An Exit Toward Soul-Searching-As Bush Staffers Leave, Questions About Legacy Abound

[RamboLiberal]

It had been four days since Meghan O'Sullivan left her job at the White House. Just four days since she gave up her Secret Service pass, her classified hard drive and her entree to the president. Four days since she gave up any day-to-day responsibility for Iraq.

Too soon, evidently, for the dreams to end. "In fact, I was dreaming about Iraq last night," she said. "And I woke up and thought, 'When do you think this will stop?' "

As President Bush's top Iraq adviser while the war sank into an abyss over the past few years, O'Sullivan lived it every waking hour -- and many of the sleeping ones. The dreams came every night, often prosaic, sometimes straight out of a war movie, filled with violence and menace. It was, she said, "all consuming."

Now she has left a White House under siege, part of a parade of longtime aides who have headed for the door in recent months exhausted, sometimes discouraged and wrestling with the legacy of their experience. Karl Rove feels guilty for leaving in a time of war, yet he wants to reinvent himself as more than simply "the Bush guy." Peter H. Wehner rues lost friendships with those estranged by the war. Dan Bartlett is relieved to shed the burden of worrying that any day could bring another terrorist attack.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/06/AR2007100601521.html?hpid=topnews

Sigh...wish working for Bush on your resume would doom you all to never getting another job, or book deal, or think tank gig...but I know it won't. In fact all you jerks will just prosper!

[LakeSamish706]

1. My only hope is that there will be a time of reckoning for these people...

Either here or the here after, but a time!

[kurth]

2. WHAT SOUL?

[Turbineguy]

3. "He was the worst

President ever, and I helped!"

[Itchinjim]

4. Legacy?

This is W's legacy;
The worst President in American history.
Stupid Motherfucker.

[NYC]

5. You left out

warmonger.

[pscot]

6. It's called post traumatic stress syndrome

and I hope her dreams never stop coming.

[grasswire]

7. President Bush's top Iraq adviser ??

And what are her qualifications for that? Did she graduate from Liberty University?

Really! Who is she?

[othermeans]

15. Aide to Senator Patrick Moynahan, Georgetown graduate, fellow at the Brookings

Institute, PhD from Oxford. Corporate democrat just like Hillary and Feinstein.

[eleny]

8. Like Mike Malloy says about these people...

There's demons in hell waiting to play soccer with her head.

[splat]

9. Unconscious slip

"In fact, I was dreaming about Iraq last night," she said. "And I woke up and thought, 'When do you think this will stop?' "

That's what we're all wondering.

[eppur_se_muova]

10. They can stop searching -- they won't find one.

Lack of a soul is a job requirement for being a Bu**sh**co vassal.

[JohnyCanuck]

11. So they helped the Boy Blunder break Humpty Dumpty

and now they've realized that what they learned in Kindergarten is true, "all the king's horses and all the king's men can't put Humpty Dumpty together again." Dick and Dubya prefer to look on the bright side, however, and its well known Humpty Dumpty owned a lot of oil which is now there for the taking by anyone strong enough to grab it.

[Hand]

12. ...

:nopity:

Also:

[hatrack]

13. May satanic army ants eat her soul

She has earned it.

[Lautremont]

14. Those people are all so incredibly clueless.

I'm still shaking my head over Rove looking forward to the day when he's no longer thought of as "That Bush guy." Buddy, that's your horse collar for life. You could eat fifteen babies next week or in twenty years, Rove, and the headline would read "Bush Guy Commits Multiple Baby Eating." The sub-headline? Probably something like "Saw Gruesome Act As Merely Reasonable Extension Of Policy Advanced During Bush Years."