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To: jlallen who wrote (447709)	1/15/2009 10:56:36 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1574989

What a fantastic article. It really gets to the issue of the way true history is told -- devoid of political bias, after the outcomes of far-reaching decisions are known, with an ice-cold look at events and actions. History isn't written by contemporaries who are all juiced up about events of the day. While Woodward's books will form an important part of the basis of the history of "Bush at War", the political bias will be carefully excised by the passage of time. Douglas Brinkley's otherwise excellent account of the events surrounding Katrina will be cleansed of liberal bias leaving only the facts -- that Katrina was not a federal failure at all, rather, it was an abject failure at the state and local levels. A person really cannot negative judge Bush's legacy until he knows what happened 10, 20, 30 years after the fact. Did Bush's invasion of Iraq actually change the ME for the better (as rational people have anticipated it will)? Did it lead to a reduction in the threat of further terrorist attacks against America? Did subsequent relaxation of the infrastructure Bush put in place result in further attacks on American soil? A person has to really work hard to get rid of the bias that is baked in by the liberal media, the ignorant, and the Left Wing Lunatics we encounter daily. I think this is the reason David McCollough is the best historian alive today. If you look at what he writes about, the most recent stuff you find tends to be at least 50 years ago, by which time politics has begun to settle out and the true "history" is starting to be known.

To: jlallen who wrote (447709)	1/17/2009 1:41:36 AM
From: RMF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574989

That's ALL BS!!! The FIRST attack on our soil occurred in 1993. There wasn't another until 2001. The attack in 1993 was pretty simple, just as the attack in 2001 was. The attack in 1993 would have killed MORE people than the one in 2001 if it had been more efficient. Bush has GOADED Iran and N. Korea to build Nukes. They're BOTH more dangerous by far than when he came in. Bush has created a Shiite State in Iraq which will always be in more sympathy with Iran than us. Bush turned a SMALL group of al Queada in Afghanistan into a LARGE group of al Queada in Pakistan and the rest of the Muslim world.