Sunday, April 21, 2013

More than four years after leaving office, former President George W. Bush has a question for America: So what would you have done?

(..UNIVERSITY PARK, Tex. —
A Presidential Center for the 21st Century
In a new brick-and-limestone museum, visitors to an interactive theater
will be presented with the stark choices that confronted the nation’s
43rd president: invade Iraq or leave Saddam Hussein in power? Deploy
federal troops after Hurricane Katrina or rely on local forces? Bail out Wall Street or let the banks fail?...)
 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/us/politics/hitting-rewind-bush-museum-says-you-decide.html?hp&_r=0
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Good golly, Mr. POTUS Bush.
Hellzapoppin', I say.
Now you want to make your decisions democratic, with every visitor to your library voting.
Where was this interactive decision-making when we needed it?
Would Cheney/Rumsfeld, and the war-mongering neo-cons. have wanted a democratic process on these decisions?
When Bush 2 was getting ready to invade Iraq, this poster walked to the Albany Capital on a very cold Jan evening. I walked with several hundred, in a real, not interactive, opposition to the bad decision to invade Iraq.
Millions in the US and the world did the same.
But it didn't matter; and Bush lost no sleep on this decision.
Yes, Bush 2 should have sent in federal troops to the Big Easy. That was a no-brainer. Just one media interview with the Big Easy corrupt, brain dead, Mayor Ray Nagin would have convinced anyone that fed. troops were needed.
If a Wall St. bank is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

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