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bpuharic October 8th 10 08:13 AM

George W. Bush's accomplishments
 
On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:35:20 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:54:55 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:

And your point? We went in to get bin laden. We would have settled this
without a war if the Taliban had turned him over. They didn't.

... so we are going to kill men, women and children until they do.

No wonder they hate us there.


We do it less and less. It's against policy and every incident is looked at.
See Petraeus.

Now it is the CIA flying drones but the death count among the
civilians is still going up.
Haven't you been watching the news at all this week? Pakistan has
blockaded out supplies over this exact thing.


wrong. you dont understand ****.

the pakistanis blocked our supplies because we killed 3 of their
soldiers. the taliban just killed dozens of shiite worshippers and
they dont care. muslims dont care if muslims kill other muslims.
that's what's great about being religious fanatics.



bpuharic October 8th 10 08:14 AM

George W. Bush's accomplishments
 
On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:36:45 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:55:18 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:

There are plenty of Democrats who feel the same way.
Nobody really has a better idea about what to do with the detainees.
Maybe they should load them all up on a surplus C5A and take them back
to Afghanistan. Then they could have a problem in the air, the plane
crashes and the crew were the only ones with parachutes. ;-)


Even the innocent ones? How do we know who's actually a terrorist?

You don't seem that concerned with the 6000 we killed in Afghanistan.
Isn't that just collateral damage?


and the 60,000 killed by the taliban?

you're right. i dont give a rat's ass about how many of them we kill.
25% of their children die before their 1st birthday. and all they care
about is their idiotic religion.

bpuharic October 8th 10 10:15 AM

George W. Bush's accomplishments
 
On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:10:34 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:55:42 -0700, jps wrote:

Yeah right, a partisan rant is fair I guess.

BTW history may say the Iraq war deposed one of the worst dictators of
the 20th century and Afghanistan accomplished nothing ... at about the
same price.


Gosh, it's a good thing Idi Amin didn't have oil under his country.


You notice that since Clinton got his nose bloodied in Africa we are
not really doing much war making there.


we were lifesaving there. no point in stopping genocide if everyone's
in favor of it


Secular Humoresque[_2_] October 8th 10 02:55 PM

George W. Bush's accomplishments
 
In article , says...

On 10/7/2010 3:47 PM, Secular Humoresque wrote:
In , says...

nom=de=plume wrote:

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This was still all about Israel. If we didn't take out Saddam, Israel
was going to try to and we would have been drawn is as Israel's ally
when the war escalated, a far worse position than just being the
cowboys with bad intel.

This has little to do with Israel, even though that's a convenient
forgetting of the facts.


You are the one forgetting the "facts."
Here's a fair rendering of Israel's influence on the Iraq war, written
before it started by former CIA policy analysts:
http://www.counterpunch.org/christison1213.html

It will explain to you how the Jewish Zionists and the "end of days"
Christian Zionists came together happily in the Bush administration.
Might be too much for your attention span though.
BTW, Zionism is all about Israel.

You remind me of the lower to middle class Teabaggers who support
Republicans, manipulated into thinking that party has their interests
at heart.
All part of winger knee jerk psychology.


Unfortunately our Afghan war has still put is in the position of being
at war with Islam.

Only in the eyes of the radicals. Unfortunately, they're very good at
spreading that lie. Look at the hatred people in _this_ country have
toward Muslims.


All part of Zionism of any stripe.
Maybe with the departure of Wall Street multi-millionaire Rahm Emanuel
(middle name Israel, former Israeli Defense Forces worker, son of an
Irgun terrorist, Israeli citizen, etc) from the Obama administration,
the Arabs will get a fair shake.
Uh-oh.
Looks like I'm an anti-Semite.
Funny. I see that Rick Sanchez got canned from CNN for saying his
Jewish bosses and Jon Stewart are hardly "oppressed minorities."
He only spoke the truth, and that got him fired.
Maybe he really got fired because he's an asshole who thinks because his
name is Sanchez he is automatically "oppressed," but who knows?

Jim - If ignorance works for you, go for it.


You seem to be going for the ignorance constantly. Anyone who would come
back here after what you did to John's wife is truly ignorant.



I never did anything to John's wife. Nor did I make the above-referenced
comment about Israel. I guess one of you assholes is ID copying me too.
That's all you kiddies seem capable of doing, copying the IDs of other
posters.


You are using the ID of another poster.

bpuharic October 8th 10 07:06 PM

George W. Bush's accomplishments
 
On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:05:35 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:11:05 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:38:33 -0400,
wrote:

On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:40:20 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

Iraq all about Israel, as the upcoming Iran war will be.
Afg was and is a useless war. There is nothing to win there.

except the death of al qaida's influence


We are making them more powerful and Pakistan is about ready to kick
US out. They are refusing to let us use their roads now to supply our
troops.


then why are the taliban in negotiations, when our key demand is to
cut ties with AQ?

go ahead. find a resource saying AQ is more powerful today than it was
9 years ago.

i'll wait.


