Editors around the world get in last licks on Dubya

With the last day of the Bush Regime at hand, newspapers around the world are offering up their final verdict on his presidency and no surprise, it's not good. Reuters gathered up a wide sampling under the headline: “Editorials worldwide pillory Bush one final time.” Here are a few quotes from the Reuters article:

“Goodbye to the worst president ever” - Toronto Star
“Bush leaves a country and an economy in tatters” - The Sunday Times of London
“Farewell to a flawed and unpopular commander-in-chief” - Sydney Morning Herald
“Bush led the world's most powerful nation to ruin” - Stern Magazine (Germany)
And finally the Pan-Arab al-Hayat newspaper offered this assessment: “We cried a lot and the joke was on us.”

Meanwhile the website Media Matters debunked a claim that's been being made a lot among Bush's editorial page defenders here in the US and one that even crept into Le Monde’s review of the Bush Administration - that Bush kept America safe from terror attacks after 9/11. Aside from the fact that this ignores that Bush utterly failed to keep us safe before 9/11, the claim is only true if you ignore the anthrax-laced letters that killed five people in late 2001 (after the 9/11 attacks). At the time the FBI called the anthrax letters “the worst biological attacks in US history.”

You can read the whole Media Matters rebuttal here.