Letters to the Editor
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Tragic history
Certainly President Bush is described in the article as someone delusional and in complete denial. Based on Bush’s pronouncements, he cannot fail in Iraq. All responsibility is passed to his successor. He himself can only be judged by “history” after he has left his temporal existence.
The article describes a very lonely man who can only use fantasy to prop himself up. Were he to see the true person that he is he would see someone who has wasted opportunity at every phase in his life. This is unbearable to someone who has abandoned personal accountability at an early age.
Of course history will judge Bush, as history judges all U.S. presidents. But unlike Bush’s wishes, history does not pass favorable judgment on leaders who are idealists, whose practices are based on hopes and wishes while dismissing the reality around them. History especially condemns leaders who are incapable of receiving counsel, who are bewitched by their own scent of supremacy. Bush is a very selfish man, one who will be mourned only by those who will be embarrassed by the lack of mourning for a dead president.