I'm not the only one who misses Bush

[AK Forty Seven]

Quote from 377OHMS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_substance_abuse_controversy


Allegations of substance abuse arose during the political career of 43rd United States President George W. Bush, leading to controversy. Bush admitted to abusing alcohol until age 40.






Marijuana

From 1998 to 2000, Bush had phone conversations with a friend, Doug Wead, who recorded those conversations and later played some of them back to a reporter from the New York Times. According to the Times, "Mr. Bush appears to have acknowledged trying marijuana." In one recorded excerpt, Bush said, "I wouldn't answer the marijuana questions. You know why? Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried."



Cocaine

In Fortunate Son, Bush biographer Hatfield quoted several anonymous sources regarding allegations of Bush's cocaine use. Hatfield reported that Bush had been arrested for cocaine possession in 1972 and that his father pulled strings to have records of the arrest expunged.[14] Bush campaign spokesperson Mindy Tucker called the allegation "absolutely untrue".[15] Bush repeatedly refused to state whether he had ever used cocaine

 

[AK Forty Seven]

Quote from Tsing Tao:



You shouldn't kid yourself on the roll the US played. Regardless of ground troops or not, the $$ is where the issue is here.

1 billion vs 4 trillion




http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...hand-to-libyas-new-leaders-in-historic-visit/


Published December 17, 2011 FoxNews.com


The Libyan war, which cost nearly $1 billion and no U.S. lives, could be a new model for how the U.S. military, facing severe budget cuts, fights in the future -- relying on the NATO alliance and technology rather than boots on the ground




http://www.marketwatch.com/story/iraq-war-ends-with-a-4-trillion-iou-2011-12-15?dist=countdown


Iraq war ends with a $4 trillion IOU


By Christopher Hinton, MarketWatch

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The nine-year-old Iraq war came to an official end on Thursday, but paying for it will continue for decades until U.S. taxpayers have shelled out an estimated $4 trillion.

 

[nutmeg]

Quote from AK Forty Seven:

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The nine-year-old Iraq war came to an official end on Thursday,

It's hard to believe we went through all that oil in just nine years.

 

[Tsing Tao]

Quote from AK Forty Seven:

1 billion vs 4 trillion




http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...hand-to-libyas-new-leaders-in-historic-visit/


Published December 17, 2011 FoxNews.com


The Libyan war, which cost nearly $1 billion and no U.S. lives, could be a new model for how the U.S. military, facing severe budget cuts, fights in the future -- relying on the NATO alliance and technology rather than boots on the ground




http://www.marketwatch.com/story/iraq-war-ends-with-a-4-trillion-iou-2011-12-15?dist=countdown


Iraq war ends with a $4 trillion IOU


By Christopher Hinton, MarketWatch

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The nine-year-old Iraq war came to an official end on Thursday, but paying for it will continue for decades until U.S. taxpayers have shelled out an estimated $4 trillion.

Who gives a shit? It's still $1 Billion! Don't you get it? It's not about comparison. It's about the same ol' stupid behavior.

 

[AK Forty Seven]

Quote from Tsing Tao:

Who gives a shit? It's still $1 Billion! Don't you get it? It's not about comparison. It's about the same ol' stupid behavior.

Cutting a wars cost from 4 trillion to 1 billion is huge progress imo


4000 + American lives lost and 30,000 Americans wounded to no American lives lost is progress as well

 

[377OHMS]

 

[Lucrum]

Pretty much says it all right here.

 

[Tsing Tao]

Quote from AK Forty Seven:

Cutting a wars cost from 4 trillion to 1 billion is huge progress imo


4000 + American lives lost and 30,000 Americans wounded to no American lives lost is progress as well

He didn't cut jack. He ADDED to it. Just because he's ending the Iraq war NOW doesn't do anything about the spending the last three years.

Please go find Pentagon spending and see if it was cut - at all.

 

[kut2k2]

Quote from AK Forty Seven:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A7372-2004Feb2?language=printer


Bush's Guard Service In Question


Questions about Bush's Guard service first surfaced during the 2000 presidential race, when he ran against Vice President Al Gore, a Vietnam veteran. A review of Bush's military records shows that Bush enjoyed preferential treatment as the son of a then-congressman, when he walked into a Texas Guard unit in Houston two weeks before his 1968 graduation from Yale and was moved to the top of a long waiting list.

It was an era when service in the Guard was a coveted assignment, often associated with efforts to avoid active duty in Vietnam. Bush was accepted for pilot training after having scored only 25 percent on the pilot's aptitude test, the lowest acceptable grade.

In 2000, the Boston Globe examined a period from May 1972 to May 1973 and found no record that Bush performed any Guard duties, either in Alabama or Houston, although he was still enlisted.

According to military records obtained by The Washington Post, Bush first requested and received permission in May 1972 to be transferred to the Alabama National Guard so he could work on a U.S. Senate campaign. After he was in Alabama, he received notice from the Guard personnel center that he was "ineligible" for the Air Reserve Squadron he requested.

In August 1972, Bush was suspended from flying because he failed to complete an annual medical exam. A month later, Bush requested to be assigned to a different unit in Alabama and was approved. Although he was required to attend periodic drills in Alabama, there is no official record in his file that he did.

+100

Lest we forget, this is also the clown who crashed at least one and possibly two aircraft during air drill exercises, quite possibly due to cocaine use which was rampant in TXANG, Bush's unit, which was more like a frat house for pilots than a military unit. Bush lost his flight status for refusing to take his flight physical in the first year when drug testing became mandatory. Pretty much says it all.

 

[JamesL]

Quote from nutmeg:

Let's blame Bush for Lehman. Who can we blame for MF?