George W. Bush looks to the future
I read this article at The New York Times (reg. req'd) on Sunday morning and it upset me so much that I knew I'd have to do a post on it. I showed it to a couple of friends and got similar reactions. Author Robert Draper was given rare access to the president and his inner circle for a book that I can only assume the White House thought would be sympathetic. So then the question becomes are they so out of touch that they think this is a sympathetic characterization?:
(I)n an interview with a book author in the Oval Office one day last December, he daydreamed about the next phase of his life, when his time will be his own.
First, Mr. Bush said, "I'll give some speeches, just to replenish the ol' coffers." With assets that have been estimated as high as nearly $21 million, Mr. Bush added, "I don't know what my dad gets - it's more than 50-75" thousand dollars a speech, and "Clinton's making a lot of money."
Then he said, "We'll have a nice place in Dallas," where he will be running what he called "a fantastic Freedom Institute" promoting democracy around the world. But he added, "I can just envision getting in the car, getting bored, going down to the ranch."
or this:
(F)ully aware of his standing in opinion polls, Mr. Bush said his top commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, would perhaps do a better job selling progress to the American people than he could.
The presidency of the United States as a used car dealership. And that's just in the first six paragraphs. The entire article is filled with contradictory statements by Bush, often made in succession. A major (and rare, if not singular) concession by Bush is buried deep in the article, and thrown out almost as an aside:
Mr. Bush acknowledged one major failing of the early occupation of Iraq when he said of disbanding the Saddam Hussein-era military, "The policy was to keep the army intact; didn't happen."
But when Mr. Draper pointed out that Mr. Bush's former Iraq administrator, L. Paul Bremer III, had gone ahead and forced the army's dissolution and then asked Mr. Bush how he reacted to that, Mr. Bush said, "Yeah, I can't remember, I'm sure I said, ‘This is the policy, what happened?' " But, he added, "Again, Hadley's got notes on all of this stuff," referring to Stephen J. Hadley, his national security adviser.
Given such a violation of policy resulted in untold deaths of American troops and Iraqi civilians and well as make it so much more difficult for his plans to democratize Iraq, is it too much to expect him to remember what happened?
No More Mister Nice Blog and PERRspectives have their own takes on the article as well.
it wasn't the disbanding of the army that resulted in the untold deaths of american troops, it was the entire war in the first place.
What a crass dunce Bush is.
There must be something in the
Roach MotelWhite House kool-aid. Look at all the early-onset Alzheimer's in that place.won't he be surprised when he's looking out of cell window at the hague after he does a stint at GITMO
If he and members of his administration are not immediately tried for war crimes, the Hague will cease to be relevant.
wait...wait...don't tell me. he's going to go on vacation first, right?
Don't ask an obtuse sociopath to exhibit any sense of feeling or understanding at the damage he has inflicted. Bush (a) is wholly unaware, and (b) could give a fuck.
“Then he said, “We’ll have a nice place in Dallas,” where he will be running what he called “a fantastic Freedom Institute” promoting democracy around the world.”
What a total fucktard asshat.
Mr. Bush,
Feel free to step down and take the much needed time off now. Seriously,
we can handle things without you. Just be sure to take Cheney with you.
Bush is a freak. Given how bad the truth about him actually is, this authorized, sanitized biography is as good a picture as Draper can paint without sounding totally ludicrous.
So this isn't from the Onion?
So this fucking prick sits in his office daydreaming about what kind of money he's gonna make on the speaking circuit once he's out of office. Really? I wouldn't hire this motherfucker to cut the ribbon on a new car dealership. In those passages Bush comes off as bored, lazy bureaucrat. Then again, I understand that was the same attitude he brought to the office when he was elected Governor of Texas (however, his enthusiasm for the job tended to increase when he was signing prisoners' execution warrants). No wonder Dick Cheney pushed himself into the VP spot. It's a win/win for him: he gets to call all the shots, and this lazy stooge takes all the heat. From now on, I'm just gonna call chimpy President Idontgiveafuck.
A new poll finds that 71 percent of Israelis believe that the United States should launch a military attack on Iran if diplomatic efforts fail to halt Tehran's nuclear program. (AP)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/860903.html
I wonder how many Israelis would like us to wash their windows and take out their garbage?
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"Is it too much to ask him to remember what happened?"- It is not hyperbole to suggest that all the excessive drinking of alcohol done by this war criminal when he was younger has caught up with him. It would also not be too surprising if the best way that he has to cope with all the problems that have enveloped him today is to still seek refuge in a bottle. But that will not provide an answer to the many problems that this country is faced with, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan.
ashabot @ 10:
Remember, this was an (allegedly) ex drug addict/alcoholic who, in his forties, still couldn't figure out what he wanted to do with his life. If people (not the hardcore 28% biblethumping closet cases)had known his true story, I don't think even life long Republicans would have voted for this freak. He remind them too much of their own drug/alcohol addled, underachieving, fuckup sons.
