Obama to Attend Bush Library Dedication in Dallas

[wordpix]

Two things: 1) why is Obama pandering to a war criminal who wasted trillions of dollars on two wars that did not need to happen? 2) can Bush read?


http://www.newsmax.com/Newswidget/Obama-Bush-Library/2013/04/02/id/497531?promo_code=F492-1&utm_source=Test_Newsmax_Feed&utm_medium=nmwidget&utm_campaign=widgetphase1

The White House says President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will attend the opening of former President George W. Bush's presidential library later this month in Dallas.

Bush and former first lady Laura Bush will dedicate the library at Southern Methodist University on April 25. The library opens to the public on May 1.

The 23-acre presidential center, which includes the library, a museum and a policy institute, has been under construction for two years. It will house more than 43,000 artifacts from Bush's presidency and more than 200 million emails.

Officials from the University of Chicago and the University of Hawaii have both traveled to Dallas to meet with officials at Bush's fledgling library as they prepare a bid to host Obama's presidential library.

[Historic NY]

1. More than 200 million emails. ...

wait aren't these the missing ones the 911 commission and others wanted.......

[wordpix]

3. i'm sure he's either redacted a lot or cherry picked thm

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. He should take the kids so they can see fantasyland

adventure land and yesterday land
He has to go anyway, so why not take the kids?
Its escapism, kids love that.

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. Please Support the Bush Library

The Library will include:

The Hurricane Katrina Room, which is still under construction.

The Alberto Gonzales Room, where you won’t be able to remember anything.

The Texas Air National Guard Room, where you won’t even have to show up.

The Walter Reed Hospital Room, where they don’t let you in.

The Guantanamo Bay Room, where they don’t let you out.

The Weapons of Mass Destruction Room, which no one will be able to find.

The National Debt room which is huge and has no ceiling.

The ‘Tax Cut’ Room with entry only to the wealthy.

The ‘Economy Room’, which is in the toilet.

The Iraq War Room. After you complete your first tour, you will get to go back for a second, third, fourth, and sometimes fifth tour.

The Dick Cheney Room, in the famous undisclosed location, complete with shotgun gallery.

The Environmental Conservation Room, still empty.

The Alaska Wildlife Room, which is currently closed for oil exploration.

The No Child Left Behind Room, where you and your children are pre-tested, then tested, and afterward post-tested in an endless cycle.

Adjacent to that the Mission to Mars Room, where — as you would expect — no child is left behind.

The Compassionate Conservatism Room, which charges a separate admission fee and is actually a chute leading down to the Guantanamo Bay room.

The Water Boarding Demonstration Room, which doesn’t meet the definition of torture.

The Supreme Court Gift Shop, where you can buy an election.

The Decider Room complete with dart board, magic 8-ball, Ouija board, dice, coins, and straws.

The museum will have an electron microscope to help you locate the President’s accomplishments.

[Lasher]

4. GWB & GHWB both attended the dedication of the Clinton Presidential Center.

I think Obama is doing the right thing.

[wordpix]

8. Bush is a war criminal who's never been held accountable- Clinton wasn't

big difference there.

[Whisp]

12. oh?

if you want to do a head count I think Clinton's 2 years of pulverizing Iraq with sanctions and bombs could creep into numbers like Bush's.

but hey, he's cool, and all that. move along move along.

[alcibiades_mystery]

16. Indeed

[MineralMan]

5. Living Presidents' Club

It's that simple.

[AZ Mike]

7. A library full of....

....coloring books.

[woo me with science]

9. Paying homage to the policies he has continued and expanded.

Police state, war, corporatism.

[Cliff Arnebeck]

10. Proposal to move Rove's incriminating Emails from SmarTech to new Bush library

Yesterday I posted the following in regard to Rove's responsibility for prolonging the Iraq War:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022560634#post166

"166. How Rove used the Iraq War to roll John Kerry

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"I think Karl Rove abused his policy position in the White House to prolong the Iraq war. Had we simply toppled Saddam Hussein, a self-admitted Stalinist, and left the Iraqi army and civil service alone, as our military wanted to do, the war would have been over before the 2004 election. I believe it was Rove who was behind the dismissal of the Iraqi army and the debathification of the Iraqi civil service, which created a power vacuum, an insurgency and a long war of occupation. Perhaps Rove's missing Emails would reveal this to be the case." . . .

The greatest contribution President Obama could make to the G.W. Bush would be by having his Justice Department seize and transfer from the basement of the Pioneer Bank Building in Chattanooga, TN the SmarTech servers, marked "top secret" and surrounded by barbed wire, to the new Bush library. We think Karl Rove's secret/political/missing White House Emails reside on those servers. I believe those Emails might well exonerate President G.W. Bush from responsibility for what has been described as the worst blunder of his administration.

[wordpix]

11. Rove, Wolfowitz, Feith, Cheney, Libby, etc all responsible but so is GW Bush

He went along with their go-to-Iraq strategy, no matter why. Perhaps it was for Poppy's sake, perhaps he really thought there were WMD based on the cherry-picked, manipulated intel put out by Cheney's neocons. Perhaps GWB was not such a bad guy, just naive, unable to synthesize information from various intel sources, did not do his homework and was merely an incompetent fool. Nevertheless, the buck stopped with him. It was up to him to perceive the intel was NOT a slam dunk and there were many dissenting voices who knew Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11. It was up to him to hear all intel, not just the intel gathered by the neocons.

Bush will never be exonerated in my book, even if those emails point to Rove's abuse of his position. As * said, he was the decider and was in charge. The buck stopped with him.

[Cliff Arnebeck]

20. Bush fired Rove and authorized two special prosecutors to go after him

President G.W. Bush fired Rove after Attorney Jill Simpson implicated him in improperly instigating the criminal prosecution of Democratic Alabama Governor Don Siegelman and authorized two special prosecutors to investigate Rove for alleged criminal conduct in abusing his position of trust and power within the White House.

[joeybee12]

13. Probably part of his job description...

I would assume this is customary protocol.

[undeterred]

14. I just don't like the idea of a sitting president going to Dallas.

[RZM]

15. What about Sacramento, SF, and DC?

There were attempts on Ford and Reagan in those places too.

He's not any more at risk in Dallas than anywhere else.

[Solly Mack]

17. Wonder if copies of the torture tapes are stored there.

I can't imagine Bush not wanting to view them over and over and over again.

[Freddie Stubbs]

18. Jimmy Carter is going also. Why is he pandering to a war criminal?

http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/02/obama-both-bushes-clinton-and-carter-the-worlds-most-exclusive-club-to-reunite/?iid=tsmodule

[forestpath]

19. That figures.

[Apophis]

21. Will the library be filled with Curious George books?

[Carolina]

22. How appropriate:

Shrub's library is in Dallas where THEY (BFFE) killed Kennedy

[Arkansas Granny]

23. I believe it is customary for past Presidents to attend function like this.