George W. Bush: I'm 'Comfortable' With My Legacy On Iraq War

[Beacool]

Source: Dallas Morning News

By Nick Wing 04/15/20

Former President George W. Bush reflected on his tenure in the White House during an interview with the Dallas Morning News published Sunday, saying that he was comfortable with his decision-making regarding the Iraq War.

"I'm confident the decisions were made the right way," Bush explained. "It's easy to forget what life was like when the decision was made."

Bush's rare interview comes as he prepares to attend a ceremony for the opening of his presidential library next week in Dallas. He'll be there along with President Barack Obama and every other living former president. Speaking to the Morning News of the legacy that the library is meant to honor, Bush suggested he had few regrets.

"I'm comfortable with what I did," he said. "I'm comfortable with who I am."



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He's comfortable with his decision? It's easy for him to be "comfortable". He wasn't the on who was injured, maimed or killed. He wasn't the one who lost family members or who watched their town being blown up. He wasn't the one to still have to deal with the consequences of that war.

[peacefreak]

1. And I'm still comfortable

calling him an Asshat.

[Beacool]

2. He should not give speeches

and go back to painting self portraits and dogs.

[Roy Rolling]

19. LOL

You are being too generous with only the term "asshat".

He's such a cluelesss frat-boy idiot, I'm surprised he didn't wax poetic and say he is sure the 5,000 soldiers who died are comfortable, too.

[lastlib]

61. I'm still comfortablw with frog-marching him to The Hague...

...trying his filthy ass for war crimes and tossing him in the hoosegow for same!


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May the basturd burn in Hell with his Neo-CON asshat allies, while a million Iraqi children watch from above for eternity.

[tridim]

77. I was always partial to "Whistle-ass"

Seems to fit people like Bush who don't know or care that they are mass-murderers.

[joshdawg]

83. Ooops. Hit the wrong key

bush is a psychopath and a war criminal is what I meant to say.

[Botany]

3. He and Cheney lied to start an unneeded war which is still causing death and pain

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014453853

[Beacool]

14. Tragic and on going.

Th rivalries between the Shiite and Sunnis are many years old, but now they have al-Qaida in the mix. My understanding is that al-Qaida was not in Iraq before we invaded it.

[Botany]

24. al-Qaida was not in any part of Iraq that Saddam controlled ... he used to shoot them

.. because he saw them as a threat.* Our invasion allowed al-Qaida to move in ...
but still in small #s.

W didn't know the difference between Shiite and Sunni 6 weeks before he started his
unneeded war ..... he stunned some Iraqi ex-pats when they were in the White House
by saying "I thought they were all just Muslims." W also had the brilliant idea of having
Indian troops help police a post Saddam Iraq w/out thinking about the ramifications of
having Hindus w/guns telling Islamic people what to do.

* Funny the reasons for the Iraqi war went from WMDs, to fighting al-Qaida, to now it
was about the liberation of the iraqi people.

[Beacool]

47. Jr. has always been a maroon.

The family had high hopes for Jeb, but Jr. was considered the family idiot. That he made it to the WH still baffles me.

[earthside]

4. Which only proves by his own words ...

... just how sociopathic George W. Bush is.

Imagine in the face of stark reality still not being able to have or admit any regrets or pangs of conscience from the lies and horrors of America's unprovoked attacked on and invasion of the sovereign country of Iraq.

Bush is "comfortable with what I did"?
Did Ted Bundy ever even make such an outrageous statement?

[Botany]

11. Just today 22 killed and 100 wounded in Iraq and bush is still "comfy w/that war"

[Festivito]

5. With as much inheritable money his dad made, I'd be comfortable also.

I doubt it would be enough to afford the therapy, but, my psychiatrist would have a really really really comfortable office.

[Arkana]

6. Really George? Well that's just aces.

I'm sure that's of great comfort to all the dead men and women and their families who sacrificed everything because you and Dicko the Sicko felt the need to play Army Men with real soldiers.

[Beacool]

9. The guy has no conscience.

[olegramps]

7. One has to have a certain degree of intelligence to have a conscience. He strikes out on both.

[Hekate]

88. Nah. Even my dog has a conscience.

Dubya is just defective in that department.

[damnedifIknow]

8. He's the only one comfortable

"George W. Bush’s entirely unnecessary and ill-advised war, his terrible legacy built on lies and hubris, has left untold numbers of dead or broken warriors and civilians."