If there is any justice in the world, Bush's post-presidency speaking engagements will be confined to testimony at the Hague.
Why is it seem that only history will punish Busy and Cheney? How unjust and dejecting.
mystic @ 13:
Well, you are already paying for them to enjoy universal healthcare and a generous welfare system.
But when Mr. Draper pointed out that Mr. Bush’s former Iraq administrator, L. Paul Bremer III, had gone ahead and forced the army’s dissolution and then asked Mr. Bush how he reacted to that, Mr. Bush said, “Yeah, I can’t remember, I’m sure I said, ‘This is the policy, what happened?’ ” But, he added, “Again, Hadley’s got notes on all of this stuff,” referring to Stephen J. Hadley, his national security adviser.
I wouldn't count on that. Hadley is the dingleberry that "forgot" that it was in doubt and left the yelowcake uranium part in the State of the Union despite the CIA warnings the claim was false and unsubstantied.
Mr. Hadley told reporters at an unusual 90-minute briefing that he had
apologized to Mr. Bush for the failure, which he blamed on a lapse of memory.
"I should have recalled at the time of the speech that there was
controversy associated with the uranium issue," Mr. Hadley said.
After initially denying that the White House received the warning, Mr.
Hadley admitted that a White House inquiry has discovered he received
two memos and a phone call from Mr. Tenet in October raising objections.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/23/1058853137079.html
First, Mr. Bush said, “I’ll give some speeches, just to replenish the ol’ coffers.”
There you have it. The guy with the nuk-ular launch codes is none other than Boss Hog. This is both shameful and hilarious at the same time.
The only positive thing I can think of about Mr. Bush is what an embarrassment he must be to his mother.
Bush could make a great stand up comedian with his unconscious self-humiliation, he really does not know he is a comic and that is even greater humor.
The whole idea of the International Court in the Hague is that it can apprehend war criminals. So if you're going to commit war crimes, all you have to do is resign your membership and go ahead and commit a holocaust, knowing you have immunity. Wierd.
And the people who will pay to hear him speak are who?
There is a special condo being built in hell for him.
Why on earth would anyone pay that kind of money for Bush to speak? He's not good at it. At all.
It's almost as if English isn't his first language...
So Bush visits Iraq today so that the not so bright in America don't hear about the British getting out of Basra which has been handed over to somebody, but not the
This demystifies Bush - understanding what we're actually dealing with is helpful when you consider the remarkably surreal things he says. It helps to understand the real deficiencies in the mentality and personality of a psychopath and why they're so dangerous.
How we protect ourselves from him and others like him is another problem ~~
What is a Psychopath?
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How about rummys firing done by show of hands? Thats a decider for ya?
This is the three stooges with enough money to have good PR guys. They're incompetent empty suits. Their policies are bankrupt, and could never stand scrutiny. He's vain enough to think that someone could write a book to revise the disaster of his presidency.
We were all looking for insight to the diabolical minds that have been behind this evil doing, and what we get is Curly, Larry and Moe without the humor.
*As to the anecdote about dissolving the Iraqi army, if the policy was not to disband, dont you think a phone call to Bremer by the decider would have undone that pretty quickly??
Renee in Ohio @ 25:
Renee, have you seen this?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pw4Bhmm22xo
"So then the question becomes are they so out of touch that they think this is a sympathetic characterization?" ----> A: Most likely.
In his "fantastic Freedom Institute", I hope he includes the price of freedom: Torture, Abu Grhaib, Gunatanamo, the destruction of a nation, and the list goes on far too long. Feel free to add your own. I certainly won't be visiting anything Bush creates.
As typically Republican, he's already forcasting how much he can make on speaking engagements-- PROFIT (from destruction). I'd pay him to stay out of my town.
Seriously how many people outside of that loyal 28% would pay hard earned money to hear Bush speak?
He is a beaten man and the worst President in our Nations history. The only contribution he will offer to history
in the future is revisionist obfuscation in non-linear, convoluted, gobbletygoop.
"I was bored in the summer of 2001 so I headed off to the ranch for a few months. When i got back to 'work' they made me go read to some children. That bored me so bad i drifted off. Someone whispered something in my ear that coincided with a dream i was having so I took the time to let the dream play out. When I woke up I realized my life might be in danger. While the boredom was gone it occured to me (or someone) that it might be a good idea to get me onboard Air Force One and fly well away from any possible targets (*my minions*)...ah, I mean Al Qaeda might attack.
"For a while this solved my boredom problem because I was able to concoct various ways of diminishing the Constitution and keeping me safe from democracy. I also had a pre-emptive war on Iraq to sell and a war in progress in Afghanistan.
