Just One Reason He's the Worst Person Who's Ever Lived (There Are Many)

By Zamboni

Seven and a half years on, it's infuriating to see the following headline on the home page of The Washington Post:

"Obama Unveils Plan to Defeat Taliban, al Qaeda."

No, we're not mad at President Obama. It just strikes us that this should have been taken care of a long, long time ago. By somebody named Bush.

You remember him: He was President when America was attacked on September 11, 2001. In fact, just about a month before, when given a Presidential Daily Brief entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Within U.S.," he said to the aide presenting it, "All right, you've covered your ass now." Then he went fishing.

For some reason that we cats will never understand, Bush has always received a pass on this. But if his cavalier attitude toward September 11 beforehand, and his cynical exploitation of it afterward, weren't egregious enough, turning his back on Afghanistan to promote a manufactured invasion of Iraq was even worse.

Remember "smoke 'em out"? Ha. Nearly 3,000 people died on September 11, and the U.S. has lost 4,177 soldiers in Iraq. We wonder how their relatives feel when they recall that Osama bin Laden is still alive and at large.

So now, all these years later, it's President Obama who has to finish the job. Let's hope history doesn't cover George W. Bush's ass on this one.