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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 04:11 PM
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Bush defends his invasion and occupation of Iraq
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31000497/
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The decision to go to Iraq was "hard," he said, but he hopes people will accept that it was the right one, for the sake of peace. (WTF!!!)

"Freedom is transformative," said Bush, who will make a public appearance with former President Bill Clinton in Canada today. "The belief that freedom is universal exists in peoples' souls all over the world. And if we take the lead, people will say, 'Thank God he never lost faith in democracy.'"

Next to the time he learned America had been attacked by terrorists, Bush said his most troubling time was the near economic collapse late in his presidency. Told inaction would lead to a crisis worse than the Great Depression, Bush said he decided he had to intervene to prevent widespread stock market collapse and bank failure.

"That's a sobering moment," he said. "I thought about it, and I didn't really want to be that president. So I abandoned free-market principles."

The former president said none of his current or future statements should be seen as passing judgment on President Barack Obama or the new administration's policies. Yeh right!!!

STFU war criminal. :puke:
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 04:13 PM
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1. F*ck you, George! You lied then and your lying now...
I hope you rot in the Hell of your own making!
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katty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 04:14 PM
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2. American Psycho
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 04:15 PM
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3. Condi Rice in 2002: "Save your breath, the President has already made up his mind" about Iraq
Edited on Fri May-29-09 04:16 PM by derby378
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/05/29/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5049651.shtml

Richard Haass, the author of "War Of Necessity, War Of Choice" and president of the Council on Foreign Relations said the decision to go to war with Iraq was "taken absent a serious rigorous process," on "Washington Unplugged" Friday.

In the book, Haass depicts a meeting with then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in July of 2002 in which he asked, "are you and the president sure you want to" go to war with Saddam Hussein, "I don't think it is necessary. It will cost an awful lot."

"She said, 'save your breath,'" Haass told host Bob Schieffer. "The president has already made up his mind."

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Haass said the "stunning" part of the meeting was that that it happened nine months before U.S. went to war and that "no meeting had happened in which all the pros and cons of going to war had been carefully or fairly laid out."

"It was extraordinary that a decision of this magnitude could have been taken absent a serious rigorous process," he said.

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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 04:16 PM
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4. Whoa!
"The belief that freedom is universal exists in peoples' souls all over the world. And if we take the lead, people will say, 'Thank God he never lost faith in democracy.'" - Da Chimp

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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 04:20 PM
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5. A few more months are needed before America is ready to see Bush as a Senior Statesman....
Edited on Fri May-29-09 04:20 PM by Junkdrawer
A few more for the Right to deify his memory.

No one ever lost money betting against America's memory and resistance to propaganda.
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ConcernedCanuk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 07:41 PM
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6. I think Bush should test his theory in the courts of Iraq
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Let's see if the Iraqis would like to have his spirit join Saddam's

Just the fact that GW is still spouting his genocidal vitriol

convinces me he should be treated as a sociopath.

Ignored, and isolated.

I think there may be a few vacancies at Gitmo

NO IT'S NOT TORTURE GEORGE!

you said so!

enjoy

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PufPuf23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 08:02 PM
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7. There is less freedom and less peace in Iraq or the USA
because of the GWB administration, neocons/neoliberals, and the apocalyptic "Christian" metaphorical Satanists.

The wealth and income distribution disparity in the USA had grown to one of the worst states in the history of our Nation under GWB and the current volatility in the stock market is no evidence of recovery but rather profit taking / capital outflow by those that play market volatility rather than market value and a continuing increase in wealth concentration and a diminishing market value for most hard assets.

Iraq and other actions, many thwarted, were pre-meditated; read PNAC Redefining American Defenses (Sept 2000).

One wonders about the Obama control as what is happening in space (hampered from the plan to militarize and monopolize) and now cyberspace too and the new separate AFRICom; all called for in the September 2000 Report that many are most acquainted because of the necessity of a "New Pearl Harbor" motivation quote for the neocon agenda. The dull prose explains much of what is attempting to be implemented, albeit on a slow time line -- google Manas -- with more setbacks than expected. Hubris that puts us in danger.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 08:03 PM
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8. Fush Buck
:D
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