Bush’s latest, legacy-building junket: Goodbye Europe, hello History!
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Those are some of the big themes George W. Bush’s handlers have had in mind as they’ve sent their man out on overseas junkets in recent months. Their goal: to try to shore up – or alter – the already sharply defined legacy the self-styled “war president” will leave behind. Alas, it is that of an ignominious, failed presidency that has been marked by incompetence, lies, corruption, the polarization of Americans and of the United States’ allies, and the pursuit of at least one, huge, aimless, endless, costly, illegal war that has bled Washington’s treasury dangerously dry while irrevocably weakening the once-mighty U.S. dollar. (However, it has rewarded Halliburton, Dick Cheney’s former employer, and countless other defense-contractor companies handsomely; see “Invitation to steal: War profiteering in Iraq,” Asia Times)
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