"The problem is the news out of Iraq is the same every day. Very boring. So you can just imagine how excited I am about our upcoming war with Iran. I am thinking about calling it 'Operation Pretzel Logic' because if the people of the United States buys this one then I can do pretty much whatever I want."
Isn't all politics pretty much used car salesmanship? If they can't sell their ideas and get people to vote for them, they're not going to win. We all know they're lying when we elect them.
I still say it's Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome with Bush though. Not just funny speech patterns.
Nicole Belle @ 29:
Amazing...This guy can Talk...WTF happened......ahhhhh...I know.......Alshiemers...or bi-polar..or something like that....I don't think he'll be getting any BIG money for speaking.....WHY?
Renee in Ohio @ 25:
Where did I hear someone say that Bush speaks like we're 5 year olds, slow and deliberate, because that is how his handlers have to give the words to him?
Don't write him off so soon. Iran martial law, no elections.
Why would he to to all the trouble of removing habeus corpus unless he intended to use that situation?
xargaw @ 21:
Who gives a damn about that feted womb? Between the two of them - they are about the most amoral pair of irretrievably soulless "humans" on the whole planet. And I think I'm being generous - please - someone rephrase that one for me . . . .
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xargaw @ 21:
No, too be embarassed, you have to have the capacity for feeling shame. Babs Bush is everybit the sociopath her fuckup son is. Embarassed? Shit, she's gonna go to her grave railing against all the godless liberals who were out to make her little darling look bad. I'd almost swear they based the Angela Lansbury character in "The Manchurian Candidate" on Babs Bush.
You know that old shack down at Crawford...That's going to be his library
xargaw @ 21:
To be embarrased you need humility. His mother has none. In fact, she has none of the qualities one would like in a mother. For instance, the day after her daughter died - the day after, for crissake - she and "41" went golfing. Golfing! She is devoid of all humanity. Her son, Mr. Idon'tgiveafuck, is just like her.
Erroll @ 14:
In general, I don't like to second-guess people's sobriety (anymore than I like to play the 'Have You Been Saaaaaaved?' game), but I have the impression that Mr. Bush's sobriety was built on a sham. He didn't find Christ; he cut a deal so his marriage wouldn't go down the tubes, and the Lord got nothing.
It is my understanding that sobriety requires being honest with oneself, and honesty isn't exactly George's strong suit. The image of the good and godly man who talks to God and cries on His Shoulder must remain suspect in the light of Bush's continued and evident failings of character. It's not about perfection, but there has to be a visible effort somewhere.
[I’d almost swear they based the Angela Lansbury character in “The Manchurian Candidate” on Babs Bush.]
Bingo.
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gene214 @ 38:
You know.....I knew there was something there I just couldn't put my finger on......you hit the nail SQUARELY ON THE HEAD.......
I don't think I'd seen that exact video, Nicole, but I saw something similar. I think it was used to make a case for some sort of brain damage.
I think he's probably just in over his head, given that he's absurdly underqualified for his current position.
What else wuld anyone expect from such an idiot? And as far as Isreal goes, screw them. They are way more trouble than they are worth....
Jo @ 40:
Babs Bush is the classic blueblood patrician mother - cold, detached, ruthlessly ambitious -like a character of of a Shakesperian play. That's why when 41 was President and the media was trying to pass her off as some kind of cookie-baking grandmother type, my first reaction was "Who the fuck are they trying to fool?"
Isreal's democracy didn't 'spread' shit in the middle east except war. What makes anyone think a democratic Iraq would?
I hate to say it, but here's goes: who cares? And I mean that as a legitimate question- who cares? if Americans- on the whole- have proved anything over the last 6 and a half years, it's that by and large they DO NOT CARE about what it is that Bush has done and continues to do. If you want to keep running thread after thread outlining the outrageous/criminal/treasonous/incompetent actions put forth by Bush- by all means, continue. Personally, I greatly appreciate it, now, merely for the sake of completing the story. But the fight to expose this president is long over- it's been over for years. The battle has been lost. No one cares what it is he's done and continues to do. And if people in fact DO care what it is he has done- I'd like to see proof of it. And until there is full on march on the Whitehouse- each day and everyday; TRUE outrage, true actions on behalf of the American people, I am simply compelled to ask the question once again: who cares? From what Ive seen- not nearly enough people.
Trittydi @ 37:
Wow - I have to fix this one - I meant FETID - Feted has the exact opposite implication. So I hope someone got a laugh from it . . . .
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Wonder if this Draper is a relative of the old family friend of the Bush senior and jumior..and the fascist movement..get going researchers!
This is what they will do..Use a theoretical opposition to issue force further nuance and propaganda that will be of benefit only to them and for the continuance of utter secrecy in regard to actual policy.
