It’s one thing to have your old man defend you from bullies when you’re in, say, the third grade. It’s another thing when you’re president of the United States.
Former President Bush was forced to stick up for his son at a leadership conference in Abu Dhabi, where the Arab audience had unkind words for the current president’s foreign policy.
“We do not respect your son,” one woman told the stunned ex-president as the audience cheered.
“This son is not going to back away,” the elder Bush replied, his voice quivering. “This is going to work out in Iraq.”
Well, we’ll see. But encountering such a tough crowd in what was once a friendly venue has to be sobering — both for the father Bush and his embattled son.
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Obviously everybody else in the world is smarter than the Bush clan. It wil be fun to watch it wither away, unnoticed, uncared for. History will not treat the clan well.
Unfortunatley there is another Bush who thinks he has a plan and a chance — stop the Bush attempt at Dynasty — they have proven themselves not up to the task ….
Leaders they are not –
I hope that this is the end of the bush crime family. I sure don’t want to see jeb running for office again, or his hideous half beaner son for that matter.
Viva La Raza Blanco!!!
Bush 43 is a rarity in modern Leadership – he is a complete failure and his bumbling public speaking skills tell the greater truth. He doesn’t ‘just’ have a problem giving speeches and speaking off-the-cuff, he has the brain of a person who cannot fix this problem. How incompetent can a person be if given 8 years to correct a poorly developed skill and they do not get any better.I think Dubya envisioned himself as a talking head – reading scripts, saying what his handles tell him.I feel a strong sense of being duped by the GOP.Bush 41 will face the outrage of the public if he continues to give speeches.
….oops, I forgot, Bush is a wonderful strong Christian so I should withhold criticism or risk my being labeled an infidel by the religious right.
It speaks volumes that Bush 41 would be “stunned” by this “revelation.”
His son’s approval ratings are down to 30 some percent with very strong disapproval rating about the same.
The only people who don’t know that “we don’t respect your son” are the Bush family apparently.
WORST. PRESIDENT. EVER.
Well hell capn, poopy, I mean poppy was STUNNED by modern checkout technology at the grocery store.
Why wouldnt he be stunned by a few otherthings.
bubble living is as bubble living does.
I am sure babs doesnt waste her “beautiful mind” on the issue for one minute….
heheheheh
Poppy and Babs should have shipped him off somewere when they lost their girl. They were not fit to raise honest children as they are all products of the Nazi’s…
Google Prescott Bush and NAZI if you don’t believe it
http://www.amazon.com/American-Dynasty-Aristocracy-Fortune-Politics/dp/0670032646
I really wish that you moronic leftists would stop using the terms Nazi and/or Fascist to describe the traitor shrub and the neo-cons. You make yourselves look foolish.
V.L.R.B!!
No, Santiago, you make yourself look foolish with every one of your posts.
You know what guys, I absolutely despise President Bush Jr. I still didn’t agree with Bush Sr.’s policies, but overall, I don’t consider him to be NEARLY as evil as his son. Maybe I’m wrong about this, I could be, but I don’t remember him doing anything quite so outlandish as his son has done. Last I knew, Sr still respected the constitution, and is a much better representative of his faith than his money grubbin, oil guzzling, power hungry son.
Bush I was tolerable other than Iran Contra and the October 1980 Iranian Hostage surprise and the economic downturn and Willie Horton…..
Well, maybe Bush I wasn’t so tolerable.
At least he was better than Bush, the Sequel.
I guess that is saying something in a kind of left-handed way.
Viva America!
Bush the elder was just smoother and more “gentlemanly” than the shrubster.
He still had a little more polish. Bush the lesser is crass enough not only to chew with his mouth open and speak with his mouth full, but he doesnt even HIDE his distain for anyone who isnt him.
I think it is just that the ol’ man is a little better with the slight of hand and working the system than junior.
I could at least listen to Sr’s speeches, etc. I can’t take the shrub at all, not only is it insulting, but it’s downright embarassing!
TEE HEE
I’ll tell you what’s sobering. It’s Knadler and all the rest of you lefties not standing up for America when the Arabs in Abu Dhabi insult our current and former Presidents. For you people, it’s just another opportunity to get smirky. Bush the First was a guest in their country and they chose to be rude. Where is the outrage?
