US first lady saddened by Iraq prisoner abuse scandal

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US First Lady Laura Bush says she was deeply saddened by the scandal over US troops' abuse of Iraq prisoners.

Saying the abuses made her "sad, really sad," the first lady told ABC television: "To be perfectly frank I can't bear to look at the ones that have been in the newspaper.

"It is really, really sad, I mean, it is sad. I think we -- we agonize as each of those pictures come out and as we see them. It is a picture we don't want the rest of the world to have of us," she said, adding that she was concerned about US troops safety noting the scandal "makes our troops more vulnerable."

She said President George W. Bush had been "very anguished" by the affair which has done serious damage to the US image abroad, and especially in the Arab world.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040510/pl_afp/us_iraq_prisoners&cid=1521&ncid=1480

take another pill Laura..you'll feel better.

Sure, go bury your head in the sand, Laura. Pretend this stuff didn't happen.

Please, tell me she didn't say that.

as always she says the astounding - and we wonder where W gets his complete lack of ability to recognize how awful and tasteless some of what he says sounds to the ears of others.

with my own ears.

Published on Thursday, April 29, 2004 by CommonDreams.org

Excerpts:

What could be behind the Bush Administration's decision to censor the photographs of flag-draped coffins returning from Iraq? Could it really be, as the government says, to respect "the privacy of the families?" Or is it to hide the realities of war for political reasons? Or is it to protect the delicate sensitivities of the ruling class as Americans die to build them an empire?

As the argument over this censorship continues, I hope people remember a widely-quoted remark made by the president's mother, Barbara Bush, last year during the build-up of the war - the lying time.

"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths," Barbara Bush said on ABC's "Good Morning America" on March 18, 2003. "Oh, I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0429-11.htm






http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0429-11.htm

Bush is truly his Momma's boy.

She truly is a nasty woman. (And way contrary to the sweet, grandmotherly image they attempt to project for her.)

When she was younger, even Richard Nixon was a bit intimidated by her (he allegedly remarked that she was someone who "knew how to hate").

But the sweet grandmother with the cute doggies proves to be a perfect guise, these days. Oh, how could anyone suspect her of anything?

In a way I feel sorry for * -- she managed to get him to be the family enforcer in order to please her, punishing his siblings when they stepped out of line, and she could just stay above it all and never be seen losing her cool and spanking them.

that the pictures got out. They don't give a damn about those people in those prisons. They got caught and that's all they care about.

I wish to see him on trial. Along with her evil doing cabinet and administration.

she's a hypocrite!

can you provide a direct link? I haven't heard of this.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/e1698.htm

According to the two-page accident report, Laura Welch was driving her Chevrolet sedan on a clear night shortly after 8 p.m. on Nov. 6, 1963, when she drove into an intersection and struck a Corvair sedan driven by 17-year- old Michael Douglas.

Although previous news accounts have reported Douglas was thrown from the car and broke his neck, those details were not in the report.

The speed of Laura Bush's car was illegible on the report. The speed limit for the road was 55.

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/people/shows/bush/profile.html

Her late adolescent years were marred by a tragedy that was not highly publicized until her husband's presidential run. When she was 17, Laura accidentally drove through a stop sign and hit a car driven by a high school friend. He was killed. No charges were filed in the accident.

I might be wrong about this, but I have heard that the boy that was killed was either her boyfriend or finance.

If that was a typo, it seems strangely apropos. :)

edit to ask: why does this ninny always wait until everyone has said their piece about something and then comes out and repeats something that someone else already said?? Not one original thought in that stepford brain. It's like someone wrote down what she should say, and then weeks later after she has it all memorized, she comes out with a comment. Did the same thing re: the treatment of women under the Taliban. Repubs think this makes her 'classy'. 'Cause she sits at home with her hands folded in her lap and a frozen otherworldly half-grin on her face.

and it's clear you've been with him too long. I wish you the rest of your lives of happiness. :puke:

Think I'm gonna cry. NOT!

Lady, your frigging husband causes me to be "very anguished" every day he stays in the White House

I'd be "sad, really sad" if I too was married to a depraved war criminal.

Pop another Xanax, Pickles.

She IS one.

:evilgrin:

consider that she's the codependent wife of an abusive alcoholic husband. There's no doubt Bush beat Laura regularly in the old days in Midland when he would go on those binges.

Please point me in the direction of more details.

I've heard about other psychopathic behavior on the part of W - including blowing up animals - but didn't know that there was evidence of abuse.

I won't deny that she may actually feel bad about the pictures she has seen. The torture pictures from Iraq are despiceable, but they are pale in comparison to the suffering this war has caused to the many thousand civilians or soldiers, that were killed and maimed by the unlawful occupation.

Does she grieve for them? Do the pictures of exploded little girls haunt her sleep? Has SHE lost her limbs and her family - or are these just pictures she shrugs off as "collateral damage"?

If she really cared, she would have done everything she could to stop her husband from waging wars.

Being "Married to the Messiah' isn't working out so well after all.

Thanks for your moving statement, Mrs. Bush. Now go back to your corner.

