#war criminal george w bush

[gregdotorg]

Imagine being such a war criminal you made Richard Serra turn to figuration. Three times.

images: all Richard Serra, Stop Bush, from a 2004 Artforum portfolio; Stop BS, 2004, a drawing variation; Abu Ghraib, 2004, from the Kerry/Edwards fundraising print portfolio

[odinsblog]

What George W. Bush did to Iraq 20yrs ago is as much of a war crime as what Vladimir Putin is doing to Ukraine today. While not precisely the same, the similarities are glaring. Bush lied when he said he was seeking weapons of mass destruction and wanted to bring democracy to Iraq, and Putin is lying when he says he is liberating Russian speakers and wants to denazify Ukraine.

Both presidents are corrupt power hungry imperialistic occupiers who only wanted to secure land, resources and power.

Only the most zealous sycophants or the most aggressively willfully ignorant still believe Bush or Putin.

[aci25]

George W. Bush - who brought us the war on terror - once condemned Israel killing 14 civilians in Gaza. Now they kill scores more and it barely registers.

Blinken reportedly voiced worry to Israeli officials on Monday over the recent strikes.

[i-am-aprl]

[yeahiwasintheshit]

[qqueenofhades]

Why are people rehabilitating Bush. We don't need to make excuses for his war crimes and getting us involved in a 20 year long war for oil-- I mean, because of 9/11

Because the GOP bar is now so subterranean that any Republican who even acts remotely like a normal politician and respects the basic rules of the system can look like a hero. And yet, they still can't even do that. Like, Trump called for the total suspension and overthrow of the Constitution yesterday, because blah blah 2020 election fraud he should be reinstated as president immediately. And from the Republicans? Yet again?

[emptyanddark]

https://jacobin.com/2023/03/us-invasion-of-iraq-twentieth-anniversary-history-casualties-politics-protes

March 20 marks the unprovoked, catastrophic US invasion of Iraq - the 21st century 1st Illegal War.

[sebengineer101]

Te Pati Maori Party's co-leader, Rawiri Waititi, appeared on TVNZ 1's leading maori news and current affairs programme, Te Karere, when he shared the stands regarding to the return of fallen NZ Tane Maori soldier Kane Te Tai from Ukraine as well as child poverty.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"SUCKING DEMOCRACY DRY" -- ONE OF THE GREAT POLEMIC PAINTINGS OF OUR TIME.

PIC(S) INFO: Part 2 of 2 -- Spotlight on what began as a convention exclusive, AlexRossArt.com and Mercury Comics present Alex Ross' Bush "Sucking Democracy Dry," originally used by "The Village Voice" in the fall of 2004. Artwork by the maestro, Alex Ross.

""So, what was the least subtle cover you ever did ?" Glad you asked! It's one that might also be the most subtle in an odd way.

Ah, Bush fatigue. Seems almost charming now. We'd been banging the drum on this endless beat of how much W sucked for what seemed like eternity, and the bludgeoning impact of weekly tabloid repetition was taking its toll on me, much less the overall readership. When there was a plan for yet another Bush-centric cover, I was actually at a loss. Particularly because this time around there wasn’t as solid of a story angle as we usually had, so it seemed more about feeding red meat to a base that was... probably doing okay in the protein department at that point.

So I decided to try something so ridiculously blunt and over-the-top it would cast a shadow over any similar tries for quite a while. It was the issue before Halloween. A plan came together. But in order for it really stick and not be shrugged off as just another political-cartoon grotesquerie it had to be rendered as beautifully as possible. 

We had done one project before with Alex Ross, but this had a whole other layer of difficulty, since so many elements had to come together precisely. He delivered: The “hot” overhead lighting, the Bela-Lugosi-hand reference, the arc of Liberty's punctured neck, the fact that there are actually no visible fangs. 

Subtle!"

-- TED KELLER for Ted Keller Design

Sources: www.tedkellerdesign.com/village-voice & Previews World.

[xtruss]

US-based Muslim Advocacy documents in its annual report, the "Worst Wave of Anti-Muslim Hate" ever recorded in its 30-year history. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says it received more than 8,000 complaints nationwide in 2023, nearly half of them after October 7.

"The 2023 wave of anti-Muslim incidents, a 56 Percent Jumpover the previous year, surpassed the period following the implementation of President Trump's Muslim Ban," the charity says in its report.

CAIR notes a small number of positive steps such as the Permit to Broadcast the Muslim Call to Prayer in New York City, the practice of Muslim Heritage Month in several states and the observation of Muslim holidays in the yearly calendar of a few school districts. The group now recommends to suspend the FBI's Muslim Watchlist, to respect free speech in Palestine and to pass anti-doxxing laws in Congress.

[liberty1776]

George H.W. Bush: War Criminal, CIA Spy, Oil Tycoon, Embodiment of US Elite

Video has Stong Leftist bias, but still contains a lot truth. He was actually against Capitalialism and a champion of Corporatism. The two Bush presidents were both even worse than Obama!

[lusiifer]

why go straight to romanticizing terrorist osama bin laden when ppl could instead just dive into the connections between bin laden and bush families which is not talked about nearly enough. like it was made public years about but it still conveniently escapes coverage by MSM as they try so hard to rehab george w bushs image. yall george bush as in CIA george sr founded an oil company in texas in 1977 with CIA asset osama bin ladens brother.

