George W. Bush doesn’t deserve the media’s efforts at rehabilitation

Date: February 27, 2018Author: Coddingtons Corner

BY JAMES BOVARD, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 02/15/18

“Our democracy is only as good as people trust the results,” former President George W. Bush declared in a presumably well-paid speech last week in the United Arab Emirates, a notorious Arab dictatorship. Bush is being exalted as if he is the second coming of George Washington thanks to his implied slams against the Trump administration. But Bush’s actions during his eight year reign did far more to ravage democracy at home and abroad than most people realize.