The lovable war criminal

This week, we watched the two-2 hour series of PBS “American Experience”, about the presidency of George W. Bush.

Always historic in nature and in the treatment of its subject matter, this TV show is of excellent quality and well produced.

It showed basically how an incompetent, sheltered son, rose to the gubernatorial seat of Texas, before becoming a two-term president of the United States.

It also showed how his unpreparedness and ego drove the country into a wasteful war in Iraq and a bunch of other bad decisions he made during the eight years of his fateful presidency.

At times, the piece asserted that Bush was a smart person, but failed to show that the Iraq adventure cost half-a-millions lives among the citizens of that country, plus the death of close to 4,000 American and more that 30,000 wounded among them.

The Iraqi carnage is enough to elevate Mr. Bush to the status of war criminal, even though he seems to be much congenial than the likes of Pol-Pot, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, and appears sociable enough to have a beer with.

The other problem with that is that after getting treated, he’s now a teetotaler...