Bush blames three preceding presidents for today's terror trouble!

[Deja Q]

Carter, Clinton, and *gasp* reagan are his targets.

"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 in remarks at the Pentagon after a two-hour briefing by Defense Department officials on the status of the U.S. offensive in Iraq and the war on terrorism.

He cited as examples the U.S. response to the hostage crisis in Iran during the Carter administration, the Lebanon bombing under Reagan, and four crises that occurred during the Clinton administration: the first World Trade Center attack, the killing of American soldiers in Somalia, the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, and the attack on the Cole.

"The terrorists concluded that we lacked the courage and character to defend ourselves, and so they attacked us," said the president, as Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and top military officials stood at his side.

Bush did not mention any events during the first Bush administration, such as his father's decision to end the first Gulf War without sending coalition troops on to Baghdad to topple Saddam Hussein's regime...

"article" has more.

Gee, poppy can do no wrong? :eyes: (poppy, for one, allowed saddam to arm his troops in helicopters after the first gulf war ended in 1991... as a result, saddam promptly resumed killing his own people... and no good deed goes unpunished, saddam later gives poppy a death threat (1996?).)

Nice to see reagan in there, but let's face it: Anyone who did nothing to disconnect the US with those middle eastern lands is at fault. Carter, I do not believe, did any wrong and many believe the 1980 elections and the related Iran hostage situation were a bit contrived... but I'm not saying Carter isn't guilty of anything.

But let's face it. * quickly spins some truth into his usual Iraqi wet dream, as usual.

[proud patriot]

1. what about poppy ?

:think:

[KitchenWitch]

2. What about his dad

Seems to me Poppy was one of the bigger Kingmakers in the middle east, when he was head of the CIA and when he was VP and President.

[xray s]

3. forgot to mention Poppy gave Saddam a green light to invade Kuwait

"Local border disputes are of no interest to the US" Ambassador April Glaspie

[Deja Q]

9. And didn't Kuwait slant-drill into Iraq?

I dunno if that's true, but if Connecticut slant-drilled into Texas, I doubt anyone would be too happy either...

[iamjoy]

15. It Wasn't A Green Light

At least, not according to Tarik Aziz.
http://csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/durableRedirect.pl?/durable/1999/05/27/p23s3.htm

But, Ms. Glaspie (US ambassador to Iraq) did say when asked about her "no interest" comment that they didn't think the Iraqis would take ALL of Kuwait.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ARTICLE5/april.html

[ewagner]

4. Retaliation

that's all it is....Clinton and Carter have both been critical of Dubya over the Katrina response so the schoolyard bully has to hit back....

I am SOOOOOOOOOOO reminded of the picture of Bush in school playing rugby where he is delivering what the yearbook captioned as an "...illegal but satisfying blow." to an opponent. That's what he did again today.

[sakabatou]

5. It ain't my fault!

it ain't my fault that there's civil war in Iraq
it ain't my fault that there's more terrorists in Iraq then there ever were
it ain't my fault that no country likes us
it ain't my fault that we have a huge deficit
it ain't my fault that i've killed over 5000 americans during my term

And so on and so forth...

[joanne]

8. He forgot to blame Gerald Ford

and Richard Nixon, and Lyndon Johnson, and......

[NewJeffCT]

12. they've been trying to blame FDR for the Cold War lately

According to some recent RW crapola, it's all FDR's & Truman's fault the Cold War happened... they should have joined with the Nazi army and invaded the Soviet Union. Of course, they seemingly forget what happened to Hitler a few years earlier and then before that with that Napoleon fella.

[MichiganVote]

6. Is this end of the Bush 'No Blame' game?

[Deja Q]

10. What surprises me is that he threw in reagan.

Probably tokenism, of course...

[MichiganVote]

19. The Pagan God to the Neo-Conservatives, Ronald Reagan

Gotta hit all the senior citizens who loved Ronnie, Hypno...

[iamjoy]

7. Great Hindsight

Some talking heads have been saying for years that our policies of not standing up to terrorists for the thirty or so years preceding 9-11 led to those attacks. Strangely, I don't remember anyone really talking about it during the campaign. What I do remember is when Clinton pulled out troops out of Somalia the attitude was if they didn't want our help, screw them. And in 1998, everything Clinton tried to do to fight terror was "wagging the dog"

But, maybe I misremember.:eyes:

[RC]

11. bu$h can't even handle two hurricanes with advanced warning.

How the hell is he going to defend against a real terrorist attack with no warning? No, wait, they are the terrorists here. chenney will control it from his underground war room.


"The terrorists concluded that we lacked the courage and character to defend ourselves, and so they attacked us," said the president, as Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and top military officials stood at his side."

[Liberal_Dog]

13. Bu$h Attacks Reagan???

How can Bu$h possibly criticize the "Greatest American"? :sarcasm:

[bluestateguy]

14. What did Carter do wrong?

He didn't appease the terrorists at all. Not one bit. They wanted him to turn the Shah over to them for trial and he told them to go to hell. In the end he got every last one of those hostages home alive.

[Robertwf]

16. It's the Victim Stance

He's simply blaming others and setting himself up to be the victim. It's psychopathy, folks.

[VPStoltz]

17. The 1980 election - a BIT contrived?

The Reagan campaign made contact with the Iranians and made some kind of a deal - weapons - to keep the hostages until after dickhead was inaugarated. Sick and evil is the only way anyone with any decency could describe a Repuke.

[omega minimo]

18. "A bit contrived"?

"many believe the 1980 elections and the related Iran hostage situation were a bit contrived..."

When you if do some reading on that you may recognize many names from the current administration.

:hi: