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Via Smirking Chimp, here’s a verbatim extract from George Bush the First speaking to a group of soldiers:
Speech to Gulf War Veterans in 1999, where Poppy said,
“Had we gone into Baghdad — we could have done it, you guys could have done it, you could have been there in 48 hours — and then what? Which sergeant, which private, whose life would be at stake in perhaps a fruitless hunt in an urban guerilla war to find the most-secure dictator in the world?
Whose life would be on my hands as the commander-in-chief because I, unilaterally, went beyond the international law, went beyond the stated mission, and said we’re going to show our macho? We’re going into Baghdad.
We’re going to be an occupying power — America in an Arab land — with no allies at our side. It would have been disastrous.”
What do you think - have they chatted since then ?
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September 19, 2004 at 1:01 pm
Anonymous
Given that they both spout whatever self-serving nonsense comes into their heads, I’d bet they utter word-like things at each other on a regular basis. It’s not what I’d call chatting, but the Chimp and the Wimp are in a family business and have to stay in touch.
September 19, 2004 at 1:05 pm
Anonymous
he ….
I guess this is now, and that was then.
I can clearly imagine, a la Kitty, that Poppy and Moms didn’t talk much with Georgie while he was busy pushing back against his authoritarian and absent role models.
Poor guy.