"We should have bombed it," Bush said

[underpants]

NO cheating!

Bombed what?

[DS1]

1. The decision and debate to not bomb it does sound like an interesting read

:shrug:

[Tyler Durden]

2. Will someone PLEASE put this Bastard on TRIAL????

GAWD I would trade him for NIXON if I could.

[underpants]

4. Pointing at this continuity, Noam Chomsky has called Nixon, "in many respects the last liberal pres

The political dominance of the liberal consensus, even into the Nixon years, can best be seen in policies such as the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency or in Nixon's (failed) proposal to replace the welfare system with a guaranteed annual income by way of a negative income tax. Affirmative action in its most quota-oriented form was a Nixon administration policy. Even the Nixon "War on Drugs" allocated two-thirds of its funds for treatment, a far higher ratio than was to be the case under any subsequent President, Republican or Democrat. Additionally, Nixon's normalization of diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China and his policy of detente with the Soviet Union were probably more popular with liberals than with his conservative base.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_liberalism#Nixon_and_the_liberal_consensus

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. Auschwitz: cos clearly killing everyone prevents genocide

[unpossibles]

6. exactly!

And an extra layer of irony considering his grandfather's business dealings during the war.

I have to wonder how the non-Bush-haters do it.

[Orsino]

5. Culture of death. n/t

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

7. Was it OVER when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?! HELL NO!!

...and it isn't over now!

If he weren't the leader of the free world, this guy would be fucking hilarious. Like a younger, dopier version of Larry "Bud" Melman.

[baldguy]

8. War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance in Strength