As Obama slips, history looks more kindly on George W. Bush

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A rain of abuse poured forth on the author of the war in Iraq on its 10th anniversary, and most of it from his own side.

Pundits fretted about how to purge his dark shadow. He was the mad aunt in the attic, the next Herbert Hoover, the blot that had to be scourged from the party’s escutcheon before it could start to rebound.

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