Soulless Bush: No regrets

January 21st, 2009 Artus Register

What kind of person has no regrets?  Perhaps I just live worst than most, and make many more mistakes. But I have many regrets.  Sure, it is difficult to truly regret things when mistakes have combined to make you–finally–a person you are proud of.  But mistakes are mistakes, and the “butterfly effect” is greatly exaggerated.  It is folly to think that a few hundred errors of your past would truly prevent you from finding your way to happiness.  At any rate, most of us count among our sins actions taken in relationships, whether with family, partners, co-workers, etc.  We may also regret having stolen a pocket knife at an early age, or blamed something on a younger sister.  We often chalk such things up to youthful indiscretion.

The great majority of us have not sent men and women to their deaths searching for phantom weapons, nor continued such an exercise in stupidity after material’s non-existence became clear.  We have not started wars for one reason, and continued them for another.  We have not lied to to our countrymen, accepted their faith, and stomped on our promises, and their liberty.

The man exiting the White House yesterday did all of that, and more.  Had most people behaved this way, the last shred of conscience would scream so loudly at night that it could only be silenced by a drug cocktail Lindsay Lohan would refuse.

Much is said about the difficulty of being the President. Which is nonsense.  The problem Presidents have is with reading the instructions.  The Constitution is a short and easy read. The job of President has a short description.  There are a few things allowed, and everything else is not.

Because they don’t follow instructions, they create a lot of problems for themselves; what with all the unlawful jailing, torturing, killing, etc. From there I would imagine sleeping would top the list of problems.  That murderous tyrants slumber at all is testimony to their completely jaded nature.  Worse is the smugness of men like Bush, smiling at the cameras, talking about his Christian faith (or perhaps he is truly an *antinomian, and fancies himself above above all human law), and dropping verbal bombs that should be the talk of the media, earn him Most Cavalier ribbons, and exude collective vomit from anyone possessing a soul. The most recent: That he has no regrets.
You’ll find that gem in today’s paper, on page 71-Z.  On returning to private life, the new Butcher of Baghdad was brazen, as usual, stating, “When I get home tonight and look in the mirror, I am not going to regret what I see. Except maybe some gray hair.”  Yeah, hilarious.

That the MSM basically ignores this amazing proclamation is disgusting. The pundits seem to revere his deceit, and his brash refusal to apologize for mistakes that cost countless lives, many of them American.

“He kept us safe,” they parrot, from either of their several faces.

What is safe about a foreign policy that clones terrorists, turns friends to enemies, and exports hatred, is not clear.

“We haven’t been attacked again,” supporters mutter sheepishly, only fairly certain they repeated correctly the line they heard on Hannity, Limbaugh, or one of the other apologist shows.  Except that we have.  Bin Laden has stated that he is delighted by our military’s proximity to him and his gang.  Iraqis have found common ground with Al Queida, and “insurgents” and terrorists alike can kill Americans without too much trouble; without traversing an ocean, or spending millions of dollars and years of time to finance and plan the deaths of “infidels.”  And they applaud the safety success of the man without regret.

Wars aside he and his Republican congress have spent us to the breaking point, growing government, expanding socialism, broadening the rot of education with more Washington, and more tax dollars.  The man made criminals out of sick people, terrorists out of dissenters, and a mockery of Constitutional government.  He gleefully shredded the Constitution and snarled “9/11″ at anyone who objected. He behaved most often as a dictator, rather than a President.  He was “the decider,” after all.

The man who once boasted that the country had misunderestimated him was exactly right.  We did.  Who could have predicted this agrammaticist’s prophecy?  Who would have imagined the man who campaigned on a “judicious use of our military,” and a humble foreign policy free of nation building, would have propped up houses of state on a foundation of innocent corpses?

Documented civilian deaths approach 100,000 in Iraq alone.

Add 28,000 for Afghanistan.

The AP counts American military deaths in at 4,227.
There is no accounting for reputation points lost, but the number would be staggering.  Neither is thee a counter for infidelity shown to the Constitution, the same Mr. Bush swore to uphold.

Hands dripping with blood, he has passed the torch, and returned to private life, apparently without regret.
If the worst Mr. Bush sees is some gray hair, there must be a magical mirror in the bathroom at Crawford. Many of us see a beast; a murderous thug and tyrant who spent almost eight years waging a horrific war against peace and freedom.

A nagging sense of moral justice forces one to wonder about the contents of his medicine cabinet.

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*antinomian / an tee NOME ee an/ n • A person who believes that faith in Christ frees him or her from moral and legal obligations.

–Another amazing word from Depraved and Insulting English by Peter Novobatzky and Ammo Shea

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