Mama wore the pants in that family. If it had been her at this event, she might have attacked the offending speaker!
I remember when Bush 41 was elected. He said, “For those who didn’t vote for me, I want to be your President too.”
See that was a kindness extended. I took it that way anyway.
After the election was handed to him in an unfair fight, bush 43 said “A President of the United States is President of ALL the people.”
Which was clearly meant as “It’s mine! Suck on it!”
“insult our current and former Presidents”
Maybe if they (the Bushies) gave us something to support we would be behind them.
Until then, I could not give a damn who insults them.
As usual, the libs are looking rearward.
Fleettwood- The current President insulted the former one by his actions. The Shrub earned it all by himself, it’s no one else’s fault.
“As usual, the libs are looking rearward.”
I only look rearward when she’s really good looking.
But I do have a memory.
“As usual, the libs are looking rearward.”
Clark you beat me to commenting on this gem. I was going to say it is better than having your head in that position.
I would hope that you people could at least unite behind our President(s) when they are being disrespected by people in another country. You wonder why your patritoism is questioned?Lib = on anyone’s side who hates Bush. Anyone’s.
I think it’s called free speech. Haven’t you ever heard any of our presidents talking about other leaders in a less than flattering manner? I have.
Why are you all so surprised by Bush Sr defending his son? The nut did not fall too far from the nut tree.
Bush Sr did his dirty deeds while in office but because he and Barbara (the grandmother type) looked so innocent, nobody knew what was really going on.
Bush Jr is not that innocent looking and once he speaks, the truth is bound to come out. You cannot hid dumb.
Fleettwood nailed it. I really hate to say it because y’all get upset, but you keep showing that Libs are unpatriotic.
Why? Reason 42: Because you will side with foreigners against your president. It’s like siding against your own brother that you don’t like.
If some foreign national had criticized Bill Clinton, as much as I didn’t care for the man, I would have told them to mind their own business.
“If some foreign national had criticized Bill Clinton, as much as I didn’t care for the man, I would have told them to mind their own business.”
Bullshit – your side called our duly elected President a scumbag – Dick Burton – (R-Jerk)
And it doesn’t make a damn difference if he was from Indiana or India.
Nice try, but thanks for playing the game.
If you note, the audience did NOT bash Sr. Bush, they bashed the current Bush. And why should I care when I say the exact same things? Hell, our ALLIES say the same exact things. It is not being unpatriotic to defend America, and right now, I FEEL the need to defend her against our own President!
Bush Sr stood up for his son, and I’d expect that. Unfortunately nobody believes his words either, because HIS OWN credibility has been diminished because of the actions of the son.
Be patriotic and GET HIM OUT OF OFFICE before he ruins our whole country!
“GET HIM OUT OF OFFICE”
lmao
crazy woman
I wouldnt’ care if bushy 43 was the king of america or god. HE is the most inept corrupt fratboy America has ever seen and I will NOT support him and will do all I can to make sure that the Democratic party takes control of our White House in 2008 so that we can have some semblence of adulthood and honesty.
You people better start paying attention before shrubby screws up anything else in the constitution
“If some foreign national had criticized Bill Clinton, as much as I didn’t care for the man, I would have told them to mind their own business.”
Sigh. . . I knew I should have stayed away. Oh well.
What if the foreign national was right, Outie? By what surreal process of reasoning is criticism of a U.S. official automatically off-limits, just because the person making the criticism doesn’t happen to be a resident of this country?
Let’s assume for a moment that foreigners are all are gay, socialist, terrorist-loving. . whatever. . .all the standard conservative bugaboos. Does that mean they can’t ever say anything right?
To paraphrase a previous post by Ben, if an arab says 2 + 2 = 4, are we compelled to disagree?
How would agreeing with that be unpatriotic? Show your work.
BTW, I regard criticism of this poisonous would-be-dictator as the epitome of patriotism.
Choke on it.
Outie, woody and goofball show it ALL.
The mindset of you boys is why bush went to war with Iraq.