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/56075569-82/war-bush-iraq-cheney.html.csp

[Beacool]

12. Yet, he sleeps like a baby.

There are thousands of soldiers who were wounded physically and mentally who will never be the same, but Jr. is "comfortable".

[ladjf]

10. His comfort about the Iraq war is a clear indication of his sociaopathic personality. nt

[derby378]

13. Oh, and guess what?

Obama's never going to hold him accountable for his crimes. Wheeeeeeeee!!!

[Beacool]

16. I think that all the living presidents will be in TX next week

for the opening of Jr.'s children's library and petting zoo.

[derby378]

18. Yep - that makes it even worse

Obama's treating Herr Decider like a statesman instead of a pariah.

[SammyWinstonJack]

86. Yep and I guess Obama is comfortable with that.

Which in turn makes the smirking chimp comfortable with his war crimes.

[OnyxCollie]

15. Of course he's comfortable.

He's got Nancy "Impeachment's off the table" Pelosi and Barack "Looking Forward" Obama in his corner.

[Beacool]

48. I had forgotten that they had actually said that.

[cvoogt]

17. 'Comfortably dumb'

a la Pink Floyd?

[niyad]

20. no, george, we haven't forgotten.

"I'm confident the decisions were made the right way," Bush explained. "It's easy to forget what life was like when the decision was made."

we haven't forgotten the lies, the deliberately fomented hysteria, the fear-and-hate-mongering, the constant drumbeat for war. we haven't forgotten that pnac letter to pres. clinton demanding he go to war with iraq.

[Vinnie From Indy]

21. Smirky is still an asshole

and a sociopath.

[Cal Carpenter]

22. Of course you are 'comfortable' you dynastic piece of shit.

[SunSeeker]

23. If there is a hell, there's a very uncomfortable corner of it waiting for you, Dubya. nt

[BlueStater]

25. It's easy to be "comfortable" when you're George.

This piece of shit, along with his family, was nice and safe in the White House and never had to remotely feel the effects of his clusterfuck. An out-of-touch, disgusting douchebag to the very end, I see.

[the_chinuk]

26. In that case, he's back on the sauce …

… and even drunker than a human can actually be.

[Aristus]

27. Of couse he's comfortable with what he did.

Nobody in his miserable, pathetic family had his or her ass on the line.

He is, as Superman might have called him, a 'diseased maniac.'

[trusty elf]

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[Beacool]

49. Wow, enough said..........

[El Supremo]

71. This is the way it should be:

[Frustratedlady]

29. He needs to sit down and have a visit with Riverbend...

What about George Bush, Condi, Wolfowitz, and Powell? Will they ever be held accountable for the devastation and the death they wrought in Iraq? Saddam was held accountable for 300,000 Iraqis... Surely someone should be held accountable for the million or so?

[Beacool]

50. Condi and Powell were just tools.

They didn't dictate policy. That falls on the heads of Jr., his puppet master, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

[Frustratedlady]

52. That was a direct quote from her writing.

I realize they weren't in the loop much of the time, but to the Iraqi's, it probably doesn't matter much at this point.

[Beacool]

56. I'm not excusing them because they chose to work for Jr.,

but they were just enacting his policies, or more likely, Cheney's.

[Rob H.]

69. Rice was more than just a tool, imo

She was an active participant in that she was out there fearmongering and pushing for invasion every chance she got: "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud" was just one gem from her. She also said, "No one could have imagined them taking a plane, slamming it into the Pentagon ... into the World Trade Center, using planes as missiles" even though a government report submitted in 1999 warned that just such a thing could happen.

Two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, an analysis prepared for U.S. intelligence warned that Osama bin Laden's terrorists could hijack an airliner and fly it into government buildings like the Pentagon.

"Suicide bomber(s) belonging to al Qaeda's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives (C-4 and semtex) into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or the White House," the September 1999 report said.

*snip*

"This information was out there, certainly to those who study the in-depth subject of terrorism and al-Qaeda," said Robert L. Worden, the (Federal Research Division)'s chief.

"We knew it was an insightful report," he said. "Then after Sept. 11 we said, 'My gosh, that was in there.'"

The fact that I last saw her as a "special contributor" to CBS News makes me ill.

[The Wizard]

79. two months before 9-11

the G8 conference in Genoa, Italy evacuated hotels because that got info that al Qaeda was going to fly hijacked planes into the hotels.
She committed perjury when she deliberately lied to the 9-11 Commission that no one could have imagined blah blah blah yak yak yak.......
Maybe if there was a stained blue dress the media would have been outraged.
Rice is as culpable as anyone in the Bush cartel.

