Bush Sr. the Dove?

[justinsb]

This article may have been posted before but it's over a year old so I think it's time for a little nostalgia

Bush Sr warning over unilateral action
From Roland Watson in Washington

THE first President Bush has told his son that hopes of peace in the Middle East would be ruined if a war with Iraq were not backed by international unity.

Drawing on his own experiences before and after the 1991 Gulf War, Mr Bush Sr said that the brief flowering of hope for Arab-Israeli relations a decade ago would never have happened if America had ignored the will of the United Nations.



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He also urged the President to resist his tendency to bear grudges, advising his son to bridge the rift between the United States, France and Germany.

“You’ve got to reach out to the other person. You’ve got to convince them that long-term friendship should trump short-term adversity,” he said.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-605441,00.html

[Vinca]

1. 41 looks like a humanitarian compared to 43.

And I get the impression the old man thinks the son is more than a tad off balance.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. 41 was a moderate and an intellectual.

He understood the reality of the world.

[leesa]

9. Oh please. He just knew how to muder without fanfare. He knew how to get

OTHER people to do his dirty work. Don't say BS like this.

[cornermouse]

3. The only reasons Sr. is supporting Jr.

is the fact that he is his son and if he didn't Barb would probably annihilate him.

[stray cat]

4. 41 was a statesmen whether you agree with him or not.

[leesa]

10. He was a murderer who knew how to use his money to purchase hits.

He was NOT a statesman. He is a Crime Family Thug.

[Lizzie Borden]

5. I detested George 1,

but I had no doubt that he had a brain.

[judy]

6. Well, let's not forget that Bush Sr.

Was the Dr.Frankenstein who gave us Osama, and Saddam, not to mention Noriega and Co.
Let's not forget that he was an expert in meddling with other countries for the sake of huge corporations (he also meddled with the former Soviet Union and the replacement of Gorbachev by Yeltsin) and that a lot of neocon policies originated with him.

I agree that his general demeanor was more formal than that of Jr. But let's not allow our dislike for Jr, or a few quotes from an interview turn Sr into the good statesman that he wasn't.

I do believe that his decision not to invade Iraq in 1991 was due to some belief that the generals who had actually fought Desert Storm would probably know more about the situation there than a Perle, Rumsfeld or a Wolfowitz.
But don't forget those neocons were already around then!! (Ray McGovern says the CIA used to call them "the crazies"), and let's not forget the Carlyle Group, and its role in war profiteering.

[txaslftist]

7. Good reality check, Judy.

If there is a dark hand behind the boymonkeyking, it's papa's.

[justinsb]

8. Thanks

It was not my intent to endorse Bush I - I didn't like him either and protested Gulf War I, just to point out how far we've fallen that by comparison to Bush II, Bush I is a relatively intellegent, diplomatic and thoughtful leader.