Laura Bush: New library not 'a monument' to her husband

[alp227]

Source: USA Today

Former first lady Laura Bush said Wednesday that her husband did not want his presidential library and museum "to be a monument to himself."

Instead, she said at a news conference on the eve of the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, it's a representation of life in the White House and the challenges the country faced during his eight years in office.

All five living presidents will attend Thursday's ceremony on the Southern Methodist University campus.

Laura Bush spoke in a replica of the White House Rose Garden —this one populated with Texas bluebonnets —outside a recreated Oval Office where visitors can have photos taken while sitting behind the desk.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/24/laura-bush-george-presidential-library/2109437/

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OK, so where are:
- the "Bin Laden determined to strike in US" memo
- the November 2001 report that "found that Mr. Gore might have won if the courts had ordered a full statewide recount of all the rejected ballots."
-The Downing Street memos
-How Bush got free rides away from the Vietnam War courtesy of his daddy

[Botany]

1. W's real monument

[Amimnoch]

16. If ever there was a one lined reply worth individual rec's..

this would be it.

[Lasher]

2. They've erected a monument for GWB in Iraq

But so far they haven't named any town squares after him in Baghdad.

Saddam's hometown unveils statue dedicated to man who threw shoe at President Bush



http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/saddam-hometown-unveils-statue-dedicated-man-threw-shoe-president-bush-article-1.388754#ixzz2ROh1agYU

[Beacool]

18. For real??????

I thought that it was a joke.

[Lasher]

23. True story.

But the Iraqi police made them take it down shortly after it was unveiled.

[Beacool]

25. Ahhh, what a shame.

They have no sense of humor.

[zipplewrath]

3. You forgot

The memorial copy of "My Pet Goat"
And the original "Mission Accomplished" banner.

[matt819]

4. Not to worry, Laura

I doubt any intelligent American will consider a library to be a monument to her husband. As a form of irony, sure. But monument? No.

[onehandle]

5. No shit. That's not what they are supposed to be. But maybe she should consider it a 'monument.'

Because there is zero chance there will ever be a monument to him in Washington DC.

[lastlib]

10. Oh, they have sewers in DC--an appropriate monument to Shrub.....

[olddad56]

21. Oh, don't bet on that. There is an aircraft carrier named after his dad.

[TRoN33]

6. Laura didn't got the memo...

That there are plenty of far-right radio hosts and prime time anchors called for the Conservatives' Hajj Pilgrimage to Bush's new library every years.

Its for conservatives to cement their own patriotism toward the worst administration in the modern history of America!

[Sunlei]

7. A library of Bush created "challenges the country faced" :(((((((((((((((((.......

((((((

[olddad56]

19. He was "the challenges this country faced", so I guess it is a monument to him.

[guajiropa]

8. Monuments for war criminals . . . .

If we make one for Bush, should we not do one for Stalin and Hitler as well?

[olddad56]

20. at least add the Cheney wing and the Rumsfeld wing to the Bush Library.

[TeamPooka]

31. welcome to DU!

[Cirque du So-What]

9. Of course it's not a 'monument'

The only thing worthwhile that his library represents is an opportunity for researchers to find something incriminating which will land that MFer in front of a judge in The Hague.

[olddad56]

22. It looks like a place in need of a perpertual anti-bush protest.

but, protesting may be a crime in Texas punishable by death.

[hrmjustin]

11. A joke I heard once;

Did you hear President Bush's library had a flood. His coloring books fell into the water.

[DFW]

12. Well DUH !! As if that wasn't obvious

After all, libraries are people who can read.

[Gregorian]

13. Well it's certainly not an indictment. That would be more appropriate.

[House of Roberts]

14. Maybe it should become infected by the Vashta Nerada.

W: "Hey! Who turned out the lights?"

[laureloak]

15. Will it have a shoe-throwing game?

Or maybe a wack-a-mole Bin Laden and Saddam game?

[xxqqqzme]

17. "...The museum includes glittering gifts

given to the Bushes during their White House tenure, including silver stirrups from Morocco encrusted with gold, rubies and emeralds...."

This for an asshat who is afraid of horses.

[rrneck]

24. It's a monument

to cynical political expediency at the service of profit for the wealthiest 1% of Americans while methodically fucking honest working people by treating them like fungible assets.

It's a monument to the exploitation of fear and panic so the commons can be stolen from the people who worked, fought and died for it.

It's a monument to craven and unthinking ignorance about how the world works and the creation of ideologies that are indistinguishable from tennis shoes.

It's a monument to the erosion of freedom, greed, hate, ignorance, fear, and cowardice.

It's a monument to the distrust of intellectualism and the cultural bankruptcy it causes.

It's a monument to everything that is wrong with modern culture, capitalism, and the worst the human race has to offer.

It's a monument to the one man who managed to synthesize all those bad qualities and project them on an unwitting public.

Fuck you now and forever George W. Bush.

[Lasher]

26. She's right, it's a propaganda ministry.

Funded by anonymous donations, its purpose is to endlessly distort the truth of the failed Bush presidency, so that we will be fooled into voting for another asshole just like him.

[Little Star]

27. Fuck George W Bush. Just Fuck him. I can't stand his ugly ass!....

I think I'm not in a good mood today?

[Bucky]

28. So it's what, a memorial to those he needlessly got killed?

[olddad56]

29. Lets don't misunderestimate the evil of this man.

[firenewt]

30. Of course it's not a monument to Bush. Any Bush monument would be constructed from short

straws, pretzels and swizzle sticks.

[sakabatou]

32. No "My Pet Goat?"