George W. Bush Makes Last-Ditch Effort to Improve His Legacy
January 8, 2009 · Print This Article
President (for a little while longer) George W. Bush has established three marine monuments in the Pacific Ocean in what’s being hailed as the largest marine conservation effort in history. This is on the heels of recent actions taken by Bush against the environment including approving gas drilling in Montana, selling off scenic parcels of land to oil companies in Utah and making it easier for forests to be converted into suburban housing divisions.
The three areas to be protected total over 195,000 square miles including the Mariana Trench and the waters and coral surrounding three uninhabited islands in the Northern Mariana Islands, Rose Atoll in American Samoa and seven islands along the equator.
From The Huffington Post:
Each location harbors unique species and some of the rarest geological formations on Earth _ from the world’s largest land crab to a bird that incubates its eggs in the heat of underwater volcanoes.
All will be protected as national monuments _ the same status afforded to statues and cultural sites _ under the 1906 Antiquities Act. The law allows the government to immediately phase out commercial fishing and other extractive uses.
However, recreational fishing, tourism and scientific research with a federal permit could still occur inside the three areas. The designations will also not conflict with U.S. military activities or freedom of navigation, White House officials said.
“These locations are truly among the last pristine areas in the marine environment on Earth,” said James Connaughton, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, who added the resources the administration wanted preserved would be fully protected.
Bush has never cared about the environment, and he doesn’t now. Undoubtedly, designating these areas as national monuments doesn’t harm any of the corporations that he’s such good friends with, so he figured it wouldn’t hurt.
Sorry Dubya, but this act isn’t going to erase your many sins and missteps in the minds of the people. It simply comes off as a last revisionist act in the hopes of rescuing your reputation, which has lain in the gutter for many years now.
Link [The Huffington Post]
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The Legacy of George W Bush, A Collection of Conflicting Opinions
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The debate over George W Bush is probably the most visceral debate of our century. There often seems to be no in
between. Folks either love him or hate him. As we approach the inauguration of Barrack Obama, the internet has
been bombarded with opinions ranging from one extreme to the other. In this book is a collection of dialog from all
over the world and every walk of life. In an eight hour period of time just prior to GWB stepping out of the White
House, one that that rings true is that we live in an amazing country just to be able to have this conversation.
Can a man’s legacy be drawn from an eight year period in time? What kind of a footprint has GWB left on the
American people, or the world for that matter? Has he served his country well by protecting us from terrorism, or has
a alienated America from the rest of the world. What role did Christianity play under the leadership of George W
Bush? Has he acted as a Christian in his role as President of the United States, or has he misused the Bible as a
means of procuring votes and evoking war? Was the rebuilding of Iraq set in motion years before the Twin Towers
tragedy, or was this a rapid decision based on an emergent circumstance? Did Iraq have
weapons of mass destruction, or should we have been focusing on catching Bin Ladin? What about North Korea and
Proliferation of nukes in Iran? Was there miscommunication between the CIA and the FBI and why was Home Land
Security restructured as it was? Were our civil rights violated by the Echelon Program? The list of questions will go
on for an eternity and there will probably be more theories about the Bush Administration than the JFK assassination
and the Watergate Scandal combined.
I have tried to keep this debate as original as possible. That includes errors in grammar, punctuation and spelling. I
have also tried to collect them in a somewhat chronological method in order to keep a level playing field. I have
simply collected publicly posted comments of others from open sources with no expectation of privacy or
concealment. This is simply a collection of what others have had to say. I have tried to eliminate
personal attack between the folks debating (or at least leaving out what I thought may be real names of folks) Some
of the statements are redundant, just as they came down the pipeline. What ever your opinion of George W Bush Is….
This is a compelling, and somewhat disturbing read.