It is already a cliche.  Web commenters cannot resist making the joke that the only book you will find in the George W. Bush Presidential Library is “The Pet Goat.”  This is the children’s story that Bush continued to read with a Florida elementary school classroom for several minutes after he was told of the second attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2011.

But this was no joke.  For me, it was only the beginning of the loss of Bush’s credibility as our national leader.  He used the September 11, 2001 attacks to justify his invasion of Iraq, something he clearly had on his agenda the day he took office.  His surrogates delivered “shock and awe” to the Iraqis — in return we got ourselves an eight-year war with nearly 4,500 U.S. deaths and 32,000 U.S. wounded.  Because his focus was elsewhere, it took another administration to find and kill the perpetrator of the original attacks.

There have been and there will be no apologies from George W. Bush.  And there will be none from me, for my disdain of his library and its hollow edifice of respectability.

Barbara Bush said today that “we’ve had enough Bushes” in the White House.  If only she had told her son this 15 years ago.