Posted on 04/24/2013 7:44:18 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Dallas (CNN) -- George W. Bush is a proud new grandfather and fascinated by his unlikely new hobby: painting.
But some things haven't changed a bit: the trademark smirk when he is amused, a squinty glare when he doesn't appreciate the question -- and a quick turn to humor when the conversation turns to "legacy," including the scars of Iraq or the cloud of Katrina.
"History will ultimately judge the decisions that were made for Iraq and I'm just not going to be around to see the final verdict," the two-term president told CNN in a wide-ranging interview.
"In other words, I'll be dead."
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Because the MSM is completely brain dead. Therefore, Obama isn’t responsible for anything.
I never had a political thought in my life until I was sitting in an apartment on a work assignment in Casper, Wyoming one year watching, out of boredom, his father’s SOTU address, with my mind entirely glazed over until he said, with a certain strange emphasis, “New World Order.”
I had no idea at all what that phrase meant but, literally, a chill ran down my spine. I sat bolt upright and began paying attention. I have paid attention to politics ever since, and increasingly I know the full import of those haunting words.
His son, “W,” may certainly rest content if he stays drunk enough, and I’m sure he will, but history - if told correctly - will not be kind to him.
My wife, a legal immigrant with little knowledge about the sources of our country’s greatness, was always shocked at my surprisingly visceral hatred as his two terms progressed: “Compassionate Conservatism,” uncontrolled spending, No-child-left-behind, open borders even after 9/11, Patriot Act tyranny, predictable fiascos in Iraq and Afghanistan, economic collapse, and in the end an easy win for our first illegal, Marxist/Muslim POTUS, and all that has wrought since.
Even more than Clinton, the Bushes were the beginning of the end for our nation.
Not to sound like a Dem but are we better off from the war in Iraq? We have a few thousand dead military and gained several hundred billion in debt. And for what? They still hate us and we get no break on their oil. Bush and Cheney made an error to go into Iraq which was a natural enemy to Iran.
No, we are not better off. Too bad we can’t give the Iraqis Saddam Hussein and his reign of terror. From all of their misery since the US invasion, it seems they would be much happier with their former great leader.
Thank you Jorge for protecting us from more terror attacks after 9/11/01.
Other than that, your presidency SUCKED and set us up for the end of America.
Have a nice life, a$$hole.
Apparently, it's not just cream that rises to the top. We've had some real floaters to pick from.
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tflabo.
I largely agree.
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this is what bothers me about the Iraq occupation.
Bush pretended that there was no civil war,
thus making everything more difficult for us.
also.
Bush missed a historic opportunity to redraw
the maps of Iraq and Afghanistan.
The whole world will be worse off for decades.
I know it was politics, but I always held RR in such high esteem that I still think he could have picked someone else and done just as well, heck he was riding so high in ‘84, I think he could have afforded to dump Bush from the ticket. But, that’s history.
“I’m content.”
Money get back
I’m all right Jack
Keep your hands off my stack
“In other words, I’ll be dead.”
“In the long run we’re all dead.” John Maynard Keynes
That’s great that you’re happy Mr. Bush.
The rest of us are chewing aluminum foil.
Very sad, but absolutely true. Every atrocity or miscarriage of government or tyrannical behavior by 0dumb0 against Amerika, had it's beginnings within the laws & agencies (ex TSA) that were created & passed & signed into law by dumber than dirt, doofus GW Bush!
I was disappointed to read that he (W) believes Arab Spring has helped to bring democracy to the ME.
Me too, and I can actually sink a few baskets.
TSA, TSA!!!!
Well, even though I did vote for you, George if by history you mean other people, it’s still a maybe. But there is another Judge and his verdict is the important one. I’d wait to see what he has to say before resting too contently - but I pray he gives you a thumbs up.
“I was disappointed to read that he (W) believes Arab Spring has helped to bring democracy to the ME.”
That doesn’t surprise me at all. He is the sort that believes that democracy has magical powers, without taking into account the culture that is voting. And he still doesn’t have a clue about the nature of the Islamic world. ‘Religion of Peace’- evidently he’s never cracked open a history book.
Two Bush presidencies is enough. No more, PLEASE.
You were one of the best compared to Obamimam.
The Bush family is a bunch of establishment elite liberals
Same way he gets away with 8% unemployment and Bush was bashed for 5% unemployment. Obama gas is $4.00 this is good, Bush gas was $2.00 this is bad. I have had it with the media and I hope they all get what they deserve for all the lies they tell and have told. I can’t even say what I really think about the media traitors.
The liberal media disliked the Bushes and Gerry Ford and they fought an all out war with Richard Nixon.
That doesn’t make any of those presidents conservatives, it just makes the media far left and unable to tolerate anything or anyone that isn’t as far to the left as they are.
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