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Bush Regrets ‘Mission Accomplished’ and MorePosted on Nov 11, 2008
George W. Bush has had no shortage of gaffes during his reign of terror. One such miscue may also be the most enduring image of his presidency—that speech in front of a “Mission Accomplished” banner before his war in Iraq turned into an outright catastrophe. He now regrets that moment, among others. Speaking with CNN, Bush said his “wanted, dead or alive” and “bring ‘em on” statements were also mistakes. The president once famously struggled to think of a single mistake he had made. With a few years to think about the question, he should have come up with something better than a couple of ill-conceived phrases.
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By thebeerdoctor, November 13, 2008 at 5:15 am Link to this comment
re: Poly
War, in all its forms, is the last and mostly vestige of human slavery.
Report thisBy poly, November 13, 2008 at 12:18 am Link to this comment
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Sorry, American Soldier, but you are the fool for being in Afganistan. Your sweat and blood are shed for nothing of any value except to the greedy war merchants who are the only winners - whether the war is won or lost. Soldiers are just cannon fodder - fooled into thinking they are some sort of heroes. It is time for people to stop buying into “supporting our troops”. That is just the emotional blackmailing of the populace by the military industrial complex. War is not about freedom, democracy, heroism or justice. It’s about the money, stupid.
Report thisBy Jean Gerard, November 12, 2008 at 7:48 pm Link to this comment
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Bush was deficient and dangerous in many ways. But ... some people voted for him. A bunch of rich imperialist neo-cons and Cheney pushed him from behind. Some people in high places cheated to get him re-elected. A supine congress let him get away with murder when they could have stopped him. A “supreme” court stopped a voting recount that would have unseated him. Nobody but a few “radicals” were willing to “speak truth to power: or to impeach him for his crimes against humanity. If we don’t acknowledge widespread responsibility, another Bush could present himself in a few years.
Report thisBy Naz, November 12, 2008 at 5:42 pm Link to this comment
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Please, nothing coming from this vermin’s mouth can be believed. He showed his true colors when he joked about “where those weapons of mass destruction could be” at the podium in front of “his” people who laughed long and loud over the deception that is now responsible for the deaths of millions. “Sick” doesn’t even begin to describe the scum that composes him and “his” people…the haves and the have mores, as he so admiringly refers to himself and them. Money is their god and the only meaning in their worthless lives.
Report thisBy Allan Krueger, November 12, 2008 at 4:46 pm Link to this comment
1/20/2009 - The end of an ERROR!
Report thisBy Tom Edgar, November 12, 2008 at 2:50 pm Link to this comment
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Regrets I’ve had a few, of things I’ve done and blew
But when all is said and done, I blew it my way.
You may criticize me now, tell what I should’ve done
But doing it the way I did, It was lots of fun .
Made heaps of cash, saw credibility and markets crash
America may now be seen as trash.But that is my way.
So wave goodbye, please don’t cry as I smile and go
When all is said and done I blew you lot sideways.
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Report thisBy SuEcMc, November 12, 2008 at 2:01 pm Link to this comment
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sigh. Unfortunately there will be many MANY people who will believe the sincerity of this president’s insincerity. It’s funny that Cheney’s administration is now working it’s hardest to make themselves look less foolish in the coming history books. It took how many years for them to finally say that they were referring to that particular ship’s accomplished mission and not the whole war? sheesh!
Report thisBy samosamo, November 12, 2008 at 1:41 pm Link to this comment
By lawlessone, November 12 at 11:49 am
The regrets are there and very real and little w IS the poster boy for the current state of affairs. BUT, do not forget the decades of republican/neoconservative planning that has culminated in this state of affairs. I myself place little w and his dick with the hell we are in but there were decades of plotting and planning and schemming by republicans along with a whole lot of complicity by democrats all bribed by lobbyists for this end result to be reached.
Report thisI still see here and hear around me the voices of conservatives trashing the democrats and the new socialist world we will be in and if I don’t ever talk to my hard to core conservative brother or stepbrother anymore, I will consider myself to be relieved of a very stressful situation. Yeah, this whole thing is turning family members against family members which one might find on page 5000 of the neocon play book.
At the least, I hope it is a long long time before another republican administration gets into power.
By lawlessone, November 12, 2008 at 12:49 pm Link to this comment
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Bush told CNN he “regrets” some wild overstatements like “Mission Accomplished” and utterly juvenile utterances like “Bring it on!” Of course, it is only a few regrets, tiny ones, but that at least is up from earlier responses to reporters that he essentially had none except for a personnel decision or two.
