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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/15/georgebush.usaAsked what he thinks his legacy might be, he says he is happy to await the verdict of history. But he cannot resist also offering his own, suggesting 'the liberation of 50 million people from the clutches of barbaric regimes is noteworthy, at a minimum'.
To make a statement like this, one has to wonder if Bush is off his medication, taking way too much, or has just decided that somehow continuing to lie to the American people and the world just might serve to make the lie true.
His "legacy" will be the deaths of over one million Iraqis, and thousands of Afghanis.
Many others in both countries have had to flee for fear of their lives due to sectarian strife.
Practically everything in both Iraq and Afghanistan is broken, the water and sewage systems, the hospitals, and the schools.
Iraqi women have had to revert to wearing the full burka, because if they don't they will be assassinated by religious zealots.
The no-bid alleged "reconstruction projects" have been an absolutely horrendous joke in terms shoddy workmanship that crumbles if you sneeze too hard at a wall.
And of course, the real "gift that has kept on giving", both in Iraq and Afghanistan, has been the use of depleted uranium weapons.
This has caused death and huge numbers of birth defects not only in the people of these countries, but also with our troops and their children.
No matter how he may try to spin it, Bush's "legacy" will be that of a complete absence of moral accountability for the death and destruction his policies have wrought.