Don't get me wrong; there is much I admire about George W. Bush. Even the errors made by his administration as I see them, are not at all the mistakes so routinely delineated by the drooling-left in lemming-like imitation of each other.
However, I take some exception to this report posted on the Breitbart website:
George W. Bush hopes history will see him as a president who liberated millions of Iraqis and Afghans, who worked towards peace and who never sold his soul for political ends.
"I'd like to be a president (known) as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace," Bush said in excerpts of a recent interview released by the White House Friday.
See, I think that it is the people of the United States who were willing to liberate the "millions of Iraqis and Afghans" mentioned in W's quote. While the Afghans seem to have had a large number of citizens who are willing to struggle for their own independence, like the current administration many of us were surprised that the Iraqis do not seem to have that sense of drive to achieve their own freedom, preferring until recently to succumb to the will of local religious clerics. That has changed within the past year, but it has taken a long time to get to this point.
So Mr. President - perhaps you should want to be known as the chief executive who led the American people as they expressed their willingness to spend their wealth and risk their lives to assist Afghans and Iraqis gain their freedom -- not as the president who personally liberated them.
Humility, Sir -- humility.
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