Bush’s biggest disappointment should have been his choice to run for President. He probably foresaw a 1990s sort of world or his time in Texas, where being a “uniter” meant dealing with conservative Democrats and the like.

I sort of wonder if he really would have wanted the job given the events that transpired. Cheney? Sure. I can see him thriving in such an atmosphere. Bush? Not so sure about that.

“If George Bush were honest (stop laughing!), he would admit his biggest regret (and that’s saying something) was to have catastrophically botched the chance to prevent 9/11 in the first place.”

No, if Bush were honest he’d admit that 9-11 was the best thing that happened during his presidency. It allowed him to invade Afghanistan to secure desired oil pipelines and to invade Iraq, to secure control over Iraqi oil fields.

9-11 gave him the excuse to gut our Constitution and assume virtually monarchical powers.

The Bush-Cheney administration studiously refused to heed the warnings from the CIA and FBI about critical terrorist threats to the U.S. between February and September, 2001 because they wanted a terrorist attack to justify their war for oil plans.

Bush-Cheney also studiously avoided actually capturing or killing Bin Laden after 9-11, because Bin Laden provided a continuing excuse to keep their profitable “war on terror” going.

The “War on Terror” is the biggest con game in world history and we are all its victims.

Bush’s regret timeline should start in the months and days before 9/11, when good intelligence was presented to him on a silver platter. That was the intelligence he should not have ignored, didn’t need to twist, about a threat he didn’t have to fabricate, intelligence provided by professionals who didn’t have the neocons’ delusion of world domination.

This was so monumental a failure, one with such disastrous, far-reaching and complex consequences, and revelatory of an incomprehensible level of incompetence, that it will be assigned to him forever in history, probably to rank with James Buchanan’s dismal acquiescence to secession, the idiotic invasions of Russia by Napoleon and Hitler, and surely above Herbert Hoover’s failure to deal with the Great Depression.

…and wouldn’t we all be living in a very different world if George Bush hadn’t failed so spectacularly? That thought has the power to render what happened to Americans and Iraqis an even greater tragedy, because of what might have been if not for this one man’s stupidity and weakness while in the possession of enormous power.