WHY is it nonsense? Bush started an illegal war, his administration drained this country's government of trillions of dollars.
What's with the rehab of W. Bush's image???
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WHY is it nonsense? Bush started an illegal war, his administration drained this country's government of trillions of dollars.
Bush is far worse than trump so far
Because you're a troll. And you dont seem to want to change.
Thats why.
Bush is merely calling out Trump. No one has exonerated Bush.
Even this is wrong though. This falsehood about the Trump presidency is just as bad as the belief that the bulk of his support comes from low wage, non-educated whites:
Approximately 70 percent of Trump’s White House staff were working in D.C. before the start of the administration, according to a Newsweek analysis of White House employees and detailees, staff who are on loan from other federal agencies. Using LinkedIn, media reports, information released by the White House and other publicly available data, Newsweek was able to determine with near certainty the identities of 338 of the 377 employees listed in an annual report on White House personnel released last week to Congress.
With the exception of some longtime Trump aides and loyalists of top strategist Steve Bannon, the Trump administration looks similar to what a Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio or John Kasich administration might have. Ten of the top 23 highest-paid employees (including one detailee) listed in the report served in the George W. Bush administration.
A large portion of lower-level staff is made up of former RNC and Capitol Hill staffers, Republican political operatives and career officials who served under President Barack Obama. The administration is also composed of political operatives who have worked across the country, former lobbyists, former employees of prominent D.C. conservative think tanks, officials from other parts of the government and lawyers from elite D.C. law firms.
70 percent of Trump White House staff worked in D.C. before joining administration, despite "drain the swamp" pledge
Just this past week, the White House sent out a news release, announcing the nomination of four confirmation-level hires, with half being former Bush administration staffers.
Marshall Billingslea, a Bush State Department and Pentagon alumni, was nominated to be assistant secretary for terrorist financing in the Department of the Treasury; and John J. Sullivan, who served in senior posts in the Justice, Defense and Commerce Departments during the Bush administration, was nominated to be deputy secretary of state.
Those nominations are in addition to earlier waves of appointments of Bush-era officials, including high-profile aides such as Dina Powell, who now serves as national security adviser H.R. McMaster’s No. 2.
Seven sources involved in the staffing process, including two administration sources, have said there's been a concerted outreach to some old Bush hands to serve as the "adults" at some of the top agencies. Their appeal is that they likely can be confirmed quickly through the Senate in key posts like deputy secretary, undersecretary and assistant secretary positions.
Trump learning to love Bush aides
The gall of this cat @4d 6f 6e 65 79 trying to argue against the premise of this thread. Ironically I just started reading this article right before I jumped into this thread. Eat your heart out fam:
Iraq war victims allege pharmaceutical companies' bribery led to U.S. troop deaths
In the aftermath of the 2003 invasion, Iraq’s health care spending surged, and the Health Ministry’s budget ballooned from $16 million during Saddam Hussein’s final year in power to about $1 billion in 2004.
Western companies looking to break into the Iraq market were willing to pay kickbacks — billed as “commissions” or “free goods” — that amounted to as much as 20% of the value of a contract to ministry officials, the lawsuit alleges.
Another way the defendants allegedly made the illegal payments was by including language in the contracts promising after-sales support and other services related to the product they sold and funded those services by giving money to their local agents.
"In reality, such services were illusory and functioned merely to create a slush fund the local agents could use to pass on 'commissions to corrupt (ministry) officials,'" the lawsuit alleges.
By 2005, the ministry came under the control of loyalists of Muqtada al-Sadr, an Iranian-backed cleric. Al-Sadr's political clout grew amid dissatisfaction among some Iraqis over the U.S. military presence and sectarian fighting among the country’s majority Shiite and minority Sunnis populations.
Backers of al-Sadr in the Mahdi Army — also known as Jaysh al-Mahdi and JAM — killed and injured hundreds of American troops in the years-long insurgency in the aftermath of the invasion.
