Bush’s place in history hangs on crisis in Iraq
President George W. Bush’s place in history — standard-bearer or war-mongerer — is being decided perhaps at this moment in Iraq, three years after the US-led invasion. If Iraq sinks into civil war Bush will find himself in the US presidents gallery not alongside Franklin Roosevelt, honored as the victor over Nazi Germany and imperialist Japan, but next to Lyndon Johnson, who was tarnished by the Vietnam War. Full Story