[news] Grading Bush's Big History Speech

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Paul Street

As a onetime history teacher, I have an odd habit developed over many hours of grading. I often mark up things I read, adding commentary in the margins. The commentary is generally addressed to the author by first name.

Yesterday, I read former Yale history major and current day messianic militarist George W. Bush’s recent speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Kansas City, Mo. In this disturbing oration, the United States' "Worst President Ever" (according to distinguished U.S. historian Eric Foner) attempted to make an historical case for continuing the criminal United States occupation of Iraq .

  


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