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Bush Says He Will Harm Nation Differently from His BrotherBY ANDY BOROWITZ * FEBRUARY 18, 2015 * The New Yorker
CHICAGO (The Borowitz Report) In an effort to distance himself from the legacy of his brother, George W. Bush, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush will use a major foreign-policy speech on Wednesday to assert that, if elected President, he would harm the nation in completely different ways.
A lot of people are looking at me and thinking that Im just going to be a rerun of my brother, Bush told reporters before the speech. They are greatly underestimating my ability to create chaos and destruction in ways that are uniquely mine.
As an example, Bush said, he was unlikely to invade Iraq for a third time, calling such an action too derivative.
George already did it, and Dad did it before him, he said. Call it my independent streak, if you will, but I want to spawn some disasters of my own.
To that end, Bush said that he and his foreign-policy team were already scanning the globe for new and different places where the United States could become involved in open-ended and pointless quagmires.
I see boundless opportunities for the reckless and totally optional insertion of American military force, he said. No offense to my brother, but there were a few spots that George missed.
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BOROWITZ : Bush Says He Will Harm Nation Differently from His Brother (Original Post)
99th_Monkey
Feb 2015
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n2doc
(47,953 posts)1. Too close to the truth to be really funny n/t
randys1
(16,286 posts)2. He also has a hard on for completely destroying public education.
According to what I heard today he has a record of doing so as Governor, a remarkable record in that harm was his agenda.
SunSeeker
(51,559 posts)3. K & R