George W. Bush Won’t Weigh In on Iraq
Source: ABC
Former President George W. Bush will make no public statement on the developing crisis in Iraq, his spokesman said today.
President Bush has vowed not to criticize his successor and does not have a comment, Freddy Ford told ABC News in a statement.
Bush spent years engaged in the war in Iraq, while President Obama campaigned against it and eventually pulled out U.S. troops. Some Republicans have blamed Obama for the violence because they believe the troop pullout has left a security vacuum.
President Obama today ruled out sending U.S. troops back into combat in Iraq despite the threat from a surging army of Islamic militants.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/06/george-w-bush-wont-weigh-in-on-iraq/
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)will he share his wisdom with us pretty please?
deminks
(11,006 posts)DeadLetterOffice
(1,352 posts)Translation: If he DID open his mouth, it would be to criticize.
Asshole.
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)eom
brucefan
(1,549 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)babylonsister
(170,963 posts)WhiteTara
(29,676 posts)Why isn't he in the Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity?
canuckledragger
(1,632 posts)First off, he's not intelligent enough to criticize Obama...and has absolutely no fucking standing ground at ALL to criticize anyone's handling of Iraq and would do well to KEEP his lying mouth shut for good.
24601
(3,940 posts)Bush's were better. Is that why Kerry resisted releasing them?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4684384
"Now a reminder that we are not always what we appear to be, at least not in our college days. The 2004 presidential election pitted two graduates of Yale against each other: John Kerry, who was seen as the intellectual, and George Bush, famously a C student. Well, it turns out that John Kerry's grades at Yale were nearly identical to those of President Bush. Today The Boston Globe made Kerry's college transcript public for the first time. The paper had sought the information during the campaign. Late last month Kerry authorized the Navy to release his record, which included his college transcript."
"The Globe reports that the senator's cumulative grade in four years at Yale was a 76. And the number on President Bush's transcript: 77. While John Kerry declined to release his grades during the race for the White House, President Bush has made political art out of his C-student label."
canuckledragger
(1,632 posts)Bush Jr. has a documented history of family connections covering for him over and over again...what percentage of those grades were due to cheating and/or pressure put on certain teachers?
Although that could just be my bias showing. I really do hate the irresponsible, lying, privileged asshole.
On the other hand though, those family connections were enough to get the supreme court to steal an election for him...what are a few teachers and grades compared to that?
The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)at least on the Forbes side, if not also on the Kerry side. When W was a college student his grandpa had been a US Senator and he was a descendent of one or two US Presidents.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)grades) is at this point, don't you?
Reter
(2,188 posts)He even seemed to have his own opinions, and used big words too lol. Then something happened around 1999 or 2000. Almost like early Dementia.
24601
(3,940 posts)letting hate replace rational thought at the level here leads to the kind of mistakes that cost elections. Interesting to study hate through the writing of the generations before us:
Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Attendee: Brought peace?
Reg: Oh, peace - shut up!
Reg: There is not one of us who would not gladly suffer death to rid this country of the Romans once and for all.
Dissenter: Uh, well, one.
Reg: Oh, yeah, yeah, there's one. But otherwise, we're solid.
Brian: Excuse me. Are you the Judean People's Front?
Reg: Fuck off! 'Judean People's Front'. We're the People's Front of Judea! 'Judean People's Front'.
Francis: Wankers.
Reg: If you want to join the People's Front of Judea, you have to really hate the Romans.
Brian: I do!
Reg: Oh yeah, how much?
Brian: A lot!
Reg: Right, you're in.
documentary/historical source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/trivia?tab=qt&ref_=tt_trv_qu
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)have to do with Bush criticizing Obama by having his flack say he won't criticize him?
karynnj
(59,475 posts)Kerry had some very bad grades in his Freshman year. He improved them in the following three years. Bush was about the same in each and every year. (In stories on his childhood, that COULD even have been adjusting to what succeeds. One comment made about the European school he attended was that his mother was told that it would be better if he were not the best in everything - academics, sports, skiing etc. He was an over achiever in high school as well.)
