Brilliantly expressed .. it couldn't have been more eloquent. Thank you for speaking what I've been feeling.

The real question is:
Which is the only corrupt democracy in the Middle East?

Need a clue?

'Government corruption is a higher national priority for Israelis than negotiating a peaceful settlement with the Palestinians, according to a new poll by Tel-Aviv University.'

Surprised?

Amen.....

THANKS WILLIAM..YOU NAILED THAT LITTLE PRETENDER TO THE WALL..NOW WE ONLY NEED TO HEAR THE COMMAND..FIRE..

"literally" fiddled? Um . . maybe you need to take an English 101 class.

BRAVO!!!!

My teeth are grinding too, but the memory of his carefree disasterous reign is painful to endure even for a nano second. Hurricane George,without consience, playing the good ol boy just isn't working any more. We know who he is, and he makes our souls shutter.

16:24->YES!! How dare we be told to forget and 'make nice' while we continually live the hell of his actions.

To the critics of the grammar critics: I'm not a Republican nor did I vote for "Dubya," but I have to agree about the many noted language and writing errors such as the misuse of the word "passed," the inaccuracy of saying "literally fiddled" and the triteness of the bantam rooster simile, just to mention a few. However, I agree completely with the point of Mr. Pitt's post.

I am wondering how the assumption was made that in order to note the grammatical errors, one must naturally be in favor of Bush; convoluted logic, that, one having nothing, necessarily, to do with the other.

I am also wondering how Mr. Pitt, his professional credentials being what they are, wrote such an amateurish piece. Were there no good editors around at the time?

Well said!!! Excellent synopsis of fool that changed our world in ways far worse than the 9/11 event which catalyzed many of his reactions. I share your gross displeasure at the sight and sound of the man on TV again.

And this is the president who has a larger-than-life portrait hanging in the main living room of the Yale Club of New York - smirking at you. I had to move my chair so I did not VOMIT on my wife at a recent gathering in that august institution of the equally august institution in New Haven. I did ask my local, independent book store to move the display of books to their crime section. All the nit-picking over grammer etc is trivial BS when you realize what this disgace of a man has done to this country and the world.

Well said, but this only addresses part of the story. He was also deliberately used by people such as Karl Rove, who knew that they could manipulate and dominate him. In fact, the forces that were gathered to elect this perpetual adolescent frat boy did so because they knew how easily he could be stage managed. The unprecedented failure of his Presidency was the sadistic, hard work of a cabal of plutocrats who rightly predicted how well he would serve their interests if they could get him the White House. All the righteous indignation directed toward him should be equally spread among his puppet masters, and there was dozens of them.

It isn't all bad, folks. Remember Bush's confession to war crimes, which is also in his book? A confession that would get him hanged in any country that is actually governed by the rule of law? As things now stand a large part of the world is considering the "universal jurisdiction" part of the law governing despicable scum like Bush. Which means that Dubja has to stay home. And while he's here and strutting around book stores we CAN make it hot for him. Will has provided a nice list of material suitable for protest signs up above, but one I would like to add is this: "Off to the Hague in chains with this WAR CRIMINAL!"

All it would take to get this done would be enough Americans out demonstrating for it.

Alas, therein lies the rub.

This is also the guy who resorted to plagiarism to "write"his own fucking memoir. He has never in his life achieved anything honestly. He is the greatest fucking cheater in US history.

Bush was the worst, but still well in line with American policy just like every preceding president. War for profit, corporate rule and world dominance. Nothing new.

We can't hold the current president's feet to the fire, because we never did that to W yet. Make the man account for his crimes!

Prison is not enough. And the Obama can be his roomy.

His inane smirk will forever been burned into my brain. I need an exorcism!! BE GONE, you evil-doer! I love that people in book stores are moving his lying tome to the 'crime novels' section. More than appropriate.

The worst part of going into an over-crowded kennel is that when you come out, you have to scrape all the "W" off your boots.

These words from Buddy Miller's song "Worry Too Much" come immediately to mind in thinking of GWB, Shrub, Dubya - what have you - and his so-called "memoir."

