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Postby Eternal Yerushalayim » Sat Apr 16, 2011 12:30 am

Rambhutan wrote:
Wamitoria wrote:Well, Iraq is much better off than they once were.


In what way?

Now they have legitimately corrupt politicians, rather than illegitimately corrupt politicians.

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Postby Lacadaemon » Sat Apr 16, 2011 1:32 am

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Wamitoria wrote:Well, Iraq is much better off than they once were.


In what way?


The wondrous gift of American democracy.

Also, people will think twice before fucking with the Bush family now.
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Postby Rambhutan » Sat Apr 16, 2011 1:34 am

Lacadaemon wrote:
Rambhutan wrote:
In what way?


The wondrous gift of American democracy.

Also, people will think twice before fucking with the Bush family now.


The Bush family are Iraqis now?
Are we there yet?

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Postby Farnhamia » Sat Apr 16, 2011 1:35 am

Rambhutan wrote:
Lacadaemon wrote:
The wondrous gift of American democracy.

Also, people will think twice before fucking with the Bush family now.


The Bush family are Iraqis now?

I thought they were Saudis.
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Postby Rambhutan » Sat Apr 16, 2011 1:36 am

Farnhamia wrote:I thought they were Saudis.


That I could believe.
Are we there yet?

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Postby Vinlandian States » Sat Apr 16, 2011 2:06 am

Although I could not stand the man (I felt he appeared to be an ignorant bumbling fool), I will give him credit for a very few points:
1) He fully funded NASA and their space exploration, and pushed for a manned mission to Mars by 2020.
2) After 9/11, he had a few great episodes of leadership, where he united both sides of the country.
3) I must grudgingly admit the man took the abuse piled on him by comedians, et cetera, rather well and with a sense of humor.

Alas, that is not much in the positive for a man who was in the highest office of the land for eight solid years.

I feel his administration's reckless financial policies led us directly into the financial difficulties we are trying to dig ourselves back out of to this day, I feel he did great damage to American civil liberties with his disregard for constitutional freedoms, and way back in 1999 I had predicted that if he won the 2000 election, you could bet we would be at war with Iraq within a year of his taking office, because he had promised his daddy to take out Saddam.

Sadly, he did not prove me wrong.
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Postby GeneralHaNor » Sat Apr 16, 2011 2:13 am

Vinlandian States wrote:and way back in 1999 I had predicted that if he won the 2000 election, you could bet we would be at war with Iraq within a year of his taking office, because he had promised his daddy to take out Saddam.

Sadly, he did not prove me wrong.


But he did prove you wrong, we went to war with Iraq in 2003.

your were about 2 years off in your prediciton
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Postby Yellow Zone 20-A » Sat Apr 16, 2011 2:17 am

He was easy to make fun off.
Like that time in china. :p
Or when hits his head on the helicopter. :rofl:
And the fact he cant say "nuclear"
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Postby Samozaryadnyastan » Sat Apr 16, 2011 2:30 am

Yellow Zone 20-A wrote:He was easy to make fun off.
Like that time in china. :p
Or when hits his head on the helicopter. :rofl:
And the fact he cant say "nuclear"

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Postby Yellow Zone 20-A » Sat Apr 16, 2011 2:32 am

Samozaryadnyastan wrote:
Yellow Zone 20-A wrote:He was easy to make fun off.
Like that time in china. :p
Or when hits his head on the helicopter. :rofl:
And the fact he cant say "nuclear"

Noocolorr prollifarrayshun.

:rofl:
Still funny as hell!
He should have been a comedian not a president....
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Postby Risottia » Sat Apr 16, 2011 2:35 am

Sorvasia wrote:NSG, in your opinion, do you think Bush ever did anything positive for the USA or for the entire world for that matter?


Well, it turned the US administration into the laughing stock of the whole world - the world can do with some laughter.
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Postby Samozaryadnyastan » Sat Apr 16, 2011 2:35 am

Yellow Zone 20-A wrote:
Samozaryadnyastan wrote:Noocolorr prollifarrayshun.

