What I Think of George W. Bush

[WilliamPitt]

Regarding his wounded veterans fundraiser fee ...



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What I Think of George W. Bush
By William Rivers Pitt
Truthout | Op-Ed

Tuesday 14 July 2015

I think of mud, but that doesn't work, because mud is just wet soil, and wet soil is fertile. Good things grow in mud, and so I apologize to mud for making the comparison, even though it was only in my head a scant moment.

I think of oil, of scum, viscous and stinking like a fetid scrim across a Northeastern pond that has literally been shat to death by geese who stay the year round because the idiots who live beside what once was bucolic splendor feed those geese throughout the winters, and so the geese never fly south in their iconic wedge formation, but instead stay, and eat balls of begged Wonder Bread, and defecate into blue goodness until it becomes a green and murky gloom.

I think of rot. Of deep odor. Of a smell so overwhelming it becomes a sound in itself, a buzzing, a roar, a perfect maelstrom of helpless vomit and swimming eyes, of shaking hands and splintered nerves, of sightless pupils staring up from the gyre of shredded bodies birthed by war, of viscera lying in the dust of the road beneath the pitiless sun next to the shrieking orphan, the howling widow, the fatherless boy who in his wrath collects the dropped rifle and holds it tight to his narrow chest in a perfect pledge of vengeance.

I think of mud, and scum, and rot, and death, of the deep wheel of rage and revenge that has been unleashed even as it turns, I think of the futility before it, and the greed behind, I think of malice aforethought, of punishments so richly deserved but as yet unlevied ... and in doing so, I think of George W. Bush.

The rest: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31859-what-i-think-of-george-w-bush

[BlueJazz]

2. Although I think your assessment of Mr. Bush is a little tame, I do get the feeling that he won't...

...be joining us for dinner tonight.

[TexasProgresive]

3. What other kind of behavior could be expected from

an uncharged A.W.O.L. deserter, a failed business man who like Trump managed to come up on top with the help of his friends, a commander in chief of the United States Armed forces who was not elected but selected by 5 partisan supreme court justices and sent thousands of men and women to suffer injury death while causing the death of thousands of others just to bolster his self-esteem.

Like those of his party he only cares for those who will profit him. That's the only way he would offer "support" to wounded veterans.

[ion_theory]

4. When I hear anti-Bush talk I always like to ask...

Do you think Bush is truly evil, meaning knowingly committed to actions that will inevitably end in death and suffering for most and wealth for the few, or he's just a trust-fund baby who is being used by the truly evil overlords and is going down what he believes is the best path for the country? I think it's a mixture but more of the latter (with a racist twist) but curious what other think.

[WilliamPitt]

5. He knew exactly what he was doing.

The most successful president in US history ... according to the goals he laid out, and the goals of his friends.

Hands down.

[MuseRider]

8. Exactly

I use the same line about Brownback. It is time to stop giving them excuses for not being bright or just being ideologues. They know exactly what they are doing and they do it well. Pure evil intent for their benefit and the benefit of their pals.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. I tend to agree with you.

W is despicable, of course, but I've always thought of him more as the feckless, clueless tool of the really evil Dick Cheney and the other neocons. Of course it was evil to do what he did, not caring about the consequences (or maybe not thinking about them), but W seems to have the mind and intent of a frat boy who wanted to show off what a tough guy he is. Cheney, on the other hand, actually seems to enjoy creating mayhem. There was a movie by Oliver Stone, "W," that I think was probably pretty accurate - it depicted him as basically a dumb, weak drunk who wanted to impress his Poppy. Stone was criticized for not being tough enough on W, but I suspect there was a lot of truth in that portrayal.

I'm not defending Bush by any means; of course there is also great evil in seeing what bad acts others are up to and failing to use the power you have to stop them. W was Cheney's Mini-Me and he allowed himself to be his puppet because he loved the importance and prestige of the presidency. If a little death and destruction came with the job, too bad. I guess that's pretty evil too.