It's these sandpaper eyes
it's the way they rub the luster from what is seen
it's the way we tell ourselves that all these things are normal
till we can't remember what we mean

You left out the most important item; He was in charge of spinning into reality the entire Iraq war and all that has brought to the world! And he started the scheme even before taking office. It, like the current economic crisis he is responsible for has bled us for years.

And I can't understand why someone hasn't "counter-spun" all the garbage he has sent out and thus let him and his ilk be forced to answer to those statements. It's his side that always gets to write both cause and history of events.

Essentially, he and his team should have long been in prison and not out doing p.r. to sell us on what a good guy he is.

He is total bullshit!

and they try to foist these wars and this economy on Obama and tell the public that Obama is the rightful owner of them! The dead and wounded service men, the millions out of work, the tragic economic conditions: Obama is the clean up crew that cannot find a solution to all these problems and the American people will suffer for generations to come, especially with this new, unwashed, right wing Congress. They will be as malleable as clay in the hands of this ruthless right wing.

Brilliantly expressed .. it couldn't have been more eloquent. Thank you for speaking what I've been feeling.

Why hasn't he been brought to justice?
That's the part I don't get.
He did these things, freely admits to them, many of which were actually crimes, as in against the law.... and they're building a library for the fool who can't even read instead of a prison cell equipped with Secret Service facilities.

And you for got that in Oct 2008, he gave the Wall St banks $750 billion, no strings attached (which is exactly how they treated it), and the media (which conveniently forgot he was President since they backed him all the way right from election 2000) drooled all over themselves blaming Obama for "bailing out the banks" during the last two years and particularly during the recent campaign season.

when writers such as Will Pitt tell it like it is, the only argument haters have is to write negative about grammatical errors. to discuss facts is too over their heads. facts are facts and although there are many points of views and everyone is entitled to their own opinions, there is only one truth. and, using the phrase of gore vidal's "beloved" mother, 'let's face it', some of these people can't handle the truth.

When I saw the Peter Sellers filn, "Being There," I laughed at the idea that an idiot could be elected to the US presidency. I stopped laughing in November, 2000, and have since been in mourning for our country, the people of Iraq, and Afganhastan, and over 4,000 of our military and their familes. I lost faith in the Democratic party when Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the House and said, "Impeachment is off the table!
Why in the hell do they think The Democrats were voted back in?

A wonderful, dead on article! I wonder where people get the idea that finding a unimportant grammar error in this cancels all the truth. I believe it is more important to see the big picture and all the fallout than snipe at crap of no value!

Well put. A fraction of a man indeed, but the sad episode that was the Bush Administration's debasing of this once great country is that it has made America "a fraction of a nation". For the lack of moral authority it has failed to protect it's own future by ensuring that this type of despotism cannot ever take hold again. It failed to bring this egocentric dullard and his cohorts to justice. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and even Powell are, by any measure, war criminals. If a country does not hold its own leaders to the very highest standards of lawful conduct how on earth can it expect regular citizens to have faith in law and justice? Innumerable innocent people have died because of Bush's hubris. As revenge for the murder of just under 3,000 people in the attacks of 911? No. 911 was a cover story. Bush thought he was a king. Cheney is a sociopath who wanted to direct a war machine. We must ensure that this cannot happen in the future in two ways: Prosecute the evil-doers and demand that nominees for future office are assessed by psychiatrists and their psychological profiles made public for voters to see. I am serious.

"Decision Points", eh? Couldn't the 20-something year old kid who ghost wrote the book for Dubya--- one Christopher Michel---come up with a better title than that? Bush's biggest decision point was trying to decide how far to bend over for his corporate criminal masters, Chris.

"Why hasn't he been brought to justice? That's the part I don't get."

Most Americans don't believe he or his (nominal) minions did anything that is worthy of indictment, let alone jail time.

This should be clear from eight years of, not mere docile complicity, but gleeful support, on the part of the effective majority of the citizenry for formal policies of brutality and aggression, both at home and abroad.

Shrub is always demonized as unintelligent. If that is so, that does not speak well of a nation of people who so unreservedly followed such a one into the abyss.

Well said.

But we want to know how you REALLY feel

We know you held back....or was that the editor.

let it out

It's healing.

The sad truth is the innocent idiot image was contrived and sold from the start, an ongoing hoax to hide the real Bush and hideous soul of his administration.

The aftermath is a continuing nightmare of lies, torture, and civil and moral disruption.

As I walk out of Costco and see a glassy-eyed woman in the 70s hugging the Bush gospel as if it were a newborn, I look away in disgust. It is as if creatures lurk among us, souls cast in fear and hatred, intent on shredding all that we once called America.

I did once hear a guitar referred to as a "guit-fiddle," so you could say that Bush actually fiddled while New Orleans drowned. The other grammatical errors cited are indications that somebody was relying on his spell-check rather then doing his own proof-reading. The basic stuff is important (we should be better than the other side at everything), but Pitts' point is still well-taken. Bush was the worst President EVER, and is still enough to make people sick. I for one can't stand the sight of his complacent, smirking face. I will not buy his book (no money of mine is going into his pocket), and I will not read it. Colossal waste of time.

You should have added: This is the guy whom Obama refused to prosecute.

WHY ?

Mr. Bush and Ms. Condoleeza Rice, Mr. Dick Cheney, Mr. Donald Rumsfeld, Mr. Powell, Mr. Karl Rove and Mr. Paul Wolfowitz, and their minions, I Lewis Libby, Ari Fleischer, John Ashcroft, Richard Perle, Kenneth Adelman, Mr. Zalmay Khalilzad, Douglas Feith and James Woolsey, and Bill Pryor. These are the evil ones.

These are horrible human beings, they are cut from the same cloth as the terrorists we call our enemies. Their ideologies and methods are mirror images of one another which include, religious intolerance, lies, propaganda, war, and torture.

James E. Mitchell, a retired clinical psychologist for the Air Force, had studied al-Qaeda resistance techniques.

"The thing that will make him talk," the participant recalled Mitchell saying, "is fear."

Now, as the Senate intelligence committee examines the CIA's interrogation program, investigators are focusing in part on Mitchell and John "Bruce" Jessen, former CIA contractors who helped design and oversee Abu Zubaida's interrogation.

Mitchell had retired from the Air Force before the Sept. 11 attacks and won several government contracts, including one from the CIA to study ways to assess people who volunteered information to the agency. While still in the military training program known as SERE -- for Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape -- he and his colleagues called themselves "Masters of the Mind [Expletive],"

The CIA dispatched FBI agents Ali Soufan and Steve Gaudin for an initial look. The two men arrived a few hours before the wounded man was transferred to a hastily assembled CIA interrogation facility near one of Bangkok's airports.

Details of their experience and that of the CIA officials who followed them to Thailand with Mitchell. . . Mitchell boarded a CIA plane for Bangkok with R. Scott Shumate, a CIA psychologist. . .Shumate, the CIA psychologist, who voiced regret that he had played a role in recommending Mitchell to the agency.

At the secret prison, dissent over Mitchell's methods peaked. First Shumate left, followed by Soufan. At the site, Shumate had expressed concerns about sleep deprivation. . . Abu Zubaida was waterboarded 83 times over four or five days, and Mitchell and Jessen concluded that the prisoner was broken. . . CIA officials at the Counterterrorist Center were not convinced.

"Headquarters was sending daily harangues, cables, e-mails insisting that waterboarding continue for 30 days because another attack was believed to be imminent," the former official said. "Headquarters said it would be on the team's back if an attack happened. They said to the interrogation team, 'You've lost your spine.' "

Mitchell and Jessen now found themselves in the same position as Soufan, Shumate and others.

Soon Mr. Bush will be slinking back to his Crawford, Texas ranch (which he hasn't visited since his "retirement"--or to Paraguay where he reportedly bought some 40,000 hectares of land--there in all likelihood to wonder and ponder how and why anything and everything he touched during all of his eight years as President and Commander-in-Chief turned to ashes (or poop). King Colitis.

Damn! I wish I'd written that!

I had always thought Harding and Reagan would be graded as the worst, but G.W. almost makes them look like statesmen.

I love you, WRP! You take the words from my mouth and rearrange them so that they convey almost everything I wanted to say... You ROCK!
My teeny-tiny suggestion for improvement on this would be that you were a little bit FAR TOO lenient on the guy!! LOL! I want them to hand-draw and quarter him for all that he did. Unfortunately the government will do no such thing, being spineless wimps and overly impressed with 'titles'. Shades of Feudal England... where the serfs had no voice.
Thanks for always being there!