If anyone remembers J. Hatfield's "explosive" book full of Rove revelations about Bush...The opposition finishes up the job for you when you seed it with YOUR dirty stories. The truth? It's in there too, in small enough doses to deplete the energy around it.
I think he’s probably just in over his head, given that he’s absurdly underqualified for his current position.
I am more inclined to think the difference in his articulate speech when he was governor of Texas and the slurred mumbo-jumbo later indicates dementia of some sort. But that's no excuse. If that is true, his physicians would have covered it up and should be strung up by theior finger nails.
Freedom Institute?? Freedom from his presence I hope.
This is and always has been the Real W. he holds a job he is monumentally unsuited, and underwhelmingly qualified for, and yet there he is, sitting in that office that is the oval office. shame on karl rove and barbara and george hw bush for shoving this inept and doltish cretin on us for two terms in office. we didnt need the stress, the aggravation, the deficit, the polarization, the isolation, the Iraq war, cheney, and yet we got all of those things because of this person: George W Bush. the worst president, ever. he was judged before he took office, during, and afterward, and it was never good sir.
Gregory @ 20:
You said it. I was websurfing with the Stumble! add-on for Firefox and came across this page. It seems to sum up Shrubbie's career very nicely:
http://www.bordergatewayprotocol.net/jon/media/bush/
gene214 @ 46:
She's clearly a psychopath like her son. The father seems to have some genuine empathy at some level - but not the mother and not the son.
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fwacbar @ 45:
Well, if Mr. Idontgiveafuck bombs Iran, we won't have to worry about Isreal. Iran would wipe it off the map in retaliation.
"The father seems to have some genuine empathy at some level".
Big mistake. HUGE mistake.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2928756561478705121&q=conspiracy
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fwacbar @ 47:
Countries that have lived by tribal rule and law for centuries are NOT interested in our "democracy." They're still stoning women and cutting off hands for god's sake.
I heard Kuwait turned down democracy flat after we routed Saddam -back to tribal rule for them.
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I agree 100% Nicole. We went into Iraq for no legitimate reason. Millions have died. It's not stupidity. It's not poor planning. It's criminal. Just because the dumb azz can't 'remember' doesn't mean he's not accountable. It doesn't mean that he didn't sit in the oval office making 'official' policy with his cabinet. The guy's a criminal.
AND he is enough of a sociopath to leave the white house and not look back. Give a couple of speeches, drink a couple of beers, ride his bike. Katrina alone should make him guilt ridden. Do you see any guilt? I don't.
mystic @ 51:
And this brings old deadeye dickhead into the picture....the power behind the throne....
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Maybe our version of democracy scares the hell out of the middle east. It has a self serving flavor to it.
There are still quite a few sick fucks out there who support this idiot. He'll easily get his speaking fees, but in making the speeches, he'll further alienate the sane/realistic portion of the populace. Good luck to the Republicans from here on out - they'd have been better off electing Zell Miller.
mystic @ 57:
You're right of course - that and more. I don't know what I was thinking. Maybe I slipped because I think of her as even worse than her husband - but at that level - it no longer matters.
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if clinton were asked a question about something that happened,
he would give a verbal dissertation on the spot with a fair amount of honesty
and accuracy.
If there was any justice in the world, his future would involve clearing more brush.
By the side of a state highway. While wearing an orange jumpsuit and leg irons.
All right, who in their right mind wants to have a beer with this boorish prig?
You cant expect him to remember details of a war he is sleepwalking through.
Shhh! Don't wake him. Sleepwalkers become dangerous if awakened.
mystic @ 13:
of course these bastards love us they been punking us by leaching on to our tax dollars for yrs, israels dupes or is that dopes!
carefulwiththatAXEeugene @ 64:
very true. He's had the crap beat out of him by the right but he is highly intelligent, very empathetic and kind. He has an opinion, one I don't always agree with but does that make him the villan that the right made him out to be? No. Same thing with Carter. And Gore and Moyers and.....
The right's mentality was if the person in the spotlight can derail our agenda kill them politically. There wasn't a moment of hesitation or of thought for the future. Look where it has left us.
I like Robert Pirsig's quote
"If one man is delusional, its called insanity.
If a group of people are delusional, it is called a religion."
Dubya could be successful on a speaking tour, as long as he has a script or teleprompter with him he can get away with it. Only the dumbed down dittoheads will take him seriously. I had not listened to Bush speak in over two years, only through sound bytes and rarely hear them because he is too hard to stomach with stuff he says and his repetitive nature and partisan whining is on a fifth grade level. Can't wait for Jan 2009 for someone with intellegence doing this job.
Why does "The Derek Zoolander Center For Children Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too" come to mind?
If Dubya opens a Freedom Institute, he will have definitively put the moron back in oxymoron...
