A message from the George W. Bush Presidential Center

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Dubya says Iraq instead of Ukraine by accident.

To launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq.

 

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We are now supposed to listen to these people?

 

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From the European center for constitutional and human rights.

ECCHR: Criminal complaint against Gerorge W Bush

The UN Convention against Torture obliges member states to investigate suspected instances of torture, regardless of whether the allegations relate to former presidents or members of the government.

www.ecchr.eu

ECCHR and the New York Center for Constitutional Rights had prepared criminal complaints in Geneva for two victims of the post 9/11 US torture program.

Bush is accused of a number of crimes, including violations of the UN Convention against Torture.

According to Michael Haas' book Bush committed 269 war crimes.

 

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Dubya says Iraq instead of Ukraine by accident.

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"My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of (Kuwait) and he wasted it.

If I have a chance to invade Iraq, if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency."

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"My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of (Kuwait) and he wasted it.

If I have a chance to invade Iraq, if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency."

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Bush did a lot of good but he was not Jesus. Only God is perfect and only those presidents who yield themselves to Jesus will be as successful as their subjection to Him causes.

 

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Bush did a lot of good but he was not Jesus. Only God is perfect and only those presidents who yield themselves to Jesus will be as successful as their subjection to Him causes.

He was one of the worst presidents in the history of this country.

That is why the libs love him.

 

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He was one of the worst presidents in the history of this country.

That is why the libs love him.

People love or hate others, not so much for what everyone thinks about their actions but more about differences in their political or religious views.

 

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I'm remembering this tidbit from Rumsfeld when a soldier voiced frustration that Humvees lacked significant armor underneath and they had to apply it themselves from whatever scrap they could obtain in Iraq.

This is not a game we are talking about soldiers dying and being dismembered from IEDs!

Instead of the administration making a promise to get that armor(Back the troops!) Rumsfeld basically tells the soldier to go fuck himself and stop complaining. That is the legacy of Dubya.

 

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Some numbers from the South Carolina republican primary Feb 20th 2016.

This is the legacy of George Dubya Bush. Remember these are republican voters in a state where the former president vigorously campaigned to help his brother Jeb. Jeb had all the big endorsements. Jeb had all the money, over $150M!. Mission accomplished!

2016 South Carolina Republican presidential primary - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Trump-32.51%
Rubio-22.48%
Cruz-22.33%
Jeb Bush-7.84%
Kasich-7.61%
Carson-7.23%

I have been watching politics for a long time. Majored in it in college. I have never seen such a complete rejection of voters in your own party! His dad was president. His brother was president. The power brokers of the republican party were behind him and he could not get 8% of the vote!!!

That is how bad a president Dubya was.

 

[mark francis]

I'm remembering this tidbit from Rumsfeld when a soldier voiced frustration that Humvees lacked significant armor underneath and they had to apply it themselves from whatever scrap they could obtain in Iraq.

This is not a game we are talking about soldiers dying and being dismembered from IEDs!

Instead of the administration making a promise to get that armor(Back the troops!) Rumsfeld basically tells the soldier to go fuck himself and stop complaining. That is the legacy of Dubya.

Ironically, my company supplied additional armored protections to Ft. Bragg vehicles during the early years of the Hillary-inspired Gulf war.

 

[mark francis]

Some numbers from the South Carolina republican primary Feb 20th 2016.

This is the legacy of George Dubya Bush. Remember these are republican voters in a state where the former president vigorously campaigned to help his brother Jeb. Jeb had all the big endorsements. Jeb had all the money, over $150M!. Mission accomplished!

2016 South Carolina Republican presidential primary - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Trump-32.51%
Rubio-22.48%
Cruz-22.33%
Jeb Bush-7.84%
Kasich-7.61%
Carson-7.23%

I have been watching politics for a long time. Majored in it in college. I have never seen such a complete rejection of voters in your own party! His dad was president. His brother was president. The power brokers of the republican party were behind him and he could not get 8% of the vote!!!

That is how bad a president Dubya was.

I'm sure Bush had some weak points, bad ideas, and failures, but he still advocated in 2005 for the revocation or revision of the failing Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 which he saw was leading the US towards a banking collapse, but democrats blocked his efforts, and the end result was the 2008 financial collapse he predicted.

 

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I'm sure Bush had some weak points, bad ideas, and failures, but he still advocated in 2005 for the revocation or revision of the failing Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 which he saw was leading the US towards a banking collapse, but democrats blocked his efforts, and the end result was the 2008 financial collapse he predicted.

I disagree. Everything Bush touched turned to crap. Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Katrina and 2008. Tora bora!

Bush gave Pakistan $10B to help with this war on terror. Bin Laden was living right next to their military academy for 9 years! How humiliating that Obama got Bin Laden and not tough guy pub Bush.

The handling of the Iraq occupation was incredibly inept.

