On the Bush mantra of "Mission Accomplished"...

There is no doubt that, while successes have many fathers, but failures would remain orphaned. Just look at the latest claim of the "Mission Accomplished" debacle of the Bush administration. At the time 5 years ago, when the Bush administration is at the height and swimming in its glory of military operations, with Karl Rove and all the neo-cons in full swing, Bush landed the USS warship in a fighter jet (hey - it's a commander-in-chief!!!), proclaiming the wars on terrorism is near, and that infamous "Mission Accomplish" banner perfectly positioned behind Bush on the podium.

How ironic, now that we know the mission is FAR from accomplished. In fact it's more like a hornet's nest, and US has no other plans to work the situation, other than to throw more bodies (armies) to the situation. And now, Donald Rumsfeld came out saying it's HE who edited out the actual "mission accomplished" statement from Bush's speech. Does Rumsfeld really and truly believe that ANYONE would believe him? If he had been so insightful, he would not have marched the country into Iraq in the first place. It's all stinky BS.

As to the stupid Bush, for his eight long (TOO LONG) years in the White House, it was only after Karl Rove moved on that he seems to come out from some "compassion" in his lame-duck agenda. But hey, it could very well be his desperate hope to turn his legacy around, that he's coming out in favor of climate talk, admitting to economy woes that every average-joes know about for more than a year now.

But the history that will go down with Bush is the turnaround of the country from big surplus to humongous deficit, 9/11, then two wars (Afghanistan and Iraq - he dropped the ball in Afghanistan, and started a totally unnecessary Iraq war), then lax government regulatory environment (isn't that what GOP's always want?!?), resulting in a subprime mess and more, that drags the economy into recession when he goes out of office.

Man, just mouthing Bush's legacies tires me out. I'm so sick of him.