Another reason to detest Barbara Bush

[Neecy]

I just finished reading the autobiography of Queen Noor of Jordan, and the following passage written by the American-born Noor of a discussion she had with Barbara Bush during the Gulf War is instructive. It demonstrates in a nutshell how the Bush family feels free to make war upon civilians and infrastructure without conscience, as well as what they really think about our right of free speech.

I tried to explain the mounting concern in the Arab world about Iraqi civilian losses and desperate conditions. Mrs. Bush was unmoved. She was a political wife, and she was going to believe what she needed to believe. I would continue to speak out after the war started about the humanitarian consequences of the war and the suffering of the people of Iraq, which evidently so angered Mrs. Bush that she sent a message to me through an American official that she considered me a traitor. I imagine that the message was intended to stop me from talking about uncomfortable issues for the Bush administration.

Bar sure is the mafia enforcer of the crime family, eh?

I highly recommend Noor's autobiography. She's very liberal, intelligent, and has had quite a fascinating life.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I haven't read her book but I have often thought she was a

very intriguing woman. I am somehwat surprised that she hasn't gotten the same clamoring of affection that Di had. For whatever reason many people love royalty, but they especially love _nice_ royalty.

[TreasonousBastard]

15. She's not Grace Kelly, either, and she didn't marry a king in...

a European gambling capitol.

But, check out her website and personal profile on it.

http://www.noor.gov.jo/index.htm

She is worth far more than the passing mentions she gets over here.

"Traitor" my ass-- we know who the real traitors are.

[PittLib]

44. The picture of her and King Hussein ...

on the motorcycle is awesome. What a great photo to add to the album.

[cwydro]

2. wow..scary...

Bushit is definitely her boy.....god forbid...I think it may be Barbara and Cheney running the country...

[sniffa]

3. fuck her

how oLd is she now? she can't be Long for this worLd, which is a bLessing.

[ecoflame]

9. Bar or Queen Noor?

Queen Noor is what, mid-40's? Bar, I don't give a shit....

[Neecy]

10. Noor is 54

[bunny planet]

18. Off topic, but I live your Snowflake the albino gorilla sig pic.

[Kurovski]

24. I thought that was Bar without her pearls.

The resemblance is uncanny.

[bunny planet]

35. rolling on floor and laughing, out loud.

Seriously though, please don't insult the gorilla.

[Kurovski]

38. That's a beautiful Gorilla.

In fact, Bar should look as good and behave as well as Snowflake.

That's a photo chosen especially for this thread.

[bunny planet]

39. oops meant to say love

[hlthe2b]

26. damn... what is THAT?

LOL

[senseandsensibility]

4. Wow

What a "beautiful mind" that "lady" has. No sarcasm icon needed.

[grannylib]

5. I will have to read that...I have always admired her, and have never had

any reason to admire Babs/Bar/Whatever her name is...
She's a cold-hearted freak. Anyone who could squeeze out anything so inhuman as the imbecile can't be human herself.

[mokawanis]

8. she is worthy only of contempt

She makes me sick. Her disregard for those who suffer is deplorable. she sounds just like her son, (the nut didn't fall far from the tree, did it?) calling anyone who speaks against war a traitor. And like her son, she obviously has a perverse view on what freedom really means.

[Tigress DEM]

13. Only a traitor to "Merika" which is a different world than America.

Going against the "family" is traitorous in her "beautiful mind" where every evil thing they do is white and whatever people say about them which contradicts that is black. Wow. They live in an entirely "photo negative" world then.

[mainer]

6. No wonder George senior had a "Jennifer"

I don't know how he stood being married to that mean-spirited woman.

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[Catch22Dem]

11. So you enjoyed the book? I spent some time in Jordan in 96

Incredible place. Actually shook hands w/ King Hussein. Queen Noor was not there with him, but it would have been nice to meet her as well. I must say, though, Queen Rania is an absolute KNOCK OUT! Her kids are beautiful too.

[Neecy]

14. I loved the book

It's beautifully written (the last chapter will have you crying) and she's very open about being a liberal. I've seen her interviewed many times and was always impressed by her honesty and intelligence, and I figured her book would be worth reading. Lots of interesting cultural/political information about Jordan and some interesting commentary on Israel. And, of course, how an American christian who was half Arab and half Scandanavian adjusted to becoming Queen of a muslim country was fasinating.

[bumblebee1]

43. Especially When. . . ..

Queen Noor married King Hussein after the death of his previous wife. She was killed in a helicopter crash. Queen Noor was stepping into the place of a very beloved queen.

[nomatrix]

34. Stunningly beautiful, like her mother.

BTW as to Queen Noor.....

Her father Mr. Najeeb Halaby, an Arab-American pioneer, served in the administration of the late President John F. Kennedy.

[rateyes]

12. I'm telling you...

Dubya is "momma's boy," sure enough. Every time I see Babs I get sick to my stomach. I'd love to see the beautiful, intelligent, patriotic, compassionate Queen Noor in a debate with that hag of woman Dubya calls "Mom."