I wonder if the 5 Republican Justices who intervened in the Florida election in 2000 have any regrets for the hell they caused this country.
I wonder if the families of the 3000 killed on 9/11 have any regrets cheering Bush’s flag waving on the rubble days later since we now know the event was due in significant part to his ignoring overt warnings.
I wonder if the 96% of the country who said they favored the President and his policies when polled shortly after 9/11 are now embarrassed and regret ever having been so mislead, often by deliberate lies.
I wonder if the 4500 soldiers killed and tens of thousands maimed mentally and physically in trumped up wars started for Bush’s ego regret his stint as chump-in-chief of the armed forces, especially knowing he hid out during every opportunity he had to be in a shooting war.
I wonder if the families of future terrorist attacks will regret all the thousands of new terrorists created by primarily Bush’s indiscriminate bombings, pre-emptive invasions, torturings, impoverishments, and emasculations.
I wonder if the millions here and abroad who have lost their jobs, their savings, their homes to his disastrous financial policies and greed have any regrets.
I wonder if our children and grandchildren who will have to pay the enormous debt he created while doing without adequate health care and education will have regrets about those who so foolishly voted for Bush.
It is sad that this child of privilege and entitlement seems to have learned nothing at all. He is obviously blind or indifferent to the astonishingly massive destruction he has wrought directly as well as indirectly. Unfortunately, he seems incapable of ever growing up or learning. The worrisome problem though is that the most prominent among his followers like Palin, Guilani, etc., who hope someday to replace him, seem to have no regrets about what has happened other than they lost an election.
Report thisBy hippy pam, November 12, 2008 at 12:06 pm Link to this comment
ooOOOOooooOOOHHhhhh…..ReeEEEALLLLyyyyyy????Is that ALL HE REGRETS????Does his “cheerleader” mentality even comprehend that EMOTION????What about the thousands of lives TAKEN ON HIS SAY-SO????Whay about the COUNTRIES HE HAS INVADED AND BOMBED INTO RUBBLE???What about the jobs lost,no health care,illiterate children and gutting of the U.S. treasury?.....ANY REGRETS FOR THOSE THINGS,HEY-GEORGIE?????!!!!!I know I won’t be alive 50 years from now BUT I ALREADY KNOW WHAT HISTORIANS WILL WRITE ABOUT “GEORGE DUBYA BULLSHIT”
Report thisBy samosamo, November 12, 2008 at 10:52 am Link to this comment
By Eric, November 12 at 4:58 am
Hey, pus face, your boy, little w, and his dick have already created your u.s.s.a. for the people. So what is this? A comment from another traitor to the ‘u.s.s.a.’ who realizies his pork barrel money and earmarks won’t be coming in as frequently, yeah, I said frequently because until the vast majority of traitorous lifers in the house and senate are shoved out the door you may still get our money, just not as much and not as frequent as the blue dogs like to hedge their positions on either side of corruption. There, that ought to have explained your ‘regrets’.
Report thisBy msgmi, November 12, 2008 at 10:26 am Link to this comment
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If that is all GW regrets, his mea culpa lacks a whole lot of humanity.
Report thisBy Folktruther, November 12, 2008 at 10:06 am Link to this comment
The imperialist Progressives and Dems are already sanitizing Bush even while he is still stealing billions of dollars in plain sight. That is their function, to difuse the opposition of the population to imperialism.
The ‘mistakes’ Bush made here are public relations errors. Killing hundreds of thousands of people, stealing tens of billions of dollars, inceasing economic inequality within and between nations doesn’t qualify.
Way to Go, Truthdig. Imperialism forever.
Report thisBy Bobby Shackelton, November 12, 2008 at 9:18 am Link to this comment
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I served in the Air Force’s 386 EACS squadron during the invasion of Iraq in 03’ and I remember him making that speech, the funny thing is, we airman also received battle coins saying “Mission Accomplished” around the exact same time. I have this coin still and also a picture of it…doesn’t this seem to contridict everything Bush claims he actually meant?
Report thisBy uglyfemale, November 12, 2008 at 8:42 am Link to this comment
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Follow Vincent Bugliosi’s suggestion that state prosecutors indict George W for murder of soldiers of their respective states. Do the same to your elected representatives-pressure them to hold impeachment hearings against members of the Bush Reich; if one is started, then George cannot pardon any of his accomplices.
