W. Regrets Almost Nothing »
Posted By berkeley 1 year, 4 months ago in NewsIn Old Europe, they've moved on, assuming that the American president has done all the damage that he can do. The blazing hostility toward W. has faded to indifference and a sort of fatigued perplexity about how les imbeciles de regime cowboy got into office, and how America could have put the world through all this craziness.
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hdthehn1 year, 4 months ago
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You would think the leader of this nation would have a shread of decency and regret all those murdered due to his incompetence in protecting this nation on 911 and for all the innocent people murdered in an ill conceived and incompetently prosecuted war of aggression against Iraq.
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hyperbola1 year, 4 months ago
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There doesn't seem to be much hope of reversing the bush type politics in 2009. Those of you who think Obama represents change had better get ready to hold his feet to the fire if you want any changes.
The 2008 Elections - Of Whales and Worms
Politics â;; How can the same Democratic Party, and same specific individuals, who have co-operated in, permitted and/or legalized the Bush regime's atrocities - now tell us that the candidate that they endorse is the solution to the horrid things that this system and these individuals have themselves facilitated and colluded in?
http://politics.propeller.com/story/2008/06/16/...
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gamahuche1 year, 4 months ago
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In Old Europe, they've moved on, assuming that the American president has done all the damage that he can do. The blazing hostility toward W. has faded to indifference and a sort of fatigued perplexity about how les imbeciles de regime cowboy got into office, and how America could have put the world through all this craziness.
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What is IMPOSSIBLE to conceive of here is that the US could even begin to imagine another one from the same team. Like a football team that has been relegated to a lower division would hire another coach who only believed in the same strategy.
Most Europeans do have a fondness for the US be it based on Westerns or jazz or that the US wartime liberators brought cigarettes instead of stealing watches - and went home again afterwards.
But this lowbrow oafishness that the current incumbent seems to imagine is cute or charming doesn't impress anybody on this side of the water. Anybody at all.
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Justice4All1 year, 4 months ago
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I'm not sure which side of the water you are referring to but W's popularity in the US is about the same as in France. The only difference is the French saw through him a few years earlier.
I do have one request from the Europeans and that is that they stop referring to Bush as a "cowboy". He is not a cowboy. I have many friends who are cowboys and was probably considered one myself 30 years ago. Cowboys are generally hard working honest people. They tell the truth and help people in need. Bush is a spoiled rich kid who thinks living on a ranch is a fun thing to do. Everything he has was handed to him. So please, stop insulting cowboys by referring to Bush as one.
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Justice4All1 year, 4 months ago
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W and to some extent the US in general are not as important to the rest of the world anymore.
The biggest concern the world has about Bush is that the devastating effect he has had on the US economy will have a negative effect on the world economy.
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vor1 year, 4 months ago
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Ironic that Cheney, who drove the idealogy behind the foreign policy of this administration, created the "Project For a New American Century" (PNAC) in the 90's to ensure just the opposite. Their mission statement: to ensure American world dominance through the 21st Century. Yet in just over 6 short years they have managed to move up the timetable for Eastern world dominance up about 50 years. And what do they have to show for this? Iraq? Afghanistan? We are still paying for Iraqi oil while we babysit their country and continue to pile up record debt. Much of it to the East.
Bush was the neocons dupe, their everyman, the candidate that Turd Blossom could get elected. He knows little more of the world today than he did 7 years ago. He was always a lightweight on world affairs. His legacy will be the badly damaged nation he hands over to his replacement. Perhaps if we do indeed live in a Big Brother world in the future he will be resurrected. That is his only hope.
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slate1 year, 4 months ago
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Alret Alert! This is not a defense post for GW Bush!
Other than maybe Nixon, which president has ever said they regret what they did in office; Clinton, Reagan, Carter, Johnson, Ford or Kennedy?
Kennedy almost blew up the planet with his knuckleheaded handing of Russia for God's sake and you worship him.
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slate1 year, 4 months ago
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If the story said Bush Regrets everything he has done in office, you same people would still be here saying the same thing. As well as some knuckle dragging putz saying something about torturing the Pres. And VP and leaving them for dead in Iraq.
Change is coming, roles will reverse, I hope your memory is good enough to understand the things that will be said about the guy you are going to vote for in the future. You've built him up to superhero status anything les than that will be thoroughly railed against by the right.
The electro microscope will now begin to focus on the Democrats, now that they will have all branches in hand. You damn well better hope they do as well as you claim they will. Not just 'anyone's better than Bush' but like someone said on another thread, if Obama isn't elected it's the end of Da world good.
Good luck with that standard,,,,,,, well have ASTM come in and keep an eye on yas.
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rightfromwrong1 year, 4 months ago
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Kennedy was at least a hero and not a coward like Bush. Kennedy died because he was against the Bilderbergs and secret societies. You must be one of those that think both the JFK and RFK died by the same bullet. Start to do some reading slate before you open your big mouth
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Leemck021 year, 4 months ago
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Slate, Clinton was very public in admitting his error for not handling the genocide issues. It was a few more that he could have confessed to but considering he did leave a surplus when he came in to a horrible economy, resolved war threats, etc., then he could get a pass. Regan did leave trying to put out the Contra - dope for guns scandal, which he and Bush denied to the end. LBJ did get his new society working even if he blew Viet Nam and did have the good grace not to seek reelection, so he can get a pass. Ford & Carter, they did good and bad, the pardon on Ford and the mishandling of the Iranian Crisis but these men did not make the Presidency a friends and family revenue/profit stream. FEMA worked extremely well under Carter, he can get a pass. Ford didn't rock the world, no pass is necessary. But 'W', wow and you compare JFK to 'W'? Les we forget! YGTBSM!
