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Lint Head

(15,064 posts)
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 11:46 PM Feb 2016

Jeb. Your momma thinks dead soldiers should be ignored

First Lady Barbara Bush "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?" I'll never forget her trashing our dead American soldiers.
She is despicable.

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Jeb. Your momma thinks dead soldiers should be ignored (Original Post) Lint Head Feb 2016 OP
That quote and mainstreetonce Feb 2016 #1
Her beautiful mind is the birth place of nightmares. Solly Mack Feb 2016 #2
Here is the quote. No vid as she said it to a reporter who put it into print, not on video... Purveyor Feb 2016 #3
I thought it was televised on Good Morning America Brother Buzz Feb 2016 #7
One of the most disturbing quotes I have ever heard alittlelark Feb 2016 #4
I'm pretty sure her statement was about Katrina. rickford66 Feb 2016 #5
It was said to Diane Sawyer during the run-up to Bush's war in 2003 .... Brother Buzz Feb 2016 #6
Yeah. People forget. Some too young to remember. Lint Head Feb 2016 #8

mainstreetonce

(4,178 posts)
1. That quote and
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 11:50 PM
Feb 2016

the one about Katrina victims being better off on their shelter cots should be inscribed on her tombstone.

Brother Buzz

(36,444 posts)
7. I thought it was televised on Good Morning America
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 12:45 AM
Feb 2016

The comment arose during a Good Morning America interview with the couple who were formerly President and First Lady, George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush. The interview was conducted by Diane Sawyer in Houston scant hours before the couple's son, President George W. Bush, delivered a televised ultimatum to Saddam Hussein to step down from power and leave Iraq or face U.S.-led military action. The chat with the senior Bushes aired the following morning, 18 March 2003

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/barbara.asp

alittlelark

(18,890 posts)
4. One of the most disturbing quotes I have ever heard
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 12:01 AM
Feb 2016

I solemnly remember it from the lesser GB's stolen terms in 'office'.


Brother Buzz

(36,444 posts)
6. It was said to Diane Sawyer during the run-up to Bush's war in 2003 ....
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 12:34 AM
Feb 2016

almost eighteen months before Hurricane Katrina

Lint Head

(15,064 posts)
8. Yeah. People forget. Some too young to remember.
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 02:32 AM
Feb 2016

People need to be reminded how truly heartless and power hungry, not to mention criminal, these people really are.

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