The Chinese have a word for someone like Bush: syau ren--a "small person." Small not in stature but morally small. That is what WRP means when he talks about a fraction of a man. He got it just right.

George W. Bush, cheerleader for the banality, and stupidity, of evil. A small man indeed.

It's like seeing the priest who raped you when you were an altar boy- made Pope.

The only flaw I see in this magnificent piece is the flaw William describes in so rich details, which helps me keep up with my own revulsion about the dangerous thug he was, and he still is.

I hope America will some day correct this flaw humanity still has to put up with.

Dropping that piece of crap Dick Cheney, would have saved this country a LOT of the aggravations it's facing today. He is a disgrace to this country, and everything it was founded on.

Thank you, WRP. More of your eloquence and truths, are welcomed.

All I need to read now, is that Sarah Palin and GWB, are caught in some sexual grip, at an undisclosed location, a la Spitzer, Edwards, JFK, all the Repubs who have been caught, and so on.

Where did America go? At least Rahm didn't get caught on film with his girlfriend, Nancy. Good riddance to that smirking rodent, back to the Chicago Nest where he came from. Obama will be back there in a couple years, too, having proven he was just an orator, not a president. Rome was full of those guys, remember? And it fell.

I too believed that "W" was the puppet of Cheney and Rumsfeld until I started reading "Family Secrets" by Russ Baker this week and learned how much a role, however obfuscated, that Poppy Bush has had in "W"s life as well as his presidency.

Our government has been manipulated by the Bush family and their associates (in oil, banking, the military, and the CIA and its precursors) since before 1900 and continuing to this day.

I recommend that every citizen read this eye-opening, eyebrow raising and even hair-raising, well documented book.

Well said many times already for the past six years! No wonder Pitt said it so well, again.

When are we going to stop talking about it and instead start doing something?

Oh, that's right. We have to wait until the wee little sheeple turn into WE THE PEOPLE.

Well said! I hadn't realized how much I was enjoying his absence until he reappeared last week. The very sound of his voice (independent of what he actually had to say) was enough to bring all the rage back to the surface again - like picking a scab off a wound. It is outrageous that this usurper turned war criminal is trying to rewrite history.

It's amazing to me how, just once in a while, the phrase. 'the pen is mightier than the sword' has some credence. Mr Pitt wrote what us less articulate 'cowardly' citizens have felt since November of 2000.
I admit that I am afraid to put myself on the line, ergo the use of 'anonymous.' I treasure the fact that someone who has a national stage can speak for me and my feelings and get it written down so perfectly. I say perfectly because when all those pent up feelings come out it's a near miracle that any word is spelled 'correctly' or one gives a crap about grammar!

Let us not forget that we are a relatively young country, and this is still an experiment is self governance.

The one possible positive thing that could come out of this whole debacle is to take all our scientific knowledge and apply it in the following way:

Hook up thick copper wires to our forefathers spinning in their graves, and generate enough electrical power to get the oil monkey off our back once and for all!!

"This is the guy that Obama didn't prosecurte" someone above said. My feelings about that are that if he had he would have gotten nowhere because the justice system people in place were Bush lackeys, and prosecutions would have been a waste of time and money and Obama knew it and so did Pelosi and Reid. The only way it might have happened is if the people would have stormed the Bastille, but they didn't, and won't, or can't, or don't know that they should, or they are hypnotized, or are just too busy playing war games in their heads.

Well said. Thank you. Reposted x 3.

We know the truth about Bush, Clinton's, and I could go on and on, needless to mention the Congress is being held hostage by corporations domestic and foreign, we continue to give money to the criminals while they continue the nanny state and force seniors into retirement because lack of jobs, cut out 10% out because there's no inflation and honestly how much longer are we going to stand on the sidelines and take this. I say bring them down on their knees by and with your money, where you spend it, where you keep it and get to their bottom line anyway and anyhow..Stop going along with their agenda, stop talking and take action, talk to everyone you know and start calling emailing and anything it will take millions of voices screaming enough is enough Start talking and don't stop, just stop spending you money hold them hostage instead try it please............Thanks for your time

Refreshingly accurate.

