Saturday, June 14, 2008

"Bring Me a Shrubbery": No Reflection on the Bush Legacy


This appeared today in an article on the "Question of Bush's Legacy" in the New York Times by Steven Lee Meyers today:

Legacy is a word over which Mr. Bush's aides profess not to dwell, and the president himself seems averse to reflection. "The president does not have second thoughts," his press secretary, Dana Perino, once said.



Photograph by David H. Brown. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The huge billboard, one of several, stands outside the United States Interests Section in Havana. The zone has become a forum for criticism of U.S. policy toward Cuba. For political effect, the billboard presents a fictional drama called "The Assassin," starring Luis Posada Carilles and George W. Bush. The CIA-trained anti-Castro Cuban Posada Carilles is wanted in the 1976 bombing of a Cubana Airlines plane that killed 73 people. Cuba accuses the U.S. of protecting a terrorist against extradition to Venezuela for trial, as Venezuelans were among the passengers killed on the flight. The United States is opposed to the politics of Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, particularly his close relationship with Cuba.

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