Intersting quote from Bush Sr

“Trying to eliminate Saddam would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. There was no viable exit strategy we could see, violating another of our principles. Furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land.


President George Bush, Sr., in his memoirs.”

“If only he'd taught his son to read ...”

“But Uncle Dick said to do it!”

“Bush Jr. will be unemployed come January and he will be on his way back to Texas.”

“a village in Texas is missing its idiot.”

“Whacko, Texas?”

“No, Crawdad Texas. It's located in Baja Oklahoma, I'm told.”

“Cheney will go back to Grinch Mountain, CT.”

“there is a mountain cave in CT that is missing its Grinch.”

“Bush Sr. - "It's the Economy Stupid!"
Bush Jr. - "It's the Economy, the War, and the fact that you are stupid, stupid!"”

“grinch mountain, hahahaha!”

“it's more fun to Bash Boy George on the other site. You guys are too easy:) My favorite Republican friend just e-mailed me something about the 17% increase on Medicare being Clinton's fault- I guess he's even trying to balance the budget after he's gone! :)”

“I have a whacky theory. It seems like the GW administration doesn't want to get re-elected. With Bremer, Rumsfeld, Cheney, et. al. dropping these juicy little tidbits that are fuel for the Kerry/Edwards camp, I can't see where they think they can win. With Bremer saying that the war has been run incompetently, Rumsfeld saying there is no connection between Al Quaeda and Sadaam, and many other examples, even Nigal will have to think twice when he steps into the voting booth.
Maybe there is the possibility of impeachment, (outing a CIA agent, Abu Grhaib, etc) hanging over their head in a second term.
In any case, the GW camp is running a wierd campaign.”

“Their "weird" campaign is still running ahead of Kerry in the polls.

So... maybe not so "weird" after all????”

“Polling: The methadone of political junkies.

Kerry will win the election.”

“Got any $$ you wanna put on that, Phaeddy??”

“Sure. I'll bet you a pitcher of sacramento brewery beer of your choice.

And I promise to share.
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“just in- why would terrorists of the Sunni brand in Fallujah terrorize Sunni's in Pakistan????? Is it civil war on the whole Muslim mideast????”

“Poll (976 likely voters):

Odds are that Wanderer and Pheadrus get slammed on Sacramento Beer:

92% - yes
6% - no
2% - undecided”

“OK, If Bush wins, I'll buy & we both drink, if Kerry wins, you buy & we both drink. If they can't decide, ala 2000 election, we have to agree to keep drinking until the results are in. No wimping out just because it might take three weeks to count & re-count, the BAR STAYS OPEN!”

“I'm trying to envision what would have happened if we had let Saddam take Kuwait. The fear of Iraq would have kept the Saudis in line for us. Osama would have focused his attention on the terrible secular threat from the North. And we wouldn't have had such a buildup on the Arabian Peninsula.

I wonder what April Glaspie is doing these days?”

“Count me in on that pitcher as well! I'm moving back and am fully employed!”

“Congrats Rosey! We should schedule a "back to work" beer fest...1st one's on me!”

“Congrats, Rosey!”

“Way to go Rosey! Good luck in the new job!”

“That's something that I've considered Dunadan.

On the one hand I think that they are desperate to win because if they lose, the lid will come off and the truth about the war, profiteering, plundering and such will come out.

On the other hand it does seem that some of them are pre-positioning themselves for possible trouble in the future. CYA ASAP

Tonights debate ought to be good. Bush has to do better, but Kerry is too smart to let him back in. Kerry should bring up Poppy.”

“Specifically, Kerry should compare little George unfavorably to his father. The little punk hates that!”

“Either W wins or it's orange jump suits.

Yes Violin. The country is being dragged through the Bush family's disfunctionalities. 1067 dead GIs, 8000 wounded, so W can prove his manhood to his daddy.”

“Hey jo- i kinda agree on your interpretaion of boy George's justification- but let's not forget that his administration were planning this 'poorly planned war' before 9-11. They just did a bait and switch, to fool the public into preemting the Iraq war, and to get congress to approve it. So, to have a few bases in Iraq, to get the best crude American lives can buy (Iraq has the cheapest crude to refine), and destroy a dictator they helped create seems like a likely reason as well.”

“Actually JO, I was thinking of this bit from Wednesday's WaPo:



Chirac knew Bush's father, former president George H.W. Bush, well, but that relationship actually proved to be a distraction for the current president, according to the book, which says that Bush was annoyed that Chirac kept mentioning his father at every occasion. For months, French diplomats asked Chirac not to refer to Bush's father when he met the president, but he kept doing it.

During one of Bush's first European trips, when the new president impressed other European leaders at a summit, Chirac excitedly pulled out his cell phone to call Bush's father to report that the new president had done a great job, the authors said.

"The father reported this to his son," Cantaloube said. "It was not very well received in the White House."



Sounds like pretty serious 'issues' for the guy with the nukular football.”

“I'm getting plastered for the debate tonight, so I can try to understand Mr. Bush at his intellectual level. OK, maybe I just need to remove my brain all together.”

“Just take a chug for each time he whines about what hard work it is. You'll be plastered within a half hour.”

“I'm beginning to wish Dad didn't egg me on to invade Iraq.

I should've consulted Mom.”

“He didn't say hard work at all last night, and "mixed messages" changed to "confusing signal".”