Nothing unifies like war. A p(resident) absolutlely despised by half the nation found unity on a rubble pile in New York city. Well he had to try and keep that unity. Voila….war. Everybody close ranks behind the thief in chief!
Sorry. Most of us can see through it.
Guess Dave Knadler figured it was time to feed the crocodiles.
Criticism is fine, coming from Americans. To agree with foreigners against one of your own, even if you think they are right, is unpatriotic. Period.
The Hugo Chavez fiasco is another example.
It may be a bit like Black folks are allowed to use the N word with each other, but White folks can’t.The above Clinton reference is correct. I was (am not) a fan of Clinton, but some foreign bastard can shut up about him.Libs = Will get in bed with anybody who hates Bush. Anybody.
Maybe you’re right, if you’re looking at the world through a knothole.
“is unpatriotic”
Don’t even think about calling me unpatriotic, outlander.
Don’t even ^&*(&*( think about it.
You have no %^&*() right to challenge MY patriotism.
That is disgusting – beyond words.
The truth is a brutal bitch. Embrace it.
“The truth is a brutal bitch. Embrace it.”
On what grounds do you challenge my patriotism, fleet? On what grounds do you challenge my right as an American to criticize the POTUS?
That is my right – he is the President, not the phucking King!
What right do you have to suggest that I am less patriotic than you or anyone else?
“if you’re looking at the world through a knothole.”
G, I think that they are looking at the world through another HOLE.
You are pleased to being critizing the POTUS all you wish.That was not the point and I thing you know it. When Arabs are rude to our President(s) and the Libs can only agree and do not think that what they did was wrong, then that is not patriotic. “Bush may be a dope, but he’s our dope, so shut the F up” is what you people should be posting. But your hatred is blinding.Libs = blind
I think we should just trust Britney Spears.
Funny, the GOP impeached a Rhodes Scholar and the GOP stands up for a Delta House prodigy.
Fleetwood Crack,there were NO weapons of mass distruction. HANS BLIX SAID SO.The Arabs have every right to criticize our president – he invaded their turf. He profits from their oil.
WSC- Yup- I thought about that right after I posted.
The Rhodes Scholar committed perjury.I have tried to give you people every chance to get on the right side of this.Libs = unpatriotic, America hating commies
“Bush may be a dope, but he’s our dope”
Nope, fleet, he’s YOUR dope and I don’t claim him.
As many a famous Republican said during impeachment…..
“I respect the office of the presidency, but I don’t have to respect the man in the office.”
Again, who the hell are you to challenge my patriotism?
The SOB (yes, I just called the President of the United States a Son-of-a-bitch) is not our king – he is an elected SERVANT.
And he sucks as a servant.
I owe nothing to GWB.
BTW – fleet – Hugo Chavez is the democratically elected leader of his country – did you protest when HE was criticized?
The UN building in New York is NOT US property – it is a diplomatic sanctuary, so he was free to say whatever he wanted.
Did you defend him?
Are you dense or what?It’s not about Americans critizing Bush.If you won’t say the Arabs or anyone else shouldn’t be rude to ourPresident(s), then you are wrong. Period. I get the feeling that you must be a high schooler or something.
I wish more voices would speak up about this dope. I truly believe we are watching the dumbest president ever. I said truly. I cannot recall another president who is clearly just a complete dumbass. Dan Quayle was closest as the 2nd in line. By the way, everyone realized what a dope Qualyle was – he hasn’t been heard of since. The GOP doesn’t want that dumb SOB speaking up for the president because it would be like the movie “Dumb and Dumber.”It is not some lib blindness – this pres. is just one big dumb SOB – and he has been manipulated by Cheney the entire 6 years.As for perjury – let the hearings begin!! We’ll see who lied about what.Reagan, Bush Sr., Col. North….the list goes on about proven liars.FLEETWOOD – Clinton lied about sex – and that didn’t kill 2,000+ American soldiers. Bush lied about WMD’s and look at the suffering he has caused.Patriotism does not mean we suck the asshole of the asshole.