Beating the Taliban is like pushing mercury around in a bowl with your
finger. You can move it but it is still all there and it fills in
behind your finger.


meaninless. if this was the case they wouldn't be talking. there is
all kind of pressure you can bring to bear on terrorist groups,
military is just one;


How many years are you planning on being there, pushing these guys
around the mountains? This is Vietnam all over again.
In Vietnam we never lost a battle and we still lost the war.


unlike you i can think independently. the vietman paradigm does not
apply since they have no ability to occupy any land we wish to deny
them.


and you're an idiot if you think pakistan is going to kick us out and
lose the billions we bribe them with


They have denied us the use of the only road to Afghanistan.


WRONG!! BUSZZZ thanks for playing. there are a number of roads. they
simply closed one of the busiest.

That is certainly a sign that they want us to stop the war ... in
spite of our bribes. I am sure we will patch that up but the writing
is on the wall.


no, it's a sign they want more bribes. you dont understand how greedy
they truly are. that's what islam is; a shakedown theology


bpuharic October 8th 10 07:07 PM

George W. Bush's accomplishments
 
On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:10:14 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:14:58 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:36:45 -0400,
wrote:

On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:55:18 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:

There are plenty of Democrats who feel the same way.
Nobody really has a better idea about what to do with the detainees.
Maybe they should load them all up on a surplus C5A and take them back
to Afghanistan. Then they could have a problem in the air, the plane
crashes and the crew were the only ones with parachutes. ;-)

Even the innocent ones? How do we know who's actually a terrorist?

You don't seem that concerned with the 6000 we killed in Afghanistan.
Isn't that just collateral damage?


and the 60,000 killed by the taliban?

you're right. i dont give a rat's ass about how many of them we kill.
25% of their children die before their 1st birthday. and all they care
about is their idiotic religion.


No I don't care how many the Taliban kill. We should get the hell out
of there and let them all kill each other if they want. They won't be
holding up Hellfire missile parts and blaming us.


that's the joe biden approach. i think it has merit.


bpuharic October 8th 10 07:07 PM

George W. Bush's accomplishments
 
On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:07:32 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:12:11 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:41:03 -0400,
wrote:

On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:00:40 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

No wonder they hate us there.

who gives a **** if they hate us. if they leave us alone that's
enough.

They are more likely to screw with us if we are screwing with them.


we arent screwing with them. afghanistan attacked us. that has some
consequences. just ask the japanese.


Afghanistan never attacked us. That is as valid as the WMD argument
... from the same guy, your hero GW Bush.


gee. where was bin laden on 9/11

oh. you dont know.


bpuharic October 8th 10 07:08 PM

George W. Bush's accomplishments
 
On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:13:59 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:15:34 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

Gosh, it's a good thing Idi Amin didn't have oil under his country.

You notice that since Clinton got his nose bloodied in Africa we are
not really doing much war making there.


we were lifesaving there. no point in stopping genocide if everyone's
in favor of it



Are you saying a black person's life is less valuable than an
Afghani's life? You just finished a rant about how many Afghans the
Taliban kill.


i'm in favor of letting people kill themselves if they want to.
there's no reason for us to step in where they believe it's god's will
to kill their own children.



Racist


nom=de=plume[_2_] October 8th 10 07:22 PM

George W. Bush's accomplishments
 

wrote in message
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On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:11:05 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:38:33 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:40:20 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

Iraq all about Israel, as the upcoming Iran war will be.
Afg was and is a useless war. There is nothing to win there.

except the death of al qaida's influence


We are making them more powerful and Pakistan is about ready to kick
US out. They are refusing to let us use their roads now to supply our
troops.


then why are the taliban in negotiations, when our key demand is to
cut ties with AQ?

go ahead. find a resource saying AQ is more powerful today than it was
9 years ago.

i'll wait.


Beating the Taliban is like pushing mercury around in a bowl with your
finger. You can move it but it is still all there and it fills in
behind your finger.
How many years are you planning on being there, pushing these guys
around the mountains? This is Vietnam all over again.
In Vietnam we never lost a battle and we still lost the war.

Well actually I think that is the only war we did win in the 20th
century.
In every other war we had, we still have 50,000+ troops occupying the
country. We are out of Vietnam and they are now trading freely with us
and the rest of the world.

and you're an idiot if you think pakistan is going to kick us out and
lose the billions we bribe them with


They have denied us the use of the only road to Afghanistan.
That is certainly a sign that they want us to stop the war ... in
spite of our bribes. I am sure we will patch that up but the writing
is on the wall.


They haven't denied us the use of the road. They closed it for a couple of
days.



nom=de=plume[_2_] October 8th 10 07:24 PM

George W. Bush's accomplishments
 

wrote in message
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On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:57:49 -0700, jps wrote:

They will be presidents with no nation changing accomplishments and
each have one interesting anecdote. Bush will be remembere\d for Bush
v Gore and Clinton will be remembered as being the second president to
be impeached, with the blow jobs being the snicker factor that makes
it memorable.


Golly, I don't recall Clinton attempting to bankrupt the country apart
from his support of globalism.

He didn't obsessively pursue spending us into oblivion.


I can't defend Bush and Obama spending a trillion each on useless
wars.

Unfortunately nobody remembers money you didn't spend.


Obama hasn't spent nor will he spend a trillion in either place or both.