[Thinkingabout]

30. This is a pitiful admission he is still dumb as a post. The total results of his invasion still has

Not happened. Iran posturing is a direct result of Saddam being removed from power. Dad helped get Saddam in power and dummy Jr brought him down, thanks for being destructive.

[DissidentVoice]

35. We propped Saddam up

...until we decided it was no longer to our "advantage" to do so.

I'll bet Donald Rumsfeld wishes the picture of him shaking hands with Saddam had never been taken.

[MotherPetrie]

31. Spoken like a true sociopath

[liberal N proud]

32. And he still belongs in jail for it.

[DissidentVoice]

33. George W. Bush and I have one thing in common

We both served in the Air National Guard.

The difference is that I showed up and (mostly) did what I was told. I didn't obtain a commission (OK, I wasn't an officer anyway) through Daddy that was not ever Federally recognised (and hence had no authority outside Texas).

I went for medical exams when I was ordered to.

Had GWB been at my Wing the Wing King (Brigadier General with loads of time in F-100's and F-4's getting shot at over Saigon and a lot of chest candy to prove it) would likely have sent Lieutenant Bush packing with a BCD in his pocket and a boot in his arse.

I wonder if the MTI's at Lackland were "advised" to "not be so harsh" on new Airman Bush.

[appleannie1]

34. No brains--No feelings

[xtraxritical]

55. "Ignorance is bliss."

[Javaman]

36. sociopaths are like that.

"now watch this shot."

[JEB]

37. Comfortable?

This war criminal deserves to be waterboarded with the blood of his innocent victims until he develops a conscience.

[damnedifIknow]

38. It's not like it's a secret

The whole damn world knows what Bush & Co. did so prosecute already. Just do the right thing.

[hibbing]

39. Of ourse he is

Hi,
Like others have said, he sleeps like a baby at night. The guy screwed up everything he was ever involved in. All these idiots saying they would not change anything, and same with the candidates in the last election. It is seriously f'd up.

Peace

[Beacool]

53. Hi, yourself.

It's amazing that having been considered the stupidest in the family he became governor of a large state and then president.

[libodem]

40. You are a stone cold idiot, Dubya

Too stupid and blind to be ashamed.

[louis-t]

41. Yep, that's why he paints himself in a tub trying to wash the

'legacy' off.

[Orsino]

42. Too damned comfortable, all his life.

Although I do recall his claiming to have been kept awake at night when he was purportedly decidering.

[Mnemosyne]

43. War criminal, asshole George W. Bush, is "comfortable"? No conscience, no discomfort. nt

[Sunlei]

44. I don't think it is safe to have all the living Presidents including President Obama in one spot.

Bush is a big fat world target.

[Turbineguy]

45. He's comfortable

with the number of people he killed.

[rrneck]

46. That's because

you're an arrogant, narcissistic, pampered, lazy, shiftless, oblivious, idiot that wouldn't know right from wrong if it jumped up and bit you on your baby powder ass. Fucker.

[Beacool]

54. Please, don't hold back your feelings.

[valerief]

51. Glad it "easy to forget" Iraq. What an asshole.

[young_at_heart]

57. Something very basic to humanity is lacking in this man

I can't say exactly what it is, but something is missing. Every time I see Laura smiling at him a la Stepford Wife, I can't help but wonder what she is thinking!

[FlyByNight]

58. Of course the upper-class twit is comfortable

He's a sociopath.

[Daniel537]

59. Sick fuck.

This coward should be forced to meet with one of the countless Iraqi families he destroyed before he departs this Earth. Not that it would change his mind, but its what he deserves.

[AndyA]

60. In a just world, he would not be comfortable. He would be in JAIL.

The wars Bush started cost the American taxpayers a lot of money, and a lot of American families lost loved ones because of it. The veterans who came home without missing body parts or mental issues returned to foreclosed houses and no jobs.

We know Bushco lied to Congress and to the American people to start the wars. Had the facts been revealed when they were known, there would have been little support for Bush's wars.

Why is lying to Congress and the American people not a crime in this country?

I think steps should be taken immediately to make Bush a lot less comfortable with his decision to go to war.

[4Q2u2]

62. Isn't that Nice

I am so glad he was able to get over Iraq so easy. My family is still screwed up from it. I would love to personally change his comfortablility level. Let's just say it would look like that Rugy picture of him in reverse.

