This is what happens in the book 1984; where they re-write history deliberately to cover it all up. Generations down the track need to know how much of a disaster and tyrant and retard he was so that it doesn't happen again. I mean what would happen if everyone rewrote the story of WW2 into something benign.

And whoever was the retard who said he liberated people, you are so fu**king stupid. Killing a million innocent Iraqis, stealing their oil & money then occupying isn't liberating them.

[averageworkinggal]

Bush liberated 50 million Muslims.

Iraq and Afghanistan have constitutional democracies for the first times in their lives and were freed from the brutal terror of Saddam and the Taliban, respectively.

Bush's approach was freedom and democracy to the terrorism problem.

The Left can't stand him for that because crackpot lefties like Hartmann couldn't give a flip about Muslims under tyranny.

The Clinton flawed approach means people die because we have to be attacked before we act.

[ThunderDog97]

I see you are enjoying your koolaid.

--

Bush was - is - a war criminal.

[heresywar]

Bush killed 50 million muslims and raped several camels, actually.

Then he was seen stealing bananas from the White House kitchen.

[natlissits]

"Bush liberated 50 million Muslims" - LOL. Is that why he is so hated in Muslim countries and across the world?

Muslims clearly don't see the situation your way. That's why they keep fighting. Democracy can't be imposed on people, nations can only grow into it at their own pace. As Afgan elections clearly have shown, Afganistan is not ready for it.

[skog77]

Is there oxygen on your planet?

[NShutterbug]

Afghanistan has a constitutional democracy? what have you been smoking? The last election was rife with corruption and hundreds of votes had to be thrown out. The "democratic" runoff that was supposed to happen did not, because the opponent withdrew because he did not think it would be honest. Wake up! And how much money and many lives did we waste to create that farce?

[averageworkinggal]

Another stupid igno-rant from an ignorant lefty who doesn't believe in freedom for the long oppressed people like the Afghanis.

You obviously would prefer the Taliban in charge conducting public executions in the sports stadium as in the past and women totally oppressed.

[NShutterbug]

Where did I say that I wanted Taliban in charge? You just make stuff up. Public executions - I want that, really, are you a mind-reader? Women totally oppressed? You must be joking - I think women in the States are still oppressed in some regards. All I was saying is that the Bush-puppet-regime in Afghanistan is a joke.

[oh2love4love]

bush and all his lackeys, their day will come.. evil cannot prevail that is the way it is, it might seem as if they are on the up side but in the end they are nothing more than dirt and to dirt they will return while the rest of us loving kind goodness people will be at peace without the bullshit of the evil doers.. yay us! :)

[Ispit12]

The only reason why Bush's Presidency was so bad is because of the House that ear marked every bill or fillabustered it. They argueed with everything and then argueed that they argueed about everything and blamed other agencies for their faults. Soooo.....glad thier election isnt till next year their doing such a great job! Pass more bills in 3hrs! (sarcasm)

[NShutterbug]

You have it wrong - Tom Delay strong-armed a lot of stuff through including tax cuts that were never paid for. Republicans filibuster - Democrats don't.

[averageworkinggal]

You're obviously an ignorant lefty.

Democrats don't filibuster?

That's as ignorant as it gets.

Democrats obstructed Bush's judicial nominees getting floor votes with filibuster threats - all totally unconstitutional - and Republicans were gutless and failed to use the 'nuclear option' using Senate rules to stop the Dems unconstitutional obstruction - hardly filibuster prone Republicans.

Speaking of strong arming -Pelosi just 'strong-armed' a massive Liberty-robbing ObamaDeathPanel bill.

[NShutterbug]

On May 23, 2005, a group of fourteen senators was dubbed the Gang of 14, consisting of seven Democrats and seven Republicans. The seven Democrats promised not to filibuster Bush's nominees except under "extraordinary circumstances," while the seven Republicans promised to oppose the nuclear option unless they thought a nominee was being filibustered that was not under "extraordinary circumstances".

[thucy2]

The Republicans had control of the Congress for the first six years of the Bush administration. During that time Bush didn't veto a single bill.

Congress gave Bush everything he wanted those 6 years: tax cuts for the rich, the Patriot Act, authorization to invade Iraq, huge increases in defense spending, no-bid contracts, Medicare Part D, etc. etc. etc. Congress confirmed Gonzales, Rumsfeld, Alito, Roberts...