Last I checked, Congress writes the checks, btw.



nom=de=plume[_2_] October 8th 10 07:24 PM

George W. Bush's accomplishments
 

wrote in message
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On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:09:11 -0700, jps wrote:

Funny. I see that Rick Sanchez got canned from CNN for saying his
Jewish bosses and Jon Stewart are hardly "oppressed minorities."
He only spoke the truth, and that got him fired.
Maybe he really got fired because he's an asshole who thinks because his
name is Sanchez he is automatically "oppressed," but who knows?

Jim - If ignorance works for you, go for it.


He got fired for spitting in his boss's face.

When was the last time you saw that happen and not have the spitting
fool idiot loose his job?

It was a short number of generations past when Jews were regularly set
apart by this very society, just like blacks, asians, etc. There's a
lot of people still alive who remember. And their children are still
alive who know what was done to their relatives during WWII.

A few have done well for themselves but guys like Sanchez are too
stupid to understand that they're the exception and not part of a
grand scheme of Jews taking over the world.

He played right into well-hewn stereotypes and ****ed into the wind.

It serves him right that he got **** in his face and lost his job. His
"apology" was pathetic and the only crew who'd likely hire him now is
the same group that'd love having Lou Dobbs.

Maybe he can join those idiots on the couch at Fox & Friends.



Hmmm A guy says Jews control the media and gets fired faster than
Shirley Sherrod. That sure proves he was wrong to me.. ;-)


It proves that he was a racist moron who was too full of himself to me.



nom=de=plume[_2_] October 8th 10 07:25 PM

George W. Bush's accomplishments
 

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On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:53:19 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:


?? This is your logic not mine. You're trying to equate the US with Nazi
Germany. It doesn't hold.


You are the one who defines "war" as "troops on the ground".
I am just trying to understand that.
We blockaded Iraq, denied them the use of the air space over their
country with deadly force and killed a lot of innocent civilians.
All of those things are acts of war.
You prefer the "death from the air" method of warfare. In 1940 they
called that "The Blitz"
You are only upset that we actually put some of our people at risk by
taking the next logical step.


Sorry, but you're way off base on this. It's not reasonable to equate the
two countries.

I am not equating the two wars or the two countries, only pointing out
bombing someone is an act of war. You don't think it is a war unless
we have boots on the ground.


I never said that. I said that the only time we actually had troops on the
ground in Iraq was during Bush I.



nom=de=plume[_2_] October 8th 10 07:28 PM

George W. Bush's accomplishments
 

wrote in message
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On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:54:55 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:

And your point? We went in to get bin laden. We would have settled this
without a war if the Taliban had turned him over. They didn't.

... so we are going to kill men, women and children until they do.

No wonder they hate us there.


We do it less and less. It's against policy and every incident is looked
at.
See Petraeus.

Now it is the CIA flying drones but the death count among the
civilians is still going up.
Haven't you been watching the news at all this week? Pakistan has
blockaded out supplies over this exact thing. They are also not doing
anything to protect the trucks stalled behind the blockade and they
are being blown up as fast as the Taliban can get to them.



You seem mightily concerned about AQ, but not so much with reducing the
violent attacks in Afg. and around the world.

Pakistan closed the road back in 2008 for a few days also.

Get over it.



nom=de=plume[_2_] October 8th 10 07:29 PM

George W. Bush's accomplishments
 

wrote in message
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On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:55:18 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:

There are plenty of Democrats who feel the same way.
Nobody really has a better idea about what to do with the detainees.
Maybe they should load them all up on a surplus C5A and take them back
to Afghanistan. Then they could have a problem in the air, the plane
crashes and the crew were the only ones with parachutes. ;-)


Even the innocent ones? How do we know who's actually a terrorist?

You don't seem that concerned with the 6000 we killed in Afghanistan.
Isn't that just collateral damage?


?? I have a great concern for them. So? What's that got to do with
potentially innocent people in Gitmo?


nom=de=plume[_2_] October 8th 10 07:30 PM

George W. Bush's accomplishments
 

wrote in message
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On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:14:58 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:36:45 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:55:18 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:

There are plenty of Democrats who feel the same way.
Nobody really has a better idea about what to do with the detainees.
Maybe they should load them all up on a surplus C5A and take them back
to Afghanistan. Then they could have a problem in the air, the plane
crashes and the crew were the only ones with parachutes. ;-)

Even the innocent ones? How do we know who's actually a terrorist?

You don't seem that concerned with the 6000 we killed in Afghanistan.
Isn't that just collateral damage?


and the 60,000 killed by the taliban?

you're right. i dont give a rat's ass about how many of them we kill.
25% of their children die before their 1st birthday. and all they care
about is their idiotic religion.


No I don't care how many the Taliban kill. We should get the hell out
of there and let them all kill each other if they want. They won't be
holding up Hellfire missile parts and blaming us.


Really? You don't care? Wow. That's quite a statement.


nom=de=plume[_2_] October 8th 10 07:32 PM

George W. Bush's accomplishments
 

wrote in message
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On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:12:11 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:41:03 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:00:40 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

No wonder they hate us there.

who gives a **** if they hate us. if they leave us alone that's
enough.

