George H W Bush has died
12-01-18, 12:07 AM
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Another warmongering imperialist racist murderer who will be praised to high heaven by sycophants. Good riddance, the only shame is he died of old age and not brought to justice as the war criminal he was.
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12-01-18, 01:31 AM
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Only 7 months after his wife died.
4 living Presidents left... and Carter's pushing it at 94.
Never realized that Trump, Bush Jr. and Clinton were born the same year.
Canada has 8 living PM's left - must be the universal healthcare.
4 living Presidents left... and Carter's pushing it at 94.
Never realized that Trump, Bush Jr. and Clinton were born the same year.
Canada has 8 living PM's left - must be the universal healthcare.
12-01-18, 01:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Coral
Only 7 months after his wife died.
4 living Presidents left... and Carter's pushing it at 94.
Never realized that Trump, Bush Jr. and Clinton were born the same year.
Canada has 8 living PM's left - must be the universal healthcare.
4 living Presidents left... and Carter's pushing it at 94.
Never realized that Trump, Bush Jr. and Clinton were born the same year.
Canada has 8 living PM's left - must be the universal healthcare.
12-01-18, 07:45 AM
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I didn't like him when he was president and I liked what that radical Newt Gingrich was doing. In hindsight, Gingrich was scum and Bush was the last Republican president whom I respected.
12-01-18, 08:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Supermallet
Another warmongering imperialist racist murderer who will be praised to high heaven by sycophants. Good riddance, the only shame is he died of old age and not brought to justice as the war criminal he was.
He was an imperialist? The whole Communist block fell under his watch as East Germany and USSR were gone by 1991. Of course he doesn't get all of the credit, as it was a 40 years of our Presidents being tough on Communism since the Cold War started.
He was a Warmonger? Iraq invaded Kuwait, and they were a key Middle East Ally in there and he drove Hussein's troops out in 1 month with minimal deaths from previous Wars (Many Senators like Ted Kennedy predicted another Vietnam). He did not go into Iraq like his son did, because he knew that it would open up a can of worms establishing a new government.
Racist? He appointed Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, or he is not black enough for your liking cause he's a Conservative?
I still don't understand your War Criminal comment? Are you thinking about his son? George Bush Sr was a War Hero who fought in WW2, so maybe you missed that part on his biography.
12-01-18, 08:21 AM
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Originally Posted by coli
Wow, that is a lot of generalizations.
He was an imperialist? The whole Communist block fell under his watch as East Germany and USSR were gone by 1991. Of course he doesn't get all of the credit, as it was a 40 years of our Presidents being tough on Communism since the Cold War started.
He was a Warmonger? Iraq invaded Kuwait, and they were a key Middle East Ally in there and he drove Hussein's troops out in 1 month with minimal deaths from previous Wars (Many Senators like Ted Kennedy predicted another Vietnam). He did not go into Iraq like his son did, because he knew that it would open up a can of worms establishing a new government.
Racist? He appointed Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, or he is not black enough for your liking cause he's a Conservative?
I still don't understand your War Criminal comment? Are you thinking about his son? George Bush Sr was a War Hero who fought in WW2, so maybe you missed that part on his biography.
He was an imperialist? The whole Communist block fell under his watch as East Germany and USSR were gone by 1991. Of course he doesn't get all of the credit, as it was a 40 years of our Presidents being tough on Communism since the Cold War started.
He was a Warmonger? Iraq invaded Kuwait, and they were a key Middle East Ally in there and he drove Hussein's troops out in 1 month with minimal deaths from previous Wars (Many Senators like Ted Kennedy predicted another Vietnam). He did not go into Iraq like his son did, because he knew that it would open up a can of worms establishing a new government.
Racist? He appointed Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, or he is not black enough for your liking cause he's a Conservative?
I still don't understand your War Criminal comment? Are you thinking about his son? George Bush Sr was a War Hero who fought in WW2, so maybe you missed that part on his biography.
Yes, Bush Sr was a warmonger... using war for the benefit of himself and his cronies. Just as with the 2nd Iraq war, a president Bush used lies to convince a country to engage in war.
There were quite a few significant lies that the administration used to justify the war... one was a supposed eyewitness testifying how Iraqi soldiers were taking Kuwaiti babies out of incubators and throwing them on the floor to die. That later was revealed to be a lie.
I won't go further because if you are genuinely interested in the truth about Bush 41, I'm sure you can use the google machine to get that information.
12-01-18, 08:23 AM
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Re: George H W Bush has died
Originally Posted by Supermallet
Another warmongering imperialist racist murderer who will be praised to high heaven by sycophants. Good riddance, the only shame is he died of old age and not brought to justice as the war criminal he was.
12-01-18, 08:28 AM
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Re: George H W Bush has died
Originally Posted by Supermallet
Another warmongering imperialist racist murderer who will be praised to high heaven by sycophants. Good riddance, the only shame is he died of old age and not brought to justice as the war criminal he was.
