It's Time for George W. Bush to Stand Down and Shut Up

[babylonsister]

It’s Time for George W. Bush to Stand Down and Shut Up
‘UNBELIEVABLY BAD’
opinion
REUTERS
It’s outrageous that the president responsible for the disastrous war in Iraq that helped turned the one in Afghanistan into a quagmire is objecting to Biden’s troop withdrawal.
David Rothkopf
Published Jul. 14, 2021 5:59PM ET


George W. Bush, who chose to remain quiet as a churchmouse in the face of almost all of Donald Trump’s crimes and abuses as president, has chosen this moment to offer a critique of a decision of Joe Biden’s.

George W. Bush, who is responsible for the biggest foreign policy catastrophe in U.S. history with the disastrous invasion of Iraq, has chosen this moment to give Joe Biden foreign policy advice.

George W. Bush, who has been at times complicit and at times silent in the face of his own political party’s serial assaults on the rights and dignity of women in America, has chosen this moment to lament what Joe Biden’s decision to at long last pull our troops out of Afghanistan to express his concern for the rights of the women of that country.

Yes, the George W. Bush who launched what has become the longest war in American history, a trillion-dollar plus fiasco that cost the lives of over 2300 American military personnel and of between 35,000 and 40,000 civilians in Afghanistan, has violated his self-imposed policy of not commenting on the policies of his Oval Office successors to condemn Biden’s decision to finally end that war.

He told a German broadcaster, “I think the consequences are going to be unbelievably bad.” He added, “Afghan women and girls are going to suffer unspeakable harm. This is a mistake. They’re just going to be left behind to be slaughtered by these very brutal people and it breaks my heart.”

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[Tomconroy]

1. He is probably right about the consequences.

It just isn't our problem. Never really was. When was Afghanistan not a disaster? The 1960s maybe? Some problems we can not solve.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. He is correct, but since he was in the thick of our biggest mistakes in the area, he should...

just step back and shut up.

[Bristlecone]

2. He kept is poiehole shut while the TFG insulted his dying parents

His brother non-stop, etc. Now he’s got something to say?

Does he think that his legacy is to be Afghanistan? He’s right, it will be. But not in the way he clearly thinks it will be.

[UTUSN]

4. K& big R#5

[luv2fly]

5. But he paints pictures of vets now

So clearly he is a good man and we all obviously misunderstood him decades ago.

[sprinkleeninow]

6. ЯeptiliQanism personified.

"...responsible for the biggest foreign policy catastrophe in U.S. history with the disastrous invasion of Iraq,..."

[Solly Mack]

8. I simply do not believe anyone who would torture people gives a flying fuck about the well being

of the women and girls in Afghanistan.

Or anywhere else for that matter.

Or anyone else.

Either you support human rights or you don't. Pretending it's OK to torture people viewed as guilty of something is the exact same thinking the Taliban uses to harm people.

Being American doesn't make thinking exactly like the Taliban somehow different either.

It's the same thinking.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. W needs to shut up

TFG has made sure that W is not the worst recent POTUS

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. W was the worst POTUS in modern history

Link to tweet

[spanone]

11. everytime I turned on the news yesterday I saw his disgusting face.

fuck this guy....four years of nothing while shithead was plotting to destroy America

[LakeArenal]

12. I know I'll get pushback, but Cheney was the evil guy.

Bush was his puppet. Now we think Liz is okay. She my also be the Dick’s puppet.

I’m with Michelle Obama on W.