They are more likely to screw with us if we are screwing with them.


we arent screwing with them. afghanistan attacked us. that has some
consequences. just ask the japanese.


Afghanistan never attacked us. That is as valid as the WMD argument
... from the same guy, your hero GW Bush.


The Taliban were in control of the country. They supported and protected bin
laden. We asked them to hand him over. They refused. He had killed 1000s of
our people. And, your response is... do nothing. At least Bush initially
went after bin laden.



nom=de=plume[_2_] October 8th 10 07:32 PM

George W. Bush's accomplishments
 

wrote in message
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On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:55:42 -0700, jps wrote:

Yeah right, a partisan rant is fair I guess.

BTW history may say the Iraq war deposed one of the worst dictators of
the 20th century and Afghanistan accomplished nothing ... at about the
same price.


Gosh, it's a good thing Idi Amin didn't have oil under his country.


You notice that since Clinton got his nose bloodied in Africa we are
not really doing much war making there.


Actually, we have lots of people on the ground there... special ops I think
they're called. But, feel free to blame Clinton.



nom=de=plume[_2_] October 8th 10 07:33 PM

George W. Bush's accomplishments
 

wrote in message
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On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:15:34 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

Gosh, it's a good thing Idi Amin didn't have oil under his country.

You notice that since Clinton got his nose bloodied in Africa we are
not really doing much war making there.


we were lifesaving there. no point in stopping genocide if everyone's
in favor of it



Are you saying a black person's life is less valuable than an
Afghani's life? You just finished a rant about how many Afghans the
Taliban kill.

Racist


Hmm... well, perhaps if we hadn't invaded Iraq (for no reason), we'd be able
to do something in say Rwanda? Gee.. you think?



mmc October 8th 10 07:41 PM

George W. Bush's accomplishments
 


"bpuharic" wrote in message
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On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 07:48:08 -0500, "MMC" wrote:



wrote in message
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On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 10:38:51 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:

In all fairness....

Yeah right, a partisan rant is fair I guess.

BTW history may say the Iraq war deposed one of the worst dictators of
the 20th century and Afghanistan accomplished nothing ... at about the
same price.


BTW, we are not in the business of deposing dictators and Bush is the one
that failed early and ugly in Afghanistan, Obama just doesn't have the
balls
to turn it off.



no, he has the good moral sense not to abandon a commitment we made.
you're confused


He promised to bring everyone home during the campaign, not honor any
imaginary commitment.
Karzai wants to throw out all private security and is talking about throwing
out all contractors. Obama may have a convenient out.


mmc October 8th 10 07:42 PM

George W. Bush's accomplishments
 


wrote in message
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On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:15:34 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

Gosh, it's a good thing Idi Amin didn't have oil under his country.

You notice that since Clinton got his nose bloodied in Africa we are
not really doing much war making there.


we were lifesaving there. no point in stopping genocide if everyone's
in favor of it



Are you saying a black person's life is less valuable than an
Afghani's life? You just finished a rant about how many Afghans the
Taliban kill.

Racist


He tagged you Bob! haha!


jps October 8th 10 07:46 PM

George W. Bush's accomplishments
 
On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:12:51 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:57:49 -0700, jps wrote:

They will be presidents with no nation changing accomplishments and
each have one interesting anecdote. Bush will be remembere\d for Bush
v Gore and Clinton will be remembered as being the second president to
be impeached, with the blow jobs being the snicker factor that makes
it memorable.


Golly, I don't recall Clinton attempting to bankrupt the country apart
from his support of globalism.

He didn't obsessively pursue spending us into oblivion.


I can't defend Bush and Obama spending a trillion each on useless
wars.

Unfortunately nobody remembers money you didn't spend.


Obama is fighting the war that needs to be fought and it's little to
do with Afghanistan or anything that'd be idetified within a border.

jps October 8th 10 07:51 PM

George W. Bush's accomplishments
 
On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:17:04 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:09:11 -0700, jps wrote:

Funny. I see that Rick Sanchez got canned from CNN for saying his
Jewish bosses and Jon Stewart are hardly "oppressed minorities."
He only spoke the truth, and that got him fired.
Maybe he really got fired because he's an asshole who thinks because his
name is Sanchez he is automatically "oppressed," but who knows?

Jim - If ignorance works for you, go for it.


He got fired for spitting in his boss's face.

When was the last time you saw that happen and not have the spitting
fool idiot loose his job?

It was a short number of generations past when Jews were regularly set
apart by this very society, just like blacks, asians, etc. There's a
lot of people still alive who remember. And their children are still
alive who know what was done to their relatives during WWII.

A few have done well for themselves but guys like Sanchez are too
stupid to understand that they're the exception and not part of a
grand scheme of Jews taking over the world.

He played right into well-hewn stereotypes and ****ed into the wind.

It serves him right that he got **** in his face and lost his job. His
"apology" was pathetic and the only crew who'd likely hire him now is
the same group that'd love having Lou Dobbs.

Maybe he can join those idiots on the couch at Fox & Friends.



Hmmm A guy says Jews control the media and gets fired faster than
Shirley Sherrod. That sure proves he was wrong to me.. ;-)


Well, maybe people above him at CNN are Jewish and took exception to
his ignorant rant. I imagine any sentient being would take offense to
his rant and want him fired, Jewish or not.

