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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 04:06 PM
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The first inkling I got that Bush didn't care about the suffering or anyone...
Edited on Tue May-27-08 04:08 PM by kpete
Vincent Bugliosi
George Bush's Unseemly Response to the Suffering He Has Caused
Posted May 27, 2008 | 02:24 PM (EST)


Before I get into specific instances of Bush laughing and having fun throughout the entire period of the inferno he created in Iraq, I want to discuss a number of more indirect but revealing incidents that reflect he could not care less about the human suffering and carnage going on in Iraq, or anywhere.

1. The first inkling I got that Bush didn't care about the suffering or anyone, not just those dying in Iraq, was from an article in the September 22, 2001, New York Times just eleven days after 9/11. Though 3,000 Americans had been murdered and the nation was in agony and shock, the man who should have been leading the mourning was, behind the scenes, not affected in the tiniest way. The article, by Frank Bruni, said that "Mr. Bush's nonchalant, jocular demeanor remains the same. In private, say several Republicans close to the administration, he still slaps backs and uses baseball terminology, at one point promising that the terrorists were not 'going to steal home on me.' He is not staying up all night, or even most of the night. He is taking time to play with his dogs and his cat. He is working out most days." So right after several thousand Americans lost their lives in a horrible catastrophe, behind the scenes Bush is his same old backslapping self, and he's not letting the tragedy interfere in the slightest way with the daily regimen of his life that he enjoys.

2. One thing about Bush. He's so dense that he makes remarks an intelligent person who was as much of a scoundrel as he would never make. They'd keep their feelings, which they would know to be very shameful, to themselves. On December 21, 2001, just a few months after 9/11 -- a tragedy that shocked the nation and the world in which 3,000 Americans were consumed by fires, some choosing to jump to their deaths out of windows eighty or more stories high -- Bush, who could only have been thinking of himself, told the media: "All in all, it's been a fabulous year for Laura and me." He said this because that is exactly the way he felt. What difference does 9/11 make? I'm president. I love it, and Laura and I are having a ball.

Indeed, on January 20, 2005, right in the midst of the hell on earth Bush created in Iraq -- when the carnage there was near its worst and American soldiers and Iraqi citizens were dying violent deaths every day -- Bush, referring to himself and his wife, told thousands of partying supporters at one of his nine inaugural balls: "We're having the time of our life." Can you even begin to imagine Roosevelt in the midst of the Second World War, Truman during the Korean War, or LBJ and Nixon during the Vietnam War, saying something like this?


more at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vincent-bugliosi/george-bushs-unseemly-res_b_103592.html
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villager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 04:10 PM
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1. and yet, completely consistent for a sociopath, yes?
n/t
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 06:45 PM
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11. Yes. n/t
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 04:11 PM
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2. Bugliosi
This is the first time i agree with him
I sure dont agree with him on JFK
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 04:13 PM
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3. Exactly...
You beat me to it.
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Jim__ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 04:17 PM
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4. Never mind - just saw that this is an excerpt.
Edited on Tue May-27-08 04:21 PM by Jim__
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rock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 04:32 PM
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5. He should watch "Dexter"
He could use a few good pointers.
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zonmoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 05:59 PM
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6. I think it was his behavior over the woman that he mocked
before having her executed in texas that showed his sociopathic nature. I figure there was plenty of evidence of it before then. I have a bit of knowledge of the subject because of my reading done for a bit of amateur writing I have done in the past.
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 06:09 PM
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7. There is no doubt that GW Bush is a Silver Spoon Sociopath.
He is the perfect tool for the Multi-Natl. Corps. to plunder this planet.
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rdenney Donating Member (432 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 06:49 PM
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12. Bush: "dont forget to keep shopping folks" post 9/11 comment.
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 08:09 AM
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16. With a Mama like his, how could he not be?
Edited on Wed May-28-08 08:09 AM by Virginia Dare
this is the woman that went golfing right after her child's funeral.
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KSinTX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 06:26 PM
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8. I'm guessing his golf sacrifice is tied to Moore's movie snip
I hadn't put those two moments together. Glad to see he suffers, having given up golf and all.
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bluesmail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 06:37 PM
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9.  * along with Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Feith, Bolton, Miers,
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-27-08 06:43 PM
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10. The writer left out the interview about W* and Pickles
finally going back to the WH after 9-11 and the SS came for them in the middle of the night over some fear of another attack. They way they spoke of it, laughing, joking around, it was cold as an iceberg. I live way the hell off in Texas, and it bothered me and disturbed my sleep more than it did theirs. 9-11 was a big joke to them.
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wryter2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 02:40 PM
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17. I remember that
They had told the Secret Service they were going to sleep in their bed. In the middle of the night, there was a report of a plane approaching the White House, and the Sec. Serv. hustled them downstairs. She made some joke about being in her bunny slippers and told an interviewer that the day had a funny ending to it.

:wow:
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 04:13 AM
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13. there's a word for someone totally incapable of empathy . . .
I think it's something like "sociopath" . . .
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truth2power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 04:49 AM
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14. I prefer "psychopath". n/t
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Tracer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 07:53 AM
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15. And the BBC outtake of * immediately before announcing the Iraq invasion ...
... where the asshat is smirking, joking and pumps his fist and says "Feels good!"

Then puts on his phony "serious and concerned" mask to deliver the speech.

:puke:

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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 02:44 PM
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18. My first inkling was the execution of Karla Faye Tucker in 1998
in Texas when the asshole was governor. She begged for her life and he mocked her. How anyone could believe this man had any kind of moral fibre or faith when he was so cold and heartless about a person begging for their life is beyond me.

To him she was no better than the animals he tortured as a child.
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