[hifiguy]

17. I tend to agree with you.

His Chimperial Fraudulency is at core an ignorant, simple-minded, ineffectual little pisher who could be used by the powers behind the throne to sell a message to the sheeple. He is an inherently a nobody, a nebbish, and were his (or Jebbie's) last name not Bush they'd be managing a Payless Shoe Source in Mattoon, Illinois or a Denny's in Sioux Falls SD.

Chimpy was good at taking orders from Cheney and the rest of the neo-con monsters, really wanted to play Pretzeldent like his daddy, and generally behaved the way a 13-year-old would behave in the office. He's a nasty, malevolent little man, but ther is no way he could have dreamed up the horrors the Cheney/Rummy/Rice/Wolfowitz gang dreamed up for him to order. He is just not that bright. Left to his own devices he would have been relatively harmless and a bad but not record-shatteringly horrible president.

[Zorra]

11. No excuses. He's a psycho mass murderer, who makes Charlie Manson look like a cherubic,

innocent 5 yr old choir boy in comparison.

Bush knowingly murdered, maimed, and dispossessed, etc, hundreds of thousands of innocent people for his own profit and control, and for increased profit and control by other wealthy private interests.

We fucking told him, and we shouted it at the fucking rest of the fucking bloodthirsty warmongers, and we did it every day 24/7.

No excuses. Bush and Cheney should be sharing a cell in the worst maximum security Iraqi prison that exists.

They're all guilty. "But, and "We Didn't Know!" simply doesn't fly here. We know they knew, because we very thoroughly and carefully explained it to them, every fracking goddam day before and during the war.

2002:

The Bloodstained Path
by Dennis Kucinich

Unilateral military action by the United States against Iraq is unjustified, unwarranted, and illegal. The Administration has failed to make the case that Iraq poses an imminent threat to the United States.

There is no credible evidence linking Iraq to 9/11. There is no credible evidence linking Iraq to Al Qaeda. Nor is there any credible evidence that Iraq possesses deliverable weapons of mass destruction, or that it intends to deliver them against the United States.
snip---
We know that each day the Administration receives a daily threat assessment. But Iraq is not an imminent threat to this nation. Forty million Americans suffering from inadequate health care is an imminent threat. The high cost of prescription drugs is an imminent threat. The ravages of unemployment is an imminent threat. The slowdown of the economy is an imminent threat, and so, too, the devastating effects of corporate fraud.

America cannot and should not be the world's policeman. America cannot and should not try to pick the leaders of other nations. Nor should America and the American people be pressed into the service of international oil interests and arms dealers.

http://www.progressive.org/node/1424

Fuck Bush.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025096568

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7108924

Fuck Bush.

[spanone]

12. actions speak louder than anything. yes, truly evil.

[MuseRider]

7. Speak it!

I almost could not get through your description but if one had hid my eyes, read it to me I would have guessed who you were talking about before they got to the end of it.

Have not read the rest yet but will.

Would make a nice Christmas card sent to the home, doncha think?

[Bigmack]

9. ...and the charity itself is a ripoff...

...according to Charity Navigator.

They don't even bother rating Help for Heroes, since there is a bunch of litigation and complaints around them. The fucking TeaPublicans are just drawn to rip-offs like flies to shit. Have you heard the ads on RW radio lately..? "Online Trading Academy".

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=14973#.VaUqbcYzZ-k

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. Yup. Why would any charity pay those ridiculous speaking fees to Bush

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(or anyone else for that matter) unless there's some kind of scam going on? This "charity" hires Bush to attract more flies to its shit, paying him with money that should have been used for its ostensible purpose. Instead, it just feeds itself. I can't imagine a legitimate charity paying that much money to any speaker. And, of course, W is a dick for accepting it; but we all know he's a dick.

[alterfurz]

13. Bush speech: tl;dr version

$20,000 per word:

[WilliamPitt]

14. Up

[KamaAina]

15. Mom has called people like Bush* "pond scum" for years

[hifiguy]

18. The entire Bush crime family gene pool

needs a couple of 55-gallon drums of chlorine dumped into it ASAP.

[Octafish]

16. Sulfur

Smells like.