Sherrod was a knee jerk reaction to a third-party smear. Sanchez
committed professional suicide.

Secular Humoresque[_2_] October 8th 10 07:54 PM

George W. Bush's accomplishments
 
In article ,
says...

wrote in message
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On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:11:05 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:38:33 -0400,
wrote:

On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:40:20 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

Iraq all about Israel, as the upcoming Iran war will be.
Afg was and is a useless war. There is nothing to win there.

except the death of al qaida's influence

We are making them more powerful and Pakistan is about ready to kick
US out. They are refusing to let us use their roads now to supply our
troops.

then why are the taliban in negotiations, when our key demand is to
cut ties with AQ?

go ahead. find a resource saying AQ is more powerful today than it was
9 years ago.

i'll wait.


Beating the Taliban is like pushing mercury around in a bowl with your
finger. You can move it but it is still all there and it fills in
behind your finger.
How many years are you planning on being there, pushing these guys
around the mountains? This is Vietnam all over again.
In Vietnam we never lost a battle and we still lost the war.

Well actually I think that is the only war we did win in the 20th
century.
In every other war we had, we still have 50,000+ troops occupying the
country. We are out of Vietnam and they are now trading freely with us
and the rest of the world.

and you're an idiot if you think pakistan is going to kick us out and
lose the billions we bribe them with


They have denied us the use of the only road to Afghanistan.
That is certainly a sign that they want us to stop the war ... in
spite of our bribes. I am sure we will patch that up but the writing
is on the wall.


They haven't denied us the use of the road. They closed it for a couple of
days.


Did they not deny us the use of the road when it was "closed"??

jps October 8th 10 07:55 PM

George W. Bush's accomplishments
 
On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:10:34 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:55:42 -0700, jps wrote:

Yeah right, a partisan rant is fair I guess.

BTW history may say the Iraq war deposed one of the worst dictators of
the 20th century and Afghanistan accomplished nothing ... at about the
same price.


Gosh, it's a good thing Idi Amin didn't have oil under his country.


You notice that since Clinton got his nose bloodied in Africa we are
not really doing much war making there.


Oh, if Idi would have had oil to offer in large quantities in the
middle east, he'd have been GW Bush's target.

My point is that it had nothing whatsoever to do with toppling a
dictator and everything to do with what lives under that sand and
where that sand exists on the planet.

Mentioning that we toppled a dictator is humorous and disingenuous.

Jim October 8th 10 07:57 PM

George W. Bush's accomplishments
 
jps wrote:


He got fired for spitting in his boss's face.

When was the last time you saw that happen and not have the spitting
fool idiot loose his job?


That's always a bad idea, isn't it? Same with burning bridges when you
move on to different work by choice.
I've returned to work for 3 different employers - because I knew not to
flap my jaws for no real purpose when I left them behind.
Still think his bosses fired him more because he was a loose cannon.
They weren't insulted or hurt by his comments, they've heard it all
before. It was just a last straw symptom of Sanchez being an asshole.

It was a short number of generations past when Jews were regularly set
apart by this very society, just like blacks, asians, etc. There's a
lot of people still alive who remember. And their children are still
alive who know what was done to their relatives during WWII.

A few have done well for themselves but guys like Sanchez are too
stupid to understand that they're the exception and not part of a
grand scheme of Jews taking over the world.

He played right into well-hewn stereotypes and ****ed into the wind.


Actually, in the context of the conversation he wasn't saying anything
offensive. He was responding to the comment that Jon Stewart was
an "oppressed minority," which is patent nonsense.
If he had just said "That's nonsense," he would still be working for CNN.
But as you say, some truths are best left unsaid because they have been
soiled by nefarious purpose.

And he probably started it all by claiming he was himself an "oppressed
minority" because he's "Latino."
He's too stupid to realize that his ethnic background and fluency in
Spanish is why he's been making big bucks instead of loading trucks.
I don't know all the details, but Sanchez always struck me as having a
chip on his shoulder.
All this BS can be avoided by not engaging in ethnic/religious
identification in the first place, and viewing people as individuals.
Or at least by remembering mama's rule "If you can't say something nice,
don't say anything."


It serves him right that he got **** in his face and lost his job. His
"apology" was pathetic and the only crew who'd likely hire him now is
the same group that'd love having Lou Dobbs.


Read the wiki on Dobbs. Except for a couple lapses in his judgment you
probably are aligned with his views.
Of course his entertaining the birthers irrevocably destroyed his
reputation.
Some mistakes don't hurt bad, others kill you.
Dobbs made the latter mistake with the birther BS. Fatal.

Maybe he can join those idiots on the couch at Fox & Friends.


Hardly. Maybe Telemundo.

Jim - Clarity of thought only comes with continued thinking. Similar to
getting to Carnegie Hall.




Jim October 8th 10 07:57 PM

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jps wrote:
On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:36:48 -0400, Jim wrote:



I never did anything to John's wife. Nor did I make the above-referenced
comment about Israel. I guess one of you assholes is ID copying me too.
That's all you kiddies seem capable of doing, copying the IDs of other
posters.