 

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I disagree. Everything Bush touched turned to crap. Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Katrina and 2008. Tora bora!

Bush gave Pakistan $10B to help with this war on terror. Bin Laden was living right next to their military academy for 9 years! How humiliating that Obama got Bin Laden and not tough guy pub Bush.

The handling of the Iraq occupation was incredibly inept.

Bush gave Pakistan billions, Obama gave Iran Billions, Biden gave Iran billions, and USAID has given Hamas millions. I don't see how any of that helped keep innocent people from being butchered by unbelievers worshipping false gods.

Bush tried to stop the irresponsible mortgage lending practices that resulted from the banking deregulation bill of 2000 but democrats stopped him.

The Dems did it! | Canada Free Press
Financial markets crisis can be traced directly to President Clinton revision of Community Reinvestment Act

The Dems did it!

By Henry Lamb ——Bio and Archives--October 5, 2008

When Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and other upstanding Democrats point to the “failed policies” of the Bush administration as the cause of the current chaos in the financial markets, they are deliberately trying to transfer the spotlight from their own party’s mistakes. The current crisis can be traced directly to President Clinton’s revision of the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA).

The revision essentially required banks to expand their loan portfolios, to include more low-income customers. Bank examiners rated banks on their compliance with these revisions. Community organizations such as ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) were empowered to comment on bank compliance. Banks quickly learned that a generous donation to these organizations was easier than defending themselves against complaints filed by these organizations. Loans made to low-income borrowers were immediately sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, whose policies also were revised to allow the purchase of these loans. The task of revising Fannie Mae’s regulations fell to Herb Moses, Director of Product Initiatives, who was also the homosexual “lover” of Rep. Barney Frank, who was a member of the House Banking Committee which had oversight of Fannie Mae. These policy revisions were, in hindsight, spectacularly stupid. Rather than income verification, and standard debt-to-income analysis, a welfare check stub, or enrollment in a credit-counseling program were acceptable as “proof” of ability to make mortgage payments. Freddie Mac specialized in the repackaging of these mortgages into securities which carried the federal government’s seal of approval, and resold them through the financial markets. The structure of disaster was almost complete. The Clinton administration directed federal agencies to expand credit, particularly home loans, to low-income buyers. ACORN, and other community organizations were empowered to promote loans and encourage banks to make them, and Fannie and Freddie were instructed to buy the loans. The Federal Reserve joined the parade by reducing interest rates to help facilitate these loans. No wonder the housing market exploded. Countrywide, once heralded as the nation’s largest CRA lender, with $600 billion in sub-prime mortgages, was among the first to fall. Lehman Brothers, an eager buyer of Freddie Mac securities, also collapsed. Then fell Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; the ripples are still rippling across the financial markets. As early as 2004, the Bush administration tried to increase regulation of Fannie and Freddie, but ran into stiff opposition from Democrats, especially from Barney Frank, who was afraid that lending activities would be sacrificed in the name of market risk. Now, Frank is blaming the Republicans for failing to enact reforms that he and his party blocked. During the high-flying days at Fannie and Freddie, more than $200 million was spent on lobbyists and political contributions. Chris Dodd, Democrat Chair of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, collected $165,400. Barack Obama received $126,349, and Barney Frank got $42,350, of the $4.2 million the two housing giants gave to Congressmen. Clearly, the Democrats caused the problem by insisting that mortgage money be made available to people who could not qualify for a mortgage under normal banking procedures. Democrats, led by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, blocked Republican efforts to tighten the regulations that governed Fannie and Freddie. Now, Democrats point the finger of blame at the Republicans. The current crisis is yet another example of the mess government makes when it indulges in social engineering by trying to manage a free market. The declaration that all people have a “right” to housing was a popular theme among liberals in the 1990s. So popular, in fact, that in 1994, a lame-duck Democratic Senate ratified a U.N. treaty which effectively adopted the obligation to provide housing to everyone. Relaxation of the lending requirements at Fannie and Freddie was one way of meeting this new U.N. obligation. The division in Congress, and in the country, about what caused the problem and what to do about it is a bright line between the people who believe government power must be limited by the people who are governed, and the people who believe government must limit the power of people who are governed. The people who subscribe to unlimited government power have achieved ascendency in Congress, and in the country. This philosophy results in disaster. On the other hand, people who believe that the power of government must be limited by the people who are governed, may see the urgency of getting angry, active, and involved in government at every level. The people who share this belief are the people who have the power to unseat socialist politicians and unleash another era of freedom and prosperity.

 

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Jeff Daniels the dumb and dumber actor said that if Kamala was elected she would have been like Lincoln and would have named Liz Cheney as her sec of state.

He meant that as a positive thing!!

Trump has melted these people's brains! Let's have Dick Cheney's daughter making foreign policy? Dems saying that.

You people are idiots.