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spanone

(135,823 posts) Sat Jun 21, 2014, 04:36 PM Jun 2014

borowitz: New Painting from President Bush

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DALLAS (The Borowitz Report)—President George W. Bush unveiled his latest offering as an artist today—a painting of what he imagines Iraq looks like now.

Talking to reporters at the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas, the President said he did not read the news before composing his latest work. “I was never big on that,” he said.

Pronouncing himself pleased with his painting of Iraq, Mr. Bush said he was getting to work on a new painting entitled, “The World’s Really Nice Climate.

”http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/06/bush-creates-painting-of-what-he-imagines-iraq-is-like-today.html?utm_source=tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=borowitz&mbid=nl_Borowitz%20(87)

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borowitz: New Painting from President Bush (Original Post) spanone Jun 2014 OP

I would love to see Bush's painting (borowitz's impression) of Cheney. rhett o rick Jun 2014 #1

a few more paintings ... napkinz Jun 2014 #5

thanks!!!!! spanone Jun 2014 #16

Gadwin's law: dixiegrrrrl Jun 2014 #2

Good one! N/T New Orleans Strong Jun 2014 #3

I had a dream my life would be... New Orleans Strong Jul 2014 #18

Your comment is 'spot on'. Paper Roses Jun 2014 #13

Whoa. I like Andy, but this was just done by one of the toonists Doctor_J Jun 2014 #4

Eventually he'll get around to a painting of Mount Rushmore with a chimpish fifth face on it aint_no_life_nowhere Jun 2014 #6

Some in the Bush Administration set up a Shiite lead government in Iraq knowing the young Sunnis men DhhD Jun 2014 #7

Joe Wilson was just interviewed on CNN aint_no_life_nowhere Jun 2014 #8

Syria was never a viable option. Uncle Joe Jun 2014 #11

Thank you for the links, Joe. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2014 #14

You are most welcome, dixiegrrrrl. Uncle Joe Jun 2014 #15

Freaking perfect malaise Jun 2014 #9

man! heaven05 Jun 2014 #10

shouldn't there be flowers and candies? why did he leave those out? azurnoir Jun 2014 #12

I love good satire Gothmog Jun 2014 #17

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)

1. I would love to see Bush's painting (borowitz's impression) of Cheney.

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Sat Jun 21, 2014, 05:10 PM

Jun 2014

I bet he has bad dreams of that monster.

napkinz

(17,199 posts)

5. a few more paintings ...

Reply to rhett o rick (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 21, 2014, 06:18 PM

Jun 2014

spanone

(135,823 posts)

16. thanks!!!!!

Reply to napkinz (Reply #5)

Sat Jun 21, 2014, 09:28 PM

Jun 2014

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

2. Gadwin's law:

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Sat Jun 21, 2014, 05:37 PM

Jun 2014

Guess who else was a failed painter?

New Orleans Strong

(212 posts)

3. Good one! N/T

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 21, 2014, 06:04 PM

Jun 2014

New Orleans Strong

(212 posts)

18. I had a dream my life would be...

Reply to New Orleans Strong (Reply #3)

Sun Jul 13, 2014, 10:34 PM

Jul 2014

...so different from...

Back atcha! xo

Paper Roses

(7,473 posts)

13. Your comment is 'spot on'.

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 21, 2014, 07:09 PM

Jun 2014

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)

4. Whoa. I like Andy, but this was just done by one of the toonists

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Sat Jun 21, 2014, 06:04 PM

Jun 2014

It was a toon showing Stupid at his easel working on a painting like the one shown, and in the background Iraq was a smoldering ruin. Hope he's not plagarizing

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)

6. Eventually he'll get around to a painting of Mount Rushmore with a chimpish fifth face on it

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Sat Jun 21, 2014, 06:24 PM

Jun 2014

and little children in the foreground on a school field trip looking up at it in awe.

DhhD

(4,695 posts)

7. Some in the Bush Administration set up a Shiite lead government in Iraq knowing the young Sunnis men

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Sat Jun 21, 2014, 06:25 PM

Jun 2014

would return and rise up reinventing the War in Iraq. It is what the old warmongers have been waiting for. Maliki was hoping that these young Iraqis would find a new home in Syria, but they came home with some extremist helpers. Bush paints that they will be coming come to Iraq with flowers instead of the war machines of the past Family business.

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)

8. Joe Wilson was just interviewed on CNN

Reply to DhhD (Reply #7)

Sat Jun 21, 2014, 06:43 PM

Jun 2014

Needless to say, he doesn't seem to view Cheney's recent remarks very favorably. Wilson said the current flare up by Isis is being represented as terrorism but it's not. It's just more of the old sectarian violence of Sunni vs. Shiite.

Uncle Joe

(58,349 posts)

11. Syria was never a viable option.

Reply to DhhD (Reply #7)

Sat Jun 21, 2014, 06:58 PM

Jun 2014

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025125182

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-turning-point-new-hope-for-the-climate-20140618?page=4

Syria is one of the countries that has been in the bull's-eye of climate change. From 2006 to 2010, a historic drought destroyed 60 percent of the country's farms and 80 percent of its livestock – driving a million refugees from rural agricultural areas into cities already crowded with the million refugees who had taken shelter there from the Iraq War. As early as 2008, U.S. State Department cables quoted Syrian government officials warning that the social and economic impacts of the drought are "beyond our capacity as a country to deal with." Though the hellish and ongoing civil war in Syria has multiple causes – including the perfidy of the Assad government and the brutality on all sides – their climate-related drought may have been the biggest underlying trigger for the horror.

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