Letters to the Editor
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Consistent
Unfortunately, it's hardly startling to learn that Bush was so confident and smug.
Has he learned anything since then? If so, there's no evidence of it.
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Another in a series
Just another in a series of monumental failures by a spoiled brat who has always had the luxury of getting bailed out every time he ran a company into the ground or got arrested for DUI or failed to show up for National Guard service.
Daddy's rich friends always fixed everything for little Georgie, and the lesson he learned was not that he was damned lucky to have a daddy to spoil him, but that he could do no wrong, that whatever he wanted he could just wave his hand and make it so.
It is inconceivable to him--in the Princess Bride sense!--that he could ever fail.
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Wow, if this...
"The only thing that worries me is your optimism."
was all that Aznar was worried about when confronted with a delusional, no-account, over-privileged, under-acheiving, chicken-hawk, dry-drunk, warmongering, egotistical wastrel, then Aznar was more of an optimist than Bush.
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a correction
Aznar was the PRESIDENT of Spain, not the prime minister.... And you are giving him more credit that he deserves (he is quite a nutcase in his own right). The Spanish people where overwhelmingly and vehemently against the war in Iraq and he forged ahead anyway.
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Perfect Storm
Bush' comments to the Spanish prime minister reflect the perfect storm of ignorance and arrogance that is the hallmark of this administration: Dumb enough to screw up a two-car funeral and too proud to listen to anyone who told them so.
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whah????
"I'm optimistic because I believe I'm right." -- GW Bush.
Hm. What can one say? In the face of such ineluctable stupidity, the mind simply goes blank.
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No president would have been better
And by that, I literally mean NO president. That is, if the office were just left vacant for 8 years, the country would be in profoundly better shape.
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I'm with you, 'had enough'
But I'll bet 'Elephantman' will come up with something to make us all amazed.
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Correcting mcytron
Spain is a monarchy and thus can't have a president. Aznar was Prime Minister from 1996 to 2004
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Accountability
It amuses me that even the most trenchant of critics stays well clear of the personal responsibility Bush has for the deaths of soldiers and civilians, from all sides, in Iraq. In essence when Bush gave the order to invade he knew that it was an unprovoked and unjust war. When he gave that order he commissioned the crime of mass murder.
The issue of course is one of shared guilt. If the President is guilty of murder than the nation is tarnished and each of its citizens carries some of the burden. Your reverence for the office of President has an edge; you share in its failures, but you never counted the possibility of murder among them. For the average American, good citizens, patriots and supporters of the war that they clearly were, this is too much to bear. The war is therefore described as a colossal blunder, a policy disaster, a right wing conspiracy, but never what it truly was and is. And what it was, and is, is the very reason that for years to come the region will absorb bloody turmoil and anguish, a legacy of a leader who will entirely escape responsibility for his actions.
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Correction Paulus...
Spain does not have a "prime minister" they have a "president."
There is indeed a king, but the monarchy is purely for decorative purposes.
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"I'm at peace with myself"
That statement when Bush says it, reminds me of a sociopath, someone who is unable to feel anything or have empathy for anyone other than themselves.
If you just screwed up something or someone, even if you had the best intentions, don't you feel a little bad at least? Some remorse for your error? I mean do you feel at peace when you emotionally hurt someone, even if not on purpose?
Sorry but sometimes Bush reminds me of the sociopath who oblivious to the pain he creates, tortures squirrels in the woods in his perfect isolated peace.
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If not Elephantmmmman . . .
tangerine writes:
"But I'll bet 'Elephantman' will come up with something to make us all amazed."
If not him, then his cohorts and partners in imbecility such as shooter, or anonymoose, or the ever trolling anonymouses. And I don't think 'amazed' is quite the correct adjective. More like perplexed' as one tries to figure WTF is going on in these idjits' brainpan. Usually something to tie Clinton in . . . .
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Who will pay for this nightmare?
Reading this makes me sick to my stomach. In time, Bush will be held accountable in American and world eyes because there are millions of present and future anguished victims who know clearly where the criminal lives. Accountable doesn’t mean he will be punished anywhere near to the extent he and his coterie of thugs deserve.
He does seem to value his reputation and place in history and that could be his greatest punishment because of the future universal condemnation by historians and the public that he was our worst president hands down.
Of course even that may not work because he will rationalize that he is right and all those other so called experts don’t understand how justified this war was and given enough time that will be clear to the world as it now is to God.
Sometimes this nightmare that we are living in seems so bizarre to me that I think I will wake up and find out it really didn’t happen. Nightmares anyone?
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There Must Be Accountability
Damien Morris,
I pray you are mistaken and somehow this fool will be punished for his sins and I don't mean in the next life. We as citizens have a duty to show the world that when we make a horrific mistake we try to make it right. Bush and his accomplices must be tried by the American people and if found guilty punished to the full extent possible.
We owe this much to the people that have lost their lives in this travesty.
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Elephantman does not....
have even a semblance of a plausible response to this article.
To this article, he can only make a specious appearance. Thus, he will not appear.
Unless, he proves himself to be as stupid as Bush and decides to prattle on.....