George W Bush and the Death of Irony

Comes word in today's local rag that ex-jefe G W "Mission Accomplished" Bush has refused to attend a "Global Leadership Summit" organized for Denver, where he was presumably going to try to look presentable and not mention the debacle that was his regime. But the reasons given for Bush's refusal to attend the event are themselves priceless and further attest to the role of this man in the Death of Irony. His reasons are: he doesn't want to share a forum with the WikiLeaks guy, a man who has, according to a Bush stooge, "willfully and repeatedly caused great harm to the interests of the United States."
Now, Ned would like to ask his friends to try to think of an American of recent memory who has done more to "willfully and repeatedly cause great harm to the United States" than George Bush himself. He was the architect of the Iraq invasion, costing upwards of a trillion dollars and a hundred thousand lives, many of them innocent and many of them continuing to this day. The invasion is universally acknowledged to have been based on fraudulent evidence much of it concocted and manipulated by Bush and his henchmen, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Condolleezzzza Rice. Not content with that, which should have been enough to guarantee any man a unique place in history, he went on to preside over the worst economic debacle since the Great Depression, itself costing more than a trillion dollars and leading to millions of lives ruined through unemployment and disgrace, but, not of course to any prosecutions of any of Bush's Sneering Plutocrat friends. As if that weren't enough, he turned a trillion dollar federal surplus into a colossal deficit through ruinous tax cuts for billionaires and millionaires. And finally, he tried his damndest to bankrupt Medicare by pushing through a "Prescription Drug Benefit" which was not paid for, and which enriched his lickspittles and rentboys of the "health care" industry.
So, Ned concludes we can simply declare irony to be dead and buried, since who needs it as we have the continuing saga of George W Bush, nearly universally acknowledged to be the worst president in history, to console ourselves with.