George W. Bush Bashes Obama on Middle East
Source: Bloomberg
Apr 26, 2015 9:21 PM EDT
By Josh Rogin
In a closed-door meeting with Jewish Donors Saturday night, former President George W. Bush delivered his harshest public criticisms to date against his successor on foreign policy, saying that President Barack Obama is being naïve about Iran and the pending nuclear deal and losing the war against the Islamic State.
One attendee at the Republican Jewish Coalition session, held at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas with owner Sheldon Adelson in attendance, transcribed large portions of Bushs remarks. The former president, who rarely ever criticizes Obama in public, at first remarked that the idea of re-entering the political arena was something he didnt want to do. He then proceeded to explain why Obama, in his view, was placing the U.S. in "retreat" around the world. He also said Obama was misreading Irans intentions while relaxing sanctions on Tehran too easily.
According to the attendee's transcription, Bush noted that Iran has a new president, Hassan Rouhani. He's smooth," Bush said. "And youve got to ask yourself, is there a new policy or did they just change the spokesman?
Bush said that Obamas plan to lift sanctions on Iran with a promise that they could snap back in place at any time was not plausible. He also said the deal would be bad for American national security in the long term: You think the Middle East is chaotic now? Imagine what it looks like for our grandchildren. Thats how Americans should view the deal.
Bush then went into a detailed criticismn...
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Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)rury
(1,021 posts)imperialist chickenhawk neocon.
SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)Because President Obama said Dick Cheney was the worst "President" in his lifetime at the WHCD.
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)potone
(1,701 posts)It is truly mind-boggling how much damage he managed to do. We are still digging out from it.
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)setting things up for Islamic State
George Dubya Boosh should be known as the Father of ISIS.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,155 posts)He should be in prison.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)we need to prove their billion$ irrelevant this coming election
NRaleighLiberal
(60,019 posts)The man's never uttered anything remotely useful. He should just crawl back into his bathtub and paint his toes again.
Then again, his utter uselessness did drive me to find DU in 2004 - so I can "thank" him for that at least!
4now
(1,596 posts)Why should anyone listen to you.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)AngryDem001
(684 posts)This 'man' makes my blood turn white hot.
He ruined everything. Fuck him.
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)Can shut his stupid mouth. How dare he. That man took us to two wars, paid it with a credit card and brought America to her knees. He nearly destroyed us financially. WHO THE HELL EVEN LISTENS TO HIM?
hibbing
(10,109 posts)Go back to trying to paint your soul clean.
Peace
merrily
(45,251 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)Iraq was Bush's personal Vietnam. He is such a narcissist he's proud of it. Dimson indeed.
gordianot
(15,243 posts)Drug is a word that has been with George the lesser for a long time.
He's likely a dry drunk on drugs.
gordianot
(15,243 posts)Which came first the drugs or the alcohol? I would guess he binged on both and today gets a prescription probably without access to the medicine bottle.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)Shut up and go take a nap.
MoreGOPoop
(417 posts)in the War Machine, especially for Double-Dippers. Only a Fascist War Pig would curse Peace.
geomon666
(7,512 posts)You fucking Nazi! You destroyed the Middle East. It's completely unstable because of you and your rancid fucking family. The only American trying to do anything actually fucking helpful in the region is Obama and this fucking Bush ghoul has the fucking temerity to criticize him? This walking shit pile belongs in a gulag.
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Botany
(70,581 posts).... started Dick Cheney's war for oil and money?
BTW w's not talking to N. Korea allowed them to make some A-bombs and some
ICBMs and not talking to Iran put them from having no nuclear weapons programs
to having 20,000 centrifuges in order to make bomb grade uranium
MisterP
(23,730 posts)but I never said Obama was the one who literally pooped the bed: with * I can't be sure
if I liked depraved Faulknerian idiot manchildren whose friends always told them they were literally God I'd be working for Cruz '16
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Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)I doubt if he would have thought all that stuff up by himself.
NBachers
(17,136 posts)There is a hollow place inside George Bush where the wails of the screaming dead shred his bloody soul. The time will come when he can no longer drown them out. They have him for eternity. I will not be pretty.
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)By bashing Obama, so as to distract from the substance of his brother's nefarious plans for America after 2016.
A lot of people have already forgotten his own failed foreign policy - a foreign policy that other Republicans (his brother among them) subscribe to.
I hope this strategy doesn't work, but American voters' attention spans are notoriously short.
SunSeeker
(51,697 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)or more accurately, "he" is deciding.
One attendee at the Republican Jewish Coalition session, held at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas with owner Sheldon Adelson in attendance, transcribed large portions of Bushs remarks.
SunSeeker
(51,697 posts)I guess his jaw must be getting tired so he's sending in Shrub.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)you mean he's doing Jebbie on the side????
