George W Bush defends decision to 'protect
the American people' by going
into Afghanistan after 9/11 in
new interview to mark 20 years since
terror attack that killed almost 3,000
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Chris Jewers
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
9/1/2021 9:53:10 PM
President George W Bush has recalled how he dealt with 9/11 as events unfolded, and defended his decision to 'protect the American people' by invading Afghanistan in the aftermath. Speaking in a new documentary '9/11: Inside the President's War Room' that aired in Britain on the BBC, Bush's comment are his first ahead of the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that took the lives of 2,996 people.(Snip)Since the start of Bush's 'War or Terror', around 2,800 U.S. military personnel have been killed in Afghanistan, along with thousands of allied troops, civilians, contractors and enemy fighters—only for the Taliban to be in control of the country
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Lake Dweller 9/1/2021 9:55:29 PM (No. 901306)
Shut up George. We don’t need you anymore.
Your voting for Biden did it. Screw you.
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I spent so much time and energy defending Dubya. What a waste.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Italiano 9/1/2021 10:03:21 PM (No. 901314)
No mention of Biden's disastrous surrender and retreat, I assume.
He only "respects the Office" when it suits him. What an ass.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 9/1/2021 10:05:19 PM (No. 901315)
Going in was fine, but should have been followed soon by going out.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 9/1/2021 10:12:37 PM (No. 901326)
George W Bush is a rabid swine on the loose.
You are a Never DJT
Even pukes like you make the news
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Going in wasn't the issue. Sticking around for twenty years...trying to create a political and social environment alien to Afghans and their traditions...training a Potemkin "security force"...surging on occasion...then seeing the feckless government run with suitcases full of US cash after the US President pleaded to put on a brave face...the security forces stack arms now in the hands of the Taliban...3000 US military deaths...$6.7 TRILLION spent on this nonsense...bipartisan support of the adventure...twenty years of nation building. Those are the issues.
Will Americans ever learn?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 9/1/2021 10:21:47 PM (No. 901335)
I knew W would decide to speak up sooner or later. But, so far, complete radio silence from BJ and Obie over their failures regarding Afghanistan.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 9/1/2021 10:25:25 PM (No. 901340)
I wonder if Georgie and his family are regretting their support for Biden yet.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
TJ54 9/1/2021 10:29:17 PM (No. 901346)
Go to hell!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Californian 9/1/2021 10:31:44 PM (No. 901353)
George who? Where do they dig up these corpses and why do they print what they say about anything?
I don't need to hear from George Bush about foreign affairs any more than I need to hear from George Washington about fixing my computer.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bogeegolf 9/1/2021 10:42:32 PM (No. 901362)
Hey George I remember plain as day you saying we weren’t going to get involved in nation building. But then again Islam IS the religion of peace. Luckily you had two of the most idiotic democrats to run against which was enough to turn my vote into a no brainer. You would never have been a match for Donald Trump.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 9/1/2021 10:44:08 PM (No. 901363)
Should never have gone in 'to protect the American people'. We'd already been unprotected. Should have gone in with the intent to punish and make sure it NEVER is thought about to happen again. But no - we went in with a full battery of lawyers who kept saying You can't kill just anybody, no bombs, don't destroy anything, and pay them when you do take out a suicider before he gets you. How 'bout next time we send our soldiers we let them 'soldier'. And leave nothing in their wake.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Luandir 9/1/2021 10:52:12 PM (No. 901368)
The problem was that you went in without a clear will to WIN. We should have won, and been out, well before your term ended - so that if they didn't get the message, we had time to flatten some more.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
KTWO 9/1/2021 10:52:24 PM (No. 901369)
George should shut up now. And he is not the only ex-POTUS who should.
OTOH, the world looked different in 2001. He went in. Twenty years later it seems like a big mistake but hindsight is 20/20.
Bush's decision didn't even look like a blunder twelve months ago when the 'experts' - AKA the brightest people on Earth,- agreed that AF now had a strong army and a capable government.
So who was wrong? Bush in 2001 or the experts in 2021? Both?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 9/1/2021 10:54:04 PM (No. 901371)
History will not be kind to the Bushes .
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
TXknitter 9/1/2021 10:59:54 PM (No. 901378)
I knew Dubya would speak as his poor Presidential decisions are being examined and discussed once again. We only hear from billionaire Bushes when it is to help themselves. OP said it. HE is the President who began the move to give a dangerous false religion preferential treatment in government. He saw to it his buddies in SA were utterly protected from scrutiny they richly deserved from 9/11. He and family supported Biden knowing full well what and who he has been for 40 years. He is a stain on the state of Texas. Good reasons why his Library is pretty sparsely visited most years!!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Geoman 9/1/2021 11:23:51 PM (No. 901395)
I agree going in was the right call, as I heeded that call. I also agree that Bush should have gotten out; however, the next two presidents didn't have a 9/11, so perhaps someone can explain why they stayed in for another dozen years. Bush isn't to blame for a twenty year war; maybe he's to blame for 6 of his 8 years after the Taliban as a fighting force, had been pushed out of Afghanistan. The neocons in 43's administration must have had his ear. It may be that like Biden, Bush's inclinations were faulty. On the other hand, 45 and 46 must have had their reasons and I'd wager they weren't the same reasons.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Luke21 9/1/2021 11:39:03 PM (No. 901402)
Turns out the libs were right about this piece of crap.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 9/1/2021 11:42:27 PM (No. 901405)
No problem regarding going in. Problems were nation building and going out. Whose idea was to recognize the Taliban instead of outlawing it? Doubt it was the Afghan government. The Afghan government would likely have handled the Taliban differently if they had been outlawed.
Odds are high we will be going in again some point in the future when we get attacked by terrorists that the Taliban provided safe haven.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
smcchk 9/1/2021 11:44:40 PM (No. 901406)
We haven’t suffered a terror attack in the US for 20 years so something was being done right. I am grateful for that. I doubt that will last much longer.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
ronniethek 9/2/2021 1:25:40 AM (No. 901447)
Stop the BS already. You and we REALLY know the place we should have cleaned up was Saudi Arabia where 19/20 Jihadists were from. That's if you assume we should have gone anywhere with soldiers. I would have preferred bombing these SOB s into submission. And not risked our precious soldiers at all.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
anniebc 9/2/2021 4:37:44 AM (No. 901495)
Thumbs down. We know you're one of them. Oh and, shut up, Dubya!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
homefry 9/2/2021 7:48:07 AM (No. 901610)
Dubya was drug up and down the halls by dim-0s about invading iraq, insisting that afghanistan was the "right war."
They BOTH were. There were WMD in iraq, anyone who says there wasnt, should ask all the dead kurds about them.
afghanistan was osamas place, and they supported him. BOTH wars were righteous but the way they were fought could have been different.
The withdrawl from afghanistan is 100% on quid pro joe, he is the ONLY ONE in charge while it is being done.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
local500 9/2/2021 10:05:47 AM (No. 901750)
You voted for Biden. Sit down RINO.
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