I'm glad though you at least understand how bad the Bush era really was.

[Pnkbong]

Obama is Bush on steroids.

[drag00n77]

WE CAN FIGHT THIS! we MUst cronicle history ourselvs so that our children will know the truth!! pass the truth to your KIDS and encourage them to pass the truth down to their children and so on..the truth is golden.!!!THOSE WHO DO NOT LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REAPEAT IT!! if this is allowed to happen then your great grandCHILDREN will have aN overlord TENFOLD WORSE THEN THE ASSHOLE BUSH EVER WAS! SPREAD THE WORD! THE BIBLE WAS WRITTEN BY AVERAGE MEN LIKE U AND ME! NO A FUCKING HISTORIAN!

[TheHaightAshbury]

The US government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that our government can no longer respond to the concerns of the American people who elect the president and the members of the House and Senate.

[sinitskyd]

Please hire me for 100000000 dollars (preferably in today priced gold or silver bullion); I will write whatever you want.

[rsnboy08]

Scum! and where da fuck did he get SEVERAL HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS DOLLARS? Presidents salary is like 450.000 a year.Get a hint?(btw I know exactly where he got it, I'm just being sarcastic)

[Ispit12]

Lol...I read your first sentance and was omg another american idiot. Glad you put the qoutations, you totally got me. Hehehehe. GJ!

[DazedButterFly]

several hundred million dollars :|

[solojam]

it wasnt a disaster for the rich!

[RussianDefender100]

make storiesand history about monkies ???

monkies like bush are worthless

[heresywar]

All monkeys look like monkeys

George Bush look like a monkey

Logic dictates George W. Bush is a monkey

[thomaserossi]

All apes look like apes.

Michelle Obama looks like an ape.

Logic dictates Michell Obama is an ape.

(That's your logic with the word swap game. Now let's watch double standards emerge)

[murk2002]

There is no way Bush and revise history. His entire presidency was a disaster, this man along with Dick Cheney was a plague on the entire country. The outragous spending of tax payers money and deficits, thank god he gone, I think he should be in jail.

[heresywar]

Lol, you don't understand deductive reasoning. Quelle surprise.

Not just one, but BOTH of your premises are false. This, unfortunately for you, makes your argument unsound.

Mine on the other hand is correct; both in premise and conclusion.

[youstupidwoman]

shocking event ,,,,

shut the gate ,,, come on Vietnam, with Kennedy and LBJ , the the central American fiasco with more democrats at the helm or as that gates and his cronies again , then they turned dirty and covert ,,, to cover up like the retelling of custers driving out the woman and children from Indian camps ,with out a single woman or child getting hurt ,,bull shit ,,

the truth will set u free ,, may there spirits rest in peace

[eternalduty]

In a 100 years time, your childrens children will be taught in a NWO school about how Bush jr was an amazing president... you Americans sold out BIG TIME!!!

The founding fathers warned you what would happen if you let the goverment get to big, but you ignored them, and are much concerned with the NFL< NBA.

[OfficialFrizzo]

@eternalduty I'm an American and I totally agree. It angers me that my co-workers and others I know are too busy caring about grown men playing a little boy's game than the future of their family, their country, and themselves.

[mrfalcon6666]

bush 1 = killed 10 of thousands

bush Jr=  killed millions and dosen't give a F .......about it ..

[OfficialFrizzo]

W...T...F

This guy is a nutcase! Ft Hood is Bush's fault? Aw man, you liberals need to come to grips with reality. We might as well say that 9/11 was Clinton's fault since he had the chance to get Bin Laden and never followed through...hey wait...we can say that but who wants to pass the buck? Liberals!!! Man up!!!

[Newfie4646]

your exactly correct eh ... good one

[AmericanFenian]

Oh yeah Jimmy Carter the man who bungled the Iranian hostage crisis?

The same Jimmy Carter who kissed communist and socialist ass?

[sidplicity]

Versus ignoring signals of 9/11, invading a nation not tied to 9/11 and 8 years in Afghanistan and no Bin Laden. Then again there's the second largest depression since Hoover. By the way who was kissing the Saudis ass? Holding Bandar 'Bush's' hand when visiting the whitehouse. The Saudis who bankrolled Bin Laden.

