So when the New York Times gets it's wish, and the Patriot Act is discarded, and the eavesdropping on terrorist phone calls program is stopped, and taxes are raised to old Soviet Socialist Republic levels, and terrorists who are back in circulation in the world because Barack Obama closed Guantanamo Bay begin bombing American citizens on American soil, all of which will take about a year or so to accomplish, none of the horrifying consequences will be George Bush's "fault".
It will all be on Obama, and his failed, Clinton administration retreads, and all the dumb, deluded fools who put these people in office.
What will the Times do then?
They'll blame Bush, because it worked then, and it will work again. See "George Orwell."
Mark