Dubya's $500 million presidential library opens soon and its purpose
seems to be to rewrite history.

"... Bush has a plan to distract everyone from the more negative aspects
of his legacy. As one Bush acquaintance told the National Journal, “He’s
convinced his achievement in keeping the country safe after 9/11 will
get the attention it deserves as the years roll on,” which is why the
library’s signature exhibit will be “a 17-foot, two-ton twisted piece of
steel from the World Trade Center.” (It’s a strange quirk of historical
memory–almost a form of intellectual jujitsu–that Bush has successfully
branded himself as the leader who kept us safe, when in fact he’s the
president who disregarded an August 2001 memo warning that Osama bin
Laden was planning an attack on America.)

It’s not the first time Bush has used 9/11 imagery for his political
gain. He outraged 9/11 widows and firefighters in 2004 when he ran a
campaign ad with 9/11 pictures.

“It looks like a theme park as much as it is a library,” according to
Lou Dubose, co-author of “Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush’s
America.” Dubose points out the library also includes freedom tower, a
freedom plaza, a decision points library, the bullhorn Bush used to talk
to first responders from ground zero, and even Saddam Hussein’s pistol.

“It’s kind of a parentheses around one of the greatest foreign policy
blunders in our country’s history and they’re pretty shameless about it.”

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