Even aside from the all the obvious and not-so-obvious policy changes that President Obama will bring, it will be incredibly nice to have the face of America be someone who isn't tone deaf, self-absorbed, and oblivious to reality.

On the basis of blatant exaggerations, the Bush Admin preemptively invaded a country that was no threat to us, resulting in the deaths of thousands of our troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, costing us trillions of dollars and much international goodwill. But the only thing he regrets is his "tone".

The only reason he regrets the tone is that the war has been such a disaster. If it had gone better, he'd still be strutting around in the flightsuit and making taunts.

That "man of peace" comment is funny. It reminds me of several months ago when Bush said that he travels the world spreading goodwill, or something along those lines.

... and then there's the tens of thousands of dead or severely wounded American soldiers, millions of dead or displaced Iraqi civilians, hundreds of billions of wasted dollars, plans for permanent bases and indefinite immunity for private contractor thugs. Gee whillikers, Wally, I sure don't know why they don't consider this misshapen imbecile to be a man of peace.

Because some might have misinterpreted those words to mean that Bush was a belligerent, self-righteous, crusading imperial head of state who believed that God spoke to him and told him to wage war and invade countries that he merely suspected might one day do the same to us, despite all evidence to the contrary.

How silly of them.

I read that interview with astonishment, which I would have thought wasn't possible anymore at this point. Yes, so he's saying that while invading and causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands, not to mention four thousand of our own, plus destroying the infrastructure of a country of millions, we should kept the language diplomatic.

Otherwise, gosh, they might have gotten the wrong idea!

not due to his tone, but for invading a nation that didn't threaten us in the least, and causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands, the destruction of a nation's infrastructure and the wounding and maiming of thousands more.

"I think that in retrospect I could have used a different tone, a different rhetoric," Bush said. Pointing to phrases like "bring them on" and "dead or alive," he said that these "indicated to people that I was, you know, not a man of peace."

If Saudi Arabia is a country of peace, and Islam is a religion of peace, then...

Sure. I'll buy it. Bush is a man of peace.

And Ghandi was a meanie, Hitler was a great painter, and Sir Winston was incompetent.

Name me one "man of peace" who had a psycho write a memo condoning torture. Come on, come on, name me one. Man of peace. He needs to return to the world of drunks and coke heads to find his inner peace. The one he left (if he ever did), left him a clueless moron who ordered the murder of thousands of Iraqi men, woman, and children with his spectacularly moribund display of "shock and awe" that made any peace loving individual threw-up watching. Come to think of it, I just threw-up a bit of my breakfast just thinking about it. Man of peace. What an ass hole.

An infantile and marginal little man, easily manipulated by ruthless and very intelligent special interest snakes. Hell of a legacy. He may go down as the absolute worst Commander in Chief in our Nation's history.

A man of peas? A man of pizza? A man of pleats? A man of...oh, please, stop! You're killing me!!

The "man of peace" part evokes thoughts of Bush's ostensible devotion to "the Prince of Peace." A little history is in order here. During Bush's inexorable march toward invasion of Iraq, virtually every major church group except the Southern Baptist Convention condemned the war proposal. Roman Catholic, mainstream Protestant (including United Methodist, with Bush a famous member), conservative, Pentecostal -- you name it. The main reason for church groups' revulsion and growing sense of horror was that the proposed invasion measured up to none of the "just war" tenets that have evolved from the time of St. Augustine. Besieged, diminished Saddam Hussein posed no threat to the United States.

So it became a cooked-up war of choice, seasoned by deceit, with children (central to

Christ's ministry) getting the worst of it -- over there and, inevitably, here.

Bush's interview in England comes across as, "Oh, by the way. . . ." Incredible!

"Man of peace"? What an absurd claim for a self-proclaimed war president.

Interesting note: The phony cowboy routine is exactly why many people still stand by him to this day. I wonder if they would consider him "weak" for having doubts (and all it took was five years of abject failure nad no accomplishments met), something they would no doubt do if he were a democrat. Who am I kidding, a democrat would have been impeached by now!

Have a heart. He's feeling low and as welcome as a wet polecat at Sunday dinner. He needs a "pick me up" - a Nobel Prize for Peace with fix that right up.

Worse have obtained one by hook and crook and the Bush team has more than a few hooks and crooks.

MiniTrue will smooth all this unfortunate business over and paint him red white and blue.

Another in a long lone line of Bush lies. They reach to Alpha Centauri and Betelgeuse, and back... (That's over 430 light years, one way!)

he wants to be known for his manatees?

kind of tough talk, you know, that sent the wrong signal to people...

Cause it was the talk that bothered people, right?

I guess my post was over the top. Not unlike George W. Peddler of lies, idiot chimp and somebody's pet goat. Love your comment Pinky! Me? I'm just another bitter elitist clinging to humanity and reason. Rot in Hell Bush.

If this Administration goes out with a whimper rather than a bang (e.g., an attack on Iran), I guess we should be grateful. Satisfying as it would be to see them all melt and then vaporize like the bad guys at the end of the first Raiders of the Lost Ark, the odds of that seem dissapointingly small.