Dubya’s Book – Some Thoughts

Bush’s memoir is due out on Tuesday. A few points are worth making:-

He makes clear that he personally approved the use of waterboarding against alleged 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheik Mohammed, an admission the human-rights experts say could one day have legal consequences for him. He recounts being asked by the CIA whether it could proceed with waterboarding Mohammed, who Bush said was suspected of knowing about still-pending terrorist plots against the U.S. Bush writes that his reply was "Damn right" We don’t think the powerful with powerful friends are ever likely to face the courts either in America or at The Hague. Karadzic ended up in the dock at The Hague because he had no friends, unlike Tony B£air and Dubya.

Being accused of not caring about black people was the ‘most disgusting moment’ of his presidency he says. No, I can think of quite a few more. I’ll bet so can most of the New Orleans citizens who lost their homes or loved ones, particularly after the floods and during the incompetent relief effort.

He describes himself as ‘sickened’ by the failure to find WMD’s in Iraq. Not as sickened, I suspect, as the citizens, and particularly children, of Fallujah still suffering the effects of white phosphorous and depleted uranium from bombings ordered by Dubya himself.

I could list many more howlers from the leaked content of his book but it would be too depressing for us all. Dubya lacks a sense of perspective, I think. ←(understatement).