What Would Daddy Do?

I thought this article was interesting, but the comments below it are so much better. Bush the First is cited as saying things like this: “My favorite picture is a picture of American soldiers surrounding a guy whose been in a foxhole, Iraqi soldier, and the American guy says, we’re not going to harm you, we’re American soldiers.” On the surface, this seems like a condemnation of George III (not the king, but the 3rd US President named George) and his torture policies. It's probably true that Daddy Bush believes that his war in Iraq was humanitarian and just - as his son believes about the current fracas. regarding Big Bush (hehe...), the article had this to say: “Sadly, Mr. Bush would now be considered a coward and a terrorist sympathizer by his own party for these views. Go ahead and let it out, sir — the nation weeps with you for what your son has done in our name.” While that is true, some of the commenters had interesting rebuttals to his original point. One said: This would be George H.W. “Highway of Death” Bush? Oh, the humanity. Ouch. Another says: This guy was the Vice President of the United States when Reagan was running his secret wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua where men trained at the School of the Americas at Fort Benning in Georgia routinely hacked the hands, feet, breasts and heads off of civilians in entire villages. Yeah, really humane. Another hit.