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George H W Bush has died

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  • #52
    nullzero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,419 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    A nasty piece of work.

    Glazers Out!



  • #53
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Mookie Blaylock wrote: »
    So the white man is a hero...the back man a bomber ....yes...that's all we need to know....as you were

    The black man was a bomber though. Does he get exemptions for killing Yemeni because he is black? That’s tough on them, if true.


  • #54
    j8wk2feszrnpao
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,438 ✭✭✭j8wk2feszrnpao


    paw patrol wrote: »
    that "idiot" was US president twice...what have you achieved?
    So what if he was? So he had some amazingly corrupt bast@rds behind him to get him two terms.
    Glad you are you in awe of the all the dead he left in his wake. "Mission Accomplished".


  • #55
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    paw patrol wrote: »
    that "idiot" was US president twice...what have you achieved?

    George W Bush was "slotted" into the role. His whole life is a farce. His PhD is a joke. His pilots lisence (Turned up 6 times for training) and military service (mothballed bomber held back and saved from Vietnam) was a joke. He was put in there so Daddy could get Rumsfeld and Cheney to do the donkey work around the White house. Any business he ever touched ran into the ground including drilling in the middle east. He lost loads of other peoples money in private industry. Its a miracle how he got elected...... oh yeah Al Gore his old Yale/Skull and Bones buddy stepped down and loads of ballot boxes went missing in Dade county Florida.

    How could my boring life compete with that? Its all in his biography


  • #56
    Benteke
    Registered Users Posts: 671 ✭✭✭Benteke


    Now that he is dead people will now forget all the evil things he got up too and say RIP


  • #57
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    nullzero wrote: »
    A nasty piece of work.

    Tried to have Reagan assassinated, only the hand of God could have saved him. If only he could have taken out Obama instead


  • #58
    Omackeral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Remembers when The Simpson's dog chased him down the road.

    Homer: I guess you could say he's barking up the wrong Bush.

    Internal monologue: There it is Homer, the smartest thing you've ever said and nobody around to hear it.


  • #59
    Omackeral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Benteke wrote: »
    Now that he is dead people will now forget all the evil things he got up too and say RIP

    Have you not read the thread? He's been called a warmonger, an idiot and a terrorist. I personally think his biggest crime was being a bad neighbour.

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  • #60
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    They say Director of the CIA is the most important job in the country.



    They know more than the pres and are not obliged by law to indulge.


    And they love training the taliban


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  • #61
    chrissb8
    Registered Users Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭chrissb8


    paw patrol wrote: »
    that "idiot" was US president twice...what have you achieved?

    Let's be honest here. He was an "idiot" look at who's in office now. Do you think it actually takes brains to get in office? You get in with a network of great connections. At least that how it is generally. Ronald Reagan a bloody actor got in. The US presidency is not massively hinged on intelligence, at least not in the last 35 years.


  • #62
    paw patrol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭paw patrol


    chrissb8 wrote: »
    Let's be honest here. He was an "idiot" look at who's in office now. Do you think it actually takes brains to get in office? You get in with a network of great connections. At least that how it is generally. Ronald Reagan a bloody actor got in. The US presidency is not massively hinged on intelligence, at least not in the last 35 years.

    Intelligence mightn't be the barometer but you still need it to get the job.
    the average dope doesn't have the capacity to handle the job nor speak to the masses.

    Just cos you don't like somebody or they jumble their words doesn't mean they aren't smart.


  • #63
    Mookie Blaylock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,058 ✭✭✭Mookie Blaylock


    yew_tree wrote: »
    Your implying I’m a racist which is a total lie...your twisting my argument. I also never called Bush a hero...I said enlisting in the military was brave because he didn’t have to. My point is Bish, Obama etc...there is no difference it’s US foreign policy.

    Now run along...

    Not twisting your words... you're the one calling the black man a bomber.... your excuses ring hollow... dunno if your post is racist, or ignorant of reality... but won't be engaging anymore with the likes of that, thank you


  • #64
    nullzero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,419 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    skooterblue2 wrote: »
    Tried to have Reagan assassinated, only the hand of God could have saved him. If only he could have taken out Obama instead

    Couldn't remember where he was when jfk was assassinated.

    Glazers Out!



