Bush41 in tears over Iraqi POWs. Defends not invading Baghdad in 91.

[Mugsy]

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Former President George HW Bush gets emotional talking about how well U.S. troops treated captured Iraqi soldiers during the 1991 Gulf War, how hard it was to put troops in harms way, and defends his decision NOT to invade Baghdad.

Had this interview of taken place ten years earlier, he would of been bursting with pride, not tears, over how we treat prisoners of war.

Today, his son's administration is debating the use of *torture* on Iraqi's, has sent hundreds of thousands into harms way, is responsible to nearly FOUR THOUSAND dead U.S. troops, and has trapped the U.S. in a quagmire without end in Iraq.

You go ahead and cry Papa Bush. We're right there with you.

[Voltaire99]

1. This is imperialist porn.

Oh, boo hoo for the old, murderous fart.

This is simply FOX treating its armchair bombardiers at home to a little wistful moment. Does the McMansion heart good, you see, to remember its armies actually winning a war for a change.

[sam sarrha]

2. he cries alot now, and he has a lot to cry for, ... he knows he will burn in hell

[Bravo Zulu]

3. Is he responsible for what his spawn does?

[lumpy]

6. Not really. He has enough blood and guts on his own hands.

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[Voice for Peace]

4. I think those tears are genuine grief at what his son is doing and what has

happened with treatment of prisoners. He says several things like "bring them home" "end the war, end the aggression" "even though they're the enemy you treat em with respect" and more.

[closeupready]

7. I agree.

He weeps at how hated we have become.

[liberation]

9. I have a very nice bridge, for sale, near prime real state in New York. Any of you 2 interested?

If you think the son of a nazi sympathizer, who was head of the CIA and who enabled one of the biggest subversions of American law (Iran-Contra, anyone?), cares two shits about either of us or this country in general... you must be more naive than I thought.

It is all an act, and some people fall for it... hook, reel and sinker included.

Poppy Bush's gift was that he could play people to a t. I am sadden to see he still "got it."


The only true tears you will see from these assholes is when they are about to die, or if for some reason humanity prevails and they are sentenced for their crime. And those tears won't be because they feel sorry for you or me, or for what they have done... those tears will be because they feel sorry only for themselves and the fact that consequences finally caught up with them... There is nothing human about this bunch, and those tears are of the crocodile persuasion.

[peacetalksforall]

15. And lets see the moist eye over the take-out of JFK from the person

who does not remember where he was when .........

[lumpy]

5. Bush 1 didn't invade Iraq but he sure in hell bombed the hell

out of Baghdad. I recall pictures of Retreating Iraqi soldiers being burnt to a crisp crossing the desert and bulldozed into the desert sand.

[ClintonTyree]

8. 41 looks very old and tired.......

getting toward the end if his life now, all of those dirty deeds and shady deals are catching up to him. Not to mention the scourge his seed loosed upon the world. His idiot son, an utter failure and the most hated man in the world.

As Bob Dylan said, "how does it feel"? I hope it feels commensurately shitty to the damage his despicable family has caused upon this planet. :grr:

[Lucky Luciano]

10. what a bunch of shyte.

[The_Casual_Observer]

11. How about the massacre that occurred on the road leaving Kuwait

where the US firebombed the retreating Iraqis? The bastard bush was by in large responsible for Saddam's move into Kuwait in the first place. He is shit, his whole family is shit.

[lumpy]

17. Yes, Daddy Bush has a selective memory apparently.

I remember the graphic accounts of that slaughter.

[mucifer]

12. How about when he told the Kurds to revolt and that we'd back them up

then he watched them die? Why did he tell them that?

[Tab]

13. This won't be a popular comment

I've touched lightly on this before and there always seems to be a very intense response, so I hereby put on my flame suit in the interests of making a point.

GB41 was no saint. I know that. And I'm no defender of him, and not to where I would abandon my Democratic party. And there's even some dirtier shit regarding him possibly staging a coup against Reagan, which I will post if I can find the link (it's on another machine). I won't go there now.

Nevertheless, GB41 still operated within the range of what we'd tolerate, and had experience, with politicians. Ambassador to the United Nations, therefore a diplomat, Director of the CIA, meaning halfway competent (back then, stuff like that means shit, unlike now, thanks to his son), and tried to solve stuff with diplomacy and if that failed, tried to properly fashion a response. For the Kuwait issue, he made a point to limit the response, and get lots of countries on board for political backing, basically said "we'll do the strongarm stuff, but we need you to support us and pick up the bill". He made a point to get arab countries on board, knowing that if it didn't have the support of the arab countries, it had no legitimacy.

His asshole son, by the other hand, said "you're with us or you're against us", took the whole cost onto ourselves, and then said "bring it on".

I don't think GB41 is correct in many things, but I think he still had respect for what we called a country. His son has screwed it up, and I think that troubles him greatly. If not, we wouldn't see clips like these. I'm not condoning all the stuff he's done, but I can't quite jump on the pigpile of saying he's full of shit when he feels bad about what's going on right now. Particularly since it's his son that's doing it.

(sigh)

Flame away.

[lumpy]

18. George Sr's. whole public career has been filled with dark

political smut. He taught his son George Jr. well. Jr. has just been more blatant in his disregard for that thing called integrity.

[Ghost in the Machine]

14. Poppy in tears? Musta remembered it was sex night with BarBar... n/t

[Twist_U_Up]

16. Crocodile tears.......hes a nazi...dont believe me look.....

Bush Nazi Family Ties

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1985967793182743638&q=john+buchanan&total=1158&start=0&num=30&so=0&type=search&plindex=0