Why Buttie Bush thinks history will revere him

Poppy thinks so.

Former President George H.W. Bush today challenged those who criticize his son, the current U.S. president, for his decision to go to war and his handling of the post-war situation in Iraq, saying that his actions will be vindicated by history.

"No president - Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative - could possibly want war," Bush told The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers' 90th annual Insurance Leadership Forum at The Greenbrier, "and I can assure you that this president (President George W. Bush) does not want war, but we can't back down. He must not back down, and he didn't, and I think history will say he did the right thing."

  Council of Insurance Agents news release

Blair thinks history will vindicate him and Buttie. Ahmed Chalabi is certain of it, with a twist: "We are heroes in error."

At any rate, it seems to have worked for Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln believed that his ends justified his means. He used war to destroy the U.S. Constitution in order to establish a powerful central government.

Lincoln assumed dictatorial military powers. He used them to suppress all Northern opposition to his illegal and unconstitutional acts.

Lincoln violated every constitutionally guaranteed civil right. He ignored rulings hand-delivered to him by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney ordering Lincoln to respect and faithfully execute the laws of the United States and to protect civil rights.

Lincoln replied by suspending habeas corpus, by instituting a secret police, and by arbitrarily arresting without warrants or due process thousands of leading citizens of Northern cities, state legislators, U.S. Congressmen, newspaper owners and editors, ministers, bankers, policemen--literally everyone who expressed the slightest reservation about Lincoln’s aims and means or who was anonymously denounced by a rival or envious neighbor.

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In conducting the war, Lincoln encouraged his generals to violate international law, the U.S. Military Code, and the moral prohibition against waging war on civilians. Lincoln urged his generals to conduct total war against the Southern civilian population, to slaughter them with bombardments, to burn their homes, barns and towns, to use rape as a weapon of war, to destroy foodstuffs, and to leave women, children and the elderly in the cold of winter without shelter or a scrap of food.

  Paul Craig Roberts article

"Mass graves! The evil bastard gassed his own people. The world is better off without him."

Roberts, however, wants to lay the ultimate responsibility for our current mess on Colin Powell, and while he certainly deserves his share, I personally think he was not essential to the mission.

Colin Powell could have thrown a monkey wrench into Bush’s naked aggression against Iraq by refusing to deliver that packet of lies to the UN.

Colin Powell would have saved his own reputation and that of his country along with thousands of lives. Instead, he allowed the White House morons to commit a fantastic strategic blunder, the consequences of which will allow future historians to much excoriate the hapless George W. Bush.

America’s claim to virtuous hegemony is contradicted by the disasters inflicted on the world by America’s arrogant and blundering leaders.

  Paul Craig Roberts article

I absolutely agree. But then again, America's arrogant and blundering followers aren't doing anything to stop them.