Context is everything. Bush, Obama and our other politicians are mid-level managers in World Incorporated. They are evil, corrupt and dangerous,and they are all in bed together with people far above them who call the shots. It is easy to hate the individual criminals such as Bush, and to realize the obvious fact that Obama is in bed with Bush, or else Obama would have immediately started prosecutions of Bush, Cheney et all as soon as Obama became president. But the main thing to remember is that the world elites are puppetmasters for these whores we call our leaders. And that by participating in capitalism,wars, etc. we serve the elites too. It isn't just Bush who is guilty.

and saviour Obama hasn't seen fit to prosecute the two Black Panthers disrupting registered voters from exercising their franchise. On the other hand his Attorney General has found no cause to prosecute any members of the Bush Administration for war crimes. That's because he'd have to prosecute nearly every member of Congress for having voted to pursue the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.

Note also that Bush returned to sell his book as President's before him with not one negative word about the beloved present White House resident B.O. That in the face of being blamed by our illustrious Chief Executive for every problem Mr. Hope & Change has been unable to bring to a successful conclusion. You got what you wished for! Live with it!

He may have been the worst president ever, but more important, he may have been the most influential president in our history. Usually when we list "worst" president we think of people like James Buchanan who were ineffectual; they couldn't get anything done. George Bush changed the world in large ways. Lincoln simply kept the union together; FDR rolled back Hitle,' but this president actually had a program and plan and got it done. The world will never be the same; that includes the USA. We should clarify our use of the "worst president' term.

I'm not an attorney or prosecutor, but every state in the U.S. except for North Carolina, allows a citizens arrest for any felony.
If accurate and specific felonious charges could be written and sent around, any U.S. citizen could attempt an arrest of these former Bush boys, including Bush himself. Not every one of these fellows is surrounded by a Secret Service detail 24/7.
If we are fed up with the indolence and inactivity of our Justice Department, why not act on our own conscience, follow the rules and the law, and arrest them ourselves ?
Now I am getting in way over my head now, but if specific criminal activities can be shown through valid evidence to warrant federal grand juries, cannot these actions be initiated by private citizens ?
I would love to hear some legal scholars opinions.

This is not good news-the atrophy of Bush.

Right wing nation wants him to disappear from memory, so they resume his plunder without his baggage.

Well Said!! We should remember as well, that this sonofabitch was NEVER elected.

This is the guy who...
http://erispress.com/Articles_of_Impeachment.html

We have moved beyond even that sparrowfart who stole the presidency. It's impossible for any candidate of worth to hope to even run for the office of president without the millions needed to be nominated. Obama is an intelligent puppet and he knows it which is his tragedy. America, brace yourself for more GWBs. They have just begun.

W.'s combined moral and intellectual bankruptcy can never be over-stated. I am old enough to realize that I won't live long enough to see his damage undone, the worst of which was to not just squander a world of global support after 9/11, but actually turn it against us.

We needed a Lincoln ... even half a Lincoln would have sufficed. Instead we got "Baby Doc."

I just watched the damning documentary "The Canary Effect" about the crimes and genocide committed against the native peoples of this country. It includes the idiot Bush in one of the moments that truly demonstated that we were in the hands of an imbecile (not to say that he is was therefore not evil, dangerous, and malintentoined). You may recall what he said: (quote) Tribal sovereignty means that, it’s sovereign. You’re a—you’re a—you have been given sovereignty and you’re viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore, the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities. (end quotes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5xVRXLgLxw In reality, the fact that we elect Reagans and Bushes is the measure of our ignorance as a people and a nation. And it is proof that this nation which under these two became the butcher of Nicaragua and the butcher of Iraq just proves that we are mortal danger to the people of the planet.

Mr Pitt, I am right there with you on the barf-o-meter of seeing Bu$h hawking his book.
It is interesting to note the W's book and the film (Fair Game), about the Plame -Wilson story are out at the same time.
My big beef with Ms Pelosi was that impeachment was off the table.
So many crimes, so many players it makes the head swim...

