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elleng

(130,126 posts)
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 11:38 AM Jun 2014

Not long but good, from Robert Reich:

I'm here in Florida visiting my father, Ed Reich, who, at the young age of 100 and a half, just came up with one of the most incisive assessments I've heard of what's happened in Iraq: "George W. Bush and the crooks he hired are responsible for this. If they hadn't lied to the American people about weapons of mass destruction we wouldn't have lost nearly 5,000 American lives and god knows how many Iraqi lives, and stirred up this hornet's nest. Obama has spent his entire administration cleaning up Bush's shit, like someone with a giant pooper scooper." Dad has lived during the administrations of 17 presidents. "Bush was the worst," he says. "Reagan the second worst."

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Not long but good, from Robert Reich: (Original Post) elleng Jun 2014 OP
Go, Ed! Gidney N Cloyd Jun 2014 #1
He's a great guy, elleng Jun 2014 #2
17 presidents! That's impressive! god bless... CTyankee Jun 2014 #3
Yes indeed. elleng Jun 2014 #4

elleng

(130,126 posts)
4. Yes indeed.
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 08:14 PM
Jun 2014

He's a lovely, intelligent, good-humored gentleman, friend of my uncle and mother, and also friend of my Dad. I recall seeing signed photo from President ?, in honor of Ed's mother's 100th birth, at Ed's apartment.

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