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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
In Joan's blog she wrote about Bush warning against nation building and criticizing Clinton's interventionist policies including these: strikes against Saddam Hussein in Iraq or Osama bin Laden in Sudan.
I am no fan of Clinton's but, it seems funny in retrospect to see how the rightwing went after Clinton for these things and yet supported Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq and hanging Saddam.
Went after Clinton for trying to get Bin Laden and thought him obsessed but, then oops. 9-11. Then the rightwing supports torture, never ending wars in the middle east to go after those like bin laden, and all the horrors of the last several years by the Bushies.
Hindsight.
If Clinton did kill bin laden what would the rightwing have said back then....and consider what bin laden did do to us a few years later and how Bush and co. reacted afterwards.
I agree with that, that's why it bothers me when Bush says that we had to invade because Saddam wouldn't let the inspectors back in, when they had actually been there for several months, and were scouring the country looking for the WMDs. If he had let them finish their job, this could have all been averted, and thousands of American servicemen and women, that have been killed in this folly, would be spending the holidays with family and loved ones right now.
Now this vile man has the nerve to try and rewrite history and tries to pretend that Saddam didn't allow inspectors back in, when he clearly did. I'm astonished that Gibson didn't follow up on that bald faced lie. I also think that if Saddam hadn't allowed the inspectors back in, that would have been reason enough to invade, and our allies probably would have been right along side us, but that's not what happened, even if it's what Bush wishes would have actually happened.
Bush has never dealt with reality or truth since his youth. He was born into privilege, his Poppy got him into Yale, despite dismal grades (and I'm sure test scores), from where he barely graduated. During the Vietnam war, Poppy got him a plum spot in the TX Air National Guard (despite the long waiting list), from which "W" was AWOL, yet never punished for failure to fulfill his duty. "W" had one business venture fail after another under his "management." Each time, one of Poppy's friends bailed "W" out, paid him off, and got rid of him. He was a boozer, druggie, party-boy, who never worked a day in his life, never waited for anything, got everything he wanted, and never had to play by any rules. He'd change the rules to skew a certain win, as "W" could not lose. He's been a narcissist, and psychopath his entire life. While playing the "victim" or blaming others, in fact, he's made blunder after blunder. No one at any time has held "W" accountable, and he always managed to be rewarded for his faults, poor decisions, and misdeeds. He'll never concede he did anything wrong to his dying breath. About the only thing Bush has ever been good at is bullying, lying, and obfuscating the truth, so his own "talking points" and revisionist stories are told. He has committed treason (outing a CIA agent), subverted the Constitution (illegal warrantless surveillance, torture), and engaged in gross profiteering for himself and cabinet members (cronyism, no-bid contracts, looting the treasury), and made the worst decisions as the "Decider-In-Chief." Bush isn't delusional, he's a sociopathic liar, playing the victim, while he inflicts suffering upon everyone else.
Bush doesn't seem like such a schmuck in this interview. He obviously is, was and has been for a really long time in a really hard spot. I really think he made a lot of poor decisions. I think way to many of those decisions were based on monetary gain rather than for the good of the people but he i don't think you can hang the weight of the world on his shoulders alone. The liberal illuminati have bashed him left and right and in some ways, rightfully so but i think it's time to move on and let Bush move on. But thank God change is coming.
All these years later, and he is STILL running with the "If only there was any slightest shred of evidence to the contrary" angle. I knew there were no WMDs, and I didn't have the benefit of a single presidential briefing, yet Bush still insists he was the victim of faulty intelligence.
When I heard Bush on the news last night, and I understood why he was president for 8 years. He's the perfect president for America. He's a giant self-powered inertia machine. He can't be moved, just like America can't be moved. Even now, far too many people think our problems in Iraq stem only from "implementation." But it is exactly Bush's brand of blind arrogance that Americans see as central to our national identity.
Have things changed under Obama? Have we learned any lessons at all. I can't say that I believe that at all. The Bush interview was instructive. As a nation, he is what we see when we look in the mirror.
That famous Bush tradition of rejecting self-examination is not useful, for it results in this awful display of self-delusion. George W. Bush is the anti-Midas: everything he has touched has turned to crud.
Go away, George W. Bush. At worst, you will no longer plague this nation as President. At best, you'll end up in prison for crimes against humanity. Either way, we're finally rid of you.
Joan,
You wrote: "...if that's true, it's only because he sold it a long time ago."
Your sentence would have read better and more to the point: "...that's true, it's only because he has no soul."
NPR interviewed him just a few days before the invasion. From what I remember of the interview, Conyers got every concession from Saddam that Bush had demanded and yet the White House wouldn't even "grant an audience". Some low level flunky told Conyers to save it, i.e. the invasion was a done deal.
The trouble with tracking Bush over the years is the layer upon layer of grade A premium bullshit, the best your tax dollars can buy. Lies within lies, lies covering lies, lies about the lies. My guess is this current load of manure is a calculated gambit at avoiding any consequences of his criminal behavior once he's no longer C-in-C.
That douchebag needs to be put on trial, not for his sake, but for ours. While his soul is long gone, we might be able to salvage ours.
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