Setting the Bush Record Straight

As an amateur (very amateur) historian, I am aware that the true impact of a presidency or a prime ministership, both its successes and failures, cannot be known for years, perhaps decades afterward. Those policies may have consequences different than either the president or his detractors anticipated. Would that we could peer into the future!

There's also the standard practice in western democracies of keeping key critical documents under wraps for fifty years or some similar period of time. It is only after those years have passed that historians can get their hands on said documents and do whatever reassessment might seem required.

For these reasons, I've always believed the subsequent assessment of (Dubya) Bush's administration would result in his exoneration. Little did I know it would start so soon, and from an associate of his rival in the 2004 election!

Take a look: Honor Freedom

(h/t Wizbang)