A Letter to Mr. Bush on His Last Day in Office

Dear Mr. Bush,

It goes without saying that your eight years as President have been a complete and utter failure. Years from now, historians will look at your presidency as one of the worst in American history. The only positive aspect of your years in office was that your incompetence inspired millions of people to unite and elect a President who actually seems to have compassion for the American people and good ideas for how to fix this country's problems.

Let's take a few minutes and break down the Bush legacy:

• Launching a woefully mismanaged war based on fabrications and faulty intelligence
• Thousands of dead U.S. soldiers
• Tens of thousands of injured U.S. soldiers
• Hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi civilians
• Turning a triple-digit budget surplus into a triple-digit budget deficit
• Financial deregulation policies leading up to America's worst economic crisis since the Great Depression
• The systematic disenfranchisement of thousands of eligible voters
• An education policy that actually reduces funding for the school and students that need the most help
• The rollback of environmental regulations and protections
• A failed attempt to privatize the country's Social Security system
• Planting administration spokespersons within the media to drum up support for administrative policies
• Awarding no-bid contracts to defense contractors with ties to administration officials
• A lack of funding for veterans' benefits, armor for troops, and other critical military expenditures
• Spying on American citizens through warrantless wiretaps
• An unprecedented level of secrecy and dishonesty with the American public
• A culture of corruption, immortalized by crooked politicians and lobbyists like Jack Abramoff, Duke Cunningham, Tom Delay, and several others
• The abolition of habeas corpus
• The destruction of America's moral standing in the world
• Torture
  
• Failure to act while millions lost their jobs
  
• Failure to act while millions lost their homes
  
• Failure to act while gas prices tripled and oil companies posted record profits
  
• Failure to act while people were stranded and drowning in New Orleans
  
• Failure to act on pre-9/11 intelligence
  
• Failure to capture Osama Bin Laden
  
• The lowest measured Presidential approval rating of all time
  

Clearly, your track record is something that only Nixon and Reagan could be proud of. I can only take consolation in the fact that before long, you'll be joining the two of them in hell.

Fuck you.

Love,
Colin