George W. Bush Institute Urges Americans
to Sympathize with Afghans After D.C.
National Guard Attack
Breitbart,
by
Jasmyn Jordan
Original Article
Posted By: ConservativeYankee,
12/21/2025 8:56:09 AM
Following the fatal shooting of one National Guard member and the injury of another in Washington, DC, the George W. Bush Institute is urging against broadly targeting Afghan immigration applicants in response to the actions of a single individual.
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national who previously worked with a CIA-backed partner force in Kandahar and entered the U.S. in 2021 through the Biden administration’s Operation Allies Welcome, has been arraigned and is facing charges in the Thanksgiving-week ambush-style shooting that left 20-year-old Spc. Sarah Beckstrom dead and critically injured 24-year-old Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe.
Following the attack, U.S. immigration authorities announced an immediate and indefinite pause on immigration processing
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
sailannapolis 12/21/2025 9:05:37 AM (No. 2043764)
Please, Mr. Bush and associates, please refrain from giving your advice. After 20 yrs of a "war" in Afghanistan it was a TOTAL FAILURE. The people of that country , with all the MONEY that was given ( not loaned) should be prospering. They do not belong in OUR COUNTRY.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Safari Man 12/21/2025 9:18:08 AM (No. 2043770)
Stay out da Bushes
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Highlander 12/21/2025 9:23:14 AM (No. 2043775)
Although there were far better people I would have voted for rather than Bush, he was far better than “We’re all gonna die!” Gore.
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Some days I regret my vote for W.
Better than a democrat but just barely.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
FunOne 12/21/2025 9:49:33 AM (No. 2043787)
I supported Bush and was proud to do so. But it appears that as the concepts of "America First" and "Make American Great Again" make him uncomfortable, I find that my continued respect for him continues to diminish. I think he wants to be a RINO.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Venturer 12/21/2025 9:49:58 AM (No. 2043790)
Bush was good at some things and terrible at others. Islam is not a religion of peace, and Afghans do not belong in America. In fact, no Muslim does.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
felixcat 12/21/2025 10:05:23 AM (No. 2043799)
So where is Laura Buss? She's been very quiet on the treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan under the wise ways of Islam since Biden blew it in Afghanistan. /sarc
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 12/21/2025 10:10:27 AM (No. 2043805)
A thousand points of death.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 12/21/2025 10:18:27 AM (No. 2043808)
President Bush would be better served by him contemplating the deaths of servicemen who served under him.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 12/21/2025 10:21:46 AM (No. 2043811)
Doesn't even rise to the level of RINO.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
franco 12/21/2025 10:25:06 AM (No. 2043814)
"The George W. Bush Institute"... puhleeze. I don't see how GWB is able to grift enough money from the public these days to keep any sort "institute" funded and operating since so many formerly "conservative think tanks" have been so thoroughly discredited... thus I suppose this must be something that was set up with his father's estate money.
The value-added for American society is no more than if GWB placed an outhouse at the edge of the "back 40" on his Texas ranch.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
ClintW 12/21/2025 10:30:02 AM (No. 2043820)
No sympathy for the religion of peace, or its followers. My sympathy is for the 2 national guard victims and their families. Hey Bushes, please disappear.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
jdano 12/21/2025 10:33:10 AM (No. 2043821)
Bush had me fooled until he got chummy with Obama and his dad collaborated with the Clintons.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
volksford 12/21/2025 10:33:45 AM (No. 2043822)
Is this the old " compassionate conservative " crock again ?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 12/21/2025 11:18:19 AM (No. 2043848)
Here is the opening statement found on the George W. Bush Institute website:
“Our society must welcome, value, and protect everyone. To recognize our nationʼs full potential, we must foster independence, reward innovation, and replace poverty with prosperity.”
That is a platitude. So is the article about Afghan asylum seekers. Please, Mr. President, do something relevant.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/21/2025 11:56:19 AM (No. 2043866)
George W. Bush restarted the war in Afghanistan after the Russians spent fifteen years losing all of their helicopters to US-supplied Stingers. He also sent in the CIA to train the "friendly" Afghans to help our Spec Ops people. All of that blood and treasure to get one man, Usama bin Laden, who was in Pakistan. Shut up, Bushies, you screwed the pooch worse than Russia did. All that was accomplished was to interrupt the Poppy trade to Asia.
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Mr. Bush's statement makes no sense whatsoever.
During the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan the Taliban refused to allow American citizens and Afghans who had significantly assisted US forces to access the Kabul airport. To avoid bad optics, "Biden" notoriously ordered that the US military to fill the empty transport planes anyway. As a result, most of the tens of thousands of Afghans "evacuated" from Kabul were (at best) random individuals the Taliban allowed to access the airport that had no connection whatsoever with the US or the US military.
The Bush statement disregards the fact that, as someone who had served in a CIA-supported unit, the murderer of the two National Guard personnel was one of the few ostensible "Afghan allies" "Biden" actually succeeded in evacuating -- i.e., in the words of the Bush statement, one of the "Afghans [who] risked their lives . . . working in partnership with the United States."
If one of the few "worthy" evacuees nevertheless committed murder, then clearly the tens of thousands of Afghans about whom we knew nothing and whom we had no reason to bring to the United States deserve the "burden" of overdue scrutiny.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 12/21/2025 12:01:00 PM (No. 2043868)
Memo to “W”:
Shut up, Fool.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
mc squared 12/21/2025 12:03:50 PM (No. 2043870)
Late Stage Insanity.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
anniebc 12/21/2025 1:15:54 PM (No. 2043894)
Pound sand, W! Better yet, you and your institute should relocate to a muslim country. See if they sympathize with you and yours.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Californian 12/21/2025 2:28:58 PM (No. 2043910)
Sympathize with a giant boot in the behind back to Afghanistan.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
ronniethek 12/21/2025 2:39:33 PM (No. 2043915)
W- you have done enough damage. Kindly shut the eff
Up and let a REAL President fix the country.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
dwa 12/21/2025 3:26:39 PM (No. 2043923)
Not surprising coming from the Bush wing of the Republican party.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 12/21/2025 8:19:12 PM (No. 2043981)
The Dems were right about Bush.
He is an idiot.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
PChristopher 12/21/2025 9:24:31 PM (No. 2043997)
Anyone named Bush should go away and keep their worthless opinions to themselves!
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Apparently, the GWB Institute is almost as stupid as GWB. Fitting.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 12/22/2025 4:20:36 AM (No. 2044014)
From the azzhats who brought us "Islam is a religion of peace." If that was the case, why were the muzzies trying to kill us in the 1980's when I was stationed in the Middke East?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
WinterParker 12/22/2025 6:03:49 AM (No. 2044024)
He can't get over Jeb's flop. They blame Trump but I saw Jeb in a small community center setting. The crowd seemed resigned to him. Heck, he was our successful governor. Right? No buzz or excitement. Eventually, I resigned myself to Trump. TG!!!!!!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Hazymac 12/22/2025 7:54:58 AM (No. 2044046)
Stop it, please, President Bush. You were wrong and stupid to say that before; you're wrong and stupid now. Again, please stop.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Slartibartfast 12/22/2025 10:37:27 AM (No. 2044120)
Sympathize?! Ah.....NO!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 12/23/2025 12:07:22 AM (No. 2044364)
Even by Muslim standards, Afghans are remarkably repugnant, almost as bad as Somalis. No matter how much I hate the Bush family, it never seems enough. With my luck that SOB will live to 100
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