[Gregorian]

63. I'm comfortable waiting to see the day when he finally realizes who he is.

[grilled onions]

64. Lest We Forget The Co$t Of His Playing Soldier

How many today and for generations to come will be paying directly and indirectly while he is nice and comfy? All the seniors, single mothers, disabled,--the slashing of budgets from the VA(many there the direct result of his decisions) to food programs,daycare, and on and on the list can go. If all that money would have been spent where it should have been imagine how much better things could have been and the little idiot would STILL be comfortable!

[sofa king]

65. "Comfortable" meaning, "filthy rich."

But I seen ya tryin' to paint yourself in the shower, George Dubya.

You can't even look at yourself in the reflection of a mirror in a painting of yourself. You hate yourself--and you should.

So keep hiding in the bathroom and being "comfortable," you asshole. The ghosts of the hundreds of thousands you killed will pursue you all the way to Hell.

[shanti]

67. his decisions were made the "right" way

why, of course they were! they were extremely far to the right! the chimp needs to sit down and shut up.

[Auntie Bush]

68. Why should he feel uncomfortable making millions in war profiteering?

He'll never admit he did anything wrong...not even blowing up frogs.

[Solly Mack]

70. He has no reason to feel otherwise.

He got away with it.

[Wolf Frankula]

72. And I Would Be Comfortable Hearing

"George Walker Bush, you have been found guilty of planning an aggressive war, waging an aggressive war, condoning torture, slaughter of civilians, sack and pillage, and crimes against the peace and humanity. You are to be taken from this place to a place of execution, and hanged by the neck until dead."

Wolf

[PD Turk]

73. I'm bet he is

mountains of cash went missing in that debacle. I have no proof of where it went but I have strong suspicions of who wound up with it. I bet him, Cheney et al are comfortable with it..... filthy comfortable

[otohara]

74. Comfortable With Mass Murder

he's one twisted fuck...

along with the gun nuts.

[Zoeisright]

75. That's because that treasonous asshole has no conscience

and barely has a functioning brain. Fuck him to hell.

[Lint Head]

76. I'm 'Comfortable' with the asshole George W. Bush being tried for murder.

[The Wizard]

78. sociopath (NT)

[rocktivity]

80. If he means FINANCIALLY comfortable

Well, that was the whole point, wasn't it?


rocktivity

[blkmusclmachine]

81. Sociopath.

[sakabatou]

82. "I'm comfortable with the tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians and over 4,000 troops dead."

[Baitball Blogger]

84. What did W write in the Anne Frank House guest book?

I bet he makes Justin Bieber look good.

[crim son]

85. I'd like to see him tried for war crimes.

Would he still be as comfortable wearing an orange jumpsuit, living behind bars?

[Hekate]

87. Sure he is. That's why he paints himself washing, washing, washing

Out, damned spot! out, I say!
............
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine...

Wm. Shakespeare, in MacBeth

[Beacool]

94. Bush as Lady MacBeth?

That would be a sight.........

[Hekate]

95. The first line was Lady Mac, the second quote 'twas Himself

It would be a sight indeed, so see Bush haunted by ghosts.

[steve2470]

89. If there is a hell, he will surely burn in it nt

[olddad56]

90. I'm not, I think he, Cheney, Rumsfield adnd the whole lot of them are war criminals.

[arely staircase]

91. bless his heart eom

[benld74]

92. "It's easy to forget what life was like when the decision was made."?????

Really?
A whole lot more people were alive
A whole lot more people were not maimed for life
A whole lot more people had NOT been affected negatively by the war
The country was in a whole lot less debt
We only had YOU as POTUS for a short period of time
Your administration had NOT stolen the 2nd election
You had YET to embaress the US in countless ways
Haliburton had NOT begun suckle at the govt teat
Black Water was only a song by the Doobie Brothers
Your daughters provided countless headlines with their escapades
And your wife stood by your side smiling like the proverbial stepfords


NO I dont forget. I MISS some of it. But not YOU.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

93. Hell is too good for you, dipshit. I'll throw a party when cancer shrivels your body to a grape

and you finally exit this world of natural causes. worthless, sociopathic shithead!

[Octafish]

96. ' Money trumps peace.'

Your family legacy is our national nightmare.

[Evasporque]

97. He is also very comfortable with his artistic ability too....

[Beacool]

100. I wish that he had spent his years after being governor painting,

instead of screwing up this country and the world at large.

[forestpath]

98. He's in luck. Obama's comfortable with it too.

[spiderpig]

99. I am so sick of him

[G_j]

101. k

[Beacool]

102. I forgot I posted this almost a year ago.

[G_j]

103. seems strangely relevant today