:rofl:
Still funny as hell!
He should have been a comedian not a president....

It was almost as bad as the Australian minister who read out "Genetically enhanced orgasms" when he meant "organism" :P
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Postby Yellow Zone 20-A » Sat Apr 16, 2011 2:37 am

Samozaryadnyastan wrote:
Yellow Zone 20-A wrote: :rofl:
Still funny as hell!
He should have been a comedian not a president....

It was almost as bad as the Australian minister who read out "Genetically enhanced orgasms" when he meant "organism" :P

Genetically enhanced orgasms?
I can support that! :D
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Postby Siorafrica » Sat Apr 16, 2011 2:40 am

;) Why am I not surprised?
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Postby Eternal Yerushalayim » Sat Apr 16, 2011 2:42 am

Yellow Zone 20-A wrote:
Samozaryadnyastan wrote:It was almost as bad as the Australian minister who read out "Genetically enhanced orgasms" when he meant "organism" :P

Genetically enhanced orgasms?
I can support that! :D

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Postby Yellow Zone 20-A » Sat Apr 16, 2011 2:44 am

Eternal Yerushalayim wrote:
Yellow Zone 20-A wrote:Genetically enhanced orgasms?
I can support that! :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a0-N7j9v8U

:rofl:
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Postby Buffett and Colbert » Sat Apr 16, 2011 2:47 am

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Postby Laerod » Sat Apr 16, 2011 2:56 am

Sorvasia wrote:NSG, in your opinion, do you think Bush ever did anything positive for the USA or for the entire world for that matter?

His response to the criticism that the West as a whole was being too stingy and could afford to give more aid to the tsunami victims. Instead of pouting, he actually increased aid.
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Postby Samozaryadnyastan » Sat Apr 16, 2011 3:01 am


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Postby Vinlandian States » Sat Apr 16, 2011 3:02 am

GeneralHaNor wrote:
Vinlandian States wrote:and way back in 1999 I had predicted that if he won the 2000 election, you could bet we would be at war with Iraq within a year of his taking office, because he had promised his daddy to take out Saddam.

Sadly, he did not prove me wrong.


But he did prove you wrong, we went to war with Iraq in 2003.

your were about 2 years off in your prediciton



I was only wrong about the timing, though, and that's what really bothered me. And at that, we were at war within the year, as he declared the "war on terrorism" after 9/11:
On September 16, 2001, at Camp David, President George W. Bush used the phrase war on terror when he said, "This crusade - this war on terrorism - is going to take a while, [...] And the American people must be patient. I'm going to be patient. But I can assure the American people I am determined."
so I was not completely wrong.

...and he was apparently more determined to get Saddam, than to find Osama Bin Laden.
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Samozaryadnyastan wrote:

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Hmmmm standard sysadmin answer #1: it works for me.

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Postby Dystopianus » Sat Apr 16, 2011 3:39 am

Yes. He did one, very good thing: something no one else can do. He made the most hilarious quotes.

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Fact that he changes his mind so often is also damn funny.
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Postby Blouman Empire » Sat Apr 16, 2011 4:12 am

Samozaryadnyastan wrote:
Yellow Zone 20-A wrote: :rofl:
Still funny as hell!
He should have been a comedian not a president....

It was almost as bad as the Australian minister who read out "Genetically enhanced orgasms" when he meant "organism" :P


Well our current bogan PM pronounces negotiate as negosiate, not to mention a few others.
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Postby Forster Keys » Sat Apr 16, 2011 4:25 am

Blouman Empire wrote:
Samozaryadnyastan wrote:It was almost as bad as the Australian minister who read out "Genetically enhanced orgasms" when he meant "organism" :P


Well our current bogan PM pronounces negotiate as negosiate, not to mention a few others.


I don't think that's a typically bogan thing though. The vowel sounds however...

I don't even get how she got such a strong accent, her parents were Welsh. Where did she grow up again?
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