12-01-18, 08:34 AM
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Originally Posted by inri222
Edited my original post since it was directly calling you an asshole, which isn’t right. Not sure if you’re an asshole in real life, but your thumbs upping Super’s disgusting post is pretty bad.
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12-01-18, 08:56 AM
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It almost makes sense to create 2 threads in times like this. One for folks to pay respects to the departed. The other for folks to spew out whatever hateful thoughts they have about the one who has passed.
It's impossible to agree with every decision President Bush made, but I certainly respect his career and lifelong public service.
It's impossible to agree with every decision President Bush made, but I certainly respect his career and lifelong public service.
12-01-18, 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Cardsfan111
It almost makes sense to create 2 threads in times like this. One for folks to pay respects to the departed. The other for folks to spew out whatever hateful thoughts they have about the one who has passed.
It's impossible to agree with every decision President Bush made, but I certainly respect his career and lifelong public service.
It's impossible to agree with every decision President Bush made, but I certainly respect his career and lifelong public service.
12-01-18, 09:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Cardsfan111
It almost makes sense to create 2 threads in times like this. One for folks to pay respects to the departed. The other for folks to spew out whatever hateful thoughts they have about the one who has passed.
It's impossible to agree with every decision President Bush made, but I certainly respect his career and lifelong public service.
It's impossible to agree with every decision President Bush made, but I certainly respect his career and lifelong public service.
Originally Posted by sracer
I won't go further because if you are genuinely interested in the truth about Bush 41, I'm sure you can use the google machine to get that information.
I don't care if they are Democrat or Republican (I've voted for both), but some of these comments are just crazy extreme views as Bush 41 wasn't some Warmonger/Racist/Imperialist. In fact, his coalition for the 1st Gulf War included half of the world (unlike his son who essentially got Great Britain on board as his coalition). Bush 41 got a resolution from the United Nations to drive Hussein out of Kuwait and that is EXACTLY what he did, as an Imperialist would have gone into Iraq and taken Hussein out (We can debate his son in another thread as that was a different War).
I have no problem with anyone disagreeing with President Bush or any President about his legacy, but that post by Supermallet was just a bunch of adjective that he seemed to get off his chest that seemed pretty extreme.
12-01-18, 09:46 AM
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I don't have a problem with Bush declaring war on Iraq after Iraq invaded Kuwait.
Bush invaded Panama on the pretext that a Panamanian soldier had insulted a female US citizen. We captured the chief of state of Panama, tried him in US courts, and sentenced him to a US prison. That's peak imperialism.
It can be justified by the facts that the Panama Canal is critical to US interests, that the US had made Noriega the boss and regretted the action, and that Panama hasn't had a gangster for a president since then.
Bush invaded Panama on the pretext that a Panamanian soldier had insulted a female US citizen. We captured the chief of state of Panama, tried him in US courts, and sentenced him to a US prison. That's peak imperialism.
It can be justified by the facts that the Panama Canal is critical to US interests, that the US had made Noriega the boss and regretted the action, and that Panama hasn't had a gangster for a president since then.
12-01-18, 09:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Obey The D
You’re the perfect example of the loving and tolerant left.�� I’m sorry that life has treated you so poorly that you actively wish death upon people.
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I don't have a problem with Bush declaring war on Iraq after Iraq invaded Kuwait.
Bush invaded Panama on the pretext that a Panamanian soldier had insulted a female US citizen. We captured the chief of state of Panama, tried him in US courts, and sentenced him to a US prison. That's peak imperialism.
It can be justified by the facts that the Panama Canal is critical to US interests, that the US had made Noriega the boss and regretted the action, and that Panama hasn't had a gangster for a president since then.
Bush invaded Panama on the pretext that a Panamanian soldier had insulted a female US citizen. We captured the chief of state of Panama, tried him in US courts, and sentenced him to a US prison. That's peak imperialism.
It can be justified by the facts that the Panama Canal is critical to US interests, that the US had made Noriega the boss and regretted the action, and that Panama hasn't had a gangster for a president since then.
Spoiler: It wasn’t justified.
And even if you feel the Gulf War was justified, the US committed war crimes in the fighting of it, such as the “Highway of Death” where the US bombed a highway of retreating army vehicles and refugees for 10 hours, causing the deaths of at least 1,000 people.
The US shot down an Iraqi commercial airliner and Bush refused to even apologize for killing a plane full of civilians. He allowed the wildly racist Willie Horton ad to help him win his election. He was deeply involved in Iran Contra. He reduced funding for AIDS research as the AIDS epidemic was peaking. He was not an “honorable man” just because he was president.
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12-01-18, 10:07 AM
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Add me to the “intolerant left” - dude was part of a dynasty of war criminals. But then he started wearing funny socks and everybody starts trying to lionize him just because he’s slightly less horrible than the current dumpster fire in chief.
