Bush: America will ‘thank God’ for Iraq in 50 years

[katty]

(November 2008: STOP the insanity)


more: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/26/bush-america-will-thank-god-for-iraq-in-50-years/


Bush: America will ‘thank God’ for Iraq in 50 years.Speaking before the Republican Governors Association yesterday, President Bush took a moment to predict the future, claiming Americans will ultimately be thankful for his foreign policy decisions:

I believe 50 years from now, people will look back at this period of time, and say, thank God the United States of America did not lose its faith in the transformative power of liberty to bring the peace we want for our children and our grandchildren.

[angrycarpenter]

1. And god will say "I had nothing to do with it."

Where is your god now? He hath forsaken thee.

[LSparkle]

8. LOL!

[Dukkha]

10. "whoa whoa! this isn't about me this is about you"

[smoogatz]

2. Shorter Bush: we need the oil.

And will need it even more in 50 years.

[Vincardog]

3. bring the peace we want for our children and our grandchildren AND KILL THE REST.

[villager]

4. in that it helped destroy the Republican party? Well, maybe, then.

n/t

[shain from kane]

5. Thank God, or Thank Bush*, you're wanting to say. I'll curse you to the end of eternity.

"From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee."

[Hestia]

6. 50 years in the future: " Now children, see this man here? Let's

read about how he invaded another country and was personally responsible for untold death. We are using him as the example as to what a butcher looks like and what to watch out for when you vote for a president. Let's read his propaganda and his Disinformation Ministry, aka Fox News, so that you will know what propaganda actually is what it looks like in the future. Open your books to page 25 in "The Death of Iraq and Other Oil Countries Coup's".

[onethatcares]

22. swamprat, where are ya?

bush as the butcher, I know you got one somewhere. * cutting up the country and the Constitution.

[trusty elf]

36. I'll donate some material.

Here's a pic I started and never finished, in case anyone would like to to carry on with it.

[RedEarth]

7. More like... defense contractors will thank God for invading Iraq

......The Three Trillion Dollar War......

The Bush Administration was wrong about the benefits of the war and it was wrong about the costs of the war. The president and his advisers expected a quick, inexpensive conflict. Instead, we have a war that is costing more than anyone could have imagined.

The cost of direct US military operations -- not even including long-term costs such as taking care of wounded veterans -- already exceeds the cost of the 12-year war in Vietnam and is more than double the cost of the Korean War.

...........

As the fifth year of the war draws to a close, operating costs (spending on the war itself, what you might call "running expenses") for 2008 are projected to exceed $12.5 billion a month for Iraq alone, up from $4.4 billion in 2003, and with Afghanistan the total is $16 billion a month. Sixteen billion dollars is equal to the annual budget of the United Nations, or of all but 13 of the US states. Even so, it does not include the $500 billion we already spend per year on the regular expenses of the Defense Department. Nor does it include other hidden expenditures, such as intelligence gathering, or funds mixed in with the budgets of other departments.

Because there are so many costs that the Administration does not count, the total cost of the war is higher than the official number. For example, government officials frequently talk about the lives of our soldiers as priceless. But from a cost perspective, these "priceless" lives show up on the Pentagon ledger simply as $500,000 -- the amount paid out to survivors in death benefits and life insurance. After the war began, these were increased from $12,240 to $100,000 (death benefit) and from $250,000 to $400,000 (life insurance). Even these increased amounts are a fraction of what the survivors might have received had these individuals lost their lives in a senseless automobile accident. In areas such as health and safety regulation, the US Government values a life of a young man at the peak of his future earnings capacity in excess of

.........

From the unhealthy brew of emergency funding, multiple sets of books, and chronic underestimates of the resources required to prosecute the war, we have attempted to identify how much we have been spending -- and how much we will, in the end, likely have to spend. The figure we arrive at is more than $3 trillion. Our calculations are based on conservative assumptions. They are conceptually simple, even if occasionally technically complicated. A $3 trillion figure for the total cost strikes us as judicious, and probably errs on the low side. Needless to say, this number represents the cost only to the United States. It does not reflect the enormous cost to the rest of the world, or to Iraq.

....

Joseph Stiglitz was chief economist at the World Bank and won the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics in 2001. Linda Bilmes is a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/77663

[Der Blaue Engel]

9. This American will spit on Bush's grave in 50 years

That's a promise.

[ConcernedCanuk]

28. Sooner, bet on it - and it'll be a spittoon of international collectivity.

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[Cobalt-60]

38. Why Wait?

[qb]

11. What does this mean... in 50 years Iraq will inspire the UN to restore democracy in the US?

[Cheap_Trick]

12. no, jackhole

we won't. now sod off, you bloody wanker.

