"Bush Sr. Apologizes To Son For Funding Bin Laden In '80s"

[krispos42]

September 26, 2001 | ISSUE 37•34

MIDLAND, TX—Former president George Bush issued an apology to his son Monday for advocating the CIA's mid-'80s funding of Osama bin Laden, who at the time was resisting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. "I'm sorry, son," Bush told President George W. Bush. "We thought it was a good idea at the time because he was part of a group fighting communism in Central Asia. We called them 'freedom fighters' back then. I know it sounds weird. You sort of had to be there." Bush is still deliberating over whether to tell his son about the whole supporting-Saddam Hussein-against-Iran thing.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/bush-sr-apologizes-to-son-for-funding-bin-laden-in,3301/

More of The Onion's Sept. 11th-related articles here:

http://www.theonion.com/issue/3734/

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Arab-American Third-Grader Returns From Recess Crying, Saying He Didn't Kill Anyone

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Etc.

[m00nbeam]

1. Ah, The Onion

I think Bush Sr. needs to apologize to all of us for propping up all those puppet governments for profit.

[I Have A Dream]

2. I knew that it couldn't be true.

There was too much self-reflection for it to be something that Bush Sr. would ever say.

[krispos42]

3. Their family motto is "No regrets, fucker!", I think. n/t

[yurbud]

4. Why would he regret something that made his family money?

[yurbud]

5. A MORE REALISTIC APOLOGY: I'm sorry I didn't make MORE boogey men for you to use

as excuse to start wars.

Why did I put Noriega in jail instead of leaving him in place, so we could invade again like Iraq? I must have been going soft in my old age. Should have listened to Bar. She always said, ''There's more than one way to make them your bitch. Look at our marriage. And she was right.''

[pretzel4gore]

6. the Soviet Union had legal duty to support the threatened Afghan Gov.

Even in joking, the bastards lie. Afghanistan under USSR supported regime was ALWAYS as free as any country on earth- too free according to taliban. The CIA decided to spend $Billions to overthrow pro SOviet gov...hence the Soviet troops trying to stop Rightwing takeoverby mujahaddeen. For bushinc it was/is win win...cuz, in the end, the pigs lie and the big lie cannot be stopped.
But the liars now target the supporters of mr pig themselves. 911 was staged to allow vast defrauding of USA ...after reagan set out to bankrupt the US treasury- make US gov small enough to 'drown in a bathtub' hahaha (see 'Katrina') lol
When will the american people start to fight back?

[Swamp Rat]

7. I head he apologized for mass murder and torture in Central America

NOT!

[nightgaunt]

8. The Bushes had good relations with the III Reich too

If they (Bushes, Ford, IBM etc.) could have taken over in 1934, we would have been on the Axis side. Which would have given us a different 2010. The present ones want us to be the global Dominionist storm troopers.

How will he break the news to Shrub about that?