A careful look at the headers supports your case. Different versions
of Thunderbird.


Forget about that. He's flajim, who first started the spoofing by
becoming Harry, and abandoning his flajim id.
When I came across this newsgroup and decided to post here I took his
old id to post anonymously.
Seemed fitting since my name is Jaime and I'm currently in Florida.
Never called myself flajim though.

The Jim that harassed John's wife was an insurance salesman from Ohio.
Anybody capable of obscene phone calls is also capable of spoofing, and
vice versa, so he might be skulking around here with Loogy.

Doesn't matter. It will be overcome. I have a dream.
I have a dream that rec.boat posters will one day live in a newsgroup
where they will not be judged by the id they use but by the content of
their posts.
You might say about us all "If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you
tickle us, do we not laugh?"
But I'm not sure of that.

Now it seems flajim wants his old id back.
Maybe he's tired of spoofing. Good for him.
I was probably rude to pick it up when he abandoned it.
But I don't feel like changing the id just yet.
Hey, nobody's perfect.
Maybe I will if flajim keeps on using the id.
Rolph Wolfheart might work. Even Wolf Rolphingheart.
Or Urquhart Finstermiesterbothingham III. Pepe LePew?
Kind of like those. Anything but Harry Krause or Loogypicker really.
In the meantime you can easily enough discern the difference between us.
I don't call others here names - directly anyway.
Don't cuss too ****ing much either, that's for damn sure.

Jim - What tangled webs we weave.





nom=de=plume[_2_] October 8th 10 08:47 PM

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On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 10:22:48 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:11:05 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:38:33 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:40:20 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

Iraq all about Israel, as the upcoming Iran war will be.
Afg was and is a useless war. There is nothing to win there.

except the death of al qaida's influence

We are making them more powerful and Pakistan is about ready to kick
US out. They are refusing to let us use their roads now to supply our
troops.

then why are the taliban in negotiations, when our key demand is to
cut ties with AQ?

go ahead. find a resource saying AQ is more powerful today than it was
9 years ago.

i'll wait.

Beating the Taliban is like pushing mercury around in a bowl with your
finger. You can move it but it is still all there and it fills in
behind your finger.
How many years are you planning on being there, pushing these guys
around the mountains? This is Vietnam all over again.
In Vietnam we never lost a battle and we still lost the war.

Well actually I think that is the only war we did win in the 20th
century.
In every other war we had, we still have 50,000+ troops occupying the
country. We are out of Vietnam and they are now trading freely with us
and the rest of the world.

and you're an idiot if you think pakistan is going to kick us out and
lose the billions we bribe them with

They have denied us the use of the only road to Afghanistan.
That is certainly a sign that they want us to stop the war ... in
spite of our bribes. I am sure we will patch that up but the writing
is on the wall.


They haven't denied us the use of the road. They closed it for a couple of
days.

Is it open now? Last night CNN was still showing pictures of burning
trucks at 0200 when I went to bed.
I just turned the TV on and they are saying we have Taliban people
integrated in the Afghanis who are supposed to be guarding our bases.
Bob is right, we can't compare this to Vietnam. This is a lot worse.


Don't know... but there's certainly looting and selling the stuff in
markets. Rampant capitalism.. we must wipe it out. Even the Taliban aren't
doing that!

It's not comparable to VN. Come on. We're not carpet bombing villages.



nom=de=plume[_2_] October 8th 10 08:49 PM

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On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 10:24:04 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:57:49 -0700, jps wrote:

They will be presidents with no nation changing accomplishments and
each have one interesting anecdote. Bush will be remembere\d for Bush
v Gore and Clinton will be remembered as being the second president to
be impeached, with the blow jobs being the snicker factor that makes
it memorable.

Golly, I don't recall Clinton attempting to bankrupt the country apart
from his support of globalism.

He didn't obsessively pursue spending us into oblivion.

I can't defend Bush and Obama spending a trillion each on useless
wars.

Unfortunately nobody remembers money you didn't spend.


Obama hasn't spent nor will he spend a trillion in either place or both.

Last I checked, Congress writes the checks, btw.


Oh you are going to use the Pentagon numbers now. When it was Bush's
war you used the most circumspect projections the DNC could come up
with to get to his trillion.

Obama has only been there 20 months, let's project that out several
more years before we say how expensive it will be.
Iraq is far from over and they are still surging in Afghanistan


I never used any Pentagon numbers or any specific agency. Obama won't be
spending a trillion in either place. We're supposed to be drawing down in
Iraq, and Afg. isn't far behind. Sorry, but that's just hysterical nonsense.



nom=de=plume[_2_] October 8th 10 08:50 PM

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On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 10:25:54 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:53:19 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:


?? This is your logic not mine. You're trying to equate the US with
Nazi
Germany. It doesn't hold.


You are the one who defines "war" as "troops on the ground".
I am just trying to understand that.
We blockaded Iraq, denied them the use of the air space over their
country with deadly force and killed a lot of innocent civilians.
All of those things are acts of war.
You prefer the "death from the air" method of warfare. In 1940 they
called that "The Blitz"
You are only upset that we actually put some of our people at risk by
taking the next logical step.

