Amon the Top 43 Appointees Who Helped Make Bush The Worst President Ever....

For a full list of the Criminals & dilettante go to ThinkProgress, here

1. Dick Cheney — Until he got the job, people used to actually think it was a bad thing that the vice presidency has historically been a do-nothing position. .

4. Donald Rumsfeld — grossly misjudged and mishandled its aftermath. Rumsfeld is also responsible for authorizing the use of torture against terror detainees in U.S. custody;

6. Paul Wolfowitz — one of the primary architects of the Iraq war, arguing for the invasion as early as Sept. 15, 2001

9. Douglas Feith — headed up the notorious Office of Special Plans, an in-house Pentagon
intelligence shop devised by Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz to produce intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq.

10. John Bolton — pushed for the U.S. to disengage from the International Criminal Court ....Today, he spends his time calling for war with Iran.

15. L. Paul Bremer — This Presidential Medal of Freedom winner ...overestimated the strength of the new U.S.-trained Iraqi army, disbanded the Iraqi army leaving thousands of Iraqi soldiers with no income and no occupation, and enacted a de-Baathification law

18. Condoleezza Rice — strong advocate for invading Iraq, once famously warning that the U.S. should attack Iraq and not wait for solid proof of its WMD because “we don’t want the smoking gun

19. Scooter Libby — ..outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame as part of the Bush administration’s quest to punish Plame’s husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, ... was ultimately convicted of perjury and obstructing justice commuted by Bush.

28. Tommy Franks — assumed that the U.S. would draw down to 25,000 troops by the end of 2004, and had American soldiers stand idly by as chaos and lawlessness took hold after the invasion.

34. William Luti —...underneath Feith .... support his boss’s belief in conspiracy theories
linking Saddam to al Qaeda. Luti was an integral component of Cheney’s campaign to pressure intelligence professionals to conform their judgments to administration policy rather than reality.

37. Elliott Abrams — An Iran-Contra convict pardoned by Bush 41,... founding Israel’s 2006 bombing of Lebanon into Syria and advocated a Fatah coup after Hamas won the February 2006 Palestinian elections.

39. Colin Powell — Powell placed an ugly “blot” on his record when he pushed the Bush administration’s faulty case for the Iraq war in a speech to the U.N. on Feb.5, 2003,