Posted on 12/01/2018 9:27:34 PM PST by Yomin Postelnik
A few exceptional things stand out about President George H. W. Bush. First and foremost, the Soviet Union, which was on its last legs after 8 years of Reagan-Bush, finally collapsed under his watch. The Evil Empire falling with Dukakis as its main foe seems improbable at best.
He was an example to society and to the next generation. He was also the first to battle someone who ended up eroding societal values and that too is a great credit to him.
He recognized the danger of Iraq. Saddam Hussein had the fourth most powerful army in the world and was a menace to his neighbors and a murderer of millions.
From a spiritual aspect, the Messianic Era, when "nations... will beat swords into plow shears," happens in stages (there can be a 40 year initerval, or less based on merit, between the initial miracles and the manifestation of the eternal redemption). In 1991, when the US under Pres. Bush's leadership, diverted funds to feed the starving Kurds in the aftermath of the Gulf War, the Lubavitcher Rebbe pointed out how this was the first time ever that nations would feed another nation's hungry with absolutely no benefit to themselves at all. This, he said, was the beginning of this prophecy. This happened under a president who made kindness his mission, President George H. W. Bush.
Saddam's containment was also of profound spiritual benefit. During the last weekend of the war, the Rebbe commented on the rumor that Saddam had fled his palace. He specifically said that it's a rumor (untrue at the time), but one with significance. When the speech was being published the Rebbe edited the draft, writing next to those words, "od chazon lmoed," it will come to pass in the appropriate time, something that seemed improbable, as the war was winding down.
Saddam was no puny enemy, as people made him to be for the purposes of dishonest politics. Aside from the 2 million he killed in the region, he was also cutting 10k and 25k checks to suicide bombers in Israel. His attempted assassination of by then former President GHW Bush showed that he was capable of trying to transfer or spread such havoc to America and GHWB's son, 43, was right for calling the danger what it was.
The Rebbe also explained at the time that the famous quote of our Sages, that Tzur, the principal city of Babylon, was built from the destruction (gold, silver, marble, etc.) of Jerusalem, is applicable to our times in reverse. When evil in the place of Babylon is eradicated, Jerusalem is built up materially and spiritually. Indeed, Saddam was finally captured on Yud Tes Kislev (the holiday of the 19th of Kislev, which focuses on spreading Chassidus, a remarkable part of Torah, which concentrates on developing ultimate fear and love of G-d and understanding that which we can understand of His interactions in the world) in Iraq during the 9th hour of the night (G-d runs the world differently with each hour). Fourteen years later, on Yud Tes Kislev in the 9th hour of the night in Jerusalem, Israel was declared by the leading nation of the world, Pres. Bush and Pres. Trump's America, as the eternal capital of the world. The word "eternal" is itself a clear recognition of G-d Almighty by the world, another part of the prophecy of the complete and eternal redemption. This process started under President Bush 41's watch.
When leadership was removed from the WW2 generation, the world lost competent leadership and elders who youth naturally respected. The world would have been much better off keeping that generation in charge for as long as possible.
Right. And there’s always this one to go back and ponder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft3eGWZd7LE
That smile is straight out of a horror movie.
I reread your post and what you meant was clear. I’m just tired.
I’ve got no doubt there are, yet I also don’t doubt the full extent of this will not be revealed in our lifetimes .
I’m glad he lived to see his family destroyed as a political force by the magnificence endeavours of Trump. It must have been painful for him in the end to know his life Work had been destroyed by a true genius and patriot.
The name Bush is now so discredited there will thankfully never be another as president.
“There might be some darker things about GHW Bush that most of us don’t know about”........kind of like most people don’t know about his very suspicious answers concerning his location on the date of JFK’s murder? Or, the coincidental hosting of the parents of John Hinckley two weeks before their son’s attempted murder.....?
“There might be some darker things about GHW Bush that most of us don’t know about”........kind of like most people don’t know about his very suspicious answers concerning his location on the date of JFK’s murder? Or, the coincidental hosting of the parents of John Hinckley two weeks before their son’s attempted murder.....?
I thought he would continue Ronald Reagan’s policies.
He didn’t.
At some point, I started to believe that GHWB didn’t really like Ronald Reagan.
That’s when I gave up on him, and considered him just another president.
What is the character of the club known as Skull and Bones?
What are the effects of being a member of Skull and Bones?
Does wisdom guide us to question what we’ve always assumed?
The Hinckley connection is one of the most blatant pieces of evidence.
Kemp was a globalist. though I would take just about anyone over Bush.
So this is what the world looks like when one uncritically consumes a lifetime of New World Order propaganda. Scary to think some people actually believe this stuff for real.
In the real world, GHWB may have been one of humanity’s most dangerous enemies. Sadly, we will never know the full extent of the damage he did nor the full reasons why he did it.
> Bush Sr. was great in his time.
Bush Sr. was terrible in his time, which is how he managed to lose after 1 term, a term which he got only from riding Reagan’s coattails and not by any merit of his own.
Bush Sr. hijacked the era of peace we earned after defeating the USSR and turned it into an era of perpetual war.
In the big picture, he stands out prominently in the pantheon of humanity’s evil-doers.
Wallace has Mtn. Dew. What is BJ drinking?
>> The country now is simply a colony of Iran.
Otherwise two opposing countries each with advanced nuclear munitions?
U.S. intervention was complex with untold sacrifices, but not without merit.
I thought another gaffe, was the kinder, gentler nation thing. I didn’t know for sure, but I thought he meant we would be softer on our enemies.
Anyone who quotes the Bible to justify this man's leadership is a moron.
It’s rumored he ran the CIA op to kill JFK in Dallas.
We know for a fact he pushed for the NWO, one world government. This alone means he was evil.
Sorry. Could not continue past first sickening paragraph. Soviet Union collapsed under Reagan, Walesa and Thatcher, Prime Minister of Britain.
What the Bushy globalist did was junketeer around the crumbling Soviet Union TRYING TO PROP IT UP by dissuading seceeding
“Republics” from LEAVING, or at best, STICK TOGETHER ECONOMICALLY. Bad for globalist business don’t you know?
The Bushes were BAD presidents - BETTER than the garbage the Dems put up, but bad nonetheless.
FURTHER, the Media HATED them because they thought they too conservative.
NOW, people like Google and Gannett are praising them because they broke with tradition to attack GENUINE CONSERVATIVE Donald Trump.
So, please, stop the garbage. I get it it, you hate Trump too and love RINOS like the Bushes, but stop it already.
He should have vetoed that tax hike forced upon him by the demo_rats. Since he did not, he made us suffer through 8 years of leftist hillary clinton as president.
JoMa
Speaking pf Quayle, remember how hard the media rode him over not being able to spell potato or some such word? They tried to portray him as a dummy. But where is that media now over that stupid new congresswoman- Ortiz? She has made several stupid statements but criticizing her is off limits.
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