Washington Post Live Online Debate: The Bush Legacy
Rod D. Martin and Robert Bryce debate the Bush legacy from very different points of view.
Online Debate: The Bush Legacy
by Rod D. Martin and Robert Bryce
WashingtonPost.com
September 10, 2004
NOTE: The following text is taken from Robert Bryce's website, the original Washington Post link having expired.
In his new book, Thank You, President Bush: Reflections on the War on Terror, Defense of the Family, and Revival of the Economy, author Rod D. Martin argues that Bush has not only made America safer and stronger, but that he will go down in history as one of our greatest presidents. At the same time Robert Bryce, author of Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America's Superstate, looks at President Bush as an integral part of the Texas oil machine out to enrich both him and his "cronies."
Both Martin and Bryce are online to take your questions and comments on their books, President Bush and politics.
The transcript follows.
Robert Bryce: Hello everyone. First of all, let me say that I think George W. Bush is going to win in November. Since 1994, when I went to Bush's …