[AmericanFenian]

Lets not forget that Hoover inherited the depression. Bush came in during a recession. The answer to a recession isn't to spend money. The key to getting out of a recession is to cut bogus spending while lowering taxes. Under the agreement from the Dessert Storm forces could have invaded Iraq at any time because of non-compliance. The reason it wasn't done is because Clinton was scared so be beat up Serbian Christians and helping to form an islamic state in Europe.

[sidplicity]

Hoover was in office when the crash of 29'occured. This nonsense that Bush "came" into a recession comparable to our current president faces is utter nonsense. By the way if getting out of a recession is to cut spending then why did Bush pass TARP to Wall Street on October 28 of 2008. Shouldn't the free market have resolved those issues by his own statements? Iraq noncompliance of what? Trumped up charges, no WMD, no aluminum tubes, no yellow cake, no mobile chemical trucks as professed.

[AmericanFenian]

When did I stick up for Bush's economic solutions. He should have never spent money like a mad man. Oh our current president will finish destroying the economy.

[thucy2]

"Lets not forget that Hoover inherited the depression."

That one statement is enough to discredit anything else you might say. It displays such an ignorance of American history I won't even bother trying to refute the rest of this nonsense.

For the record, Republican Herbert Hoover was elected president in 1928, following 8 yrs of GOP rule. He took office in March 1929.The stock market crash that ushered in the Depression happened October 29, 1929.

You need to read up on your history.

[AmericanFenian]

After the peak of real estate in 1925 it was downhill. Not to mention the stock market bubble burst but prior to the bust many stocks more than tripled by conservative estimates. People then began to believe that the stock market was a sure thing and took out loans to buy stocks. An economy doesn't crash over night. Don't talk about ignorance in history when you, yourself are ignorant in history.

[thucy2]

If Hoover "inherited the depression" he gave no indication he thought so prior to 1929. Indeed, his 1928 campaign theme was that times had never been better, and would get even better under his administration. His campaign slogan, if you recall, was "A chicken in every pot, and two cars in every garage."

And just for the sake of argument, if Hoover DID "inherit " the Depression, it was from GOP presidents Harding and Coolidge. The GOP had complete control of the gov. from 1921 on.

[thucy2]

"An economy doesn't crash overnight."

There are always long-standing systemic problems that lead to a collapse, usually ignored until too late. Even so, history is filled with examples of sudden, catastrophic downturns: Holland in 1637, Ireland in 1740 and 1845, the US Panic of 1837, Weimar in 1929, among others. And in Hoover's case, as I said, it was the GOP who held the WH and Congress in the years prior to the disaster. Then as now, the GOP wasn't up to forestalling the crisis.

[TrishinWTN]

What planet has this "radio host" been living on? The second worst president behind John Adams? RT, you usually have better interviews than we have in US... you blew it on this guy!!!!

[Steadno]

the dude cant even speak 'oral history' wtf

[robi2000]

This is not journalism. It's amazing how that anyone would think it is legitimate at all. Russia Today is a joke

[jerseyflex238]

...Bush is an idiot it is a fact. To present a fact to society is a journalism. Now Russians decide is it good for Russia that US had idotic president or not? hmmm well from point of Crisis not so but from view that Muslim extrimism (Sponsered by Saudis) is focused on us is relaxing since Russia got that problem too< way before us did.

[shockolanu]

Fuck yeah, he has enough money to do anything but do you think that people will forget this after 100 years? Do you think that history is written with gold? No wonder that US is supporting Skopje's historic and cultural theft of Macedonia, these bastards think they can change FACTS... LOL!

[Dedhedted71]

General Hassan??? GENERAL Hassan????? Does this idiot even know what he is saying. RT you guys do some really sloppy reporting.

[caliNYCdoja]

I would have to disagree with you

[pinkfloydmoon]

Bush should be arrested for treason & capitol crimes against humanity , That is his true legacy

[caliNYCdoja]

Heres a good vid:

TRAILER: THE PROSECUTION OF GEORGE W BUSH FOR MURDER.

watch?v=zDr1RwJKn_U

[ugene1975]

what a joke.....

[OmarThePug]

Am I just being naive? Can George Bush "legally" rewrite the history of his terrible presidency? You might think I'm joking, but I'm not. What Bush is "intending" to do should not even be legal! Alicia Arol (friend of Omar The Pug).

