SCATHING: "Bush-Rice: A Legacy of Lies and Delusion"

[Bluebear]

Middle East Times

By RAMI G. KHOURI

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- In the past week, both U.S. President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have given us the intellectual equivalent of what lame ducks do when they paddle away into oblivion, as they offer one more flap of the wings and spread of the tail feathers.

Both Bush and Rice have been attempting valiant but ultimately pitiful efforts to attract some praise for what most would see as deserving of ignominy and isolation. In separate media interviews, they have tried their hand at real-time historical revisionism and plain old-fashioned political fantasy, by claiming that they leave the Middle East in better shape than it has been for decades.

It is hard to imagine a more false statement of fact, but perhaps this is no surprise for an administration that has based its policies in the Middle East on a foundation of falsehoods, constructed it largely of misdiagnoses, and buttressed it by recurring misperceptions.

These two otherwise honorable citizens rose far beyond their political and intellectual abilities, to wander in alien and confusing corridors where they have understood little, fantasized often, and done much more harm than good...

http://www.metimes.com/International/2008/12/10/bush-rice_a_legacy_of_lies_and_delusion/6017/

[Greybnk48]

1. I agree with everything except the "otherwise honorable" n/t

[Vincardog]

2. Roger that "otherwise honorable" gives them WAY TOO MUCH CREDIT

[Bluebear]

3. Totally with you on that. A very generous line in the article.