BUSH AND HISTORY

I wrote below about how fanatics justify terrible crimes because they believe that History will justify their actions so we can't make any judgments NOW. Pres. Fredo had the same outlook a few years ago:

Woodward Shares War Secrets
Journalist Describes Secret Details On White House's Plans For War
April 18, 2004


“After the second interview with him on Dec. 11, we got up and walked over to one of the doors. There are all of these doors in the Oval Office that lead outside. And he had his hands in his pocket, and I just asked, ‘Well, how is history likely to judge your Iraq war,’” says Woodward. “And he said, ‘History,’ and then he took his hands out of his pocket and kind of shrugged and extended his hands as if this is a way off. And then he said, ‘History, we don’t know. We’ll all be dead.’”


And his attitude hasn't changed (Via ThinkProgress):

Poor Bush had a week that reeked

BY THOMAS M. DEFRANK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF
12/10/06

Bush is described by another recent visitor as still resolutely defiant, convinced history will ultimately vindicate him.

"I'll be dead when they get it right," he said during an Oval Office meeting last week.