Bush Blames Reagan For 9/11
He's getting really desperate, and I love it! From The Los Angeles Times via The Agonist:
President Bush said Thursday that mistakes made by three of his predecessors, including the Reagan administration's restraint after the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon, had emboldened terrorists and helped set the stage for the Sept. 11 attacks.
Bush thinks Bonzo cut and run after the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon? Reagan simply moved the Marines from Lebanon to Grenada. But Noonie no likie Bushie bashing Saint Wrongall Raygun.
Remember earlier this year when Bush blamed FDR for abandoning Eastern Europe to the communists? I'm sure that if George W. Bush was president in 1945 he would have taken on the entire Red Army after the Nazis fell. In fact, Chimpy McFlight Suit is so tough that he would have driven his presidential cod piece into Josef Stalin's skull. The article continues:
Bush said he was determined not to repeat the pattern by pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq before the insurgency there is contained and Iraqi forces are able to provide adequate security.
"To leave Iraq now would be to repeat the costly mistakes of the past that led to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001," Bush said at the Pentagon after a briefing by Defense officials.
He might have failed history, but he received an A+ in Orwellian Rhetoric 101. What actually led to the attacks of 9/11 was the Reagan-Bush administration's funding of Osama bin Laden and the Afghan mujaheddin in the 1980s. Juan Cole summarizes it perfectly with Fisking The War on Terror. Maybe I should print that out and mail it to the White House.
Nice, point the finger at a dead guy. How low will he go?
Posted by: catherine | September 26, 2005 at 05:09 PM
My Dad used to argue that the reason we have problems in the Middle East is because God ordered the Jews to kill every man, woman and child among whoever it was God was pissed off at that day - the Philistines or somebody - but the damn Jews showed some mercy and left a few kids alive, the seeds of our present-day suicide bombers. This had happened 4,000 years ago or something, or 2500 years before Islam. No use arguing that with him, however.
Anyway, maybe George should die and go talk with my old man to find out where this problem REALLY got started. Actually, since George talks to God, I'm a bit surprised he didn't know this.
Posted by: Neil Shakespeare | September 26, 2005 at 06:11 PM
When the president talks to god...
Posted by: Agi T. Prop | September 26, 2005 at 06:58 PM
Does this mean we have to dismantle the pyramid?
Posted by: somewaterytart | September 26, 2005 at 07:11 PM
Wow, he blamed Reagan? That's almost unbelievable.
Posted by: The Green Knight | September 26, 2005 at 07:25 PM
Well, you noticed how Nancy was bit cold to the Bush gang during the funeral, right?
Posted by: Roxanne | September 27, 2005 at 12:55 AM
Yup, and Ron Reagan Jr isn't too fond of Dubya either.
Posted by: Agi T. Prop | September 27, 2005 at 05:54 AM
I wouldn't bother sending it to the WH, Dubya can't read.
Posted by: pablo | September 28, 2005 at 11:34 AM