Fleettwood,I can see you now…Bush is walking from the White House in shame…and you are running to him, crying, dropping to your knees and grabbing his leg, and telling him you love him and know he did nk wrong. The ex-pres looks down and says to his security – “get him out of here” and Bush says to Rove, “let’s get going, I am meeting Bandar in the Carribean.”
Actually, Fleet I am 54 years old – does that bother you?
But I will ask again, you the hell are you to challenge my patriotism?
BTW – did you invent the Fleet Enema or are you just a habitual user?
I am guessing that you are a user since you are so full of shit.
That was “who the hell are you …”
Fleet enema’s are very useful for constipated elephants.
Viva La Poo poo
“Fleet enema’s are very useful for constipated elephants.”
Funny!!!!!!!
Thank you, I needed a good laugh!
Fleets, Did you think the other nations were wrong for LOVING Clinton? Hm?
Fleettwood Crap,You got back at all those high school bullies by inventing the grab-n-go enema, didn’t you.
Bush has fucked up so much that Clinton’s legacy is beginning to emerge from the fog.
Fleet Enema’s”Just squeez’em, hold’em, and release!”Ask for them by name.
If the Saudi’s end their friendship with the Bush clan, it’s all over for Jr. MOney’s thicker than blood for Bush’s.
Political Mom,You are adorable.
The Bush’s have been in bed with the Arabs for years fleetwood — that shold piss you off, they harbored Al Qaeda and funded terrorist training — and the bush’s knew it —- you are such a livid blind moron —
For a stress reliever go here:
http://www.toddalbert.com/files/images/bushsmack.swf
Fleettwood, you tried. But it’s as if English is a second language to some posting this thread; considering the responses you have received. It does prove your previous point though, if I may quote;
“Lib = on anyone’s side who hates Bush. Anyone’s.”
PM: Would you please stop posting into the future?
Unbelievable. I’m so disappointed in you people.
I give liberals credit for being very good at playing the victim, and PeeMom is no exception.
It’s always someone else’s fault and someone else’s bad behavior and someone else’s poor planning…
i.e. It’s not her fault that she got kicked out of nursing school for cheating…
It’s never the fault of the employee when he get fired.
One thing liberals NEED to succeed: victims.
I think the problem the followers of bush have here is they do not have a counter example. They don’t have a Democrat President that was verbally attacked by a foreignperson or leader. Maybe a little clue as to foreign relations there?
Look let’s make this simple. You bushies are real bottom line kinda folks correct?
Here’s how it adds up where I sit.
bush has done nothing to help me. He HAS done a considerable number of things that have actually hurt me.
I have a young child. bush has the most powerful position in the world to make the world a brighter future for my kid. He has made the world many times many ways a considerably more dangerous place for my kid to live in.
Last but far from finally? I don’t like the guy. I would not like him if he were a dog catcher or a short order cook or a teller at a small bank. I find him a narrow minded, self aggrandizing bore.
I do NOT want the world to see and hear bush and think HE represents the average American.
bush’s problem with more than half of Americans and most of the world is his own mess. He’s earned his criticism. I will NOT stand up for him continuing to be an idiot.
Got the math now?
Testicles I DID NOT CHEAT!
I DID NOT I DID NOT!
You say that just to be a dickhead instead of addressing what I was talking about. And you, you are a LIAR. I’m 100x’s better of a person than you are.
Outlander, I don’t know why I’m posting into the future, guess I’m just that good lol.
And Jim, I’m adorable? Explain? Can you see me? LOL.
Some comments:
“It’s like siding against your own brother that you don’t like.” – if my brother were a criminal who assaulted my neighbor I would do just that.
” I would have told them to mind their own business.” It IS their business. Bush invaded and occupied a country in their region. He has deliberately and with malice aforethought destabalized the region.
“To agree with foreigners against one of your own, even if you think they are right, is unpatriotic. Period.” So, if a German in the 30s faced someone criticizing Hitler he must defend Hitler? Not me.
Cons = would defend Adolph Hitler if he were one of theirs.
I think I know what Fleetwood Mac (actually I like Fleetwood Mac, so back to Fleets Enema) is trying to say, although I don’t agree with it. Now if the Arabs shot him, yeah, I’d have an issue.
