Originally Posted By Bob Paris Well, the US did. Twice. GEORGE W. BUSH 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington , DC 20520 EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE LAW ENFORCEMENT I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine , in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver's license suspended for 30 days. My Texas driving record has been "lost" and is not available. MILITARY I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I refused to take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use. By joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam COLLEGE I graduated from Yale University with a low C average. I was a cheerleader. PAST WORK EXPERIENCE I ran for U.S. Congress and lost. I began my career in the oil business in Midland , Texas , in 1975. I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas . The company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock. I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money. With the help of my father and our friends in the oil industry, including Enron CEO Ken Lay, I was elected governor of Texas . ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making Texas the most polluted state in the Union . During my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions in borrowed money. I set the record for the most executions by any governor in American history. With the help of my brother, the governor of Florida , and my father's appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after losing by over 500,000 votes.
Originally Posted By ChurroMonster I would only hire him if the government was giving me some kind of incentive for hiring someone with a mental disability.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney I found one mistake in this part: "I am supporting development of a nuclear "Tactical Bunker Buster," a WMD. I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring Osama Bin Laden to justice. " Should say supporting development of a "nucular"....
Originally Posted By dshyates Palin/Wurzelbacher 2012 It could happen! Rocks for Barins and the Thickhead.
Originally Posted By dshyates It always helps ones slam on others intelligence if they spell "Brains" correctly. I must be presidential material.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris "Bob, did you find this online somewhere?" It was sent to me as an email. Kinda scary, aint it?
Originally Posted By pecos bill Thousands of young Americans, and untold thousands of Iraqis would still be alive were it not for this man and his sinister administration. I am completely baffled as to why he is not being criminally prosecuted. After eight years of this, the thought of honor and integrity in the White House is almost too good to be true.
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka Congress won't move to prosecute him because they are just as guilty of supporting the war in Iraq. I'm sure some of them were just too afraid of being labeled as un-American and voted out of office to disagree with him (Ahem, Dems) but, to me, makes them *worse* than the people who believed it was the right thing to do.
Originally Posted By ChurroMonster George W. Bush is the greatest war criminal of our generation. But he had help.
Originally Posted By Mr X I'd have to see some details before I'd call him a "war criminal"... That's taking things a step too far imho. Yes, Iraq was mismanaged. Yes, it was a mistake to begin with. But lest we all forget, this all didn't start with HIM...it started with a bunch of middle eastern agents turning lower Manhattan into a mortuary. Involved or not in the direct planning, Hussein supported and encouraged it, and later praised it. It would have been well within the rights of any American president to turn the entire Middle East into a parking lot. Just sayin.
Originally Posted By Mr X Having said THAT (wow, I think Ronald Reagan just channeled through me or something lol), I'd say THAT would've been the preferred course of action compared to the intentional stripping of basic rights from AMERICANS (wire-tapping, spying, fearmongering...) which is the crux of my problem with Bush and his way of doing business. It's too easy to forget what THEY did to US on the face of it, and scream "CRIMINAL!" about Bush...and in that sense I can understand DAR and his point about "torture and kill em all, and let God sort em out"... On foreign policy, Bush had carte blanche (he really did). What he did back in America though...THAT was the real crime (and I'm concerned that President Elect Obama has not addressed correcting THAT stuff along with the other stuff he plans to reverse on day one...but I'm hopeful and I know it's a delicate issue).
Originally Posted By Skellington88 If George W. Bush and Sarah Palin had a baby...would it be the dumbest baby ever?
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Hey X - it was illegal. It was an invasion of a sovereign state without the authority of the UN security council. Add in the endorsement of torture as an instrument in contravention of the Geneva Convention. Then the suspention of the writ of habius corpus as well as the erosion of civil liberties in the US. I saw no where near as much protest and anger as over this Prop 8 debacle. And that I find sickening.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney Agree and agree dave. >>Involved or not in the direct planning, Hussein supported and encouraged it, and later praised it. It would have been well within the rights of any American president to turn the entire Middle East into a parking lot.<< So, X, you're saying that because Sadaam Hussein said "YAY" when the Twin towers came down, we had the right to go attack his country, kill him and many thousands of INNOCENT Iraqi people, against the UN?? Then we had the right to dump all over the Geneva Convention and just torture whomever we wanted, without even charging some with anything?? That surprises me. I don't think you were channeling Reagan, I think you were channeling my MOM!!!!!
Originally Posted By DyGDisney I forgot to add that Bush LIED to the American people to convince us that his war was necessary and justified.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Agreed and yet X you go and call people prejudiced bigots over the Prop 8 stuff. You know I think the world of you, but this really does not gel.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***I saw no where near as much protest and anger as over this Prop 8 debacle. And that I find sickening.*** Whoa. Sheilds down, Captain. I've spoken out against torture and the destruction of civil rights here COUNTLESS times in the strongest possible terms. You find my comments "sickening"? I think you just haven't been paying attention to what I've written over the YEARS here bro. Sorry you're feeling so angry or whatever, but I'm pretty comfortable with the positions I've taken on these issues. Now, on the whole "illegal" issue, all I'm saying is that we didn't need ANYONES' permission to pursue the culprits of 9/11 or their supporters. We didn't ask anyones' permission to war with Japan after Pearl Harbor, did we? And no, that doesn't mean I believe Hussein was directly involved of course. But would you claim that Hussein WASN'T plotting, funding and supporting agents from all corners in efforts to harm the U.S.? YES, I have a problem with Bush lying to the world about the reasons for going into Iraq. But my point is, he didn't have to. ***Then we had the right to dump all over the Geneva Convention and just torture whomever we wanted, without even charging some with anything??*** Absolutely not. Where did I ever say that? Why are you claiming I did?
