Columnist slams Bush administration for failure

Walter Williams, a guest columnist in today's Seattle P-I, blasts the Bush administration for its terrible failure of leadership during the past four years. He begins with a strong thesis stating the extent of this administration's failure:

During his first term, George W. Bush has inflicted more damage on the nation's people than any other president in the post-World War II era. Not only has the Bush administration failed, it has been far and away the most dangerous presidency in this period.

Williams is adept at comparing Bush to a CEO whose primary concern is to sell a product rather than ensure customer satisfaction:

Lawless behavior won the day, with the [Medicare] legislation acclaimed as a great triumph for the president. Deception became the administration's primary weapon.

Williams rightly asserts that the administration failed to pay attention to more dangerous threats than Iraq - particularly al Qaeda, North Korea, and Iran.

Invading Iraq was a questionable call from the beginning because that country had become a mere shell after the Gulf War. In contrast, North Korea and Iran, the other two members of the president's "axis of evil," posed much greater nuclear threats. Even more incomprehensibly, the administration turned its attention away from Afghanistan before capturing Osama bin Laden, the architect of 9/11.

Read Williams' full column in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Focus.