When the history of the bush administration is written, the partisan fighting has ceased and historians largely agree on the history making impact of the Bush years 2001-2009, it will go down as one of the 10 worst administrations in history. Not because of the inevitable decline of our leading economic and military position (China is up no matter who is in charge in USA) in the world, but because of the arrogance of Bush and his team and the corrupt way they waged this war from the beginning to the end and the callous disregard they had for executive oversight and pushing executive power beyond the scope of the law.
That's my 4 cents.