Perhaps Elliot Spitzer was really sorry for having sex with a prostitute from the Emperor’s Club, but he failed the I’m sorry Test. Why? For two reasons. Because it wasn’t Spitzer’s turn to apologize and his apology was mis-directed.
It was George W. Bush’s turn to apologize, I’m fairly certain. Why do I write this? Because Bush has done each of the following:
- Plunged the U.S. into armed combat and an extended occupation of Iraq based on numerous lies.
- Mismanaged the medical treatment of veterans at Walter Reed.
- Mishandled Plamegate (Chief of Staff to the Vice President was convicted of perjury).
- Mishandled Iraq (assuming that we should have been there at all), due to lack of preparation for occupation, looting, including the National Museum, too few troops, lack of training, lack of equipment, lack of securing loose Iraqi munitions, disbanding the Iraqi army . . .
- Invited no bid contracts in Iraq, including to Halliburton and companies that provide mercenaries with little or no accountability.
- Encouraged torture, indefinite detention, the end of habeas corpus, and kangaroo courts.
- Mishandled the political firing of US attorneys.
- “Heck of a job, Brownie,”
- Authorized warrantless NSA wiretapping in October 2001.
- Allowed extraordinary rendition to facilitate interrogation by torture
- Maintained cozy corrupt relationships with K Street Lobbyists.
- Allowed Cheney’s Energy Policy and refused to divulge the oil industry participation.
- Encouraged financially irresponsible cuts for the wealthiest, big corporations.
- Denied of Global warming and its human causes.
- Attempted to disband the 911 Commission.
- Damaged to
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