It was like when Ronald Reagan died. It was a sad day for America no matter what side of the fence you stood on. I didn’t like Reagan as president, but I never really felt he did anything but what he felt was right.
When the SJ forum was up at that time, I asked that all be JUST AMERICANS for one day (the day Reagan was laid to rest). Do you know who the butts were that ruined it?
The Reagan Supporters. They just had to be as nasty that day to democrats as any other day. So I don’t wanna hear about how unpatriotic we are for agreeing with other nations- for speaking their mind against what is happening to their own people right now.
PM: Would you please stop posting into the future?
I just got insight into the republicon world. Siding against your brother even if he did something wrong….
That is what it’s all about to them, loyalty at any and all costs. Everyone else is a traitor. It’s never about doing the RIGHT thing.
So it’s okay for Dubya to call other leaders the Axis of Evil, but it’s not okay for another leader to point out his shortcomings?
Oh, boo-hoo! Let’s send mama to beat up the bully.
If only blogging had been around during the Clinton administration… what GLORIOUS bone digs we could have about now!
“Reason 42: Because you will side with foreigners against your president. It’s like siding against your own brother that you don’t like.”
This has nothing to do with choosing sides, it has to do with agreeing with someone’s opinion.
Respect must be earned, and Dubya hasn’t done a thing to earn mine. Obviously that woman felt the same.
“If only blogging had been around during the Clinton administration… what GLORIOUS bone digs we could have about now!”
Are still fixated on Clinton’s bone?
Bush 43 is a total, utter, complete dipshit.
There is no way to pour hollandaise over dipshit and have it smell appetizing. In short, there is NOTHING wrong with calling a spade a spade and a dipshit a dipshit.
If you respect dipshits, fine. Tomorrow morning, I myself will resume discourse with a couple who reside in the buxom of my family, and that’s cool. My dipshit cousins are not politicians, however. They’re not even managers of other humans, and for good reason: they’re dipshits. Neither are they mayors, and neither are they state representatives nor are they state senators.
In short, my dipshit cousins are rightly called dipshits because they are foolish and occasionally contemptible. Just like Bush.
Unfortunately, unlike my dipshit cousins, the dipshit Bush is President of the United States of America.
Equally unfortunately for us Americans who choose to defend dipshits as mayors — and you know this applies geometrically to us Americans who defend dipshits as President — there is no shame in calling a dipshit a dipshit when the shoe fits the mayor’s foot.
Unfortunately it fits the President of the United States foot like a glove.
You have dipshit relatives, too, Pedant?
I’ve got a boatload, myself.
It is a heavy burden we bear, WSClark. ;)
Not NEARLY as big a burden as Bush 43 apologists/cultists bear, but big enough.
Happy holidays everybody!
Well what do we have here.
mmm outie….still the bushbot I see.
Fleet whatever. Guy you oughtta take blogging 101 or something. I’ll give that your posts are short. Much like your vocabulary I expect.
And we got golf nuts.
Fella? I’m starting to take a real dislike to you.
You wanna dish out the attacks you best get ready to defend yourself country clubber.
In terms you can understand? FORE!
YOU posted elsewhere that you are a businessman. THIS means that you make your dime off the back of someone else. You got a lotta nerve attacking someone who works for a living.
See” This is why we hate that sonofabitch bush. Dilute down to his unapologetic blind sheep and ya find a pretty unrespectable slick of the worst among us.
Here is a question to ponder: If you knew that your brother was a serial killer would you turn him in? Would you “siding against your own brother”? I know I would. Apparently there are those who would work to protect and enable him.
Reps = would enable a serial killer if family
Ain’t that right fleettwood and outlander.
“another opportunity to get smirky” – yep, they did get ol’ smirky didn’t they? Thanks for Bush’s new nickname.
To all of you “you’re not an American if you don’t side with your President” dickheads, I have a message for you:
Fuck… You… All!
Just because I don’t kiss the Connecticut Cowboy’s ass and worship the ground he walks on just because he’s the president despite the fact that he’s a complete and total neanderthal, doesn’t mean that I or anyone else is being un-American! Criticism of those in power are inevitable, and when you wage a war based on fubarred intelligence with no exit plan, you best be prepared to take the criticism by the world community like a big boy!