By late August 2007, a draft of an alarming U.S Embassy Baghdad report had become public that accused the ministry of “operating a pharmaceutical diversion scheme” and of being “openly under the control of the Mahdi Army.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...xZu-Sv3V-ToiyaadZ65dIq5EKL8N3g&_hsmi=57487726
Iraq war victims allege pharmaceutical companies' bribery led to U.S. troop deaths
In the aftermath of the 2003 invasion, Iraq’s health care spending surged, and the Health Ministry’s budget ballooned from $16 million during Saddam Hussein’s final year in power to about $1 billion in 2004.
Western companies looking to break into the Iraq market were willing to pay kickbacks — billed as “commissions” or “free goods” — that amounted to as much as 20% of the value of a contract to ministry officials, the lawsuit alleges.
Another way the defendants allegedly made the illegal payments was by including language in the contracts promising after-sales support and other services related to the product they sold and funded those services by giving money to their local agents.
"In reality, such services were illusory and functioned merely to create a slush fund the local agents could use to pass on 'commissions to corrupt (ministry) officials,'" the lawsuit alleges.
By 2005, the ministry came under the control of loyalists of Muqtada al-Sadr, an Iranian-backed cleric. Al-Sadr's political clout grew amid dissatisfaction among some Iraqis over the U.S. military presence and sectarian fighting among the country’s majority Shiite and minority Sunnis populations.
Backers of al-Sadr in the Mahdi Army — also known as Jaysh al-Mahdi and JAM — killed and injured hundreds of American troops in the years-long insurgency in the aftermath of the invasion.
By late August 2007, a draft of an alarming U.S Embassy Baghdad report had become public that accused the ministry of “operating a pharmaceutical diversion scheme” and of being “openly under the control of the Mahdi Army.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...xZu-Sv3V-ToiyaadZ65dIq5EKL8N3g&_hsmi=57487726
@tru_m.a.c did your sorry ass link me to some unscrupulous private industry war profiteering in relation to Former POTUS Bush calling out Trump?
You are pathetic and its downright insulting that you're considered a moderator on this forum. You are so one-track minded its embarrassing.
Terrible representation of enlightened intellect on this forum.
You are pathetic and its downright insulting that you're considered a moderator on this forum. You are so one-track minded its embarrassing.
Terrible representation of enlightened intellect on this forum.
It's ok. We know you're a closeted republican. You don't have to hide what you feel inside.
I'd ask whats wrong with you, but I know you're full of shyt and crushingly incompetent beforehand.
NO ONE is exonerating Bush.
However, his comments on Trump are welcome and accurate.
End of story.
Quit acting like a whiney cantankerous fukking clown.
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Trump is already President. Bush's words do not matter anymore.
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As it stands now Bush is worse than Trump, but let's wait and see if Trump can top him in the next 3 years.
This is a criminally stupid hot take.
Look guys. We have a real political übermensch here. I had NO idea Bush wasn't in office.
fukking clown.
WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE SAYING? THIS IS A MEANINGLESS STATEMENT. :camroncmon:
JESUSfukkINGCHRIST YOU ARE DENSE.
Did you think you said some deep shyt here? Huh? Did you manage to utter that from under your dunce cap and say "yeah, I got him here!"
Yet your bum-ass is on here wanting Obama to speak out
You have no concept of the notion of Americana, Statesmanship, diplomacy, or the norms and institutions that Trump violates on a superficial level that make it even necessary for Bush to speak out.
You, are hopeless.
Oh, and Bush didn't even speak out against Obama. Not like this.
None of this has anything to do with the Iraq war.
Unless yall want to hold Obama to account for Afghanistan and Iraq as well.
None of this has anything to do with the Iraq war.
Unless yall want to hold Obama to account for Afghanistan and Iraq as well.
Not at all, as far as I can tell.
Bush is using Trump to rehabilitate his own image. I think it's classless.