Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 18, 2009

How many more ‘terrorists’ has Georgie created? I don’t feel any safer now and certainly wouldn’t travel overseas with a US flag decal on my luggage.

Obviously it will take a few more towers blown up and many more thousands of people losing their lives before some people wake up.

What continues to flabergast me is how such a large percentage of the population still believes that he did good! In spite of gutting our civil liberties, demoralizing the thinking population, destroying our international image, killing more Iraqis than Hussein could contemplate, bankrupting the nation, creating a very effective recruitment center for Al Queda, fostering policies that have increased the threats to the country, defining “democracy” as torture, rendition and incarceration on the whim of the government, thumbing his nose at international law, trying to reverse laws of nature, promulgating (perhaps) irrevocable damage to the environment, … the list goes on and on … he was not impeached or worse for the criminal that he is.

He is touted as keeping the country safe since we haven’t been attacked since 9/11 and for that reason alone his whole tenure was successful. Really! It was on his watch that he ignored the warnings of the attack in the first place. Then used the attack as an excuse to railroad the passing of the Patriot Act. This act has done more damage to democracy than all the terrorists combined. If there was an attack (heaven forbid) in the next couple of months who would get the blame for it? We are in much more danger now than we were 8 years ago.

I am keeping my fingers crossed and my hope up but there is so much greed, corruption and self interest in Washington that it seems impossible for any one man to reverse that culture. Already some of the department heads are more concerned about their turf than about saving the country.

hey skulker for a second I thought you were talking about Lincoln then you mentioned 9/11.

Kingrat: As I said - “the thinking population”

I heard that a large amount of Yellow Cake was discovered in Iraq and is being stored in Canada? If true I’m sure it is no big deal as it is “Simply an honest mistake!” on Sadams part.

grampaspot typed - Obviously it will take a few more towers blown up and many more thousands of people losing their lives before some people wake up.

Might as well pass on the collateral damage. These guys are on their way out and will remain in sleep mode.

OK, GB! Time to strike the Roman columns…..

So what will the Obama White House backdrop be?

–Ed

Hey plus4. Don’t pay any attention to The Skulker. The real thinking people know that the only power that any president has is the veto pen and the dubious Executive Order. Oh, by the way, this is a Republic not a democracy.

For any who may have misunderstood my comment regarding the Twin Towers it was not due to Bush being in office. As I understand it this was in the works prior to his first term.

skulker= EVERY word you say is true.but you’ve still got the idiot childs as*wipes out there that would defend georgie boy even if he admitted any thing he did was wrong and don’t hold your breath till that happens. we can only hope that future presidents will look back and say bush was the worst ,lets not EVER follow anything he did

DP-

So, did W use a veto or an Executive Order to justify the invasion of Iraq?

Which one did he use to support the exposure of Valerie Plame over yellowcake uranium claims?

Was it veto power or Executive Order that passed the Patriot Act?

Delusional!

I am at the edge of my seat waiting to see the miracles happen with the new presidency.

What is the latest on the House Resolution Bills to appeal the 22nd amendment since no previous president can take advantage of it? . Can anyone supply verifiable facts rather than mere opinions?

lcf: Stay on point. Justification is not an autonomous decision. Plame was a nobody and again support is not facilitation. Congress passed the Patriot Act, which he didn’t veto.

KingRat says:

“hey skulker for a second I thought you were talking about Lincoln then you mentioned 9/11.”

Now, KingRat, that's not fair! Lincoln never killed any Iraqis. (^_^)

To answer the first poster’s question about an icon to represent (soon-to-be former) vice president Dick Cheney…how about an enlarged heart?

Can someone please explain to me why your president Bush is represented by an asterisk wearing a Roman helmet?

So, does anyone know what icon (if any) will be used for President (still elect) Obama? I still think Jesus is the right choice. After all, isn’t President (still elect) Obama going to pull many fishes and loaves of bread out of a basket on inauguration day, and feed the 5 million people in attendance?

McGuffin; President (still - God that burns the liberals’ asses) Bush is represented by an asterisk wearing a Roman helmet, in this comic strip, because that is the way Trudeau wanted to represent him.

The first President Bush was represented by an asterisk to suggest his inconsequential nature. The current chief executive gets his father’s symbol, plus a helmet signifying his aspirations to being an imperial ruler.

http://latenightmusings.com/2009/01/19/the-next-best-thing-to-july-4th.aspx

Anyone who compares Bu–sh–‘s war powers abuse with Lincoln’s actions during the Civil War doesn’t know Dick Cheney about the Civil War, 9/11, or the Constitution. Lincoln was faced with an armed insurrection by Americans determined to secede from the Union. This is one of the situations cited in the Constitution for the suspension of habeas corpus. As horrible as 9/11 was, it did not ever pose a threat to the existence of the US.

After Lincoln suspended h.c., he asked Congress to ratify his action. Bu–sh– did nothing of the sort.

Calling his invasions of Afghanistan (justified) and Iraq (unjustified) a “war on terror” did not raise the crisis to a level calling for suspension of h.c. any more than World War II. And the incarceration of Japanese-Americans in that war is accepted today as unconstitutional and a blight on American history.

If Bu–sh– had had a clue as to how to defend us after 9/11, he would have put a high priority on port security (still 95% unfinished) and refrained from turning millions of neutral Arabs and Muslims against us through the invasion of Iraq and his abandonment of the Palestinian peace effort.

laughaday says: Anyone who compares Bu–sh–‘s war powers abuse with Lincoln’s actions during the Civil War doesn’t know Dick Cheney about the Civil War, 9/11, or the Constitution.

sorry wrong answer the first shots of the civil war were fired by union sympathizers. you say your self that lincoln asked for permission to suspend habeas corpus after he had suspended it, also Lincoln suspended it for everyone not just enemy combatants, mostly to arrest without cause a large portion of the Maryland government so that Maryland would not go to the south leaving the union’s capitol surrounded by the south. At the time Lincoln was hated as much if not more that bush is now but 150 years later most Americans will say that he did what was necessary to end slavery in the US.

All I was saying is that in times of war a lot of freedoms are taken away and that we have forgotten the darker side of what lincoln did during the war because of the eventual outcome.