  • #65
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Mookie Blaylock wrote: »
    So the white man is a hero...the back man a bomber ....yes...that's all we need to know....as you were

    You're the one who brown skin into it, you absolute mong.


  • #66
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,901 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    paw patrol wrote:
    Intelligence mightn't be the barometer but you still need it to get the job. the average dope doesn't have the capacity to handle the job nor speak to the masses.


    Where does trump lie in this average dopeness, and how good is he really, at addressing the masses?


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  • #67
    Mookie Blaylock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,058 ✭✭✭Mookie Blaylock


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    You're the one who brown skin into it, you absolute mong.

    Racist and slagging off down syndrome....wow.... your post is an absolute joy


  • #68
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    chrissb8 wrote: »
    Let's be honest here. He was an "idiot" look at who's in office now. Do you think it actually takes brains to get in office? You get in with a network of great connections. At least that how it is generally. Ronald Reagan a bloody actor got in. The US presidency is not massively hinged on intelligence, at least not in the last 35 years.

    In all fairness Trump is getting stuff done in the background. North Korea was asked to come to the table nicely and when they didnt 200 of their scientist were killed in an "accident" and then they came to the table. Trade with China is being re-negotiated. All these little side shows like "pussy grabbing" and "call girls" are a distraction to the real business.

    The only thing that confuses me is why no-one wants to get out of a worthless country like Afghanistan. It has been tried before by countless empires and military minds and failed. Technology is of no advantage in Afghanistan and the cost of extracting the wealth is too high. I was sort of hoping China/Saudi would more in there next


  • #69
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,459 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    Where does trump lie in this average dopeness, and how good is he really, at addressing the masses?

    He is pretty good when addressing a room of his own supporters. Not so good at the serious stuff.


  • #70
    chrissb8
    Registered Users Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭chrissb8


    paw patrol wrote: »
    Intelligence mightn't be the barometer but you still need it to get the job.
    the average dope doesn't have the capacity to handle the job nor speak to the masses.

    Just cos you don't like somebody or they jumble their words doesn't mean they aren't smart.

    Par Obama do you think Bush & Trump have the capacity to be president? They're both supported and propped by much smarter people.

    Generally it does mean if someone jumbles up their words they aren't all that smart.

    Because smart people can form coherent sentences, arguments with logic and elequence. Not continuously contradict themselves on a daily basis.


  • #71
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Vicxas wrote: »
    George H.W Bush - "He wasn't the worst"

    What an epitaph.

    Owing to the fact that he only served one term, it could be argued that he was only half as bad as the next three presidents.


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  • #72
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,190 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Larbre34 wrote: »
    Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah pinko.

    I wonder will it be unprecedented that a sitting President not only doesnt eulogise a former one, but is banned altogether from the Funeral. Betcha Obama speaks

    Trump would only eulogise himself.


  • #73
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    Where does trump lie in this average dopeness, and how good is he really, at addressing the masses?

    Trump doesnt have the charm or grace of Regan, Clinton or Obama. But he has a history of getting results in adverse conditions. He doesnt always succeed (no business man ever does) but he does come out on top more often than not.

    He is a fantastic strategist (Beat Clinton with half of the money and without media backing or the old guard of the Republicans). He realised what he could and couldnt win and focused on the place he could win. He will put in place a new infrastructure project in his next term.

    My favourite thing he did was get rid of that traitor John Brennan, publicly.


  • #74
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,901 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    skooterblue2 wrote:
    Trump doesnt have the charm or grace of Regan, Clinton or Obama. But he has a history of getting results in adverse conditions. He doesnt always succeed (no business man ever does) but he does come out on top more often than not......


    Fcuking hell!


  • #75
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I wonder did HW know who really knocked off JFK ?


  • #76
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    mickdw wrote: »
    He is pretty good when addressing a room of his own supporters. Not so good at the serious stuff.

    Because you do not see the serious stuff doesnt mean its not happening in the background. If you want to read the paper start to read at page 6&7 on the inside columns. That is where the good stories are hidden.


  • #77
    dasdog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,694 ✭✭✭dasdog


    He was actually a decent US president, probably the best since Nixon. Can't forgive him for going after Saddam though. The British drew map lines in the Middle East after World War One and the American oil companies shafted them. Shame on both.