Sorry, but you're way off base on this. It's not reasonable to equate
the
two countries.

I am not equating the two wars or the two countries, only pointing out
bombing someone is an act of war. You don't think it is a war unless
we have boots on the ground.


I never said that. I said that the only time we actually had troops on the
ground in Iraq was during Bush I.

Implying that Clinton was not at war with Iraq.


It wasn't a ground war. No implication or otherwise.



nom=de=plume[_2_] October 8th 10 08:51 PM

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On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 10:28:31 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:54:55 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:

And your point? We went in to get bin laden. We would have settled
this
without a war if the Taliban had turned him over. They didn't.

... so we are going to kill men, women and children until they do.

No wonder they hate us there.

We do it less and less. It's against policy and every incident is looked
at.
See Petraeus.

Now it is the CIA flying drones but the death count among the
civilians is still going up.
Haven't you been watching the news at all this week? Pakistan has
blockaded out supplies over this exact thing. They are also not doing
anything to protect the trucks stalled behind the blockade and they
are being blown up as fast as the Taliban can get to them.



You seem mightily concerned about AQ, but not so much with reducing the
violent attacks in Afg. and around the world.

I am concerned about dead Americans and a war that causes more
problems than it fixes. No more no less.


For Iraq, I agree. Talk to Bush. For Afg., it's too early to tell thanks to
Bush.



nom=de=plume[_2_] October 8th 10 08:53 PM

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No I don't care how many the Taliban kill. We should get the hell out
of there and let them all kill each other if they want. They won't be
holding up Hellfire missile parts and blaming us.


Really? You don't care? Wow. That's quite a statement.


I really don't care. Why should I? Sometime you just have to get out
and let these things shake themselves out. Every time we stick our
nose in someone elses civil war we get our nose bloodied until the
American public demands we leave, they finish their war and the world
keeps spinning.


For Whom the Bell Tolls
by John Donne

No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manner of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me, --
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.




nom=de=plume[_2_] October 8th 10 08:54 PM

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On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:07:32 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:07:32 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:12:11 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:41:03 -0400,
wrote:

On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:00:40 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

No wonder they hate us there.

who gives a **** if they hate us. if they leave us alone that's
enough.

They are more likely to screw with us if we are screwing with them.

we arent screwing with them. afghanistan attacked us. that has some
consequences. just ask the japanese.

Afghanistan never attacked us. That is as valid as the WMD argument
... from the same guy, your hero GW Bush.


gee. where was bin laden on 9/11

oh. you dont know.


He wasn't in Hamburg where the plot was planned, he wasn't in Spain
where the hijackers were trained and the Taliban did not have any
involvement at all except letting him live there. They certainly did
not know anything about airplanes crashing into buildings.
Their fight is with the people who have invaded their country, no more
no less.
They were there before we arrived and they will be there when we
leave.


So, what you're saying is that if there's a known murderer living in your
house, you're not really responsible for turning him in, because you weren't
there when he murdered someone...



Secular Humoresque[_2_] October 8th 10 09:24 PM

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In article , says...

jps wrote:
On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:36:48 -0400, Jim wrote:



I never did anything to John's wife. Nor did I make the above-referenced
comment about Israel. I guess one of you assholes is ID copying me too.
That's all you kiddies seem capable of doing, copying the IDs of other
posters.


A careful look at the headers supports your case. Different versions
of Thunderbird.


Forget about that. He's flajim, who first started the spoofing by
becoming Harry, and abandoning his flajim id.
When I came across this newsgroup and decided to post here I took his
old id to post anonymously.
Seemed fitting since my name is Jaime and I'm currently in Florida.
Never called myself flajim though.

The Jim that harassed John's wife was an insurance salesman from Ohio.
Anybody capable of obscene phone calls is also capable of spoofing, and
vice versa, so he might be skulking around here with Loogy.

Doesn't matter. It will be overcome. I have a dream.
I have a dream that rec.boat posters will one day live in a newsgroup
where they will not be judged by the id they use but by the content of
their posts.
You might say about us all "If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you
tickle us, do we not laugh?"
But I'm not sure of that.

Now it seems flajim wants his old id back.
Maybe he's tired of spoofing. Good for him.
I was probably rude to pick it up when he abandoned it.
But I don't feel like changing the id just yet.
Hey, nobody's perfect.
Maybe I will if flajim keeps on using the id.
Rolph Wolfheart might work. Even Wolf Rolphingheart.
Or Urquhart Finstermiesterbothingham III. Pepe LePew?
Kind of like those. Anything but Harry Krause or Loogypicker really.
In the meantime you can easily enough discern the difference between us.
I don't call others here names - directly anyway.
Don't cuss too ****ing much either, that's for damn sure.

Jim - What tangled webs we weave.


I'm the real Harry Krause, and I never ever post anything on topic here.
All of my posts are just insults and name calling. Same with my little
buddy Don, and now Plume is getting with the program.

bpuharic October 8th 10 09:48 PM

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On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:15:14 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:07:08 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

you're right. i dont give a rat's ass about how many of them we kill.
25% of their children die before their 1st birthday. and all they care
about is their idiotic religion.

No I don't care how many the Taliban kill. We should get the hell out
of there and let them all kill each other if they want. They won't be
holding up Hellfire missile parts and blaming us.


that's the joe biden approach. i think it has merit.


I guess if you take both sides of the argument you can't lose.


they both have merits. unlike you, i can think my way through this
without rush limball's help


bpuharic October 8th 10 09:50 PM

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On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:20:29 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:07:32 -0400, bpuharic wrote:


gee. where was bin laden on 9/11

oh. you dont know.


He wasn't in Hamburg where the plot was planned,


you're SUCH an idiot!! let's see...bin laden was personal friends and
advisor with mullah omar.

was he a personal friend of the chancellor of germnay??

HAHAHAHAHA!!! what a MORON!!

he wasn't in Spain
where the hijackers were trained and the Taliban did not have any
involvement at all except letting him live there.


ah. 'letting him live there'...knowing what he was up to and refusing
to surrender him after 9/11

that's called an 'act of war'


They certainly did
not know anything about airplanes crashing into buildings.


bull****. then why did they refuse to surrender him after 9/11?


Their fight is with the people who have invaded their country, no more
no less.
They were there before we arrived and they will be there when we
leave.


more bull****. they'll be there if we let them

you are a clown.


bpuharic October 8th 10 09:53 PM

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On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 11:54:29 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:




So, what you're saying is that if there's a known murderer living in your
house, you're not really responsible for turning him in, because you weren't
there when he murdered someone...


he gets all weak kneed when he thinks of nazis attacking the US...

probably why he likes bush

nom=de=plume[_2_] October 8th 10 10:03 PM

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On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 10:32:00 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:12:11 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:41:03 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:00:40 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

No wonder they hate us there.

who gives a **** if they hate us. if they leave us alone that's
enough.

They are more likely to screw with us if we are screwing with them.

we arent screwing with them. afghanistan attacked us. that has some
consequences. just ask the japanese.

Afghanistan never attacked us. That is as valid as the WMD argument
... from the same guy, your hero GW Bush.


The Taliban were in control of the country. They supported and protected
bin
laden. We asked them to hand him over. They refused. He had killed 1000s
of
our people. And, your response is... do nothing. At least Bush initially
went after bin laden.

... but Bin Laden is not there now.
What part of that is so hard for you to understand. Have we demanded
Pakistan turn over Bin Laden? Have we occupied Islamabad to force them
to?

Why not if your logic is solid?



So, if we leave and he comes back, which would be fairly likely, then what?
Are we pressuring Pakistan to do more in the wild, border areas?



nom=de=plume[_2_] October 8th 10 10:04 PM

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On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 13:41:02 -0400, "MMC" wrote:



"bpuharic" wrote in message
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On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 07:48:08 -0500, "MMC" wrote:



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On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 10:38:51 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:

In all fairness....

Yeah right, a partisan rant is fair I guess.

BTW history may say the Iraq war deposed one of the worst dictators of
the 20th century and Afghanistan accomplished nothing ... at about the
same price.

BTW, we are not in the business of deposing dictators and Bush is the
one
that failed early and ugly in Afghanistan, Obama just doesn't have the
balls
to turn it off.


no, he has the good moral sense not to abandon a commitment we made.
you're confused


He promised to bring everyone home during the campaign, not honor any
imaginary commitment.
Karzai wants to throw out all private security and is talking about
throwing
out all contractors. Obama may have a convenient out.


Where is that "Mission Accomplished" banner?

Bush's biggest mistake was not believing the one behind him on the
Carrier
We could have brought home all the people from both wars that day and
the end result would be the same.


According to you, but not most other people just yet.



nom=de=plume[_2_] October 8th 10 10:04 PM

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On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:15:34 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

Gosh, it's a good thing Idi Amin didn't have oil under his country.

You notice that since Clinton got his nose bloodied in Africa we are
not really doing much war making there.

we were lifesaving there. no point in stopping genocide if everyone's
in favor of it


Are you saying a black person's life is less valuable than an
Afghani's life? You just finished a rant about how many Afghans the
Taliban kill.

Racist


Hmm... well, perhaps if we hadn't invaded Iraq (for no reason), we'd be
able
to do something in say Rwanda? Gee.. you think?

No we were not going to do anything about Rwanda.


Not now. I agree.



nom=de=plume[_2_] October 8th 10 10:05 PM

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On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 10:32:57 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:


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On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:55:42 -0700, jps wrote:

Yeah right, a partisan rant is fair I guess.

BTW history may say the Iraq war deposed one of the worst dictators of
the 20th century and Afghanistan accomplished nothing ... at about the
same price.

Gosh, it's a good thing Idi Amin didn't have oil under his country.

You notice that since Clinton got his nose bloodied in Africa we are
not really doing much war making there.


Actually, we have lots of people on the ground there... special ops I
think
they're called. But, feel free to blame Clinton.


I have no problems with a few special ops people being anywhere but it
should be a black op without any direct link to the US.
We used to be real good at that sort of thing.

That is pour best chance of getting Bin Laden. A guy with a sniper
rifle or a laser designator could get him but an army never will.


?? What's wrong with ties to the US? You're in favor of the policy of
targeted murder, right?




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