Report thisBy Can O' Whoopass, November 12, 2008 at 8:30 am Link to this comment
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This disgusting weasle of a man must’ve had a chat with Daddy Bush and was advised to ‘save his legacy’ by apologizing in his simpleton, smirking, arrogant way.
I don’t buy it.
Report thisBy Spiritgirl, November 12, 2008 at 8:06 am Link to this comment
The nerve!!!! The little weasel has been screwing over the people for the last 7+ years and he can only think of a “few misspoken” phrases! Either he really is a sociopath or he is the Manchurian candidate!!!! Can we IMPEACH him now for treason!!!!
Report thisBy Jim Yell, November 12, 2008 at 7:08 am Link to this comment
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George Bush broke the laws he was obligated by the country and the oath of office to obey. The President was never intended to be a dictator, although that is what this administration tried to do and even allowed Cheney to interfer with the countries laws, make deals with energy people and withhold the results from the public. And that doesn’t even cover the needless deaths and the criminal negligence of an arrogant and habitual derelect.
If these two get off without punishment than the future will be very iffy. Bush is just trying once more to excuse himself, failed cheerleader, failed businessman, failed sports team owner, failed President—-etc.
Report thisBy Eric, November 12, 2008 at 5:58 am Link to this comment
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Welcome to the U.S.S.A., comrade! Your service to the motherland will commence on 20 Jan 2009. Serve your government well!
Report thisBy American Soldier, November 12, 2008 at 5:13 am Link to this comment
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As an American veteran who served in Iraq under Bush and currently serving in Afghanistan at the end of his term, and during the beginning of Obama’s, I just like to say that you are all idiots, and have not a clue to what you speak of. Stop repeating lines from the media commentators and get a life, so I know I’m not sweating and BLEEDING over here for nothing
Report thisBy thebeerdoctor, November 12, 2008 at 4:39 am Link to this comment
“‘Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead’.
Report thisTut, I have done a thousand dreadful things
As willingly as one would kill a fly;
And nothing grieves me heartily indeed
But that I cannot do ten thousand more.”
By G.Anderson, November 12, 2008 at 4:31 am Link to this comment
When someone makes a mistake resulting in anothers death, it’s not called a mistake anymore.
Some how, “I’m sorry” just doesn’t seem adequate to cover all the carnage.
Apologizing to the victim’s family in court, wouldn’t cut it either.
Report thisBy Karim K., November 12, 2008 at 4:01 am Link to this comment
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A war-criminal with regrets? How touching! I say lets make him regret it even more. Put the bastard behind bars.
Report thisBy Thomas Allen, November 12, 2008 at 2:37 am Link to this comment
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Bu$h to prison for fraud, war crimes against humanity, murder, theft, being a spolied brat simpleton boy, in bad need of a public spanking, posing as a man. Definitely prison for rest of his life. Cell in Guantanamo. Water boarding three times a day. That would be justice.
Report thisBy Inherit The Wind, November 11, 2008 at 9:34 pm Link to this comment
The End of the World has come! George W. Bush has admitted he f***ed up several times! This is the FIRST time the Perfect Man has admitted error. Perfect @$$hole that is!
Report thisBy samosamo, November 11, 2008 at 8:52 pm Link to this comment
w has always flashed his ‘kiss my ass’ smile all through his illegal terms pretending to be president but he sure seems to me to be yukking it up more these days just so to hit more people in face with his shit, his way of flipping us all the bird. You know, kinda like he knows he is about finished with his grand plan of GRAND LARCENY for him and his buddies and they will just walk off into the sunset to enjoy their ill gotten gains. Now he is really starting to rub it in, the mockery he has made of our country and government.
Report thisAND, HE HAS NO REGRETS!!! Unless he still thinks he didn’t steal enough money and kill enough of our soldiers.
By tenstring, November 11, 2008 at 8:22 pm Link to this comment
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We’re supposed to believe this now when he’s said nothing that’s true in eight years? The photo op, the backdrop, the jet landing, and it was for the sailors? How effing stupid does he think we are?
Report thisBy Marc Schlee, November 11, 2008 at 7:28 pm Link to this comment
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is how criminals are caught and punished.
Look back.
Place blame.
FREE AMERICA
REVOLUTIONARY (DIRECT) DEMOCRACY
Report thisBy BruSays, November 11, 2008 at 7:12 pm Link to this comment
“Mistakes”?
“Regrets”?
“Ill-conceived”?
‘Bout sums up his entire presidency!
Try him, convict him, jail him. The man is a murderer.
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