Straight Shooter @ 66:
Boorish is correct, he would spend the entire time convincing you that he is not as dumb as a sack-o-hammers!
me and myself @ 71:
script or teleprompter? You have to be able to read to to use those. He needs the thing in his ear.
The following comment by President Bush to Mr. Draper is extremely disturbing. It demonstrates that Bush is keeping our military men and women in Iraq long enough to coincide with the U.S. presidential campaign cycle, and that he thinks this is an OK thing for him to be doing. This should outrage anyone, but especially anyone in uniform.
“I’m playing for October-November ... To get us in a position where the presidential candidates will be comfortable about sustaining a presence.”
Jeanne @ 69:
When Bill Clinton talks....People listen.....When GWB talks....people turn away...
Curtilingus @ 70:
Pirsig's quote, updated:
"If one man is delusional, its called insanity.
If a group of people are delusional, it is called the GOP."
Don't forget you'd have to smoke a joint and do a line of coke, maybe some of Daddy Bush's Oxycontin in addition to that beer. Remember our president parties harder than most of us.
Dear red-staters: You work 3 jobs so that people like Bush can have 3 homes. Happy now, suckers?
reliGiOnP.
Yeah. We had everything figured out. "Didn't happen." Iraq was supposed to become a democracy. "Didn't happen." Yeah. Well, we were the world's last resort against terrorism. Didn't happen. Yeah...but shit happens, don't you know? Gotta' go clear brush.
His future will consist of drinking himself to death.
His legacy of destruction will last for years to come.
He has solidified the boosh family legacy of indifference and incompetence.
Curtilingus @ 78:
Bush doesn't smoke pot - it makes him too introspective. He can't afford introspection.
He doesn't smoke pot?! That's his problem. Someone get that man high!
Iraq Pilot To Bush: Troops Not Getting Enough Training Or Time At Home
AP | DEB RIECHMANN and ROBERT BURNS | September 3, 2007 11:29 AM
President Bush and his national security team made a first-hand assessment of the war in Iraq and prospects for political reconciliation Monday before a showdown with Congress over the U.S. troop buildup.
The temperature topped 110 degrees as Bush stepped off Air Force One. The president stopped at a small building where a Marine Cobra pilot briefed him about the positives and negatives of current troop rotations. He told the president that troops were not getting enough time at home and did not have enough time for training.
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I wonder if boosh 'thanked him for his service' :(
Jeanne @ 74:
Dummies can read , just cannot improvise. He will not need the earpiece after Jan 2009 and Dick can ditch his walkie talkie he uses behind those White House bushes.
Can you imagine if Harry Truman had been asked by the hand-picked historian of his presidency about the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and had answered, "Gee, don't remember - General MacArthur's got notes on all this stuff"?
Or if JFK, asked about the strategy behind the Bay of Pigs or the Cuban Missile Crisis, had said, "Gee, don't remember - ask Dean Rusk or my little brother Bobby"?
No fucking way.
Bush calls himself the fucking Decider?? This guy can't even talk coherently to his own authorized presidential biographer about his own war policy!! Unbelievable!!
If, as Bush suggests, Bremer fucked up and violated presidential policy in Iraq, why was Bremer kept on as governor of Iraq for almost a year after the Army was sent disbanded?
“Again, Hadley’s got notes on all of this stuff,” referring to Stephen J. Hadley, his national security adviser.
Heh, yeah, about that, ya see, I wasn't really payin' a whole lot of attention at that briefing. Heh, heh. I was flippin' through the most recent edition of 'Honcho', bonin' up (heh heh) for my 'interview' (mmm) with Master Jeff , uh, Mister Jeff, Mister Gannon, that's whut I meant, Mister. Heh. Heh heh.
me and myself @ 71:
Dubya could be successful on a speaking tour, as long as he has a script or teleprompter with him he can get away with it. Only the dumbed down dittoheads will take him seriously. I had not listened to Bush speak in over two years, only through sound bytes and rarely hear them because he is too hard to stomach with stuff he says and his repetitive nature and partisan whining is on a fifth grade level. Can’t wait for Jan 2009 for someone with intellegence doing this job.
script or teleprompter? You have to be able to read to to use those. He needs the thing in his ear.
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You mean like the bulge from the tape recorder in the back of his jacket when he cheated in the debates?
The stupid American people should have taken that as a hint of what was to come. But gay marriage was more important. The rest is history.
What bothers me about this is his attitude. I can just see his handlers sitting him down and telling him what will happen in the future. We will get you some big dollars from speaking appearances. We will set you up a democracy of the world organization. He doesn't seem to be interested in it and will probably get bored like it isn't his idea. Just like his dad gave him something to do and his mind is already wondering elsewhere. I know that he must be totally brainwashed or others are in such control that he has this confidence because if the democrats do win the next election, they will open up a lot of things that we don't presently know and he will be ridiculed for the next decade as the biggest loser of a couple generations. Who the hell would want to hear him speak about anything? This makes me wonder what is going to happen in the next few years. I feel like I am watching a football game with no way to influence it. I just get to watch.