Will Cheney's old hag be out tomorrow at some big time swinging RW university saying how horrified she is?


Ah, those happy days

Babs, Laura and Karen Huge are their tools for keeping the female segment of their base in line.

"Well, she's such a nice lady. If she believes George is a good man, well then that's good enough for me."

Respect for one's fellow man doesn't seem to be a quality you look for in the Cheneys, sad to say.

Unlike other first ladies over the years, her public statements are closely formulated in advance. There's no other explanation for her phony seeming words. They need a better statement writer...

I can see her now...big eyes staring at the camera and blinking every now and again. "It is so sad...."

No, Laura, it isn't just sad it is disgraceful, sickening, mind boggling in its horrific display of man's inhumanity to man, crappy, fully inhuman, foolishly sophomoric, damaging, contrary to our internal descriptions of American morality, terrible, horrible, dreadful, awful, horrendous, appalling, shocking, ghastly, and irreversibly damaging to the image of the United States of America.

In short, it is Hitlerian.

Note to GOP...don't trot out the First Lady to discuss this event again.

in a u.s. prison and then decide if the stuff in the pictures is any more cruel or unusual.

Whats worse? being in one of those photo's? or being an Iraqi non-combatant rounded up, held without charges for 6 months while your family fends without you in a war zone? That prison must have at least 1,000 blameless people that Princess Laura won't worry about unless they get 'excessively' abused on film.

"deeply saddened", "deeply disturbed", "deeply upset." Can't they come up with something else??!!??

And whenever she hits on a new descriptive term for her agony, she uses it several times in the same interview.

that seems to be the word at the moment.

...that's got Pickles upset.

The reason she "agonizes" when each picture comes out is that perhaps she can see the day she has to pack and wave bye-bye to that nice house at 1600 Penn. coming sooner than she had hoped....

She is only concerned about Americas image. (Read Chimpys image) She is as bad as Chimp boy.

Don

She's not as bad as W, though. She's just so used to being a priviledged elite that she really can't conceive of a view which looks at others as her equal. Thus, killing them isn't so bad, torturing them isn't so bad, but when pretty people of her stature are made to look bad, that's an atrocity.

W, on the other hand, is actively mean.

Anyone who would marry a dipshit moron like the chimp - and stay married to him - has serious problems. Laura, you and the chimp are "sad, really sad" pathetic excuses for human beings. Please go away.

when she cancelled the reception for poets because they may be "anti-war"
http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/03/02/27_twichell.html
I saw her on the Christmas special on the Whitehouse decorations, and she said she spent the last year reading the Harry Potter trilogy. I thought that was pretty revealing.

Big rear, big front

It is obvious she is coached on what to say and must memorize it -- nothing she says sounds spontaneous or real.

"If you want to know the history of the Bushes—the marriages, the affairs, the money, the wars, the lies. . . if you want to know the truth—then you must read THE FAMILY."
The Family
The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty
Written by Kitty Kelley

Doubleday September 2004

Or something along those lines?

September, huh? I don't know how much to believe Kelley, but she sure knows how to maximize a market. She also knows how to get people talking. I can imagine Bush being so busy fending off her stories that he can't fight Kerry.

Then again, I can imagine her going Hatfield before the book's release.

C'mon, look at her eyes and tell me she hasn't been abused. Bush got in fights with his own father when he was drunk.

Crime Family.

Pickles couldn't be moved to feel sad unless someone cut off her prescription drug supply.

Piclkes was saying this about 10 days ago (Pics were out):


Speaking at a rally before about 5,000 central Florida residents,(Laura) Bush said the troops are the face of American compassion abroad.

just how *we* are perceived. ::puke::

She has to read the Newspaper to the idiot

Maybe sad about the impact on U.S. soldiers. Doesn't seem sad for the torture victims though - at any rate, they weren't worth a mention.

Don't let it ruin your day, Laura. Maybe it's time to reinvite all those poets to the White House, hmmm?

Oh, how that woman gets under my skin with her drugged gaze. What a hoot and a phony. She married W didn't she? What does that make her? A partner in crime. She is as evil as her spouse is. Bush does not realize he started the US image abroad waaaayyyy before the pictures were published@!!!I don't get those evil doers,Bush and his wife! i really don't? May they burn in that place they created for all those prisoners. I hope to see them naked and langushing with a chain around her and his neck and suffer like the Iraqi man suffered.

" -- we agonize as each of those pictures come out and as we see them. It is a picture we don't want the rest of the world to have of us," she said, adding that she was concerned about US troops safety noting the scandal "makes our troops more vulnerable."

Sounds like a "let them eat cake" statement to me. No comprehension of how other people exist beyond her little circle.

did anyone expect any more from her? I guess today it is my turn to feel defeated by the constant selfishness, greed, stupidity coming out of this administration. And to see how it has permeated throughout this country is enough to make me want to give up. I have had two nightmares now cuz of those pictures .. and how can people even think of doing those things to another life? I mean, how can they form that in their mind?

she probably went to bake some 'brownies' for the boys in the service.
Gee Sad, Sad, Sad!!!
:puke: