Bush DID Amuse Himself - and the Media! - over Iraq
Republicans are in manufacturing yet another Shitstorm (TM) over Pete Stark's remarks:
"You don't have money to fund the war or children. But you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the President's amusement."
Republicans aren't talking about the money - unlimited funds to cause destruction in Iraq but none for our children here at home - but rather about the accusation that Bush is amused by the Iraq disaster.
But guess what - he is! This is Bush on March 24, 2004 - one year and five days after the invasion, when 589 American soldiers had been killed looking for the WMD's he cited as the main reason we had to invade Iraq.
So why was there no Shitstorm (TM) over this appalling "performance"? Because the audience was the very Corporate Media Elite (Radio and TV Correspondents) who create Shitstorms (TM)!
The only person in all of Washington who objected at the time was David Corn of The Nation. That can't be said of either Holy Joe Lieberman or Nanny Nancy Pelosi, both of whom were caught laughing with Bush.
So maybe Pete Stark didn't go far enough - are kids getting their heads blown off for the amusement not just of Bush, but also the entire Corporate Media and all of Congress too?
It's time for Washington to stop condemning those of us (including Pete Stark and Moveon) who have opposed this disastrous and murderous war from the beginning - and time for all of us to condemn Washington.
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Great example of how sick GWbush really is
Bush: "I Don't Remember What I Was Doing In 1981"
By Pam Spaulding
Posted on October 18, 2007, Printed on October 23, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/spaulding/65572/
This post, written by Pam Spaulding, originally appeared on Pam's House Blend
Perhaps it might have something to do with the alleged blow and confirmed boozing that he was doing in back in the day. (Raw Story):
Deflecting a question about the recent Israeli missile strike on Syria, President Bush refused to comment on his reaction to a similar strike by Israel 26 years ago saying he doesn't "remember what I was doing in 1981."
At the time, Bush was a 34-year-old oil man living in Midland, Texas running a company he founded two years earlier after a failed bid for Congress. Bush would not become governor of Texas for more than a decade and White House ambitions were even farther in his future.
During a White House press conference Monday, NBC correspondent David Gregory asked Bush whether he supported Israel's destruction of the Osiraq nuclear reactor in Iraq. "Ya know, Dave, I don't remember what I was doing in 1981," Bush said. "I don't remember my reaction that far back."
...Old friends of the president told New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof in 2000 that Bush was a "late bloomer," who had perhaps a bit too much fun in his younger days.
"[A]s he approached 40, an age when Al Gore was already a senator running for president," Kristof observed, "George W. Bush was just a heavy-drinking, fun-loving oilman struggling to control his temper, salvage his business and hold on to his marriage."
Flashback -- 1992, when Bush was supposed to have kicked the booze (he said he got off the bottle cold turkey in July 1986). From The Smoking Gun, video of him at a wedding looking quite, er, toasted.
Pam Spaulding blogs at Pam's House Blend.