Remember how the one redeeming quality you could say that President George W. Bush had was that when he left office, unlike the Sith Lord he picked for a Vice President, he knew how to fall back and shut up when the new guy took over. Yeah well those days are over. Just in case we thought we forgot the biggest legacy left by his Presidency were the idiotic things he would say…good ole G Dubbya has decided to give us all a reminder:
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Former President George W. Bush says if he had it to do over, he would still waterboard the self-professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Waterboarding is a simulated drowning technique that the Obama administration considers torture. Bush acknowledged Wednesday that the U.S. used the harsh interrogation technique on Khalid Sheik Mohammed and said he would “do it again to save lives.”
Bush made the comment while speaking to the Economic Club of Grand Rapids, Mich.
Mohammed was captured in Pakistan in 2003 and is the most senior al-Qaida operative in U.S. custody.
In his speech, Bush defended the decision to go to war with Iraq in 2003. He said ousting Saddam Hussein “was the right thing to do and the world is a better place without him.” (Source)
Okay, 8 years is a long time and a lot happens. Being President is a stressful. Sometimes names, dates and events run together and your mind becomes a giant bowl of mush. But come on. Tell me this fool didn’t really go there. Tell me he hasn’t forgotten the main reason why people disliked him to begin with. This is actually scary. It’s scary because it might mean this fool actually believes the loads of turds he was selling the American people for 8 years. To actually admit that you would waterboard a guy, when waterboarding is clearly torture, means that Bush really doesn’t think waterboarding is torture. And let’s be honest, that’s one of the dumbest conversations we’ve had in this country (although “Is President Obama showing enough emotion with the Gulf oil spill” is quickly approaching that level). Whether you agree with waterboarding or not, if you take out the legal ramifications for a minute it’s blatantly obvious to see that “simulated drowning” is torture. That’s really not up for debate. Or at least it shouldn’t be. So Bush is saying he would torture Khalid Sheik Mohammed again if he had the chance. Never mind the fact that KSM was waterboarded in order to find a link between Al Qaeda and Saddam. A link that didn’t exist by the way. So no Mr. President, you’ve already shown that you would waterboard someone even if it wouldn’t save lives.
And for extra credit, Bush throws in that removing Saddam was the “right thing to do”. Even most Republicans would admit that it wasn’t the right thing to do (albeit 7 years too late). Okay if that was the case then why did you sell it as a part of the War against those who attacked us on 9/11? Why did you claim that Saddam had Weapons of Mass Destruction when he didn’t? Why did you torture KSM to make him tell you about a non-existent link between Al Qaeda and Saddam? Then after no link was found, why did you continue to tell us the American people that the link was there? Why didn’t you just come out from Day 1 and say “The world would be better without him, we’re going in”? Want to know why? Because going into Iraq was either an afterthought or you were pushed into going by relics from your father’s Administration (Looking at you Rumsfeld and Cheney).
Here’s a hint Mr. President, go back to not saying anything. That’s been your best decision in about a decade.













