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Ways Bush could reduce the damage to his legacy
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Jul 13, 2007 09:24am |
| Category | Commentary |
| News Date | Jul 12, 2007 09:00am |
| Description | According to an undercover congressional investigation, it is possible for someone posing as a fictional business with nothing but a postal box to get a license in 28 days from the federal government to buy radioactive materials for a "dirty" bomb -- an astonishing fact in an age of terrorism. It can take weeks, even months, for a U.S. citizen to get a passport.
There are 20 people dying by violence every day in Iraq and 40 fatal explosions set off by terrorists every month. The Bush administration says this is major progress and means U.S. soldiers must stay in Iraq, although military advisers say it will take years to stabilize the civil-war-ravaged country and cost more lives.
The former U.S. surgeon general has publicly charged, under oath, that he was routinely pressured by officials in the Bush administration to ignore science in his speeches and reports in order to adhere to the president's beliefs on issues from stem cells to the effects of secondhand cigarette smoke. He was also told to give plaudits to the president three times on each page of every speech.
Usually, such damaging revelations come well after a president has left office. The fact that they are flying around Washington while the president still has 18 months in office is terrible news for the White House.
It is hard to see how Bush can salvage his legacy from a bad rating by historians. (Despite Bush's professed nonchalance about what they will think, every president worries about his fate at the hands of future assessors, which explains why he has started to invite historians to the White House.)
But there are ways Bush could reduce the damage: |
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