Today, G. Gordon Liddy said that "those in the news media ... would rather the United States lose a war than have history write that George W. Bush was a successful president."
So I got to thinkin. What WOULD have to be true for "history [to] write that George W. Bush was a successful president."?
So writing in the present as if describing a different past, I began this exercise in sophistry (a word I stole from LaRouche's most recent EIR. He had a spare one)
and ran out of steam. I hope my fellow sophists will offer their own fantasy wishes for the president.
The following would have to be true.
On Iraq:
1. Saddam supported and financed bin Laden.
2. Saddam had WMD
3. Rumsfeld was a military and diplomatic genius backed by the international community.
4. US troops were greeted with flowers and kisses in Baghdad
5. Post invasion planning was flawless. We transferred command over the Iraqi army to benevolent intermin leaders and then to democratically elected ones. Electrical and water services are at new highs since the invasion, the oil is flowing and the economy thriving.
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