[grannylib]

16. Babs' "family values:" going golfing on the day her daughter died.

If that doesn't tell you something....
She must have really loved that child, to "honor" her memory by not giving up a tee-time.
These people are FILTH.

[motocicleta]

29. seconded.

She is the queen of filth. I cannot imagine how a woman could produce that monster and feel good about it, and she turns right around and is the most vicious of them all as soon as anyone asks her a question.

I absolutely love Al Franken's story about meeting her on the plane. How could a warm-blooded creature go apeshit on Al Franken, much less an allegedly dignified one? She disgusts me to no end.

[rateyes]

30. I didn't know that...

what a cold-hearted "mother."

[Conservativesux]

37. They dont call Babs the "Queen of Darkness" for nothing !

[prescole]

17. Regression to the mean

Genetic science says that when highly intelligent people spawn, their offspring will likely be closer to average intelligence, or will "regress to the mean." Daddy Bush, whatever else we may think of him, was very intelligent, and Barbara Bush is no idiot.
But their son is as intellectually average as any president has ever been...and mean as hell to boot.
The whole nation is regressing.
Damn.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

21. Mother Bush was mean as hell to her kids

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1033904,00.html

It's easy to see why young George enjoyed blowing up frogs, and why he later turned to the booze.

[Laelth]

19. As if I needed another reason! n/t

-Laelth

[flordehinojos]

20. they are all the same.

the bushes, the cheneys, the condoliar lices, ...

"you are a traitor" if you do not agree with me.

"you are with us, or you are against us" a different version of the "you are a traitor" line.

manipulators...what other lines have they used to block people's thinking, free speech, dissent?

I think they have even used something like "you ought to be ashamed of yourself" for asking such a question, and

who can forget,

"I won't answer such sleaaaazy question"?

[ikojo]

22. Only a Sith thinks in absolutes nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

23. Barbara Bush is a pig

Someone should start a website with quotes from the piggish mother of *

[Metta]

25. * gets his compassion from his parents.

It goes without saying.

[number6]

27. Ma Barker (Bu$h) strikes again ...

:puke:

[progressoid]

28. I've plenty of reasons already, thank you very much.

[AuntieM1957]

31. Forgive me for being frivolous about BarBar

But my main beef with her right now, is that her ugly mug is seated right smack behind home plate every damn game.

And my hometown team is a GAME AWAY FROM THE WORLD SERIES!


So I have to risk my vision every time I watch a game.

Talk about your tough choices, eh?

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[baldguy]

33. 'pukes will always take the evils and inadequacies they find in themselves

Then project those characteristics on whomever they view as an enemy.

When they call you a traitor, they are admitting their crime.

[liberaltrucker]

36. She shit out Chimpie

Reason enough to hate her.

[kskiska]

40. Here's another reason:

(snip)

At the hospital, she reads a story to some young patients and makes them laugh. But back in the van for the drive home to Kennebunkport, she says that the book she was given to read was without educational value and that the hospital administrators were obsequious—a quality she dislikes. “They thanked me three times, when once would have been fine.” Then, softening abruptly, she thinks back to that morning’s visit to the hospital’s neonatal ICU, where she saw premature infants in incubators. “Where do you draw the line” in saving those who would not have survived in another time? “What kind of quality of life? It’s the same thing with old age. Are we doing the right thing?” Then again she says of one severely impaired newborn, “But, they say she’s brought great happiness ...”

more…
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3225744/site/newsweek/

Hmmmm. Wonder where she came down on the Terri Schiavo case?

Here's another from the same article:

(snip)

One of the most startling passages in her book is an anecdote about how panicked and vulnerable she felt when she and her husband had to leave the White House. An aide told her she would have to keep a paid staff. “I couldn’t believe my ears. She said Betty Ford... still spent $100 a month on postage alone. I felt like crying.” Though her insecurity seems irrational given her family’s wealth, she writes, “Everyone knew I had never earned any money, as I had never seriously worked in the 48 years we had been married. So besides losing the election, now at 68 I was going to have to work?”

[dretceterini]

47. poor baby

anyone have a violin?

[YOY]

41. Blue Bloods

The will never be one of the common people but love to play one on TV when they have to.

Noor on the other hand is a wonderful woman by most accounts.

[FreedomAngel82]

42. Sounds cool

And good for her for speaking out. I think Teddy Roosevelt thinks differently of Mrs. Bush's statement on who is a traitor or not.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

45. "I'm THROUGH with you!" LOL read Franken's account of meeting with

her sometime in one of his books... She basically froze him out, no polite small talk/chitchat even, because he wrote critical things against shrub and Poppy... just repeated either "I'm THROUGH with YOU" or "I'm FINISHED with YOU", can't remember which, LOL

:rofl:

[opihimoimoi]

46. We may not like it but Babs is an INSPIRATION, a ROLE MODEL

for Queen of Mean Wannabees, those who aspire to become Bitches, Selfish Bimbos, and AssHoles.

She has exposed herself as a TRAITOR to the AMERICA PEOPLE....she cares not for the Common Good for the Masses that most of us are...

A POX of all of them....