I mean, NEWSFLASH: when you call forth your Head Minions to tell the world that you know EXACTLY the place in Iraq that weapons of mass distruction can be found, when you promise the world that you hold GPS-quality ‘truth’
….but the WMD you promised were never where you swore they were…
….and you don’t resign over it…
….and you never even bother to scapegoat any of your Head Minions…
Then DUH, you get merely a SLIVER of what by all rights known to right-thinking humans you COMPLETELY deserve: your father is insulted publicly by Arabs.
And then you cry about it and try to bait those who recognize a dipshit when they see one.
LOL
I mean the world ain’t perfect but it does function properly on occasion.
Who is this Pedant, and why do I like his posting so very much??
Sarcasm + Tired of Bullshizzleness = funny.
And I’m extremely thankful that all the dipshits in my family will be conspicuously absent at tomorrow’s feast (I’m NOT going to my inlaws!!!)
:)
Happy Thanksgiving, Bloggers. Even Paul Rosell.
Thanks Postal. It’s the Dylan, imo. ;)
bush jr thinks he is at one huge frat party and we the Americans are suffering mightily for it
2009 can not come soon enough
bush and his cohorts should be in the Hague
Just to close my thoughts on this, I recall again the comments of that clown Hugo Chavez, and the Amens he got from the left in this country.Putting politics above national pride and honor like this is what I find unpatriotic.
But liberals, conservatives and all in between, Happy Thanksgiving. I am thankful that we are privileged to live in the greatest country in the world, where we can freely express our opinions in forums like this one.
National pride, outlander? What has Bush done to make us proud?
I used to be proud of our President – when his name was Clinton.
The world and the US loved Bill Clinton.
Remember – 67% approval rating on the day the partisan Republican impeached him?
The world and the US hates Bush.
Remember – 31% approaval rating.
It’s not politics, outlander, it’s survival.
So, out of pride we should blindly support Bush no matter how much damage he does to our country. We should also enable a brother who is a serial killer out of family loyalty.
No, true patriotisn is placing country above love of Party or personality. The patriotic German was the one sho tried to stand up against Hitler, not the one who loyally followed his Fuhrer out of pride and loyalty.
Sadly, I must acknowledge that Hugo Chavez was right. Bush’s high crimes and misdemeanors bring shame upon the country that I love.
Sigh… WS, Ben, you guys make me tired. Where do you get this bit about pride in our president? I am not referring to pride in our president or even support for our president or any other leader. I am talking about pride in our country. I don’t need a great president who I completely agree with to make me proud of my country! I am sorry that you don’t understand.
Happy Thanksgiving Day, outlander.
Watch out for the leg bones, they’re killer sometimes!
Peace.
“The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.”
Teddy Roosevelt in the Kansas City StarMay 7, 1918
“This is going to work out in Iraq,” says George Sr.
Other than Halliburton and the other war profiteers, exactly who is working out for?
Latest polls show 74 percent of the Shia and 91 percent of the Sunnis want US troops out now.
WORST. PRESIDENT. EVER.
Problem is outlander, you sem to equate them. After all, you equate an attack on Bush with an attack on our country; I do not. If Bush is wrong then anyone, here or elsewhere, should be allowed to say so. Similarly, I will attack leaders of other countries if THEY are wrong; that is not then an attack on that country or its people.
an addendum – being called unpatriotic for not defending Bush’s pride? Sorry, I reject that as well.
Well said, Ben. I was going to post a reply to outlander, but you have said it all.
Viva America!
God Bless Our Home!
And remember, God Bless America is a prayer, not a command!
Maybe they don’t like Bush Jr. because 100,000 Iraqies are having to flee abroad every month to get out of their war torn country. How long will it take before there’s nobody left but the U.S. and Al-quida?
A dumbass is still a dumbass, no matter who calls it.
I believe outlander is confusing the president with the presidency. I have the upmost respect for the presidency, as the office holds the leader of this country. However, I do not have to respect the man who holds that office. Big difference.
