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Article: 43, For a Final Time.(Columnist; THE LAST WORD)(George W. Bush's presidency)
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- Newsweek
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- January 26, 2009
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Byline: George F. Will
He takes his leave neither angry nor forlorn but rather with the serenity of someone sustained by a providential sense of history.
As the nation arrives, for the first time since 1825, at the end of consecutive eight-year presidencies, a summing up of the second of them must begin with this fact: Not since Abraham Lincoln's has an administration been so defined by a single subject as George W. Bush's has been by the Iraq War, which the country now thinks was improvidently begun and incompetently conducted. Historical judgments are, however, subject to history's contingencies, and if, a decade hence, Iraq has a nonsectarian regime ...