[alanshemper]

[elmp]

George W. Bush Is A War Criminal

How many lives could

Have been saved if the planes had

Just hit the White House?

[hourback]

Donald Trump, selective prosecutions, International Criminal Court, war crimes, American presidents: seems like these things are related, don't you think? 🙂👍🕉️🌄🌌💜🙏🦄🌈🤩✌️☮️🕉️🏳️🕊️🇺🇳

Trump being indicted for bribing a porn star shows that our judicial system has no intention of ever prosecuting any elected official for war crimes, ecological destruction, extrajudicial executions and detainment, or illegal surveillance.It's fucking bullshit.— swissch33z (@swissch33z) March 31, 2023

[tomorrowusa]

Don't risk a rerun of the 2000 election.

In the first presidential election of the 21st century many deluded progressives voted for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader.

Their foolishness gave us eight years of George W. Bush who plagued the country with two recessions (including the Great Recession) and two wars (one totally unnecessary and one which could have been avoided if he heeded an intelligence brief 5 weeks before 9/11).

Oh yeah, Dubya also appointed one conservative and one batshit crazy reactionary to the US Supreme Court. Roberts and Alito are still there.

Paul Waldman of the Washington Post offers some thoughts.

Why leftists should work their hearts out for Biden in 2024

Ask a Democrat with a long memory what the numbers 97,488 and 537 represent, and their face will twist into a grimace. The first is the number of votes Ralph Nader received in Florida in 2000 as the nominee of the Green Party; the second is the margin by which George W. Bush was eventually certified the winner of the state, handing him the White House. Now, with President Biden gearing up for reelection, talk of a spoiler candidate from the left is again in the air. That’s unfortunate, because here’s the truth: The past 2½ years under Biden have been a triumph for progressivism, even if it’s not in most people’s interest to admit it. This was not what most people expected from Biden, who ran as a relative moderate in the 2020 Democratic primary. His nomination was a victory for pragmatism with its eyes directed toward the center. But today, no one can honestly deny that Biden is the most progressive president since at least Lyndon B. Johnson. His judicial appointments are more diverse than those of any of his predecessors. He has directed more resources to combating climate change than any other president. Notwithstanding the opposition from the Supreme Court, his administration has moved aggressively to forgive and restructure student loans.

Three years ago the economy was in horrible shape because of Trump's mishandling of the pandemic. Now unemployment is steadily below 4%, job creation continues to exceed expectations, and wages are rising as unions gain strength. The post-pandemic, post-Afghan War inflation rate has receded to near normal levels; people in the 1970s would have sold their souls for a 3.2% (and dropping) inflation rate. And many of the effects of "Bidenomics" have yet to kick in.

And in a story that is criminally underappreciated, his administration’s policy reaction to the covid-induced recession of 2020 was revolutionary in precisely the ways any good leftist should favor. It embraced massive government intervention to stave off the worst economic impacts, including handing millions of families monthly checks (by expanding the child tax credit), giving all kids in public schools free meals, boosting unemployment insurance and extending health coverage to millions.

It worked. While inflation rose (as it did worldwide), the economy’s recovery has been blisteringly fast. It took more than six years for employment rates to return to what they were before the Great Recession hit in 2008, but we surpassed January 2020 jobs levels by the spring of 2022 — and have kept adding jobs ever since. To the idealistic leftist, that might feel like both old news and a partial victory at best. What about everything supporters of Bernie Sanders have found so thrilling about the Vermont senator’s vision of the future, from universal health care to free college? It’s true Biden was never going to deliver that, but to be honest, neither would Sanders had he been elected president. And that brings me to the heart of how people on the left ought to think about Biden and his reelection.

Biden has gotten things done. The US economy is doing better than those of almost every other advanced industrialized country.

Our rivals China and Russia are both worse off than they were three years ago. And NATO is not just united, it's growing.

Sadly, we still need to deal with a far right MAGA cult at home who would wreck the country just to get its own way.

Biden may be elderly and unexciting, but that is one of the reasons he won in 2020. Many people just wanted an end to the daily drama of Trump's capricious and incompetent rule by tweet. And a good portion of those people live in places that count greatly in elections – suburbs and exurbs.

Superhero films seem to be slipping in popularity. Hopefully that's a sign that voters are less likely to embrace self-appointed political messiahs to save them from themselves.

Good governance is a steady process – not a collection of magic tricks. Experienced and competent individuals who are not too far removed from the lives of the people they represent are the best people to have in government.

Paul Waldman concludes his column speaking from the heart as a liberal...

I’ve been in and around politics for many years, and even among liberals, I’ve almost always been one of the most liberal people in the room. Yet only since Biden’s election have I realized that I will probably never see a president as liberal as I’d like. It’s not an easy idea to make peace with. But it suggests a different way of thinking about elections — as one necessary step in a long, difficult process. The further you are to the left, the more important Biden’s reelection ought to be to you. It might require emotional (and policy) compromise, but for now, it’s also the most important tool you have to achieve progressive ends.

Exactly. Rightwingers take the long view. It took them 49 years but they eventually got Roe v. Wade overturned. To succeed, we need to look upon politics as an extended marathon rather as one short sprint.

Republicans may currently be bickering, but they will most likely unite behind whichever anti-abortion extremist they nominate.

It's necessary to get the word out now that the only way to defeat climate-denying, abortion-restricting, assault weapon-loving, race-baiting, homophobic Republicans is to vote Democratic.