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  • #78
    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,065 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    paw patrol wrote: »
    that "idiot" was US president twice...what have you achieved?

    Twice ???


  • #79
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,363 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    skooterblue2 wrote: »
    Trump doesnt have the charm or grace of Regan, Clinton or Obama. But he has a history of getting results in adverse conditions. He doesnt always succeed (no business man ever does) but he does come out on top more often than not.

    He is a fantastic strategist (Beat Clinton with half of the money and without media backing or the old guard of the Republicans). He realised what he could and couldnt win and focused on the place he could win. He will put in place a new infrastructure project in his next term.

    My favourite thing he did was get rid of that traitor John Brennan, publicly.

    You mean overwhelming media support...
    https://www.thestreet.com/story/13896916/1/donald-trump-rode-5-billion-in-free-media-to-the-white-house.html

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trumps-empty-podium-gets-30-minutes-of-airtime


  • #80
    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,065 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    Exactly. He had so much more to give.

    Terrible when young men are cut down in their prime.

    Dat you Joe?


  • #81
    fxotoole
    Registered Users Posts: 1,661 ✭✭✭fxotoole


    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    The fathers war was not the son’s war.

    That’s not the G W Bush saw it:

    http://edition.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/27/bush.war.talk/


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  • #82
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    fxotoole wrote: »
    That’s not the G W Bush saw it:

    http://edition.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/27/bush.war.talk/

    "Dubya" did his bit on the homefront. Without him the hookers, weed, cocaine and whiskey trades would all have dried up. Heck I turned up more times for FCA training and never got a promotion.


  • #83
    Dr Turk Turkelton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,962 ✭✭✭Dr Turk Turkelton


    nullzero wrote: »
    Couldn't remember where he was when jfk was assassinated.

    So you're saying George Bush snr killed Kennedy?
    Mind is blown.


  • #84
    maxwell smart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,939 ✭✭✭maxwell smart


    Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »
    So you're saying George Bush snr killed Kennedy?
    Mind is blown.

    It all makes sense now!


  • #85
    Ursus Horribilis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 ✭✭✭Ursus Horribilis


    No US president leaves a perfect legacy. They've all got blood on their hands, they've all made bad decisions and corrupt decisions. Choirboys don't make it to the Oval Office. Having said that, it's hard not to wonder what on earth has happened to the USA. Bush Snr mightn't have been the best president they ever had but he's certainly not their worst. That accolade has to go to that orange ignoramus who's in there now. When he dies (not soon enough in my book) people will want to go to his funeral to make sure he's dead.


  • #86
    Jimbob1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    I wonder how he felt about Ross Perot.

    Perot split enough of his vote in 1992 to hand the election to Bill Clinton.


  • #87
    nullzero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,419 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »
    So you're saying George Bush snr killed Kennedy?
    Mind is blown.

    Yeah that's a verbatim quote of what I said. My mind is blown.

    Glazers Out!



  • #88
    Ursus Horribilis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 ✭✭✭Ursus Horribilis


    So was his...


  • #89
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    rossie1977 wrote: »
    You mean overwhelming media support...
    https://www.thestreet.com/story/13896916/1/donald-trump-rode-5-billion-in-free-media-to-the-white-house.html

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trumps-empty-podium-gets-30-minutes-of-airtime

    nope the Mass media were against him from the onset. He turned that disadvantage to his advantage. That is the general I would rather serve under. Trump didnt have the Republican party behind him the way that the Democrats rallied around Hillary after Bernie Sanders tanked. Paul Ryan, the Bushs, Newt Gingritch, Mitt Romney never rallied around Trump.

    They made fun of Donal Trump from start to finish. When I feel a little blue all I have to do is to take a look at "The Young Turks" on Election night. That is poetry in motion.


  • #90
    yew_tree
    Registered Users Posts: 543 ✭✭✭yew_tree


    Mookie Blaylock wrote: »
    Not twisting your words... you're the one calling the black man a bomber.... your excuses ring hollow... dunno if your post is racist, or ignorant of reality... but won't be engaging anymore with the likes of that, thank you

    Ah here your a total nut job....I couldn’t care less what color anyone is...I never referenced race. Admins sort this tool out...


