Bush says He 'Did Not Sell His Soul for Politics'

When I read this article I didn't know whether to laugh or weep. This pathologically disordered man is COMPLETELY disconnected from reality, it seems. Sociopathic types believe that things are reality "BECAUSE THEY SAY SO." And far too many people fall for this because the abusive type just yells louder or becomes belligerent when they aren't believed.

I tell all the abuse victims I coach, and I have said it here MANY MANY times:

ALWAYS, ALWAYS:
Watch their ACTIONS,
NEVER believe their words!!

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...Says he hopes history sees him as liberator of millions

Bush said that every day during his eight-year presidency he had consulted the Bible.

After two wars, millions dead and the worst financial crisis in a decade, George W. Bush hopes history will see him as a president who liberated millions of people, who worked towards peace and who never sold his soul for political ends.

"I'd like to be a president (known) as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace," Bush said in excerpts of a recent interview released by the White House Friday.

"I would like to be a person remembered as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process. I came to Washington with a set of values, and I'm leaving with the same set of values," he added.

He also said he wanted to be seen as a president who helped individuals, "that rallied people to serve their neighbor; that led an effort to help relieve HIV/AIDS and malaria on places like the continent of Africa; that helped elderly people get prescription drugs and Medicare as a part of the basic package."

Bush added that every day during his eight-year presidency he had consulted the Bible and drawn comfort from his faith.

"I would advise politicians, however, to be careful about faith in the public arena," the U.S. leader said in the interview with his sister Doro Bush Koch recorded as part of an oral history program known as Storycorps.

As his second term in office draws to an end, Bush joked he would miss some of the trappings that come with the presidency such as trips on Air Force One, never being stuck in a traffic jam, and the president's residence at Camp David.

But he said he was glad to be stepping back into the shadows.

"Frankly, I'm not going to miss the limelight all that much. It's been a fabulous experience to be the president ... But it will be nice to see the Klieg lights shift somewhere else."

The interview, which Bush recorded with First Lady Laura Bush, will be stored in the Library of Congress and a museum devoted to the Bush presidency.

No war crimes
In contrast to the president's view that Iraq was liberated, a U.S. soldier who deserted Iraq because he did not want to serve and commit "war crimes" has applied for asylum in Germany.

Andre Shepherd, who served in Iraq between September 2004 and February 2005 where his job was maintaining Apache military helicopters, refused to return there last year from his base in Germany.

The 31-year-old deserted because "he does not want to take part in the American war in Iraq, a war that does not conform with international law and because he does not want to be implicated in war crimes," his lawyer Reinhard Marx said.

The lawyer wants to apply for asylum under a European Union directive from April 2004 stipulating that asylum can be granted if the applicant has to take part in a conflict and commit a "crime against peace, a war crime or a crime against humanity," Marx said.

If the application is unsuccessful Shepherd faces extradition and imprisonment in the United States, the lawyer added.

Bush denies he is an "enemy of Islam."

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