Friday, November 09, 2007

Yep

Written by Eugene Robinson before Bush's Buddy Musharraf placed Bhutto and 5,000 others under House Arrest -- so even more applicable:

...a full 50 percent who "strongly disapprove" of Bush -- as high a level of intense repudiation as Gallup has ever recorded in its decades of polling...

Bush didn't come by this distinction with help from family connections or the Supreme Court. No, he earned it.

Look at the situation Bush's successor will inherit. Throughout much of the world, the United States is seen as an arrogant bully whose rhetoric about freedom and the rule of law is disgracefully empty. The lawyers and students who are being tear-gassed in the streets of Pakistan's cities will long remember that, when push came to shove, Bush chose to stick with a cooperative dictator, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, rather than live up to his words about the universal value of democracy.


And the litany of fuck ups continues from there.

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