Bush Sr. Apologizes To Son For Funding Bin Laden In '80s[

Hobbes · 26-09-2001 6:02pm #1

Bush Sr. Apologizes To Son For Funding Bin Laden In '80s (ref: Onion )
MIDLAND, TX— Former president George Bush issued an apology to his son Monday for advocating the CIA's mid-'80s funding of Osama bin Laden, who at the time was resisting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. "I'm sorry, son," Bush told President George W. Bush. "We thought it was a good idea at the time because he was part of a group fighting communism in Central Asia. We called them 'freedom fighters' back then. I know it sounds weird. You sort of had to be there." Bush is still deliberating over whether to tell his son about the whole supporting-Saddam Hussein-against-Iran thing.

Da_cOmRaDe_MiKe · 26-09-2001 6:06pm

me is not surpiresed at US fu*ked-up-e-ness...

Nagilum · 26-09-2001 6:16pm

Of course, you do realize that the Carter administration was the one that started it, don't you?

Belisarius · 26-09-2001 9:02pm

Or If we want to be particular Soviet Funding of Communist Insurgent groups during and after after ww2 ala Greece and such , If we want to be particular