Dubya "not happy" about Iraq hellhole he created

[wtmusic]

"Asked by a reporter about Iraq recently, W.’s eyes flashed and he replied, “I am not happy.”

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In corrupt and violent Iraq, women are getting detained illegally and tortured. The country is awash in a blood-dimmed tide, with nearly 9,000 killed last year and almost 1,000 killed last month, as Al Qaeda and another jihadist group fight for supremacy. In Falluja, the city where nearly 100 American soldiers died in the fiercest fighting of the war, the black insurgent flag now flies over buildings. With the help of his own personal librarian, Laura, W. has been trying to reframe his legacy to take the focus off his botched wars, just like L.B.J.’s family. His presidential library highlights his work on AIDS in Africa, belatedly tapering the roles of his sulfurous regents, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.

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He said that since his heart surgery, he was spending a lot of time painting skulls. Animal skulls, Laura quickly interjected. He continued his campaign to downplay the influence of Cheney, stressing that he had “lots of advisers.” Asked how much he sees Cheney, he said “never” and asserted that he had never been that close to his vice president and the age difference precluded a friendship. So he let an acquaintance ruin his presidency?

W. should know: Some landscapes cannot be painted over. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/19/opinion/dowd-history-get-me-rewrite.html?ref=maureendowd&_r=0

[exboyfil]

1. $1 to $2 T

Later. Thousands of our soldiers dead and tens of thousands maimed for life (not to mention the Iraqi dead).

Thanks George for the present that just keeps on giving.

[wtmusic]

3. I would love to see that fucker face war crimes

before either he or I are dead.

[Pisces]

13. He is guilty of weakness and stupidity, however, the true war criminal is Cheney. He should

be rotting in a jail cell. Bush was the puppet and Cheney was a puppet master.

[Nitram]

16. Along with Rumsfeld, Yohn Yoo and John Bolton

[Laelth]

2. He remains a man of limited intelligence.

He still can't utter a word without proving it.



-Laelth

[riderinthestorm]

4. "Not happy"? That's the best he can do? How about ashamed? Or horrified?

How about "I'm sorry"...

I can think of a million other responses than an insipid "I am not happy".

Despicable man.

[Fumesucker]

5. “There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says..

'Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.'"

[BeyondGeography]

6. Sounds like he's bonding with empty skulls

[unblock]

7. how dare they compare him to lbj.

vietnam certainly sucked, and lbj deserves blame, though some of that can be spread around -- kennedy and most definitely nixon as well.

but lbj was fantastic on the domestic front, and I'd rate him quite high on the list of all time best presidents.

shrub is quite probably at the very bottom, or at least very, very close to it. he was an unmitigated disaster on all fronts.

[Adrahil]

8. Hmmm... invade a country with no real plan of how to stabilize it?

What could possibly go wrong?

[unblock]

10. and one of his original campaign talking points was about exit strategies!

he railed against clinton's involvement in the yugoslavia mess, nevermind we exited that fine with few casualties (if any?)

[Adrahil]

12. Oh yeah....

.... I remember him denouncing Clinton's "nationbuilding" efforts.

Whaddamoron.

[Pisces]

14. THat was Cheney's plan. He is for the industrial war complex and destabilization of the Middle East

[unblock]

9. actually i guess the appropriate response is, "who cares what he thinks?"

[TBF]

11. I doubt W can remember

from day to day what he eats for breakfast. Very very limited. And that would not have to be a bad thing - people are what they are - but it became bad when Cheney took over and did the "thinking" for him. Both should be on trial for war crimes but particularly Cheney because he damned well knew what he was doing.

[B Calm]

15. Seriously, he spends his time painting skulls, WTF!

[madokie]

17. Little late there W

you asshole war criminal anyway.

[progressoid]

18. This is NOT a piece from The Onion.

[pa28]

19. Too bad Nancy Pelosi took impeachment off the table.

Bush might be spending more time testifying in criminal court cases and less time rehabilitating his public image.

[Martin Eden]

20. What I wanted to say to Bush when he left office:

I'd tell you to go fuck yourself
but that is much too kind,
'cause if you could perform that feat
you'd take pleasure in your behind.

I'd like to say eat shit and die
but you deserve much more;
you should suffer all the grief and pain
of your misbegotten war.

Though I can never make you think
or feel, or understand,
I'll take solace when you hear your name
cursed throughout the land

From inside a lonely prison cell
dark and bare and cold,
where every day you pay for your crimes
until you're sick, heartbroken, and old.

Then when you finally leave the earth
you fucked over oh so well,
if there is a God and afterlife
you're going straight to hell.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

21. Hey Bush. Yeah you, fuckface

Go to hell. You and Zimmerman have a lot in common as you act out your guilt.

Skulls? Isn't that a bit derivative? You've heard of Georgia O'Keefe, yes?

[Corgigal]

22. He's not happy?

Hell, go down to visit any VA hospital and see what is happening there. Asshole.