Thanks for reading and this thoughtful response. While I agree that returning some civility between people with opposing views is urgently needed, I'll never regard Bush as anything but a war criminal who used 9/11 to illegally invade a country that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks.

Nor do I agree that past presidents have represented the nation well. This country is well on its way to becoming a pariah state and understandably so when we look at our history of violence around the world.

Now we will reap what we have sown.