Here’s Bob Herbert, writing in today’s Times (Op-Ed Columnist – Add Up the Damage – NYTimes.com):
When Mr. Bush officially takes his leave in three weeks (in reality, he checked out long ago), most Americans will be content to sigh good riddance. I disagree. I don’t think he should be allowed to slip quietly out of town. There should be a great hue and cry — a loud, collective angry howl, demonstrations with signs and bullhorns and fiery speeches — over the damage he’s done to this country.
I don’t whether magnaminity and forebearance should be the order of the day as we put the past behind us and march in the future’s “broad, sunlit uplands” (as Winston Churchill was fond of saying), or should we put on a green eyeshade and total the many and various ways Bush has damaged and sullied America, if only for the simple pleasure of saying “we told you so”? Personally, I’m torn.