[cosmiceon]

john adams??? a bad president??? i agree with everything he said till i heard that statement.

[connielane]

He will not accomplish it! We the people won't allow it, he can't whitewash all the blood with a couple of hundred thousand, impossible.

[thomastholin]

They are all guilty post JFK. WAKE-UP!!!

End the Fed!!!

[Bassmarko]

The Bush presidency was not perfect but was not as bad as Jimmy Carter (The true worst president in US history) or Obama (working to unseat jimmy). Stop being such a hater and try balance the good with the bad. Obama is destroying the US with socialism and willful destruction of the dollar. Hes continuing both wars. He uses the patriot act more than Bush did and he hates gays. I am done with Obama and Bush but lets stop kicking this horse its dead already. Obama owns this presidency now.

[shockolanu]

How much are you getting paid for the lick-ass comments?

[GuardianFaction]

Bush ruined world opinion on America even more.Burn in Hell! Bush i hate you with a passion.

[igorvasilevsky]

Rewriting of history is a famous american tradition.. or hobby.

[superiorgreen]

If Bushy did a great job, why rewrite the truth?

[Psy0pAgent]

Funny how Bush still has that 98,000 acres of farmland in Paragua where you cant extradite war criminals from. Now why would he do that. Just another coincidence. Idiot sheeple.

[MrBennetzen]

Nice try Bush but I'll let the facts speak for themselves you jackass.

[flawedbeauty82]

It's BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, you insolent jerk!

[towerdawg1976]

Anyway you spin it George Bush is a douchbag and a liar!!! He should be in jail and so should Dick cheney,carl rove plus the rest of there administration. For leading us into One war that were unjustified and fucking up the other one. God bless the United States Of America and thank god or who ever we have a president who can form a sentence.

[RandomnessRules00]

Osama Bin laden was CIA trained and worked for the CIA until 9/10 and isn't even wanted or charged for the crimes of 9/11. Timothy McVeigh was also a CIA operative. 9/11 was an inside job.

[faisalhalim]

Hey, Osama bin laden probably worked with CIA funding, and maybe other forms of assistance, but Timothy McVeigh's being a CIA operative is news to me. I can't even verify it, because searching for Timothy McVeigh turns up too many conspiracy sites.

About Osama, I sometimes think he just got jealous of the US when the Saudis chose America, over him, to fight the First Gulf War.Maybe that's why he hates the US.

[bigsteelguy]

Disaster is an understatement,

Bush is the Real Terrorist, killing millions of innocent people, and 3,000 of our own Citizens, as well as causing the Economic collapse with his Banker buddies, and Big corporations, and Federal Reserve.

Now it is still continuing under Obama

Unless he finally has a change of heart, if ever.

[hiphopspriority30]

LOL "RE-WRITE, HIStory" he can do that by owning up to who is really behind the 911 incident.. not hiring a few journalists or some shit to literally re-write his legacy. Hopefully he doesn't hire people to correct the bogus 911 commission report to more accurately depict a terrorist plot, that would be a total failure! HAHAHA! But see this is a prime example of true cowardness.. worst president ever w/out a doubt!

[fatpius]

millions to cover his ass, ego never fails to

expose ones frailty.

[Balzy73]

Obama seated himself as head of the U.N. Security Council....This is illegal...article 1 section 9 of the U.S. Constitution. He is the first President to chair the world body. He wants a new world order...Look at the people he's involved with like Goldman Sachs. All these guys are crooks. We have been dooped and for a long time.

[moidc]

As a country with no own culture "Americans" don't care about history. Hollywood has more influence on teenager than history lessons at school.

And most of the population is raised with blind trust to the "free" corporate media, which brainwashed whole generations in the past, still does and always will....

Yet this country dares to point its finger around the world thinking it had the right to decide who is evil and who is a democratic friend...

[MrMLD72MLD]

♥

[OmarThePug]

In order to rewrite that history you need that little gizmo from Men In Black. ZAAAAPPPP!

[Balzy73]

The Global banks are the reason for the collapse. . The Global Elite. Why arent they talking about Bushes Grandfathers financing the Nazi's During wwII ? Read " The rise of the fourth reich"--by Jim Marrs...written in 08.

[yousifamer]

look Obama's taking his place for even worse.

[KhmerD0g]

america is economy is collapse as we speak and Bush is the main cause.

Bush should be in jail