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31. From the Hooda Thunked It Dept.--Obama to attend the Bush overdue library book dedication.

Obama Is Comfortable With Bush's Inferno

By Ralph Nader, Common Dreams

22 April 13



eorge W. Bush is riding high. A megamillionaire, from the taxpayer-subsidized Texas Rangers company, he makes $150,000 to $200,000 per speech, receives a large presidential pension and support facilities and is about to dedicate the $500 million George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum on April 25.

President Obama will be at the dedication, continuing to legitimize Mr. Bush, as he did from the outset by announcing in 2009 there would be no investigations or prosecutions of the Bush officials for their crimes.

In an interview with the New York Times, Mr. Bush continued to say he has no regrets about his Presidency. "I'm comfortable with what I did," he said, "I'm comfortable with who I am." He added, "Much of my presidency was defined by things that you didn't necessarily want to have happen."

But he and Dick Cheney made them happen, although Mr. Bush attributed some military events to Providence. One of the "things" he is comfortable with was his criminal, unconstitutional invasion and occupation of Iraq, which took over one million Iraqi lives - children, women and men - created 5 million refugees and committed overall sociocide on that country which posed no threat to the U.S. The carnage continues to this day by a militarized al-Qaeda-in-Iraq that didn't exist before his invasion.

Apparently, Mr. Bush is "comfortable" with the price paid by the U.S. soldiers and their broken families - over 5,000 fatalities and suicides, 200,000 injuries, illnesses and traumatic syndromes - and by U.S. taxpayers, who over time will pay an estimated 3 trillion dollars according to Nobel Laureate and economist, Joseph Stiglitz.

Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has said repeatedly that Bush and Cheney "lied us into invading Iraq." Such an understatement. Bush and Cheney not only lied about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, they also deceived, covered-up, corrupted or intimidated the mass media, bullied an abdicatory Congress, and delivered a false address to the United Nations with the now regretful Secretary of State Colin Powell.

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http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/17066-obama-is-comfortable-with-bushs-inferno