SunSeeker
(51,697 posts)INdemo
(6,994 posts)because his IQ would not allow him to use these structured sentences.
Karl Rove maybe wrote the script ?
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)Eom
merrily
(45,251 posts)No matter what else you might want to say about Dimson, he is not chutzpah deficient, bless his heart.
Optical.Catalyst
(1,355 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)douggg
(239 posts)says the worst President in our country's history - Bush, whose incompetence led us into 9-11.
GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)Shut up you ridiculously incompetent drunk fuck-wit. What you couldn't do in 8 years (Kill OBL) it took less than Obama's first term to hunt down, sanction & make him disappear.
See that shit-lord? That's how you kill your enemies. The NYC way.
Arkana
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bemildred
(90,061 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)Junior left a huge fucking mess for Obama to deal with.
Botany
(70,581 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)DFW
(54,436 posts)Cheney was the worst president of his lifetime.
Bush, dba POTUS, was just along for the ride, reading "ecolectic" selections of literature to pass the time, and being misunderestimated.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)...and take your pals, the Saudi Royals, with you.
samsingh
(17,601 posts)they are like snakes who eat anything.
tavernier
(12,400 posts)Talk your little heart out, because Nobody will get Dems to the poles on Election Day to vote against Jeb quicker than your insane blathering. PLEASE TALK TALK TALK!!!
olddots
(10,237 posts)And he is a complete moron admired by sub morons .
tclambert
(11,087 posts)"See, a good President doesn't worry about facts. You can have folks make 'em up for you. And then you can go get that fella who embarrassed your daddy. Heh, heh."
yurbud
(39,405 posts)Last edited Mon Apr 27, 2015, 04:48 PM - Edit history (1)
Not enjoying as much as bush did
realFedUp
(25,053 posts)Stick to bad folk art paintings George. Why do we see him as the "slow" Bush.
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)They (republican) make deals with a foreign state prior to being president ( Ronald Reagan) (Richard Nixon) that's normally and is treason, in fact it is treason---the republican way.
Then when you are a republican you turn the white house into a criminal enterprise (Richard Nixon).
Then you have 47 mind you republican senators signing a letter to circumvent the constitution that they run around and say they love to undermine a sitting president by the name of Obama under the Logan Act.
Then to top it all off we have this criminal coming out from under the rock a man and his administration that murdered 4685 solders , over 2800 contractors ( some who were mercenaries-like Blackwater)
and over 100,000 Iraq civilians
Then we had the republican right wing business people in 1933 you trying to overthrown the government of FDR with the likes of :
Irenee Du Pont - Right-wing chemical industrialist and founder of the American Liberty League, the organization assigned to execute the plot.
Grayson Murphy - Director of Goodyear, Bethlehem Steel and a group of J.P. Morgan banks.
William Doyle - Former state commander of the American Legion and a central plotter of the coup.
John Davis - Former Democratic presidential candidate and a senior attorney for J.P. Morgan.
Al Smith - Roosevelt's bitter political foe from New York. Smith was a former governor of New York and a codirector of the American Liberty League.
John J. Raskob - A high-ranking Du Pont officer and a former chairman of the Democratic Party. In later decades, Raskob would become a "Knight of Malta," a Roman Catholic Religious Order with a high percentage of CIA spies, including CIA Directors William Casey, William Colby and John McCone.
Robert Clark - One of Wall Street's richest bankers and stockbrokers.
Gerald MacGuire - Bond salesman for Clark, and a former commander of the Connecticut American Legion. MacGuire was the key recruiter to General Butler.
Now the question should be asked---should this party of Tories should go back to England along with there hero Benedict Arnold------my answer YES
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Bush and Co belong in the Hague.
polynomial
(750 posts)Bush trashed the economy, then with Cheney introduces torture as a key tool in American war time operations implemented into a war developed by lies, complimented by the media by paid commercials.
Now, Bush proceeded to explain why Obama, in his view, was placing the U.S. in "retreat" around the world.
However, huge populations of war immigration spilled into what is now a boiled over caldron, the conjured mess of Middle East long term war profiteering. Now, with American servicemen committing suicides at a rate as never before.
Now Bush a longtime friend and business partner of the Bin Laden family profiteered for decades. Only the media is silent about this action which is treason.
Little talked about by our mainstream media, along with Cheney and Halliburton with mystery mercenaries that played both side for money making a mess so severe there is no recourse but to end the American involvement and move forward to indict Bush and Cheney for war crimes, war profiteering, torture, treason.
There is no other way to put closure to such human atrocity. Bush and Cheney know that so there is no recourse but to continue the lie and lie big.
But they will have to confess and that will open the Republican political party that will eventually transform away from the Nazi fascist Bush Cheney policies.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Fortunately, not all Jews have drunk the repukelican koolaid. Sheldon Adelson doesn't represent Jewish views on the ME---he is just another RW nutjob.