LiarLiarIraqsOnFire @ 88:
Who forced the Iraq army dissolution? Bush can't remember, but Hadley has all the notes and stuff. Those particular notes are probably in the same place the notes on the two memos and phone call by the CIA director that intelligence on Iraq seeking uranium in Africa was faulty. In other words, to be forgotten. "I should have recalled at the time of the speech that there was controversy associated with the uranium issue," Mr Hadley said.
Some people have said that this guy is NOT stupid. If not, he is surely one of the shallowest, most self-involved, egotistical and most selfish people that ever walked the earth...
How about if/after Bush retires from office he just slits his throat, naw he doesn't think he's done anything wrong.
Bush is just the front man for the Neocons, like Ford and (sorry, Repugs) Reagan was. Think 'cheerleader' if you will.
Your disdain for this man should be directed at the people that are making this a more dangerous world. They were around 20 or more years ago and they are not going away when we finally get rid of this loser; Bush. They will slither under their rocks and reappear soon enough with another empty head to market as a new president for this country. They are brilliant and dangerous and are already planning their return to grab all the power (and money).
You would think, by now, moderate Republicans would have thrown them out of their party. But, maybe they are afraid of them as much as we are.
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CakeWalk My Ass @ 1:
Yep... that's about it alright.
a guy @ 92:
Who are those people? Bush is a stupendous fuckwit. His lack of understanding of all issues is amazing.
screech @ 8:
No kidding! The man's unbelievable... really!
Bush as water-boy for his own team. Absolutely incredible.
Booshs handlers?...Boy that must be a frustrating job....no no don't look at the shiney object Jorge...
The first person to tell Bush not to disband the army was Prince Bandar. There's a photo of Bandar with Bush at Crawford, and that was the caption underneath.
How crass can one person be? This gets down to the real core of why Bush wanted to be President. He didn't want to make the country a better place. He was padding his own little nest. I hope it was worth it, because it's a fair bet that, after he leaves the White House, he'll be spending the rest of his life looking over his shoulder. He's hated that much around the world.
rasta @ 4:
I always thought the sentence for treason during wartime was the death sentance.
Steve @ 48:
I couldn't agree more, well said. I wish there was an outcry, anything close to the early 70's. Alas, nothing. Our society has become way too complacent - it is easier to protest from ones armchair.
gene214 @ 12:
I wouldn’t pay 10 cents to watch this buffoon talk. He’s the dumbest ass son of a bitch I have ever seen in such a high position. Is it possible to sue the fuckwads that voted for him?
mudshark @ 39:
don't you mean his lyberry?
gene214 @ 15:
Yeah, remember, this is a former cokehead, a white knuckle drunk and a delusional psychopath. I curse my neighbors, friends and anyone else voted for, supported and foisted this delusional sociopath on the US and the world.
Fuck all y'all, the horse you rode in on and the mother that bore this pariah.
Anyone who wants to pay this idiot to speak should be banned from the country.
Ozguy @ 18:
But of course we don't want any health care or welfare here.
Bush's job always was to sell the American Public shit they should never want.
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Let's get serious already or get out.
If this war is worth it, we should do it right. Not lean on an unlucky minority who happen to be in the military now. This is not what soldiers sign up for. In addition to the nearly 4000 US soldiers dead and counting (let's stop hiding the coffins already), lack of proper medical facilities and treatment for the wounded, unaddressed combat stress, suicide problems, and lack of proper gear and equipment, the downtime off also is being squeezed to a bare minimum to enable the government to send our soldiers off for redeployment before they've had adequate rest. Our military is so desperate that people in their 40s and 50s have been called up for Guard Duty, multiple times no less. The situation is so bad that military recruiters have to resort to mercenary bonuses and still miss the numbers - some people are fighting for money, not for our country. The whole situation is so messed up. So rarely has so much been asked of so few.
So if we are serious about this war, we should do now what we should have done from the getgo. Fight it with enough troops. The original plan was for half a million. Going from 130,000 to a 180,000 surge just isn't going to turn this thing. And it will needlessly break our soldiers' backs in the process.
Get enough troops in there with a clear plan they can execute. Or get out. Stop pussyfooting around with our military. I don't care whether it's foreign countries who we should have got to go along with us in the first place (though it seems unlikely they will step into this situation now that our Fox Republican government has cheerled us into the current mess), or whether it's a draft. Let's do this thing the straight and honest way if it's really worth doing. Maybe we need a permanent base there as the President really wants, even though he denied this for the longest time. Whatever the reason. Let the President lay it out.
