He’s baaaaaack! George W Bush recently made a speech about his time in office, but a war veteran stepped in almost immediately!
George W Bush might be a former U.S. president, but he has now returned to the American political stage with his promotional book tour that comprises a bunch of “virtual conversations” along with traditional TV and radio interviews and late night talkshow appearances.
These media appearances seem to be focused on immigration reform, but while there are plenty of liberals who are now treating him as a venerated elder statesman, there are many red-blooded Americans who are no longer buying his lines.
Part of the reason that not everyone is comfortable with the rehabilitation of George W. Bush is that this was a leader who has been associated with a “war on terror” that included cruel interrogation tactics such as waterboarding and other types of torture. Moreover, some did not agree with his decision to invade Iraq.
One of these individuals who is not necessarily too thrilled with the 43rd President would have to be cultural historian Jackson Lears. “This is a man who, in the company of vice-president Dick Cheney of course, created more permanent and long-lasting damage to the presidence and the American system than anyone before or since.”
When you consider that Bush’s legacy also included the illegal invasion of Iraq in search of nonexistent weapons of mass destruction at a cost of over a hundred thousand lives or more, you can see why this man has a legitimate beef.
Couple that with the fact that George W Bush botched the government response to Hurricane Katrina and presided over a tremendous financial crisis that was almost as bad as the great depression, and you can see why some are not buying it. However, that’s not the worst part.
No, the worst part of it, folks, is that while this man may be a former United States president, he can’t even go on a speaking tour without being heckled. Take one Mike Prysner, for example. Mike was an Iraq war veteran who dutifully served his county when Georgie boy called him to duty, but now he is bitter and questioning the whole thing. Boy oh boy, did this soldier ever put Dubya in his place!
