[Bayou City]

The Obama administration rejected the Bush doctrine completely, ended enhanced interrogation in 2009 through an executive order and has been treating terrorism like a criminal problem, rather than warfare, for years. Terrorism around the world has skyrocketed during his tenure and the reckless pullout from Iraq allowed ISIS to emerge.

[Bayou City]

The truth is finally coming out....

[Paladin2]

Hussein was never going to be the Strong Camel.

[Electric Graffiti]

“George W. Bush’s Shock and Awe Response to 9/11 Prevented Other Attacks”

Except the biggest attack which occurred Nov 8 2008

The jury is still out whether we survived or not.

[stormhill]

The Obama administration rejected the Bush doctrine completely, ended enhanced interrogation in 2009 through an executive order and has been treating terrorism like a criminal problem

That would have been bad enough; what Obama actually did was treat the fight against Islamic terror like a criminal problem and the Tea Party movement like terrorism.

[PGR88]

Yes, that’s all well and good, but the wealthy, corrupt, Sunni-superiority Islamo-fascists who pull the strings of jihadi terror still rule in Saudi Arabia, apparently with the support of much of the US establishment.

Taking out Saddam, the proxy war in Syria and support of their invasion of Yemen are all to the advantage of the Saudi ruling family.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

‘How was I supposed to know that cowboy George Bush would announce he wanted us ‘dead or alive’ and then invade Afghanistan to hunt us down?’’

Because it was all part of a deal made with Bush and the Saudis. That's why you were supposed to know.

[MNDude]

Imagine how many lives and money he would have saved if he just kept Muslims from coming into the country after 9-11.

[Lera]

[[‘Then he looked at me and said, ‘How was I supposed to know that cowboy George Bush would announce he wanted us ‘dead or alive’ and then invade Afghanistan to hunt us down?’’ Mitchell writes. ‘KSM explained that if the United States had treated 9/11 like a law enforcement matter, he would have had time to launch a second wave of attacks.’ He was not able to do so because al-Qaeda was stunned ‘by the ferocity and swiftness of George W. Bush’s response.’ ]]

That right there is proof that the only thing that stops Islamic terrorism is brute force against them.

[mykroar]

Say w/e you want about “W”, the mooseslime only respect force.

[Theoria]

BS. Some shock and awe. Why bomb Afghanistan and Iraq if your gonna let in Mexicans and other illegals to kill your wife and kids.

[Salvation]

**‘Then he looked at me and said, ‘How was I supposed to know that cowboy George Bush would announce he wanted us ‘dead or alive’ and then invade Afghanistan to hunt us down?’’ Mitchell writes. ‘KSM explained that if the United States had treated 9/11 like a law enforcement matter, he would have had time to launch a second wave of attacks.’ He was not able to do so because al-Qaeda was stunned ‘by the ferocity and swiftness of George W. Bush’s response.’**

One of the best things I’ve read about George W. Bush.

[ifinnegan]

Think or say what one wants about W.

If Gore had won we would be in bad bad shape.

[dp0622]

Well HEY THEN, sleeping with the sauds, hiding the 29 pages proving they were involved, and going into that MIGHTY empire Iraq makes sense now!!

So does voting for someone besides Trump!!

He’s my ####ing hero!!!

[NetAddicted]

Bravo, Dubya!

[StoneWall Brigade]

Thoughts?

[Gene Eric]

An odd dialog.

[lavaroise]

LE is simply disfunctional under terror attacks because LE is directly targeted and thus cannot focus on crime fighting but fighting a war.

It is a complete euphemism to say we wont involve the military against terror when we then turn LE into an instrument of war and military, doing both jobs of LE and war... something illegal, by the way.

[Uncle Miltie]

Al qaeda thinks neocons are bad?

Ize so confuzzled.

[HLPhat]

>>the Bush doctrine

Milk every last drop out the cow and then butcher it for the BBQ?

“We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960s, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Glaspie

The "doctrine" has to be observed in the context of the history of the past 55 years - and before.

Was Ike right or not?

[Eisenhower’s “Military-Industrial Complex” Speech]
Origins and Significance
US National Archives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-jvHynP9Y

The "Religion of peace" is allowed to continue to inflict its state-establishing fraud for the same reason Saddam was propped up - they're both profitable and serve a purpose for the kleptocratic charade.

 

 

[HLPhat]

We are at liberty to be real, or to be unreal. We may be true or false, the choice is ours. We may wear now one mask and now another, and never, if we so desire, appear with our own true face. But we cannot make these choices with impunity. Causes have effects, and if we lie to ourselves and to others, then we cannot expect to find truth and reality whenever we happen to want them.
If we have chosen the way of falsity we must not be surprised that truth eludes us when we finally come to need it!
—Thomas Merton

“The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.”
—Albert Einstein

 

And it’s unpleasant, because there were a lot of things I wanted to like about Dubya too.