by Jackson Thoreau, opednews.com
In a relatively recent column in The Washington Post, Columbia University presidential scholar and historian Eric Foner called Bush the worst president in U.S. history. Foner even said Bush was worse than Nixon and comparable to James Polk, who led the U.S. into the unprovoked invasion of Mexico by lying about an “alleged Mexican incursion into the United States.”
“Nixon considered himself above the law,” Dr. Foner wrote. But “Bush has taken this disdain for law even further. He has sought to strip people accused of crimes of rights that date as far back as the Magna Carta in Anglo-American jurisprudence: trial by impartial jury, access to lawyers and knowledge of evidence against them. In dozens of statements when signing legislation, he has asserted the right to ignore the parts of laws with which he disagrees. His administration has adopted policies regarding the treatment of prisoners of war that have disgraced the nation and alienated virtually the entire world. Usually, during wartime, the Supreme Court has refrained from passing judgment on presidential actions related to national defense. The court’s unprecedented rebukes of Bush’s policies on detainees indicate how far the administration has strayed from the rule of law.”
Others have come out saying Bush is the worst president ever. Even someone as mainstream as developer Donald Trump recently said Bush was probably the worst president ever. Even mainstream Republicans like Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel recently said that Bush is “not accountable” and “you might see calls for his impeachment.”
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