W Scolds Obama-'They Will Kill Americans At The Drop Of A Hat-Therapy Isn't Going To Change Them'

[kpete]

Bush says he won’t criticize Obama, then criticizes Obama
By John Byrne

Published: June 18, 2009
Updated 33 minutes ago


And then he did — in the same speech.

Speaking to rapt applause from a local business group in Erie, Pennsylvania, the retired Texan blasted President Obama for his handling of the US prison at Guantanamo Bay. President Obama has slated the prison for closure, and has signaled he’s willing to bring detainees he can’t find homes for overseas into US supermax facilities.

“I told you I’m not going to criticize my successor,” Bush said, according to a reporter present. “I’ll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don’t believe that persuasion isn’t going to work. Therapy isn’t going to cause terrorists to change their mind.”

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/18/bush-says-he-wont-criticize-obama/

[tekisui]

1. Puppeteer dickie still pulling dubya's strings.

[saltpoint]

2. James von Brunn killed someone more or less at the drop of a hat too and

he wasn't in Guantanamo.

The junior Bush continues his public stupidity. Lucky for him there's no law against being a clueless asshole. If there were he'd be serving several life sentences.

[Merryweather]

3. Bush: I don't want to criticise Obama but ...

I will anyway and talk through my ass at the same time. WTF is he on about? Obama wants to transfer the detainees to other prisons - WTF does that have to do with 'persuasion'?

Bush seems to have gotten even dumber since he left the White House. :banghead:

[marshall]

4. Well, at least the gloves are off now

No more pretenses.

[Bluerthanblue]

5. what does bush know of 'therapy'? He could use a massive

amount himself.

He proves as much with his statement.


:shrug:

[madrchsod]

6. there is no rehabilitation in a super max

in fact some say it`s another form of torture.


erie, pa? is`t that the minor leagues of speaking engagements?

[RaleighNCDUer]

22. Actually, that was Eerie, PA - spoken from the Twilight Zone. nt

[tanyev]

7. Well there certainly wasn't any persuasion that could have deterred him from invading Iraq.

[YOY]

8. Nobody is trying to rehab them Dippy.

The Supermax isn't about releasing people...ever. It's the ultimate warehouse of "dangerous non-reformable criminals."

There ain't a whole bunch of pimps and weed smokers there...unless they were smoking weed and pandering while committing mass murder...and I daresay if they were smoking weed they might NOT have been committing that mass murder in the first place...but I digress.

[Occam Bandage]

9. Doesn't he mean, "at the whim of a hat?" nt

[Champion Jack]

10. Who released the first group of gitmo prisoners?

[MADem]

11. I don’t believe that persuasion isn’t going to work???? So he believes it WILL work, then!!

Ah ha--he's NOT criticizing him, then!! He's agreeing with him! He believes persuasion will work, but he's not a fan of "therapy."

:rofl:

Sounds like he could use some therapy--and a review of Junior HIgh English, as well!!!

[baldguy]

12. The only thing worse than a despot is an incompetent despot.

Bush is in no position to criticize Obama, especially when he's cleaning up Bush's messes.

[hobbit709]

13. Projecting again, is he?

[SammyWinstonJack]

14. Stay stupid, george.

:silly: People still applaud this moron? :wow:

[rocktivity]

15. If ANYONE is an expert on what therapy can't do

It's King George The Second.

Besides, if Bush had detained the Gitmo residents legally, Obama WOULD be able to properly try, convict, and incarcerate them!

:headbang:
rocktivity

[rug]

16. Bush killed more Americans at the drop of a lie.

[WI_DEM]

17. Now who has killed Americans "at a drop of a hat", Bush? In Iraq.

[Echo In Light]

18. Oh, come on. Good Americans know 'those people' don't really count

[blogslut]

19. I get it. It's Dubya-speak for

"I ENDORSE TORTURE"

[RaleighNCDUer]

20. He may be right. There ARE some at Gitmo who are too dangerous to

release. Those few need to be tried and incarcerated along with those others we have deemed too dangerous to be released.

Most of the rest, send them home.

It seems to me the ones who will be needing therapy are the innocent who have been imprisoned for 7 years without charges. And maybe those who imprisoned them.

[rurallib]

21. Bo - here's a bush you can piss on all you want.

[LaurenG]

23. I have no tolerance for idiots, I wish he'd just go back into hiding.

I think he is the one person I have come closest to hating in my life. I have no respect for anything he says, the SOB. F*** him.

[QC]

24. They killed 3,000 of us in one day when Georgie was in charge.

I don't think he has any room to talk.

[Echo In Light]

26. "They," meaning, people within the U.S. govt and military.

[peekaloo]

25. Using an old line from Karl's Killer Komedy act.

still stupid, as are the idiots who pay to hear him mangle the language.

[Frustratedlady]

27. What the hell does "Speaking to rapt applause" mean?

That their hands were carried away with joy and love, or were they deeply engrossed?

Are they suggesting the business group was in "rapture" with his words, or perhaps the sight of George?

[Echo In Light]

28. Brainwashed? Possessed? Tranquilized? All of the above?

[Lancer]

29. Maybe they meant "wrapped."

A local newspaper used that in a headline some years ago to describe an attentive audience. :eyes:

[Vidar]

30. Bush is responsible for more American deaths than the Gitmo prisoners.

[Maru Kitteh]

31. Stay classy George!

[Johonny]

32. How would he know- he failed to gather any information on them

How does he know who is in Gitmo? Part of Obama's problem closing it is that they found many of the people there had zero files on them. Meaning Bush fail to create any real record of who they are, are they dangerous... Bush couldn't put any of these people on trial. He has no clue who he has there yet alone know that any of them are really dangerous.