In Tour of Duty - before the grades were out when asked about his college work, Kerry said he was competent, but not conscientious. He added that he had far too many extracurricular activities - he played 4 sports, was President of the Student Union in both his Junior and Senior years and he was the star debater - not just for his Yale team, but for the entire Ivy League. In his senior year, he learned how to fly a plane. The excerpts of his journal that were quoted in Tour of Duty show he was very well read and extremely good at writing, with a solid background in history.
One thing to consider is that though he was fluent in French since childhood, he got a C in his Freshman year in French. Yet, his French is good enough that to facilitate a last minute resolution of a problem on the interim agreement with Iraq between the French and the Iranians and there was no immediately available translator for the French FM, Kerry suggested negotiating in French - which all three knew well enough. In his recent visit to Brittany, he spoke to the town in French and per a French friend, his French is excellent.
His elementary and high school teachers called him as smart as they come. It really looks like the very young Kerry with the huge increase in freedom that college gave, likely blew off going to some classes. Even in his freshman year, Yale did not seem concerned enough with his grades to push him to drop some of the sports. He was chosen by Yale to give the valedictory address because of his excellent work with the debate team. His speech - rewritten and reviewed by no one in the administration - was quoted by Madeline Albright in a 2006 book on foreign policy because it impressed her and was before its time.
I watched many Senate committee meetings. Watching the meetings, you see who is dependent on their staff and really knows little beyond the questions written for them. Kerry is one, who on the SFRC, Finance, Small Business or Commerce committees, always asked focused, short, tough questions and when they were answered, his follow up questions were very good. (Senator Lugar often let him exceed time limits telling him to continue as the questions were productive.) Another clue is that his peers, in later comments or questions, often referenced Kerry's points. There is no doubt that he is a brilliant man.
In fact, most in my generation first saw him when he spoke before the SFRC. I know that my peers at Indiana University were impressed and there were more than a few comments that it seemed that he was older than the small number of years that actually divided us. I watched him in the dorm's TV room along with many others, when Morey Safer asked if he wanted to be President, no one thought the question far fetched given that he was 27.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,273 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)once the peons got in on merit, people started looking at little details like that.
ffr
(22,649 posts)What a piece of trash!
G.O.T.V. 2014
Every vote counts!
yurbud
(39,405 posts)to do on most issues.
liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)Thinks if he keeps quite, they will forget he was responsible.
Lobo27
(753 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)That ship sailed years ago...
Kingofalldems
(38,361 posts)Lying bastard.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)Not me.
tom_kelly
(951 posts)I remember him using that over and over again "stay the course." It should be thrown around now to those R chickenhawks. Tell them we should stay the f'n course.
Reter
(2,188 posts)Unlike Cheney, he never criticizes the President (that I remember any way). It's almost like he doesn't care. Almost like he was never president.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)In my day, we called that A COP OUT !!! He doesn't want to set himself up for criticism. Of course he's going to keep his pie hole shut
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)President Cheney told me not to talk.........
hibbing
(10,076 posts)Whoops, I mean stay in your mansion in your gated community and keep your mouth shut you lying, immoral sociopath.
Peace
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)the way he opined so brilliantly on the 2012 Romney campaign.
Raphael Campos
(46 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,284 posts)Thanks, asshole.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)"vowed not to criticize his successor". He better keep that trap shut. But you can bet darth cheney will be making the rounds tomorrow.You do the right thing Mr. President. You know how to handle this with aplomb and integrity without lies.
LoisB
(7,079 posts)be on a world-wide apology tour.
antiGOPin294
(53 posts)Now if only that moron would admit that invading that country in the first place was a big mistake. But I'm not holding my breath on that one.
Amonester
(11,541 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,406 posts)Marthe48
(16,692 posts)Bush won't criticize his successor? And refuses to take the blame for what he did. We picked strawberries with our young grand kids last week. We kept telling them to stop running with the buckets, but they didn't listen. When the 3 year old's bucket was nearly full, she ran with it, tripped and dumped the whole thing upside down. She immediately started crying and saying 'I didn't do it! I didn't do it!' She is 3 and we expect her to act like she's 3.
I don't expect denial and refusal to take responsibility from an adult man who wanted to live in the White House so bad, he lied and cheated to get there and had violent henchmen intimidate people who tried to count ballots. Or what the hell, I guess I do.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)He fucking started it, no?