A Somber Bush Says Farewell to the Nation

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/us/politics/16bush.html?scp=1&sq=a%20somber%20bush&st=cse

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:04 AM
Subject: re: A Somber Bush Says Farewell to the Nation
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To the Editor:

    President George W. Bush has never been one to test his rhetoric against reality. On his lips, lies are weapons and even the truth isn't to be trusted. He admonishes us: "If America does not lead the cause of freedom, that cause will not be led". This from the man who disdained to lead an international effort to root out Al Qaeda when the Pakistanis, the Saudis, the Iranians and most of the world stood ready to join us. He preferred to claim the powers of a war-time president. Osama bin Laden has out-lasted him. His legacy is a diminution of civil rights in the U.S. a Pakistan teetering upon dissolution and a world less free.

Barry Levine