Or let's get out. Every day we stay more people die and we just delay the inevitable chaos when we leave anyway. Get the other countries in the Middle East to the table. Give them the timetable for our withdrawal. And let them start to work it out.
"No one cares what it is he’s done and continues to do".
You just said a mouthful. I have noticed years ago that people do NOT like to talk about the problems of the country. Almost as if it's impolite. There is seriously something sick and wrong with the mindset of Americans that allows them to be like that. Religion and anti-science dumbed down the masses, making them manageable. Rove understood that brilliantly. He knew that they cared more about gays than about their pocketbooks, and exploited their virulent homophobia. Leo Strauss and his followers engendered the propoganda and lies and perpetual war that allows the people to become sheeple. And that we are. You better believe it.
Delusional.
Steve @ 48:
All true. Bush & Cheney have treated the US Constitution like it was toilet paper. Everbody knows it, but no one with any influence or power cares to do anything about it.
rasta @ 4:
Rosanne @ 114:
I hope youre right, rasta!!
I see that today Bush has hinted at fewer troops in Iraq. Gee, someone must have made him suddenly realise that troops will be needed to be deployed in Iran when he perpetrates his intended holocaust there. Oh, what a dilemma.
All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put (fill in the blank) back together again.
Possible "blank" fillings:
1) Iraq.
2) Iran, if any bombs drop on it.
3) The U.S. Constitution.
4) The "rule of law" in America.
5) Checks and balances.
6) The wall separating church and state.
7) International treaties.
8) Government of the people, by the people and for the people.
9) The U.S. military.
10) Women's and minority rights in America.
11) The United States social safety net.
12) An independent, fact-based, professional Fourth Estate.
(I'm certain that there are many more Bush-generated "blanks" that have resulted from his Shermanesque march through our nation's executive branch, but these are off the top of my head).
SteamRanger @ 101:
Unfortunately, he's oblivious in a gee whiz narscistic way
I'm sick and very tired of looking at that fuckers face.....
CD @ 2:
He's a pathetic punk.
It's not that George Bush doesn't like black people, or poor people, or Muslims, or people in other nations. It's just that he's really not interested in bad things that don't happen to him, personally. He's the "I got mine, so fuck you" pResident.
Doesn't that sum up Republican policy?
(F)ully aware of his standing in opinion polls, Mr. Bush said his top commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, would perhaps do a better job selling progress to the American people than he could
The above statement tells you all you need to know about what kind of Right Wing Tool Patreaus is. Just like Colin Powell (another RWT) he'll let this administartion write his report for him and then go out and peddle it like a used car salesman. Great General. Great leadership...
jimbo92107 @ 121:
Bingo.
The Oracle @ 117:
May I add "America" to your list?
He's still at heart, the "congenital fuck-up" he introduced himself as back in his Yale days. Sadly, whenever I think of the Ivy league, all I'll think of are men like GWB and Don Rumsfeld.
A trust funded, happy go lucky, east coast Phillips Academy preppy frat boy who never, ever, was forced to clean up the messes he made as he stumbled drunkenly out of the frat house to his Mercedes.
And you know what, not a single fucking democrat is going to try to make this frat boy clean up his mess.
I think this month will be very telling as far as getting things done and congressional respect for the remainder of this congress, has the dominos all fallen down yet? Have we seen the worst this administration has to offer? September has been long advertised as the big month where the big news that occurs that could define the next year or so. I just believe any future mass demonstrations has been delayed until the Petreaus report and what they say. The fireworks seems to be in standby right now.
kaT @ 108:
can someone please explain to me how a post about how vapid and out of touch our president is, leads to anti israeli comments???
what the fuck does this have to do with bush wanting to make money he doesnt need on the lecture circuit???
anti semites to the right of me, anti semites to the left
thank god i know where i stand in this country
totally fucking alone
Obviously, George Bush is not in charge of anything and never has been, and he is not and never will be capable of replenishing his own coffers. Others will continue to do that.
me and myself @ 22:
OMG! My 8 year old son, out of the blue, just said to me (and we don't have television) "Mommie, I think Bush knows he doesn't deserve all the pwoer he has so that's why he goes out of his way to humiliate himself." I swear to GOD.
He won't go talking except for friendly places, guaranteed. Also, he won't be able to talk about a lot of situations because he wasn't allowed to be involved! On another note, he was as far away from seeing proof of alien visitations on the US government coffers than you and I. Do you think for one minute "they" would let him in on the information? Not a chance...ever...
Mind you, it makes me wonder which presidents were allowed to see the evidence, yea or nae?
I read this a few days ago, and thought it was a perfect real time example of what GW Bush is all about.
Fuck you George Bush. May you and your empty head ROT IN HELL!
He wants another FIFTY BILLION DOLLARS for his contractor friends to keep the OCCUPATION of Iraq running smoothly.
