Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 8:42 p.m.

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Mirkinson: 'W' goes nowhere, will be forgotten, sucks

Published Friday, October 31, 2008

Just as we get ready to elect a new president, “W” is here to remind us how insane the last eight years have been. Only some of the incredibly eventful Bush presidency is examined in Oliver Stone’s flawed attempt at what, in truth, is impossible: a comprehensive portrait of one of the most important figures of our time. But by omitting so many crucial events, and by failing to reach a decisive conclusion about Bush, Stone hasn’t come close to capturing the historical weight of the Bush period—that feeling that we have been living through a time of awful consequence.

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