BushCo's new meme: 50 years from now people will say "Thank God" Bush attacked Iraq

[sabra]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23181563

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“I firmly believe that the mission will yield peace,” Bush said during a stop in Arusha, Tanzania. “Iraq is changing. Democracy is beginning to take hold. I’m convinced 50 years from now people will look back and say thank God there were people who were willing to sacrifice.”

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=e1980580-0fc8-40c9-a62b-053a3150fba4&k=76930

Karl Rove speaks out about his controversial image

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He acknowledged that Bush is a very unpopular president, partly because of the Iraq war.

"But I think that people will look back at the Iraq war and say 'Thank God, he had the courage to do what he did.'

"I think we're seeing the emergence of a potentially stable democracy in the heart of the Middle East."

He disputed a reporter's reference to the war becoming a quagmire. "The military is succeeding, the violence is down."

[DS1]

1. Next available corner, 50 years

on the highway of Bush.


Too bad we had so much corner-turning in the first few years, 50 is a long stretch and I've got to pee!

[TexasObserver]

2. I'm sure Herbert Hoover thought the same thing.

Bush has only his alcohol shrunken brain and his delusions left.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. but Mr Bush there weren't many terrorists in Iraq before you invaded it!

it was when u invaded it they all started to roll in! LOL! Besides what did God have to do with it?

[shain from kane]

4. 49 years of Hell on Earth, bound to run out of targets. Civilian population destroyed. Oil stolen.

Oh Hell, yes. Peace on Earth.
And then there's that Rapture thing, so no one will give a shit anyway.

[Virginia Dare]

5. If there's anybody left in 50 years that is...n/t

[blondeatlast]

8. John McCain: running to protect Bush's legacy. Since we'll be slowly disappearing

in 50 years, we'll actually remember these days with fondness.

"Kids, those were the days. We actually wore the clothes we wanted--not fatigues. Most of us didn't arm ourselves against our next door neighbors. We even were allowed to believe we vaoted and it mattered.

The good old days."

[Virginia Dare]

10. I remember going to Disney World..

before the big flood took Florida out...:scared:

[Winterblues]

6. Maybe and maybe not but right now 80% of the world thinks

you are a war monger and created unwarranted death and destruction of an enormous magnatude..The very large percentage of the world despises the ground you walk on.

[alfredo]

7. Sure our enemies will think that because this war is doing to us what

Afghanistan did to the USSR.

[LynnTheDem]

9. It's a bet (and a guarantee) that they won't. But 50 years from now, they will be saying

bush's illegal war of aggression against Iraq was the biggest military blunder in US history.

[RaleighNCDUer]

17. No kidding. There should be a new edition of Tuchman's

"March of Folly" for this.

[genie_weenie]

11. Well, his statement does logically follow the premise

god choose bush to be president.

Therefore people will say thank god his chosen one invaded iraq.

[Ezlivin]

12. His only hope is that someone will say something positive about him or his policies AFTER HE'S DEAD

It ain't happening now and it won't happen in the future, Mr. Bush.

Face the reality that you are an utter failure and a blot on the earth's history.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

13. Ah...50 years ago, back in the "above-ground" days

Sure it was nice to bask in the sun and run barefoot through the grass. But we were in so much peril. We didn't even realize it at the time.

Now that we're protected by permanent bunkers - er, "rock-hewn vestibules" (wasn't that the name on this week's update? I can't keep up), the terrorists can't get to us. I am so glad our government had the courage to escalate conflicts with fanatics who had access to nuclear weapons. It looked chaotic and full of blunders at the beginning, but now we see how it was all part of the plan.

More mushrooms?

[NNN0LHI]

14. I bet the million or so innocent Iraqis he murdered won't be saying that

[Proud Liberal Dem]

15. I beg to differ

Even if all of their hopes and dreams(nightmares) about Iraq are finally realized, I honestly don't think that anybody in their right mind could ever argue that it was worth the price (which has not even been fully realized yet) in terms of lives (both Iraqi and American) and money spent in pursuit of them, particularly when all of the Bush (mis-)administration's reasons and justifications for invading Iraq proved to be hyped or outright false. They also criminally neglected the welfare of the Iraqi people and their remaining infrastructure (with the exception of the Oil Ministry of course) during the post-invasion period and created an atmosphere in which torture and abuse of detainees was condoned and likely even encouraged. There is just NO possible way that I can think of historians 50, 100, or even a 1000 years from now will look back on what the Bush (mis-)administration is doing in Iraq favorably. The larger question here for me is why does our country seem to go through another Korea/Vietnam-like military disaster every so many years and why don't "we" ever seem to learn from these kind of mistakes and more importantly, why can't "we" seem to get ourselves out of our own messes quicker once "we" realize our mistakes? Those are the kinds of questions that historians will be more likely to be studying 50 years in the future.

[spanone]

16. what else can he say?

[Javaman]

18. yeah, thank god that moron* killed 1 million Iraqi's and to date close to 4000 US soldiers

and counting. yeah, thank god we pissed off the whole world. yeah, thank god he destroyed the US economy. yeah, thank god, the ran roughshod over our rights. yeah, thank god, he promotes fear as a tool. yeah, thank god, he condones torture. yeah, thank god, he spies on his own citizens.

yeah, thank god. which god was that? not mine.

[ladjf]

19. 500 years from now, the United States will remain as the

cardinal enemy of the Iraqi people. They will never forgive us for murdering over a million of their people and displacing another several million. The hatred if the U.S. will be a permanent part of their culture.

[AlphaCentauri]

20. prophet Karl

writing history on the fly?

[Danascot]

21. 50 years from now

(though probably more like 5) people will be wondering how 250 Americans stood by and did nothing for 8 years while the country and the constitution came under the most dangerous and damaging attacks in its 300+ year history, accomplished by domestic terrorists called the Bush administration..