NINE BILLION DOLLARS IN CASH disappeared in Baghdad before the end of the first year of combat.
Billions of dollars worth of Iraqi antiquities disappeared from museums immediately after the Occupation began.
HE and Cheney are trying to cut an Iraq oil deal that will be worth HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS during the next few years.
Do you really think he's only worth $21 MIL? I don't believe that for a minute.
chimpy is a freakin idiot.
Writing a books with lies will not change history. Time won't erase truth.
He will be the village idiot forever.
Trittydi @ 37:
Both of them bitches are Cra-zee.
Nimrod.
He also gradually changed the government into tyranny, seeing no other way of turning men from the fear of God, but to bring them into a constant dependence on his power…
Bush is America's Nimrod.
uncle joe mccarthy @ 127:
All due respect, uncle joe, but taking a swipe at the Israelis is not the same as being anti-semitic. By that logic, any criticism of of Israel is nothing but racism. Come on, now! Besides, I didn't even see anything in their admittedly dopey posts that was anti-semitic; just swipes at Israel the country.
But I am right there with you that I don't understand what Israel has to do with the original post about Dumbya.
Bush's continues his legacy of corrupting and destroying everything he touches. from the War on Terror (where' Bin Laden?), the lies, death and destruction in Iraq, crippling our military, ruining a whole city (Katrina), punishing the elderly (Bush's Prescription Drug Plan disaster), to even the failure of the Republican Party. way to go George!
The people who have spent the last 110 or so years, beating into far-away nations their version of democracy, or what they understand as democracy, have chosen this fine specimen to be their leader, and twice at that. What conclusions can be drawn from this fact? That usually people get the leader they deserve?
Maybe it is not too late to strike down the constitutional amendment that sets terms limits to the presidency. The American people, in their infinite wisdom, would surely elect him to a third term.
"But I am right there with you that I don’t understand what Israel has to do with the original post about Dumbya" Bonkers.
Bonkers, I agree with you. I AM against Israel and am Jewish myself, so your point is well made. People who support Israel are so defensive and always resort to demonising the critics of Israel as "anti-semites". As far as the applicability of the post to Bush, this was in reference to Bush's demonic obsession with invading Iran, an attack the is unbelievably supported by 71% of the population of Israel.
forgot to mention, the Bushies corrupt dismantling of our democratic voting system. Bush is not our elected President, the 2000 and 2004 Presidential elections were stolen...
"Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR." http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_st...
75 Grand won't cover the security costs for this marked Fuckwad.
He's gonna be just like O.J.--and devote the rest of his life to finding the real killer. He'll scour every golf course and fishing hole until he finds the person responsible. And the 25%'ers will be there with him, every moronic step of the way.
tHeGaMeOfLiFe @ 136:
"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
Barbara Bush
Remember that sociopathic personalities run in that family. They totally lack empathy or the ability to feel shame or embarrassment.
Bwanakali @ 103:
Why you ask? Because your system has been setup for this for decades. The "Greatest Democracy on Earth"...that has ONE more "viable" political party than communism or fascism...that is transferring the wealth of an entire generation to a miniscule minority of CEO's, wealthy families, and corporations, and destroying your ecosystem and your lives to do it.
People aren't protesting because they are busy working two shitty jobs (if they are lucky) for shitty wages for companies whose single top management officer ALONE makes HUNDREDS of times more than their yearly salaries. To pay taxes that don't pay for anything real or beneficial in their lives (like universal health-care, unemployment insurance, real disaster relief, strengthening of labor laws, drug interdiction that works from a health-care perspective instead of a criminal one, etc, etc). What it does pay for is keeping tabs on citizen's groups, an increasing security and surveillance apparatus, and reliance on private, ungoverned force at home and abroad. Do you really think these things are being done to protect you? They are being beefed up to protect THEM from YOU. Sooner or later, because it doesn't seem like sooner, you will have had enough. But it's OK, they'll be ready for you all when you march on the White House...
flex @ 142:
nothings changed ,next stolen election 08!
trillions added to the debt, more troop deaths than the last 4 presidents combined but he thinks he's hot shit
I feel that we will be talking about dubya this time ten years from now, dunno if he will be pardoned by then but we could still have issues in 2017 that this John Wayne parody got us into.
On Sunday, the New York Times detailed Bush biographer Robert Draper's stunning portrait of the President asleep at the switch as the disastrous May 2003 decision to dissolve the Iraqi army moved forward. Now, Tuesday's New York Times suggests that Coalition Provisional Authority viceroy L. Paul Bremer indeed told Bush that he planned to disband Saddam's military and that the President casually - and unquestioningly - went along for the ride.
For the details, see:
"Bremer Letters Show Bush OK'd Disbanding Iraqi Army."
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