First lady Laura Bush says she disagrees with critics who say her husband's presidency was a failure.
In an interview aired Sunday on Fox News Sunday, Mrs. Bush says she knows her husband's eight years in office was not a failure, and says she doesn't feel as if she needs to respond to people who view it that way.
She says history will judge the two-term presidency of George W. Bush.
Mrs. Bush notes that under her husband's watch, the nation has been kept safe from attack since Sept. 11 and that his administration toppled Saddam Hussein and liberated millions of people in Afghanistan and Iraq from oppressive governments. She also talked of her husband's work to provide treatment for disease to millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa.
He failed to convince us of his "compassionate conservatism"--or any sense of a conservative agenda, for that matter--by allowing the continued incarceration of U.S. Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean.
He failed to "harmonize" us into the New World Order, by shotgun marriage to Mexico and Canada--behind closed doors.
He failed to dissolve the United States of America into the NAU. Thank God for this failure!
He failed to exact terms of surrender from Mexico in this Second Mexican War.
He failed as "War President," because of tunnel vision. He could not multi-task as air traffic controller for the nation.
He failed to counter the trade war coming from Red China. He failed to fathom the many faces of war, as he was distracted by the matador's cape of Iraq. His foreign policy resembled a bull in a china shop.
He failed to tell the Mexican pip-squeak president to shut-up, and also to inform Felipe Calderon that Mexican territory ends at the border.
He pandered to Mexican invaders and big business, by adopting the supranational paradigm of David Rockefeller, at the expense of the American worker.
He failed to restore American industry to the homeland, but chose instead to engage in pernicious free trade, and open borders, during a time of war for our national survival.
He imported Iraqi nationals by the thousands into the United States--17,000 this year alone--as testament to his utter failure to secure that country for the safety of its citizens.
He failed to serve the American people as an equal, but chose instead to lecture us, as if we were children, accusing us of being "addicted to oil." Our "consent" for his overlordship was "implied."
He failed to perceive the Constitution as the supreme law of the land, but chose instead to regard it as a mere scrap of paper--and inconvenience at best-- to be damned and dispensed with at will.
He failed to acknowledge that the people rule, as he dubbed himself the "Decider."
He showed brilliance and leadership on many fronts, such as attending the Beijing Olympics, as an act of true diplomacy and respect for the Chinese people--even after they threatened to nuke us!
He saved the American auto industry. For that, he deserves great credit and gratitude.
This one act alone is his salvation, and worthy of a presidential legacy.
He succeeded in triggering the Second American Revolution, with his Mad Hatter policies.