[spanone]

13. the iraqi civilians george,do we thank you or god for their deaths?

'transformative power of liberty to bring peace' you are one twisted soul

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

14. Why? Will we get to move there to find freedom?

After this gang of dipshits has stripped it from us?

[immoderate]

15. Yeah, dead people have fond memories.

But as long as I live, not so much.

--IMM

[Fresh_Start]

16. List of accurate Bush predictions here....

1)......










still thinking about it

[shain from kane]

20. Eisenhower on Nixon:

When Nixon began his own run for the presidency in 1960, Eisenhower was slow to assist Nixon with campaigning. In fact, after being hounded by reporters to provide an example of his Vice President making an important contribution to the Administration, Eisenhower inadvertently blurted out, “Give me a week and I’ll think of one!”

[HughBeaumont]

32. List of help-the-middle-class accomplishments of the Bewsh administration:

1)














. . . . .uh . . . .









yeah.

[ThomWV]

17. In what dilusional universe does he see a chain of events in which our involvement

In Iraq leads to a better world?

[jimshoes]

18. In 50 years I will be 105

and I will get my walker and go to the graveyard and piss on a certain idiot's grave.

[Binka]

26. I Will Rise From The Dead If I Have To!

For Ben and Me I will take the worlds largest dump on the ass carrot's grave.

[mikeytherat]

34. Brink a snack, an iPod, and a folding chair, Binka. The line's gonna long.

mikey_the_rat

[Cobalt-60]

39. If there's any me left once I'm done with life

I'll find his spirit and chew its ass for all eternity.
Who's with me?

[mikeytherat]

40. Something like this?

http://store.theonion.com/images/get/428

mikey_the_rat

[bluestateguy]

19. In 50 years I'll be retired, probably unable to piss straight, watching my old DVD's of the Simpsons

and I will never, EVER, say this war was anything but despicable. Nobody will ever accuse me of flip-flopping on this war.

[nxylas]

42. In 50 years, we'll still fucking be there

At least if John McCain has his way.

[Richard Steele]

21. Whereas, radical Arab terrorists are thanking Allah for B*sh RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

His thuggish, greed-based misAdministration is the
best thing that ever happened to them.

All of their old hyperbolic, over-the-top "Great Satan" crapaganda
has become passé compared to the REALITY of BushCabal™.

Al-Quaeda was a third-world fringe group on 9/11...thanks to B*sh
pissing off the ENTIRE WORLD, they now have over 100thousand active
members worldwide just 7 years later.
And donations are rolling in so fast that they can't spend it
on black-market weapons fast enough.


Heck of a job, Georgie!

[NOLALady]

23. Let's hope America as we know it

is here in 50 years. At the rate we're going, we might be a struggling 4th world.

[katty]

43. bush can afford to say this-he knows he won't be around

to clean up the mess.

[damonm]

24. Of COURSE they will...

it showed us to never trust a Rethuglican again!

[Solly Mack]

25. War crimes bring peace?

Who knew?

[kenny blankenship]

27. In 50 yrs you will be remembered the way Germans remember Hitler

A butcher, a madman who destroyed their country and brought them an everlasting shame.

[EndElectoral]

29. Wasn't the same thing said we when put the Shah of Iran in power?

[margotb822]

30. I have been thinking about what I'm going to tell my children

about W. Should I talk about war? Should I talk about greed? Maybe lies? Maybe the fact that a few people tried to destroy America for their own prosperity? I have faith that I will be able to say "But, in 2008, Americans took a stand against those people. Everyone that was able went to the polls and voted for a president that would transform America to a prosperous and peaceful place for all." These are truly dark times. I will never be thankful for Bush.

[GCP]

31. Will that be in person - after we've all been raptured up in the Armageddon

He helped to hurry along?

[malaise]

33. Bush is a very sick man

Keep on clutching at straws W. I'm betting the children and grandchildren of all those dead people and every rational human being on the planet will condemn you illegal invasion and subsequent genocide for the next 1000 years.

By the way -fuck you - to the Hague.

[marmar]

35. There was Ol Dirty Bastard......now we have Ol' Crazy Bastard......

:crazy:

[w8liftinglady]

37. In 50 years...these 2 pictures will compete for worst man in the world

[DemzRock]

44. Yep.

[Supersedeas]

41. the transformative power of liberty is the motivation for supporting Musharaff too??

[baby_mouse]

45. Nah.

There won't be an America by then.