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Will13131 year, 4 months ago
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Kennedy almost blew up the planet with his knuckleheaded handing of Russia for God's sake and you worship him.
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are you saying that Kennedy .. should have been and APPEASER.... ??
seems that it turned out pretty good.. without anyone getting killed over it.. except Kennedy..
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mesodude1 year, 4 months ago
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slate, of course you're defending him because you'd never go out of your way to rebut a similar post about Clinton and we both know it so please stop. Anyway, the main problem with your argument is that Bush is unpopular for MANY reasons other than his foreign policy blunders. In a side by side comparision to almost all previous Presidents that I can think of, Bush's failure and incompetence are unparalleled. This man is disaster personified.
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hdthehn1 year, 4 months ago
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"Kennedy almost blew up the planet with his knuckleheaded handing of Russia for God's sake and you worship him"
Take some advice from your compassionate conservative hero Supreme Court Justice Scalia "Get over it. It's so old by now."
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/24/scalia-on-b...
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FSU92grad1 year, 4 months ago
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Great....Another thread for stupid libs to pi$$ and moan about Bush...Same old, Same old...
Yes the economy is bad, but I still believe it is because of the outsourcing of oil, cars and many other products...We're helping their economy, but hurting ours...We've become a society of "paper"....We don't make or produce anything here in the US...We're a country of consumption...
Is that Bush's fault? I dunno...I think Clinton is partly to blame as well by not signing the bill to drill in ANWR back in '95....If he had done that, the price of oil would have been much lower today...THat would have bought us some time to come up with alternative fuel sources like nuclear, but 13 years later we still have the same stupid Democraps voting the same way, which is handcuffing our society...We still rely on foreign oil and it's going to be many decades before we can find and mass produce alternative fuel sources to supply our energy needs...
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blinkers1 year, 4 months ago
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True. To have any "regrets" the subject would require some awareness of past deeds, as well as their cause and effect relationship. Also required would be the intelligence and introspection to realise that different results might have been achieved by different means, and that in this process mistakes and miscalculations might have been made.
It is indeed difficult to imagine that George W. Bush possesses anything like the capacities required to even understand the concept of "regrets".
He whupped Sadam, and won a second term in office; both these things his father was unable to do. Doubtless in his own minuscule mind he has been a "great" president, and there are doubtless people all around him who continue to tell him just that!
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MilesAway1 year, 4 months ago
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"Well generally to feel regret, you have to have a soul, and a conscience, and some morals, and some shame. These are qualities that GWB does not possess. He is a failure as a human being..."
"AS THESE TOO, THAT GAVE YOU NEGATIVE FOR ABOVE COMENT!!!"
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tchef1 year, 4 months ago
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TheNewsseeker1 year, 4 months ago
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This was a very amusing view from inside the continent! My hope is that the next president will have a better understandig for the European state of mind and that he will be able to repair what his predecessor has broken. And, even it it might sound marginal, he will surely have a deeper knowledge of European culture, because with George W. Bush, one did not even know, if his ignorance was true or a sign of arrogance and disrespect.
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ningyo1 year, 4 months ago
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if "old europe" had any memory they would realize if not for presidents like like bush they would be speaking german or be islamic theocracies--it wont take long for history to regard W as the great force for good in the world that he was..its ironic that even france is moving away from their socialist liberal idiocy and towards the policies of this admin..let the negs begin
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dunkirk1 year, 4 months ago
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ROFLMAO, if we had a President like Bush during WWII THEY would be speaking german. Seems a lot of bushs realtives were in bed with the Nazis. His gradnfather trading with them in 1943 (yes almost 2 years after we entered the war) and karl Roves relatives worked on the design for Aushwitz.
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Poulenc1 year, 4 months ago
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"....[Bush] told the bemused French that he'd heard tell from Jacques [Chirac] about their 'fantastic food'...."
Rather like telling a group of New Yorkers that he'd heard tell from Mayor Bloomberg about their really tall buildings.
Doesn't this reveal, in a way sad, funny, and incredible, the depths of this guy's know-nothingness?
As Daffy Duck put it, "What a maroon!"
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wtagg1 year, 4 months ago
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Well, he did flip on the idea of a surge.
2004 - Unneeded and the wrong sign to be sent to our troops
2007 - Oops, better send more troops and try to take credit for someone else's idea. Actually the credit part has worked out for him.
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Poulenc1 year, 4 months ago
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Ani, really, your posts so often show such a detachment from reality that one begins to worry about you.
I'm not talking about partisan entrenchment, but rather of something deeper and more troubling: irrational FEAR. Of the bogey man under the bed--of the Dangerous Other (today he's an Arab), who, it seems, can only be dispelled by a Great White Father (and the help of the arsenal you apparently maintain Just In Case).
When did you first learn that the world was such a fearful place?
Come on, you can tell me. There--just lie on the couch; I've got my pad and I'm listening.
And I won't charge you a cent.
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