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  • #91
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    "Now, are there any questions? Keeping in mind that I already explained about my hair."


  • #92
    machiavellianme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,654 ✭✭✭✭machiavellianme


    beertons wrote: »
    Did he see the toy show?

    That's what pushed him over the edge.
    Worse form of torture imaginable.


  • #93
    j8wk2feszrnpao
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,438 ✭✭✭j8wk2feszrnpao


    skooterblue2 wrote: »
    In all fairness Trump is getting stuff done in the background.
    No, not really. If he was getting it done, it'd be well into the foreground.


  • #94
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    machiavellianme wrote: »
    That's what pushed him over the edge.
    Worse form of torture imaginable.

    Imagine your last few hours, when you want peace, calm and serenity ....... then the indignation of you having to watch the Late Late Toy show before die and soil yourself.


  • #95
    Kivaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    paw patrol wrote: »
    that "idiot" was US president twice...what have you achieved?


    The biggest achievement of that poster and others of the same ilk, will be waking up early enough in the afternoon once a week in order to pick up the dole money. I can almost smell the crustiness off them when they post.


    Their contribution to society? A bigger tax bill for the rest of us to support their lifestyle choices.


  • #96
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Don't make em like they used to


    Rip sir
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  • #97
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    munstermagic11 wrote: »
    No, not really. If he was getting it done, it'd be well into the foreground.

    Well the first thing is to rebalance trade with China you may have missed the "Coach" on the air conditioning factory. He is also running a war with auto trade manuacturers who want to move manufacturing outside the USA and then import the cars back into the US. The stories how 200 North Korean scientists blew themselves up in an "accidental" explosion at a research facility? See how he devoted time and resources to getting Peurto Rico back on its feet? See how Hati is doing since the Clintons and Bono lent a helping hand? See how Al Queda was run out of Raqqua and Allepo in 6 months? Russian and US cooperation. 10 Billion worth of Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia in one contract? That is doing business. You are worried about what colour his hair roots are and a $500 hooker, while he is fixing the economy. You never see that stuff on the front page, its always on pages 6&7 on the inside columns


  • #98
    thomil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,401 ✭✭✭thomil


    Without President Bush, Germany would never have been reunited, not with that paranoid b#tch Thatcher in office over in London. It was his pressure on the nations on western Europe that paved the way for reunification. As someone who witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification first hand, who saw the tears streaming down the faces of my parents and grandmother when the pictures came on on TV, followed a few hours later by the first east German cars coming into our little hometown on the outskirts of Hamburg, I'll forever remain grateful for everyone who put their efforts into making reunification happen. George H.W. Bush is definitely among them. Despite all the economic and social turbulence that followed the events in 1989, Germany, and indeed Europe, has become a better place.
    Granted, he has blood on his hands. So what? Name one head of state who doesn't? Statesmanship has always been a bloody business, and always will be. Anyone who believes otherwise is too naive to be let out into public unsupervised. But for all the bad things he did, he was instrumental in improving the lives of millions of people on the other side of the Iron Curtain.

    Good luck trying to figure me out. I haven't managed that myself yet!



  • #99
    j8wk2feszrnpao
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,438 ✭✭✭j8wk2feszrnpao


    skooterblue2 wrote: »
    You are worried about what colour his hair roots are and a $500 hooker, while he is fixing the economy. You never see that stuff on the front page, its always on pages 6&7 on the inside columns
    I don't give a damn about his hair, that's only you.
    The other stuff, give me a break.
    This is how Haughey and his ilk always survive, always someone to defend them.

    As for Peurto Rico..... sweet Jesus. I work with colleagues out there. Maybe stop reading the headlines/tweets and do some research.


  • #100
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Mookie Blaylock wrote: »
    Not twisting your words... you're the one calling the black man a bomber.... your excuses ring hollow... dunno if your post is racist, or ignorant of reality... but won't be engaging anymore with the likes of that, thank you

    He was a bomber?

    I don’t get the hate for Bush 1. The first Iraq war was justified and authorised by the U.N. as I recall. Also he was pretty smart. Are people confusing him with his son?

    The real craziness in US policy began post 2001.


  • #101
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    So Jimmy Carter has now outlived the two Republican Presidents who came after him. His days must be numbered too as he is only a few months younger than Bush.


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