13 Reasons To Be Glad Bush Is No Longer President by Think Progress

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**Frazzled**

10 reasons Brass Scorpion posts from Left wing hippies but doesn't reply when challenged:

*He's really Bagdad Bob in disguise.
*A cat ate his REPLY key and he's too ashmed to admit a wiener dog would have made a much better pet.
*He gets paid for piece work. He gets $.32 an article post.
*He's Rush Limbaugh's hidden third brother, Bob (the furniture salesman-and good too!)
*Mongols don't react, they only ACT!
*I don't care what you say. 3rd Edition Dark Eldar had a lot going for them.
*Purge the Xenos. Its not just a phrase. Its a way of life.
*Wiener dogs are nature's pratfall comedians.
*Mother doesn't let him reply. You don't want to upset Mother. She's very strict. Aren't you Mother?

**Andrew1975**

whembly wrote:
Andrew1975 wrote:
I'm not a Bush hater, but I do wonder why we have to build him a Library and pay for it's operations. Is seams to me that vanity projects like this should be funded someone else.

Presidential Libraries are the norm... so... much a do about nuthing.

Well not really there are only 13 of them. Just because something stupid is the norm is no reason to continue it. This is not just building a library in a needed area and naming it after a President. This is a vanity project pure and simple. It should be paid for from a foundation set up by the President, he is rich enough.

**whembly**

Andrew1975 wrote:
whembly wrote:
Andrew1975 wrote:
I'm not a Bush hater, but I do wonder why we have to build him a Library and pay for it's operations. Is seams to me that vanity projects like this should be funded someone else.

Presidential Libraries are the norm... so... much a do about nuthing.

Well not really there are only 13 of them. Just because something stupid is the norm is no reason to continue it. This is not just building a library in a needed area and naming it after a President. This is a vanity project pure and simple. It should be paid for from a foundation set up by the President, he is rich enough.

Oh... don't get me wrong, I agree with you on that.

I'm surprised these are tax funded... I could've swore that these libraries were spent via donations.

**Grey Templar**

The opposition will always complain when a president is getting a library.

Trust me, the same people complaining about Bush's library will be heaping praise on Obama's library when he gets one.

**Frazzled**

Its my understanding the Bush library was privately funded. I could be wrong however as I don't care enough to check.

**Andrew1975**

Grey Templar wrote:
The opposition will always complain when a president is getting a library.

Trust me, the same people complaining about Bush's library will be heaping praise on Obama's library when he gets one.

Well some will and some won't. Pay for it yourself if you want it. The least they could pay for is the construction if not the operation.

It should be like naming rights of a stadium.

**BrassScorpion**

Remember when this idiot called "W" pretended to land a fighter jet on a carrier in San Diego Bay and then declared "mission accomplished"? Well today is the anniversary of that really bad joke that dragged on for years and cost the US $6 trillion dollars. Oh yeah, then there's all the maimed and dead people too. Definitely part of why so many of us are glad he's no longer president of these United States.

Ten Years Ago: Bush Declared 'Mission Accomplished'—and the Media Swooned

Greg Mitchell on May 1, 2013 - 8:11 AM ET

George W. Bush declares the end of major combat operations in Iraq aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite.)

Today marks the tenth anniversary of Mission Accomplished Day, or as it might better be known, Mission (Not) Accomplished Day. Sadly, it comes amid another upheaval in sectarian violence in Iraq—two days ago The New York Times warned of a new “civil war” there—and a week after the attempts at Bush revisionism upon the opening of his library. We’re also seeing aspects of the run-up to the Iraq invasion playing out in the fresh, perhaps overheated, claims of chemical weapons in Syria.

In my favorite antiwar song of this war, “Shock and Awe,” Neil Young moaned: “Back in the days of Mission Accomplished/ our chief was landing on the deck/ The sun was setting/ behind a golden photo op.” But as Neil added elsewhere in the tune: “History is a cruel judge of overconfidence.”

Nowhere can we see this more clearly than in the media coverage of the event.

On May 1, 2003, Richard Perle advised, in a USA Today op-ed, “Relax, Celebrate Victory.” The same day, President Bush, dressed in a flight suit, landed on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln and declared an end to major military operations in Iraq—with the now-infamous “Mission Accomplished” banner arrayed behind him.

Chris Matthews on MSNBC called Bush a “hero” and boomed, “He won the war. He was an effective commander. Everybody recognizes that, I believe, except a few critics.” He added: “Women like a guy who’s president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It’s simple.”

PBS’ Gwen Ifill said Bush was “part Tom Cruise, part Ronald Reagan.” On NBC, Brian Williams gushed, “The pictures were beautiful. It was quite something to see the first-ever American president on a—on a carrier landing.”

Bob Schieffer on CBS said: “As far as I’m concerned, that was one of the great pictures of all time.” His guest, Joe Klein, responded: “Well, that was probably the coolest presidential image since Bill Pullman played the jet fighter pilot in the movie Independence Day. That was the first thing that came to mind for me.”

Everyone agreed the Democrats and antiwar critics were now on the run. The New York Times observed, “The Bush administration is planning to withdraw most United States combat forces from Iraq over the next several months and wants to shrink the American military presence to less than two divisions by the fall, senior allied officials said today.”

Maureen Dowd in her column did offer a bit of over-the-top mockery, declaring: “Out bounded the cocky, rule-breaking, daredevil flyboy, a man navigating the Highway to the Danger Zone, out along the edges where he was born to be, the further on the edge, the hotter the intensity.

“He flashed that famous all-American grin as he swaggered around the deck of the aircraft carrier in his olive flight suit, ejection harness between his legs, helmet tucked under his arm, awestruck crew crowding around. Maverick was back, cooler and hotter than ever, throttling to the max with joystick politics. Compared to Karl Rove’s ”revvin’ up your engine” myth-making cinematic style, Jerry Bruckheimer’s movies look like Lizzie McGuire.

“This time Maverick didn’t just nail a few bogeys and do a 4G inverted dive with a MiG-28 at a range of two meters. This time the Top Gun wasted a couple of nasty regimes, and promised this was just the beginning.”

When Bush’s jet landed on the aircraft carrier, American casualties stood at 139 killed and 542 wounded. That was over 4,300 American, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi, fatalities ago.

Greg Mitchell’s So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits and the President Failed on Iraq has just published in a new e-book edition.

**Grey Templar**

So are your going to participate in the conversation or continue to post insanely biased drivel?

**Ahtman**

This thread is the reason why Specialist Games was shut down.

**Frazzled**

Ahtman wrote:
This thread is the reason why Specialist Games was shut down.

Brass Scorpion killed Armaggedon EPIC!!!!

My phantoms titans are coming for you BOY!

**azazel the cat**

Andrew1975 wrote:
whembly wrote:
Andrew1975 wrote:
I'm not a Bush hater, but I do wonder why we have to build him a Library and pay for it's operations. Is seams to me that vanity projects like this should be funded someone else.

Presidential Libraries are the norm... so... much a do about nuthing.

Well not really there are only 13 of them. Just because something stupid is the norm is no reason to continue it. This is not just building a library in a needed area and naming it after a President. This is a vanity project pure and simple. It should be paid for from a foundation set up by the President, he is rich enough.

For once, I think we are in total agreement.

Grey Templar wrote:So are your going to participate in the conversation or continue to post insanely biased drivel?

To be fair, it's not insanely biased... it factually was the anniversary of a pathetic publicity stunt that no sane person could claim was anything but.

However, I suspect that isn't the heart of your point.

**BrassScorpion**

A bit of humor from Bill Maher again reminding us of Bush's terrible legacy in Iraq.

https://www.facebook.com/Maher

Bill Maher
April was the deadliest month in Iraq in 6 years. On the bright side, the Bush museum has a lovely Oscar de la Renta dress that Laura wore.

**Ahtman**

Bill Maher and humor? Maybe if you had said Bill Maher and smugness I would believe it.