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Big Government ^ | 11/6/17 | John Hayward

[poconopundit]

Good to hear that Levin is finally getting the Trump religion.

[poconopundit]

You know the other thing about Bush that bothered me at the time right after 9/11.

He made a big point in his joint Congress speech to say that the "9/11 terrorists are cowards".

That made no sense to me. They were brave to commit suicide by hijacking the plane and ramming it into the Towers.

They were fanatics, yes, but not cowards.

And this was the time that Trump was questioning Bush's judgement about preparing to go to war.

This never made sense to me. In that sense, Bush was a cowboy -- a dangerous cowboy with our foreign policy, and carelessness over American soldiers' lives.

[central_va]

He was just smack talking the enemy. I guess you never played sports.

[central_va]

Bannon is our Sparatgus.

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Former President George W. Bush is a “brahmin Yankee from Yale” who is “pretending he’s a Texan

No, that was his dad.

Nothing New England about W.

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That made no sense to me. They were brave to commit suicide by hijacking the plane and ramming it into the Towers.

They were fanatics, yes, but not cowards.

I didn't really think so either, but it was a way of reproaching and shaming the terrorists, and so many Americans agreed with it, that it's not hard to understand why Bush said it.

[poconopundit]

Well, looking back I guess I’m focusing on all the ways Bush pulled the wool over our eyes.

Why not call them cold blooded murderers and barbarians?

I’m not dwelling on this question. I just always wondered why he would say something that so many people would question. It’s as if he didn’t trust the average citizen by saying the truth.

To me, it smacks of elitism and “we know what’s best to tell you”.

In the same situation, Trump would never call them cowards.

[poconopundit]

Ha. ...a Brahmin Yankee who lived in Texas, owned a few oil fields, and spoke Spanish.

Still, I like to hear Bannon taking a piece out of Bush — even though it’s mostly fake.

[poconopundit]

Remember how W tried to name his own personal lawyer as Supreme Court justice?

Bush was a liberal elitist globalist through and through. He was an absolute liar.

[central_va]

The smack talk is to make them angrey, it’s not for us.

[V K Lee]

It isn’t uncommon for those who commit suicide to be called cowards. Ask any psychoanalyst (not that I agree with them). Bush, still wet behind the ears, had no clue what he was saying at the time. He was only attempting to avoid the ‘deer in the headlights’ look; which in his case was unavoidable.

As to the cowboy reference - perhaps that superimposes his image with that of Ronald Reagan, although there is certainly a difference between the two.

[poconopundit]

Shakespeare had something to say here.

To sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, there's the rub,
for in that sleep of death, what dreams may come,
when we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
must give us pause. There's the respect
that makes Calamity of so long life:
For who would bear the Whips and Scorns of time,
the Oppressor's wrong, the proud man's Contumely,
the pangs of despised Love, the Law’s delay,
the insolence of Office, and the spurns
that patient merit of the unworthy takes,
when he himself might his Quietus make
with a bare Bodkin [dagger]? Who would Fardels bear,
to grunt and sweat under a weary life,
but that the dread of something after death,
the undiscovered country, from whose bourn
no traveller returns, puzzles the will,
and makes us rather bear those ills we have,
than fly to others that we know not of.
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.

The 9/11 terrorists had the courage and "resolution" to take "action" on their "enterprise of great pitch and moment". The rest is history.