Steve – the more likely result will be the de facto partition of the country between Iran and Syria. Kurdistan will likely be crushed once again as Turkey will help do that. Bush’s “axis of evil” will be the big winner.
I think one of the concerns of the Gulf states is that the balance of power that had existed there (Syria and Iran vs Iraq) has been destroyed. The ‘axis’ of Syria-Iraq-Iran will dominate the Gulf, especially with Bush’s Wahabi friends ascending in Saudi Arabia.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Well put JM. Where I work I do not expect my subordinates to “respect” me because of my position. I do, however, hope that I EARN their respect by way of my skills and abilities. Ant THAT, by the way, leads to REAL loyalty on their part.
WSC–I’m not obsessed, but it would be interesting to see what FleetEnema would have said when Thao Mbeki criticized Clinton during a state visit back when we HAD a president.
Capn America-ref. your Teddy Roosevelt quote several blogs ago; I have no doubt that GWB is incapable of articulating such a simple profound statement as T.R.’s quote.Clinton could have said that; GHWB could have said that; Reagan could have said that; but Dubya is the only President who can attempt to quote an old idiom “Fool me once….” and sweeps into quoting a Who song “…won’t get fooled again.”
To sum up Dubya in Texas speak: you can’t polish a turd.
Not the first time it’s been said, Walker, but I’m glad you said it anyway. I was little too peeved to be so genteel.
I would add only that fearing criticism by foreign nationals (for Chrissakes, they weren’t even government officials!) is sign of incredible weakness, and arrogance.
We might remember that this nation was founded with “a decent respect to the opinions of mankind.”
http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html
The only interest that the common man in the U.S. has that involves the Middle East is just the oil.There is nothing else that the Middle East has to offer that would affect me.I do not care about how they want to live their life, culture or religion.All this stuff about what they are doing over there did not and does not change anything in the course of my day, my day is the same with them or without them.That is the truth of how I feel about it.Also I do not like the Bush clan, there are a lot of things that they have been doing that seems to be criminal.They are stupid to believe in a way of life that is suitable for them but at the same time fail to understand that there are differences in the way of lifestyle of other people outside of their circle of people that they are in contact with on a daily basis.Bush Sr. should have never gone over there to Abu Dhabi, he was out of touch with the average Americans here and even more so over there.
ROFLMAO! Maube it would help to know that former President Bush was a PAID speaker at this event which had a $1500 entry fee! And some of those critizing his son were AMERICAN ex-pats.
The question historians will be asking is “Was Bush as dumb as he was perceived to be?”
just ask yourseves
“is our children learning”
the dumbfart is the most ignorant person I have ever heard talk
Reagan/Bush were arming both Iraq,Iran and bringing on the Taliban. So between George W. Bush, GHW Bush and James Baker III our country now has many Iran Contra figures sitting in important positions within the government. Wonder why we are pre-occupied with the mideast?
Defense Secretary Nominee Robert Gates Tied to Iran-Contra Scandal and the Secret Arming of Saddam Hussein.
George Herbert Walker Bush pardoned these Iran Contra Criminals:
1 Elliott Abrams2 Charles Allen3 Duane ‘Dewey’ R. Clarridge4 Manucher Ghorbanifar5 Robert C. McFarlane6 Edwin Meese III7 John Negroponte8 Oliver North9 John M. Poindexter10 George P. Shultz
George W. Bush put some some of these back on his payroll. James Baker III brought Ed Meese back for a position on his committee. James Baker asked Robert Gates to be Defense Secretary. Is it any wonder why the Bush admin dislikes transparency? The Iran Contra group are running this government to include James Baker III.
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?sect...
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?tit...
http://www.hereinreality.com/irancontra….
Don’t confuse these Bush supporters with the facts Heckler – it will only annoy them and then they will have to call you all kinds of unpatriotic names.
Of course George W. Bush is pre-occupied with the Middle East – if we can keep the war going – just think of all the profits Halliburton is making. That’s the name of the game – unchecked profits going to the elite few.
What’s remarkable is the Bush pardoned them on Christmas Eve ‘92 for “any crimes they may have committed.”
He pre-empted the legal system.
I think he was protecting himself, as well as his corrupt cronies.