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You have single quotes. The list I furnished was a mere fraction of all the Bushisms. One year's worth. Shall I post them all?
All presidents have said stupid things. But NONE come remotely close to Dubya. He really is a national treasure that way.
I notice that you chose to ignore my post (post 119) showing how your list is a joke. Statements taken completely out of context to further an agenda. Just continue doing it. Can you say lack of credibility?
First, thanks for pointing out that President Clinton was very successful at keeping Saddam Hessein in check WITHOUT going to a disastrous war.
How is letting a dictator get away with defying HOW MANY UN RESOLUTIONS keeping anyone in check? Nice try, but nope. Clinton had no balls. How many terrorist attacks under his watch? How much planning went on, in the US, by the terrorists, under his watch? He was too busy entertaining Hollyweird, playing his sax and keeping tabs on Monica....maybe the incident in Somalia was too much for him.
You rely on snopes.com? The man and wife team from CA who are liberals and their little "snopies" are more than biased? Get a better source. Like one that is taken seriously instead of being found out for what it is.
[/quote]Speaking of quotes, though. Here's a dandy from W's Daddy:
"Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in midstream, engaging in "mission creep", and would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible. We had been unable to find Noriega in Panama, which we knew intimately. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under those circumstances, furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-cold war world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the U.N.'s mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different — and perhaps barren — outcome. "
- George H.W. Bush[/quote]
I'm sorry, I wasn't talking about GHWB and what the world was like in the late 80's and early 90's. Why are you?
How is letting a dictator get away with defying HOW MANY UN RESOLUTIONS keeping anyone in check? Nice try, but nope. Clinton had no balls. How many terrorist attacks under his watch? How much planning went on, in the US, by the terrorists, under his watch? He was too busy entertaining Hollyweird, playing his sax and keeping tabs on Monica....maybe the incident in Somalia was too much for him.
You rely on snopes.com? The man and wife team from CA who are liberals and their little "snopies" are more than biased? Get a better source. Like one that is taken seriously instead of being found out for what it is.
Speaking of quotes, though. Here's a dandy from W's Daddy:
"Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in midstream, engaging in "mission creep", and would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible. We had been unable to find Noriega in Panama, which we knew intimately. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under those circumstances, furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-cold war world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the U.N.'s mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different — and perhaps barren — outcome. "
- George H.W. Bush[/quote]
I'm sorry, I wasn't talking about GHWB and what the world was like in the late 80's and early 90's. Why are you?[/quote]
Are you saying "Just because nearly everything went bad during Dubya's administration doesn't prove he is stupid"???
How is letting a dictator get away with defying HOW MANY UN RESOLUTIONS keeping anyone in check? Nice try, but nope. Clinton had no balls. How many terrorist attacks under his watch? How much planning went on, in the US, by the terrorists, under his watch? He was too busy entertaining Hollyweird, playing his sax and keeping tabs on Monica....maybe the incident in Somalia was too much for him.
You rely on snopes.com? The man and wife team from CA who are liberals and their little "snopies" are more than biased? Get a better source. Like one that is taken seriously instead of being found out for what it is.
Speaking of quotes, though. Here's a dandy from W's Daddy:
"Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in midstream, engaging in "mission creep", and would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible. We had been unable to find Noriega in Panama, which we knew intimately. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under those circumstances, furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-cold war world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the U.N.'s mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different — and perhaps barren — outcome. "
- George H.W. Bush
I'm sorry, I wasn't talking about GHWB and what the world was like in the late 80's and early 90's. Why are you?
cause...W's pappy was right! Invading Iraq was a stupid, stupid idea and a complete failure. What had changed in Iraq from 1990's to 2002? It was dumb to hit your own head with a hammer in 1991, and it's still dumb today.
Snopes provided all the quotes with context. Can you deny that? Was there something factually wrong with the snopes site? Cause it affirmed that all those Democrat quotes were true.
Amen! People forget that bills are signed into legislation for specific periods of time, and the president who inherits them is limited in what he/she can do about changing it. As for Hussein, we took good care of him, like we did Pinochet and other right-wing dictators, which is one reason that so much of the world resents us. The Constitution says that
pre-emptive war is illegal, as is the outing of a CIA agent (a bill that Poppy Bush enacted after Philip Agee spilled some CIA beans. Dubya got
away with far too much, and now we're screwed. That being said, he sounded like someone of average intelligence when interviewed with Clinton yesterday about Haiti. Average. He is indeed an embarassment.
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