Agreeing with most of the comentators, and being a confirmed Bush hater, I fail to see any reference to
a crime which, when the smoking gun is finally found, and the powers that be don't bury it: 911
It is the opinion of a significant majority of the American people that this horrific deed was the product of a vast complicity involving the highest levels of the government. This was, you may recall, their "Pearl Harbor", which released the abominable acts which followed. Those of us who have followed the developments of this event understand that it will be but a matter of time before it will all be exposed.
I only hope I'll be around.

You guys are all sick. can you imagine Gore as prez in the same circumstances? We'd all be bowing to Allah 4 times a day and observing Ramadan by now.

i am no fan of bush, but such anger and criticism towards another human will not solve anything - why don't you become a politician and try to improve things? it is easy to comment online these days - harder to take action

"Fiddled

"transitive verb fiddled -·dled, fiddling -·dling

1. Informal to play (a tune) on a fiddle
2. Slang to swindle in a petty way

intransitive verb

1. Informal to play a fiddle
2. to play or tinker (with), esp. in a nervous way"

I'd say Mr. Pitt would do just fine in English 101.

Everything here is the truth and well said but the most important sentence is: "This is the guy who turned all the world against America!"
But it's wrong to put him in a shadow! He must be in prison for 10 billions of years!!!He and his company.
That's the first step to get the world back! The second step ( for America and Israel also ) is to pay for all war crimes, for each killed, wounded or tortured person, for each destroyed house or car, for each lie, for each humiliation!

A perfect sum of all evil! Your message is direct and to the point. Why couldn't democrats stick these sharp points up the nose of every conservative when they needed to the most - Like at election time. Why is this poignant message lost? Every American should know these evil deeds by heart and adamantly refuse to step backward into that trench!

It's easy to rage against Bush, et.al. for their crimes against humanity, but they are just glove puppets who take the flack for the puppet masters behind the scenes who profit from the crimes. We need to direct our anger toward those who truly hold the power.

So many Americans love Bush & Palen because they are so "folksy" but since when is being folksy a qualification for governing this country?
During my world travels, I was repeatedly amazed at how little Americans know about their country's history or are up to speed on what is happening in the world. Many of the people in the USA haven't even been outside the boundaries of their own state much less their country. Our educational system does not include teaching critical thinking skills or challenging the status quo so what can we expect? We are truly an undeveloping country.

@22:42, Hardly the case. More like imagine America with no Iraq legacy. Imagine someone like Gore on the ground in New Orleans. Imagine international environmental treaties. Imagine our economy right now. It only highlights your Bush's wanton destruction of this country. He and Cheney, like hold-up highway men, bandits, who raped and savaged, took the money, and slunk out the back. Now he's back with a book? What a piece of garbage the publishers are putting out with so many better writers on the market, trying to make a living as decent people.

To "literally fiddled"? on Sat. @16:08,

Yes, "literally fiddled".

I've got a photograph of him taken on August 30, 2005, somewhere in Arizona, in which he is holding a guitar, first two fingers of his left hand on the third fret, his right thumb strumming the top string .

Nobody expected anything better of his presidency than what we got.

Which makes Obama even shittier.

It's Ok that booksellers know where to put his biography. Other's will be written and filed in the same place. Not many people read books in that section. Right now we need to change from being the people who elected him. I voted for him the first time but not the second. I learned but too many others didn't. Looking at the 2010 election, nothing has changed. Does anyone else besides me think we need to change this country from the bottom up. It begins with me and my urban community in California. If I can't change with them, then we all might as well dig a deep hole to hide in.

Please stop thinking about GWB or his fate. Remember it is written, 'Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,' says the Lord....Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good" (Romans 12:14,17,19,21). You need to be building Climate Arks in your city and showing others how to do the same. Time's a wastin!

Pitt nailed it except; we are all responsible for George Bush’s actions. Some of us voted for him but most of the rest of us put up with him. Waiting every four years to voice our opinions on presidential policy doesn’t cut it. People in other countries took to the streets to protest Bush’s violations of human dignity and decency, as did a limited number here at home, while the rest of us busied ourselves with reality television and 401K retirement plans.

Bush was bad but he wasn’t wholly unique in his incompetence or his ambitions. What will we do when it happens again?

He not only "literally fiddled," he literally stuffed his face with birthday cake (literally an ugly face, too), literally laughing away with John McCain, while people were LITERALLY dropping dead on the streets of New Orleans on national television.