All posts tagged "George Bush"

A former Republican operative warned that Trump not only lost the Iran war but set in motion a larger conflict.

Steve Schmidt argued in an episode of The Warning podcast that Trump lost the war with Iran because he failed to achieve any of his aims. However, Schmidt added that the consequence will be more conflicts breaking out.

"We should appreciate that there are consequences for great powers losing wars," Schmidt said. "And in the manner that Trump has lost this war, and the lies that he told about a peace that does not exist, we should all understand that what he has set in motion is cataclysm, a larger war, a looming war, a building crisis, a deadly one."...

Televangelist Pat Robertson marked the 12th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that happened on Sept. 11, 2001 by slamming former President George W. Bush for calling Islam a "religion of peace," and said that countries that welcomed Muslims were "committing suicide."

In 2000, weeks after the general election, the Supreme Court broke down along partisan lines and voted 5 to 4 against a recount in Florida, making George Bush our 43rd president. On Tuesday night's edition of The Rachel Maddow Show, host Rachel Maddow discussed how that landmark decision began a slow corrosion of the Court's credibility that continues to this day.

In Sean Hannity's world, President George W. Bush succeeded in killing terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden.

[rebelmouse-image 24749814 original_size="300x385" expand=1]I've seen a spattering of puzzled reactions to this bizarre story George Bush is telling of how he supposedly came to be anti-abortion, basically that he saw his mother's miscarried fetus in a jar and that did him in. All we actually learn from this story is that Bush is really good fluent in Evangelicalese, particularly when it comes to the evangelical skill of turning your own life experiences into apocryphal stories. Amongst evangelical Christians, fibbing about your past to create "evidence" for some theological or political belief is super normal. Think of Christine O'Donnell claiming she dabbled in witchcraft. To us, that's stupid, but within that community, breathy claims to have witnesses Satan worshiping are pretty common. Anti-abortion politics is another area where being full of shit is the norm. There are a number of people who make a living giving speeches where they claim they "survived" abortion and were born anyway, a claim that's even more farcical than the Satan-worshiping crap but just as firmly believed. Or should I say, "believed", because there's good reason to think that the people who engage in this behavior are very deliberately shutting down the part of their brains that tells the difference between mythologies and actual facts, something I have no doubt religious belief greases the wheels for in general.

[rebelmouse-image 24749660 original_size="1479x1637" expand=1]There's a lot of talk during this never-ending faux controversy over the Park 51 community center about how it's the lack of Republican leaders willing to take even a nominal stand against anti-Muslim bigotry that's the problem. George Bush is getting a lot of credit for holding back the flying monkeys. "Bush always told his minions not to take out their crap on Muslims," the argument goes, "And that's why all this is happening now."