The Historical Record of the U.S. Empire

Posted at 10:49 am on Wednesday, October 17, 2007, in Uncategorized, and tagged bush, iraq.

I listened to the first part of Bush’s press conference on may way into work this morning (oh, to live-blog), his prepared statement — an attack on Congress, the likes I have never seen in my lifetime (even when Clinton was being persecuted for sexual indiscretions) — and a few of the questions (way to attack, Mr. Gregory). What caught my ear was this comment by Bush: “One thing Congress should not be doing is sorting out the historical record of the Ottoman Empire.“

I immediately shifted myself forward one hundred years, to the debate in the British House of Commons on the topic of, what-else, the western conquest of the Middle East, and the British Prime Minister making the statement, “The one thing the Commons should not be doing is sorting out the historical record of the U.S. Empire.”

Oh, woe is us, living the legacy of George W. Bush.

Please note, I am not alleging that the U.S. is partaking in or involved with any genocide in Iraq, or elsewhere, only that the sitting U.S. president is the worst in modern history, and that the fate of the U.S. image, at home and abroad, is in peril.

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